News and activities at Norma Marion Alloway Library, Trinity Western University

Month: December 2018 (Page 2 of 2)

New Titles Tuesday, December 11

Here is a selection of recently added titles. Click for more information or to place a hold.

 In search of old Shanghai /Pan Ling.

Infidel /Ayaan Hirsi Ali.  Ali’s story tells how a bright little girl evolved out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter.

James: an introduction and study guide : diaspora rhetoric of a friend of God /by Margaret Aymer.  Aymer contends that the Letter of James is best understood as a homily in written form.  She also considers what of James is of enduring value when his message to outsiders has become a part of the canon of Scripture.

Johann Gutenberg: the inventor of printing /Victor Scholderer.

John Donne’s Christian vocation /Robert S. Jackson.

 John: Zondervan exegetical commentary on the New Testament/Edward W. Klink, III.

Jonathan Edwards among the theologians /Oliver D. Crisp.

Just send me word: a true story of love and survival in the Gulag /Orlando Figes.

Last train from Berlin / Howard K. Smith

 London: a short history /A.N. Wilson.

Malestrom: manhood swept into the currents of a changing world /Carolyn Custis James. 

Mao: the unknown story /Jung Chang, Jon Halliday.

  Midnight’s furies: the deadly legacy of India’s partition /Nisid Hajari.

Moscow, December 25, 1991: the last day of the Soviet Union /Conor O’Clery.

My battle against Hitler: defiance in the shadow of the Third Reich /Dietrich von Hildebrand ; translated and edited by John Henry Crosby with John F. Crosby.

 My two Chinas: the memoir of a Chinese counterrevolutionary /by Baiqiao Tang with Damon DiMarco.

Paradise lost: Smyrna, 1922 : the destruction of a Christian city in the Islamic world /Giles Milton.

Persecution and toleration in Protestant England, 1558-1689 /John Coffey.

Prelate as pastor: the episcopate of James I /Kenneth Fincham.

 Prisoner of the state: the secret journal of Zhao Ziyang /translated and edited by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang, and Adi Ignatius. Gives readers a front row seat to the secret inner workings of China’s government. It is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, who tried to stop the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, and was dethroned for his efforts.

Progressive covenantalism: charting a course between dispensational and covenant theologies /editors: Stephen J. Wellum and Brent E. Parker.

 Rasputin: the saint who sinned /Brian Moynahan.

Return to the middle kingdom: one family, three revolutionaries, and the birth of modern China /Yuan-Tsung Chen.

Riding the iron rooster: by train through China /Paul Theroux.

 Setting the East ablaze: Lenin’s dream of an empire in Asia /Peter Hopkirk.

Simple speaking activities /Jill Hadfield, Charles Hadfield.

Simple writing activities /Jill Hadfield, Charles Hadfield.

Sketches in winter: a Beijing postscript /Charles Foran.

Sophie Wang’s phonics for adult ESL students: LINC themes /Sophie Wang.

 Strong as death is love: the Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel : a translation with commentary /Robert Alter.

The case for peace: how the Arab-Israeli conflict can be resolved /Alan Dershowitz.

The divine poems /John Donne ; edited with introduction and commentary by Helen Gardner.

  The end of the Chinese dream: why Chinese people fear the future /Gerard Lemos.  Lemos investigates a China beyond the foreigners’ beaten track. This is a revealing account of the thoughts and feelings of Chinese people regarding all facets of their lives, from education to health care, unemployment to old age, politics to wealth. Taken together, the stories of these men and women bring to light a broken society, one whose people are frustrated, angry, sad, and often fearful about the circumstances of their lives. The author considers the implications of these findings and analyzes how China’s community and social problems threaten the ambitious nation’s hopes for a prosperous and cohesive future. Lemos explains why protests will continue and a divided and self-serving leadership will not make people’s dreams come true.

 The future is history: how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia /Masha Gessen.

The great Partition: the making of India and Pakistan /Yasmin Khan.

The Herbert allusion book: allusions to George Herbert in the seventeenth century /  compiled and edited by Robert H. Ray

 The last Tsar: the life and death of Nicholas II /Edvard Radzinsky ; translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz.

The major works /Francis Bacon; edited with an introduction and notes by Brian Vickers.

The metaphysical poets /selected and edited by Helen Gardner.

The monarch of wit: an analytical and comparative study of the poetry of John Donne /J. B. Leishman.

 The Saudis: inside the desert kingdom /Sandra Mackey.

The secret voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580 /Samuel Bawlf.

The triune God /Fred Sanders ; Michael Allen and Scott R. Swain, general editors.

 The way of Jesus Christ: Christology in messianic dimensions /Jürgen Moltmann.

Tolstoy, my father: reminiscences / Ilya Tolstoy. Translated from the Russian, by Ann Dunnigan.

Tournament of shadows: the great game and race for empire in Central Asia /Karl E. Meyer & Shareen Blair Brysac.

 

TWU’s new president at Alloway Library.

The announcement that TWU’s new president will be scholar, Dr Mark Husbands, sent us to Alloway Library’s catalogue. We found 23 items where Mark Husbands  is listed as editor or contributor or where his books are reviewed.

Here is a list of Husbands’ books at Alloway Library. Click on a title for more information or to place a hold. TWU login may be required.

 Ancient faith for the church’s future / edited by Mark Husbands and Jeffrey P. Greenman.  Husbands and Greenman bring together select essays  which demonstrate the vitality and significance of the early church for contemporary Christian witness and practice.  Fresh and forward-looking, this book leads the way toward a deeply rooted church that points beyond contemporary evangelical accommodation to civil religion, privatism and enlightenment methodologies toward its true vocation to bear vital witness to God’s present and coming kingdom.

 The beauty of God : theology and the arts / edited by Daniel J. Treier, Mark Husbands and Roger Lundin. These essays illuminate for us the Christian significance of the visual arts, music and literature, as well as sounding forth the theological meaning and place of the arts in a fallen world–fallen, yet redeemed by Christ. Here is a veritable feast for pastors, artists, theologians and students eager to consider the profound but not necessarily obvious connection between Christianity and the arts.

 Calvin’s Theology and Its Reception : Disputes, Developments, and New Possibilities   /Hesselink, I. John and Billings, J. Todd. An essential collection of essays for the study of John Calvin’s theology. Husbands is among the leading Calvin scholars  who examine the early and late reception-history of Calvin’s fundamental teachings, including reflections on the contemporary possibilities and limitations in developing Calvin’s thought.

 The community of the Word : toward an evangelical ecclesiology/ Mark Husbands and Daniel J. Treier, editors. In this volume, editors Husbands and Treier bring together thirteen scholars and teachers to explore the history of evangelical ecclesiology and the continuing discussion regarding the nature of the church, the question of sacraments, the relation of church to society, and the church’s moral character and missional witness.

 Justification : what’s at stake in the current debates / edited by Mark Husbands and Daniel J. Treier.  Husbands and  Treier bring together notable evangelical scholars and teachers to address from biblical, historical, theological and ecumenical perspectives key questions that prevent complete unity between Roman Catholic and Protestant branches of the church and raise tensions even among Protestant denominations. Witnessing to certain signs of hope, these essays also acknowledge points of caution. But for every reader who is looking for guidance and orientation to this doctrine and current discussion, this book provides a wealth of charitable yet incisive insight.

Women, ministry and the Gospel : exploring new paradigms / edited by Mark Husbands and Timothy Larsen. The essays explore the current issue of women in ministry from several perspectives.

 

What we were reading online in November

In November, Alloway Library users accessed over 1700 eBooks nearly 4400 times – either by reading them online, or by downloading, printing or emailing portions of the texts. Here is a selection of the most-used titles for the month.

 Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy  / Downing, David C.  Uses:  52

Navigating Strategic Possibilities: Strategy Formulation and Execution Practices to Flourish  / Herholdt, Johan; Ungerer, Gerard; Ungerer, Marius  Uses:  49

 Statistics for Advanced Practice Nurses and Health Professionals  / Dontje, Katherine J.; Stommel, Manfred  Uses:  48

Middle East: A Cultural Psychology  / Gregg, Gary S.  Uses:  30

Lippincott’s Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans  / Videbeck, Sheila L.; Schultz, Judith M.  Uses:  28

Cults, Religion, and Violence  / Melton, J. Gordon; Bromley, David G.; Bromley  Uses:  24

 Verdi’s Aida (Opera classics library series)  / Fisher, Burton D.; Fisher, Burton D; Ghislanzoni, Antonio  Uses:  23

 Isaiah: God’s Poet of Light  / Dempsey, Carol J.  Uses:  21

A Place at the Altar: Priestesses in Republican Rome  / DiLuzio, Meghan J.  Uses:  21

Understanding Jainism  / Babb, Lawrence A.  Uses:  20

 Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes  / Kushner, Tony; Glaser, Milton; Govan, Lisa; Watman, Molly  Uses:  19

Disputed Desert Decolonisation, Competing Nationalisms and Tuareg Rebellions in Northern Mali (Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 19)  / Lecocq, Jean Sebastian  Uses:  19

Language Issues in Comparative Education: Inclusive Teaching and Learning in Non-dominant Languages and Cultures  / Kosonen, Kimmo; Benson, Carolyn Joy.; Janssen  Uses:  18

 Ignatius of Antioch: A Martyr Bishop and the Origin of Episcopacy  / Brent, Allen  Uses:  18

Managing Knowledge Security: Strategies for Protecting Your Company’s Intellectual Assets  / Desouza, Kevin C.  Uses:  18

 The Oprah Phenomenon  / Watson, Elwood; Harris, Jennifer  Uses:  18

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.

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