New Titles Tuesday, December 4

New Title Tuesday took and unexpected hiatus recently but in the meantime over 160 titles were added to the collection. Here is a sample

 “Socialism is great!”: a worker’s memoir of the new China /Lijia Zhang.

1587, a year of no significance: the Ming dynasty in decline /Ray Huang.

A conservative history of the American Left /Daniel J. Flynn.

A history of Britain  /Simon Schama.

 A leaf in the bitter wind: a memoir /Ting-xing Ye.

Age of ambition: chasing fortune, truth, and faith in the new China /Evan Osnos. A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation. As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker,  Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In Age of Ambition, he describes the greatest collision taking place in that country: the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party’s struggle to retain control. Writing with great narrative verve and a keen sense of irony, Osnos follows the moving stories of everyday people and reveals life in the new China to be a battleground between aspiration and authoritarianism, in which only one can prevail.

 Awakening the evangelical mind: an intellectual history of the neo-evangelical movement /Owen Strachan.

Battling the gods: atheism in the ancient world /Tim Whitmarsh

Beijing spring /photographs by David and Peter Turnley ; text by Melinda Liu ; captions by Li Ming.

Brother enemy: the war after the war /Nayan Chanda. a compelling account of the third Indochina war-the one that began shortly after the United States pulled out of Saigon in 1975. It will be indispensable for anyone seeking to understand the roots of the regional conflict between China and Vietnam and the sources of the continuing war between the Vietnamese and Cambodian communists.

 Chiang Kai Shek: China’s generalissimo and the nation he lost /Jonathan Fenby.

Christian understandings of the Trinity: the historical trajectory /Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen. In this creative approach to the doctrine of the Trinity, author Veli- Matti Kärkkäinen focuses on keeping a dynamic balance between the intellectual-doctrinal and spiritual-charismatic approaches as parallel avenues towards theological understanding. His narrative approach draws on direct quotations from key historical theologians to increase appreciation of their theological wisdom and to encourage students to “dig further into this rich spiritual wellspring.”

 Christological anthropology in historical perspective: ancient and contemporary approaches to theological anthropology /Marc Cortez.

Cities of tomorrow and the city to come: a theology of urban life /Noah Toly.

Clive of India. /Mark Bence-Jones

 Coming out Christian in the Roman world: how the followers of Jesus made a place in Caesar’s empire /Douglas Boin.

Contemporary art and the church: a conversation between two worlds /edited by W. David O. Taylor and Taylor Worley.

Country driving: a journey through China from farm to factory /Peter Hessler. In this penetrating narrative account, Hessler investigates China’s lurch into modernity as he survives the advent of the nation’s uniquely terrifying car culture, probes the transformation of village life, and explores China’s frantic industrialization.

 Did God kill Jesus?: searching for love in history’s most famous execution /Tony Jones.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ecumenical quest /Keith Clements. This book aims to show how and why for Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from the conclusion of his student years in Berlin to his death on the Nazi gallows at Flossenburg, the ecumenical movement was central to his concerns.

 Donne and the politics of conscience in early modern England /by Meg Lota Brown.

Evolution: scripture and nature say yes /Denis O. Lamoureux.

 Faithful: a theology of sex /Beth Felker Jones ; Gene L. Green, series editor.

Flourishing: why we need religion in a globalized world /Miroslav Volf.

Four views on Christianity and philosophy /Graham Oppy, K. Scott Oliphint, Timothy McGrew, Paul K. Moser ; Paul M. Gould et al.

 Four views on hell /Denny Burk, John G. Stackhouse Jr., Robin A. Parry, Jerry L. Walls ; Preston M. Sprinkle, general editor.

Ghosts of empire: Britain’s legacies in the modern world /Kwasi Kwarteng.

God the Trinity: biblical portraits /Malcolm B. Yarnell III. Drawing on hermeneutics and biblical and historical theology, Yarnell crafts a careful and clear response to questions about the Trinity through exegesis of pivotal texts from both testaments. He also challenges the reader to discern the implications of the Trinity for personal salvation as well as corporate worship.

 God’s glory alone: the majestic heart of Christian faith and life : what the  reformers taught…and why it still matters /David VanDrunen ; Matthew Barrett, series editor.

Heavy storm and gentle breeze: a memoir of China’s diplomacy /Tang Jiaxuan.