New Books in Christian Studies

New Books in Christian Studies

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Sabrina Inowlocki, "Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Aug 24, 2026

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Robin Whelan, "Serving the Christian State in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Aug 24, 2026

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Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, "God and Knowledge: Herman Bavinck's Theological Epistemology" (T&T Clark, 2021)

Aug 15, 2026

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David W. Congdon, "Who is a True Christian?: Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Aug 14, 2026

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Younus Y. Mirza, "The Islamic Mary: Maryam Through the Centuries" (Fortress Press, 2025)

Aug 12, 2026

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Dominic Roser et al., "All the Lives You Can Change: Effective Altruism for Christians" (Eerdmans, 2026)

Aug 5, 2026

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Discovering the Latin Mass (with Amb. Archd. Eduard Habsburg): A Travel Guide for the Curious

Aug 4, 2026

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Onyekachi Ugwu, "The Woman Caught in Adultery and the Gospel of John" (Mohr Siebeck, 2026)

Aug 2, 2026

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Katie Barclay, "The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

Aug 1, 2026

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Marios Koutsoukos, "Restoring the Ancient Religion: The Theurgic Orthopraxy of Iamblichus" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2026)

Jul 30, 2026

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George Savran, "Jacob: Conflicted Twin, Aggrieved Patriarch" (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2025)

Jul 29, 2026

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Jenny R. Labendz, "Beyond Hope: Rabbinic Eschatology of Late Antiquity in Comparative Perspective" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Jul 28, 2026

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Emanuel Tov, "Scribal Practices and Approaches Reflected in the Texts Found in the Judean Desert, Revised Second Edition" (Brill, 2025)

Jul 20, 2026

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Sarah Rosenson, "Fan Fiction on the Book of Genesis: A Guide to Close Reading of and Creative Writing on the Bible" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2026)

Jul 14, 2026

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Paul Helseth and David P. Smith eds., "New Perspectives on Old Princeton, 1812-1929" (Routledge, 2024)

Jul 9, 2026

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Christian Environmentalism in a Hindu Majoritarian Context

Jun 26, 2026

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Colin R. McCulloch, "Sanctified by the Spirit: John Owen, Habits of Grace, and Biblical Counseling" (Reformation Heritage Books, 2024)

Jun 19, 2026

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Brook Wilensky-Lanford, "A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2026)

Jun 15, 2026

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Marinus De Jong, "A Church for a Secular World: The Development of Klaas Schilder's Ecclesiology" (Brill, 2025)

Jun 14, 2026

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Susanna Drake, "Veiling in the Late Antique World" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Jun 8, 2026

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Annie Selak, "The Wounded Church: Tending to the Harm within Catholicism" (Fordham UP, 2026)

Jun 7, 2026

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Kati Curts, "Assembling Religion: The Ford Motor Company and the Transformation of Religion in America" (NYU Press, 2025)

Jun 2, 2026

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Many Cultures, One Hope: Cultural Competence in the Uniting Church with guest Reverend Seforosa Carroll

Jun 1, 2026

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Matthew R. Crawford and Aaron P. Johnson, "Cyril of Alexandria: Against Julian: Introduction and Translation" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

May 25, 2026

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An-Ting Yi, "From Erasmus to Maius: The History of Codex Vaticanus in New Testament Textual Scholarship" (de Gruyter, 2024)

May 21, 2026

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Amy D. McDowell, "Whispers in the Pews: Evangelical Uniformity in a Divided America" (NYU Press, 2026)

May 13, 2026

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Thomas A. Robinson, "Revisiting the God-fearer Thesis in the Development of Early Christianity" (T&T Clark, 2025)

May 12, 2026

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Justin Michael Reed, "The Injustice of Noah's Curse" (Oxford UP, 2025)

May 10, 2026

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Mariam Goshadze, "The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars" (Duke UP, 2025)

May 10, 2026

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Kim Haines-Eitzen, "The Gospel of John: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2026)

May 6, 2026

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Carmen Lansdowne, "Wearing a Broken Indigene Heart on the Sleeve of Christian Mission" (CMU Press, 2025)

May 6, 2026

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William Stell, "Born Again Queer: A History of Evangelical Gay Activism and the Making of Antigay Christianity" (Princeton UP, 2026)

May 5, 2026

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Eric McDonnell, "The Formation of Psalms 1–3 and the Arrangement of the Hebrew Psalter" (Mohr Siebeck, 2026)

May 3, 2026

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Philip Abbott, "Sounds for a New World: The Christianizing Soundscapes of Late Antiquity" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Apr 29, 2026

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Susanna Elm and Kristina Sessa, "War and Community in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Apr 27, 2026

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James Bultema, "Free Enough to Grow: The Turkish Protestant Movement, 1961-2016" (Springer, 2026)

Apr 21, 2026

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Joanna Kline, "Narrative Analogy in the David Story" (Mohr Siebeck, 2024)

Apr 11, 2026

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S5E5 The Gospel According to Josephus: On the Final Days of Jesus Christ with Thomas C. Schmidt

Apr 8, 2026

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Scott M. Kenworthy, "The People's Patriarch: Tikhon Bellavin and the Orthodox Church in North America and Revolutionary Russia" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Apr 6, 2026

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Leland Brown, "The First Pastors: Early Christianity’s Vision for Ministry" (Gorgias Press, 2026)

Apr 5, 2026

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Philip Wingeier-Rayo, "John Wesley and the Origins of Methodist Missions" (Abingdon Press, 2025)

Apr 1, 2026

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The Gospel According to Josephus: A Conversation with Thomas C. Schmidt, Part 1

Apr 1, 2026

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Hans A. Harmakaputra, "Christian-Muslim Relations in Post-Reformation Indonesia: Resistance, Identity and Belonging" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)

Mar 31, 2026

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Christopher Wright Mitchell, "The Song of Songs - Concordia Commentary" (Concordia Publishing, 2001)

Mar 29, 2026

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Gijs Kruijtzer, "Justifying Transgression: Muslims, Christians, and the Law - 1200 to 1700" (de Gruyter, 2023)

Mar 25, 2026

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S. D. Ellison, "Hope for a New David in the Psalter's Narrative Impulse: Reading the Psalms as Utopian Literature" (Fortress Academic, 2025)

Mar 25, 2026

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Philip C. Almond, "Noah and the Flood in Western Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Mar 21, 2026

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Daniel McClellan, "The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues" (St. Martin's Essentials, 2025)

Mar 18, 2026

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Manuela Ceballos, "Between Dung and Blood: Purity, Sainthood, and Power in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2025)

Mar 13, 2026

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Jon Stobart, "Life in the Georgian Parsonage: Morals, Material Goods and the English Clergy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Mar 11, 2026

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