Month: April 2021 (Page 1 of 2)

Here is a selection of new titles added to the collection in the past week. Click on a title for more information.

 Aristophanic comedy [by] K. J. Dover.

Augustine’s City of God: a reader’s guide /Gerard O’Daly. The City of God, written in the aftermath of the Gothic sack of Rome in AD 410, is the most influential of Augustine’s works, having played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. O’Daly’s book is the most comprehensive modern guide to it in any language.

 C.S. Lewis and the Christian worldview /Michael L. Peterson. Peterson develops a comprehensive, coherent framework for understanding Lewis’s Christian worldview-from his arguments from reason, morality, and desire to his ideas about Incarnation, Trinity, and Atonement. Accenting that the intellectual strength and existential relevance of Lewis’s works rest on his philosophical acumen as well as his Christian orthodoxy-which he famously called “mere Christianity”–Peterson skillfully shows how Lewis’s Christian thought engages a variety of important issues raised by believers and nonbelievers alike.

 Costumes of the Greeks and Romans (formerly titled: Costume of the ancients) For over 200 years considered among the finest, most accurate, most useful renderings of authentic costumes from these early civilizations. Carefully copied from ancient vases & statuary, these engravings combine unusual clarity of style with unquestioned authenticity. Over 700 illustrations depict all classes & occupations.

 Defending and defining the faith: an introduction to early Christian apologetic literature /D. H. Williams. This book offers a presentation of Christian apologetic literature from the second century to the fifth century, taking each writer within the intellectual context of the day. The book argues that most apologies were not directed at a pagan readership. In most cases, ancient apologetics had a double object: to instruct the Christian and persuade weak Christians or non-Christians who were sympathetic to Christian claims. Taken cumulatively, it finds, apologetic literature was integral to the formation of the Christian identity in the Roman world.

 Faithful to science: the role of science in religion /Andrew Steane. This book describes the combination of science and religious faith from the perspective of one who finds that they link together productively and creatively.

 Love all: a comedy of manners, together with Busman’s honeymoon : a detective comedy / by Dorothy L. Sayers and Muriel St. Clare Byrne ; [both] edited by Alzina Stone Dale.  When Lord Peter and his bride arrive at their honeymoon cottage in the country, everything seems perfect. Though the owner of the house is nowhere to be found, Lord Peter and Harriet settle down, first to an elegant dinner and then to sleep in a soft goosefeather bed. All is splendid until the owner of the house turns up — in the cellar, very dead.

 Need to know: vocation as the heart of Christian epistemology /John G. Stackhouse, Jr. This book answers a basic question: When a Christian wants to consider a matter in a way that is fully responsible to her Christian commitments, what is she to do? What resources ought she to consult? How ought she to consult them, and then coordinate the deliverances of each? This book, a new statement of Christian epistemology, answers a number of questions fundamentally in terms of vocation.

 Posthuman bliss?: the failed promise of transhumanism /Susan B. Levin. Transhumanists would have humanity’s creation of posthumanity be our governing aim. Susan B. Levin challenges their overarching commitments regarding the mind, brain, ethics, liberal democracy, knowledge, and reality. Her critique unmasks their notion of humanity’s self-transcendence via science and technology as pure, albeit seductive, fantasy.

Revelation: toward a Christian theology of God’s self-revelation /Gerald O’Collins. A study of the central themes of the theology of revelation, whereas other works often focus on the history of reflection on revelation.

 The evolution of atheism: the politics of a modern movement /Stephen LeDrew. This is a study of contemporary organised atheism as a fundamentally political phenomenon that is internally divided on ideological grounds, positioning atheism as one ideology and identity marker within the broad network of organisations collectively constituting the secular movement. This movement, which has existed since the nineteenth century, came to life in the early twenty-first century with the emergence of the New Atheism, an aggressive assault on religion led by thinkers such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens.

 The future of Christian marriage /Mark Regnerus. This is a book about how today’s Christians find a mate within a faith that esteems marriage but a world that increasingly yawns at it. The book draws on in-depth interviews with nearly 200 young-adult Christians from the United States, Mexico, Spain, Poland, Russia, Lebanon, and Nigeria, in order to understand the state of matrimony in global Christian circles today.

The outrageous idea of Christian teaching /Perry L. Glanzer and Nathan F. Alleman ; foreword by George Marsden. Explores the responses of more than 2,300 Christian professors from 48 different institutions across North America to find out how  (and should) being a Christian change one’s teaching

 Theology and the anthropology of Christian life /Joel Robbins. A major reconsideration of important aspects of anthropological theory through theological categories and a series of careful readings of influential theologians such as Moltmann, Pannenberg, Jungel, and Dalferth informed by rich ethnographic accounts of the lives of Christians from around the world. Robbins draws on contemporary discussions of secularism to interrogate the secular foundations of anthropology and suggests that the differences between anthropology and theology surrounding this topic can provide a foundation for transformative dialogue between them, rather than being an obstacle to it. Written as a work of interdisciplinary anthropological theorizing, this book also offers theologians an introduction to some of the most important ground covered by burgeoning field of the anthropology of Christianity while guiding anthropologists into core areas of theological discussion.