Here is a sample of the 17 print and electronic resources added to the catalogue in the past week. Click on a title for more information. TWU login may be required.

LITERATURE

The Norton anthology of English literature. Volume C, The Restoration and the eighteenth century /Stephen Greenblatt, general editor ; M.H. Abrams, founding editor  emeritus ; [editors for volume C], Lawrence Lipking, James Noggle.  Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies–thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible–The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have reconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool.

PSYCHOLOGY

On purpose: how we create the meaning of life /Paul Froese. Froese brings together data from large national and international surveys with interviews that illuminate the ways in which people from all walks of life grapple with their continuous search for reason, truth, sense, success, happiness, and-ultimately-transcendence. Froese argues that the desire to connect with something larger than oneself is a universal urge, manifested most directly, but far from solely, in religious communities. Written in vivid, accessible prose, On Purpose takes the reader on a journey through the complexities and consequences of life’s most important question.  Framing the book around six key questions, Froese refuses to collapse the meaning of life into a single authoritative answer, as self-help gurus do. Instead, he deconstructs each question to reveal the social pathways that guide people to distinctive answers.  Through lively, engaging storytelling that mixes data and analysis with literary and historical examples of the quest for purpose, Froese sheds new light on a timeless and all-too-human quandary.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Christian missions in Madagascar [electronic resource] /by E.O. McMahon ; with preface by the bishop of Madagascar. Archdeacon Edward Oliver McMahon [1860-1918] recalls the history of S.P.G. missionary work in Madagascar. There are numerous  contemporary photographs that depict various aspects of Malagasy life.

A concise exegetical grammar of New Testament Greek /J. Harold Greenlee.  This book has been designed to meet the needs of students who have completed a course in elementary New Testament Greek. Intended to be practical rather than exhaustive, this concise study aid provides a grasp of the principles of Greek grammar which are meaningful in exegesis.

 Griffith John [electronic resource]: the story of fifty years in China /by George Cousins. This is R. Wardlaw Thompson’s [1842-1916] detailed account of Griffith John’s fifty years of service in China with the London Missionary Society.

An introduction to Romans: a Christian missionary letter: a formational and theological interpretation /R. Jeffrey Hiatt.  This work is intended to be an introduction for students and lay persons interested in a scholarly informed, but easily accessible, biblical study for personal or small group Christian formation.

Jottings from Japan [electronic resource] /by Susan Ballard. This is a collection of Susan Ballard’s [1863-1909] articles previously published in missionary news magazines. It is illustrated for the most part with her own photographs.

The light of the morning [electronic resource]: the story of the C.E.Z.M.S. work in the Kien-Ning prefecture of the Fuh-Kien province, China … With seventeen illustrations and two maps. /by Mary E. Darley ; with an introduction by John Rigg. This is the fascinating account of the Zenana mission work of Mary Elizabeth Darley [c.1870-1934]. She served in China with the Church of England Zenana Mission Society and was supported by the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Dublin University Fuh-Kien Mission.

On the threshold of three closed lands [electronic resource]: the Guild outpost in the western Himalyas /by Rev. J.A. Graham ; with introduction by Sir Charles A. Elliott. This is an account of the Eastern Himalayan Mission of the Church of Scotland written in 1897. It was located near the borders of three countries which foreign missionaries were not allowed to enter – China, Bhutan and Nepal.

The rise of network Christianity: how independent leaders are changing the religious landscape /Brad Christerson and Richard Flory.  Drawing on in-depth interviews with leaders and participants, The Rise of Network Christianity explains the social forces behind the fastest growing form of Christianity in the U.S., which Christerson and Flory have labeled “Independent Network Christianity” (INC). They argue that large-scale social changes since the 1970s, including globalization and the digital revolution have given competitive advantages to religious groups organized by networks rather than traditionally organized congregations and denominations. Network forms of church governance allow for experimentation with controversial supernatural practices, innovative finances and marketing, and a highly participatory, unorthodox, and experiential faith, which is attractive in today’s unstable religious marketplace. As more religious groups imitate this type of governance, religious belief and practice will become more experimental, more oriented around practice than belief, more shaped by the individual religious “consumer” and authority will become more highly concentrated in the hands of individuals rather than institutions.

 Social engagement: the challenge of the social in missiological education /George William Wiseman. Papers highlighting missiology’s growing engagement with social issues. With a pedagogical emphasis in mind, our collection of papers begins and ends with the plenary papers presented by David Fenrick, from Northwestern College, and Al Tizon, from Palmer Theological Seminary. Both papers concentrate on service-learning or “engaged” scholarship as they explore new ways to move beyond the classroom to train missioners as scholar-practitioners. David presented a vital (even path-breaking) model for experience-based education; Al described the challenges of creating an entire graduate program rooting classroom instruction in social advocacy and activism. Both are instructive as we envision new curricula and new programs for effectively training the next generation of missioners and missiologists. In between these plenaries, twelve other papers were presented in workshops. Several of these also touch on pedagogical issues related to engaged scholarship and service-learning. Others explore theoretical, historical and social-cultural issues in missiological perspective.

The story of the South Seas [electronic resource] /by George Cousins. The work of the London Missionary Society in the Pacific Ocean through its “Missionary Ships” is truly inspiring. In this heavily illustrated book George Cousins (editorial Assistant and Assistant Foreign Secretary of the London Missionary Society) draws on a number of sources to retell the story.

 They kept the lower lights burning: the story of the Seaman’s Bethel at Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and its chaplains /George William Wiseman.

 THEATRE

True and false: heresy and common sense for the actor /David Mamet.  One of our most brilliantly iconoclastic playwrights takes on the art of profession of acting with these words: invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.  David Mamet takes a jackhammer to the idols of contemporary acting, while revealing the true heroism and nobility of the craft. He shows actors how to undertake auditions and rehearsals, deal with agents and directors, engage audiences, and stay faithful to the script, while rejecting the temptations that seduce so many of their colleagues. Bracing in its clarity, exhilarating in its common sense, True and False is as shocking as it is practical, as witty as it is instructive, and as irreverent as it is inspiring.