Here is a selection of titles added to the collection recently.

 Everyday apologetics: answering common objections to the Christian faith /Paul Chamberlain, Chris Price, editors ; foreword by Sean McDowell. TWU AUTHOR In Everday Apologetics, readers will be equipped with answers to some of Christianity’s most difficult objections: Why is the God of the Old Testament so violent? Are science and faith in fundamental conflict with one another? The contributors take up these questions and more, helping Christians be strengthened in their faith while also providing powerful answers to opponents of the Christian faith.

Letters to Annie: a grandmother’s dreams of fairy tale princesses, princes, and happily ever after /Monika B. Hilder. TWU AUTHOR In the fictional voice of a grandmother writing to her granddaughter over the first twenty-five years of her life, Letters to Annie inspires us to live into our deepest life questions. With a wealth of spiritual and literary insights, these thirty-three letters leave us richer and more able to navigate the challenges, sorrows, and joys of life with wisdom, courage, and love.

 Daily life in the French theatre at the time of Molière; translated [from the French] by Claire Eliane Engel. A lively and detailed account of the life of actors.

 Dan Taylor (1738-1816), Baptist leader and pioneering Evangelical /Richard T. Pollard ; forword by Peter J. Morden. This book provides considerable new light on the theological thinking of this important evangelical figure. It is thus especially relevant to recent debates regarding the origins of evangelicalism. Taylor’s evangelicalism was particularly marked by its pioneering nature. His propensity for innovation serves as a unifying theme throughout the book, with many of its accompanying patterns of thinking and practical expressions demonstrating that which was distinct about evangelicalism in the eighteenth century.

 Early Christian care for the poor: an alternative subsistence strategy under Roman imperial rule /K.C. Richardson. Beginning with Jesus’s ministry in the villages of Galilee and continuing over the course of the first three centuries, the Christians organized their house churches, at least in part, to provide subsistence insurance for their needy members.  Modeling their economic values and practices on the traditional patterns of the rural village, the Christians created an alternative subsistence strategy in the cities of the Roman empire by emphasizing need, rather than virtue, as the main criterion for determining the recipients of their generous giving.

 Echoes of contempt: a history of Judeophobia and the Christian church /Bruce D. Thompson. Echoes of Contempt is an engaging and vivid account of the tragic history of the church’s relationship with Jewish communities over two millennia. Beginning with the Jerusalem house church, the book traces that history through medieval pogroms and the Parisian salons of the Enlightenment, right up to the present-day focus on the Israel/Palestine conflict. The author shows that Judeophobia is a recycling of misinformation, prejudice, and hatred. While the book is accessible to those who have very little previous knowledge of the subject, it is well-researched and retains a sophisticated approach.

 Eight plays by Molière /translated, with an introduction by Morris Bishop. The eight plays in this volume, complete & unabridged, are among Molière’s best comedies. They give full evidence of his undisputed rank as the foremost dramatist in all French literature & concededly one of the world’s greatest since Shakespeare. These plays have all been newly translated  with skillful fidelity that will establish these translations as the definitive ones of our time.

 Essays on the Trinity /edited by Lincoln Harvey. This volume gathers together twelve essays on the doctrine of the Trinity. It includes the work of systematic theologians, analytic theologians, and biblical scholars who address a range of issues concerning the Christian doctrine of God.

 Faith in the living God: a dialogue /John Polkinghorne & Michael Welker.  Polkinghorne and  Welker explain how they understand faith in the living God. Between them, they offer a’binocular vision from [their] twin perspectives to yield helpful insight in relation to the important issues.’ Part of the fascination of this book is how two people with such different backgrounds approach central theological questions relating to the faith they both share. Their concerns are truth rather than polemics, reliability rather than simple certainty. They seek to anchor their thought in concrete particulars rather than abstract generalizations.

 Fides and secularity: beyond Charles Taylor’s Open Faith /Emilio Di Somma ; foreword by Philip G. Ziegler. This book wishes to talk about two main topics: the Canadian political philosopher Charles Taylor and faith. To develop my argument, I will attempt to develop a dialogue between continental and Anglo-American philosophers and theologians, in the hope of convincing the readers that we should change radically the way we discuss faith, religion, and secularism.

 Genesis as Torah: reading narrative as legal instruction /Brian Neil Peterson. Should Genesis rightly be identified as law–that is, as torah or legal instruction for Israel? Peterson argues in the affirmative, concluding that Genesis serves a greater function than merely offering a prehistory or backstory for the people of Israel. Peterson posits that many of the Genesis accounts serve as case law.  When Genesis is read through this lens, the rhetorical strategy of the biblical author(s) becomes clear and the purpose for including specific narratives takes on new meaning.

 God, science, and religious diversity: a defense of theism /Robert T. Lehe. This book argues that one rational way to adjudicate disagreements between the claims of diverse religions is to assess their consistency with contemporary science. The book considers how Christian theism and Buddhism fare in harmonizing their metaphysical frameworks with contemporary scientific cosmology. Although both theistic and Buddhist worldviews resonate with many recent scientific discoveries, the Big Bang theory and cosmic fine-tuning favor the Christian doctrine of creation.

 Help! – I’ve got an alarm bell going off in my head!: how panic, anxiety and stress affect your body /K.L. Aspden ; foreword by Babette Rothschild ; illustrated by Zita Rá. This straightforward, illustrated guide explores just that, explaining what happens to the brain and nervous system when that alarm bell in our heads starts ringing. It describes how our bodies can become very sensitive and set off false alarms.

 Inhabiting the land: thinking theologically about the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict /Alain Epp Weaver. Epp Weaver introduces readers to the intertwined histories of Zionism (as a movement to establish a Jewish state and renew Jewish life in the biblical land of Israel) and Palestinian nationalism. He also situates Palestinian Christian theologies within broader Christian conversations about election, God’s enduring covenant with the Jewish people, and Zionism. In the face of a politics of separation and dispossession, Epp Weaver contends, Palestinian Christian theologies testify to the possibility of a shared polity and geography for Palestinians and Israeli Jews not defined by walls, militarized fences, checkpoints, and roadblocks, but rather by mutuality and reconciliation.

 Love in a time of fear: hearing our neighbors across lines that divide us /Cassie J. E. H. Trentaz. Trentaz asks her friends and neighbors in four communities currently facing pressure and often viewed with suspicion–immigrants, Muslim Americans, LGBTQ+ people, and young African American men–what feels like love to them and, alternatively, what does not. Trentaz brings their honest, heartfelt responses in their own words, helping us to know people we might not know and bringing us powerful stories of offerings of love that were received as love as well as stories of good intentions that missed their mark. She then offers us tools to help us act on what we hear.

Molière: a collection of critical essays /Jacques Guicharnaud. These essays both define Moliere’s role in the comic tradition, and explore the art and purpose of his individual works.

 Molière’s tartuffe , or, The imposter /translated by Christopher Hampton.

 Paul /Daisy Lafarge. A sharp, timely debut about a young woman’s toxic relationship with an older man and her battle to free herself from the suffocating expectation to be good. When personal scandal forces her to leave Paris, Frances, a young British graduate student, travels to southern France one summer to volunteer on a farm.  Coming to terms with what’s happening to her and wrenching control from an older man with dark secrets of his own are at the heart of this compelling, unsettling novel. By turns the story of how a modern woman finds the inner strength to regain her sense of self and a fascinating exploration of the power dynamics between men and women, Paul is a deeply human novel that holds a mirror up to many of the issues that people confront today.

 Queer theology: beyond apologetics /Linn Marie Tonstad.  Queer Theology offers a readable introduction to a difficult debate. Summarizing the various apologetic arguments for the inclusion of queer people in Christianity, Tonstad moves beyond inclusion to argue for a queer theology that builds on the interconnection of theology with sex and money. Thoroughly grounded in queer theory as well as in Christian theology, Queer Theology grapples with the fundamental challenges of the body, sex, and death, as these are where queerness and Christianity find (and, maybe, lose) each other.

 Re-envisioning transformation: toward a theology of the Christian life /David C. Scott. Re-Envisioning Transformation looks at the possibility of moving toward a vision of transformational theology that is cohesive, unified, broad, effectual, and distinctly Christian. In this book, the contributions of two radically different theologians of the Christian life are examined. This provides the basis from which to develop a comprehensive and integrated framework of transformational theology–pointing God’s people toward the need to express and live out a distinctly Christian vision.

Scapin /by Molière ; translated and with an introduction by Donald Sutherland.  The crafty Scapin, promises to help in the affairs of two young men in love with penniless young women. Scapin’s schemes aid in revealing the penniless beauties to be the exact right mates for the young charges daughters. There is a final chase and dance among all the participants, which, inevitably, becomes the raucous, delightful curtain call.

  The Cid ; Cinna ; The theatrical illusion /[by] Pierre Corneille ; translated and introduced by John Cairncross. The Cid, Corneille’s masterpiece set in medieval Spain, was the first great work of French classical drama; Cinna, written three years later in 1641, is a tense political drama, while The Theatrical Illusion, an earlier work, is reminiscent of Shakespeare’s exuberant comedies.

 The cyberdimension: a political theology of cyberspace and cybersecurity /Eric Trozzo. Trozzo seeks not only a theological means of speaking about cyberspace in its ambiguity, but also how the spiritual dimension of life provokes resistance to the reduction of life to what can be calculated. Rather than focusing on the content available online, he looks to the structure of cyberspace itself to find a chastened yet still expectant vision of divinity amidst the political, economic, and social forces at play in the cyber realm.

 The end Is music: a companion to Robert W. Jenson’s theology /Chris E.W. Green. This book is an attempt to give Jenson the kind of hearing that puts his creativity and significance on display, and allows newcomers to and old friends of his theology the opportunity to hear it afresh.

 The Genesis column: correlating the creation days of Genesis with the geologic column /W. Joseph Stallings ; foreword by William P. Payne ; preface by Edward N. Martin. It is the assertion of Old-Earth Creationism that God created the Earth and then made it into an inhabitable environment over the course of a week of epoch-long creation days. It is the assertion of modern science that the Earth is 4.6 billion years old and has reached such an age by passing through a number of geologic periods that are differentiated by stratigraphic, paleontological, and other empirical markers. Therefore, it seems very logical that if one holds to the veracity of these two basic assertions, then the long creation days of Genesis and the geologic ages of modern science can and should be effectively correlated with one another in some cohesive and systematic manner. Here we offer our origins correlation model, The Genesis Column, which does just that.

 The genius of the Anglo-Saxons: innovations from past civilizations /Izzi Howell Find out how the Anglo-Saxons farmed their land, built their houses, and organized their society. Discover how their brilliant developments in defense, law, language, and storytelling still influence the way we live today.

 The genius of the Maya /Izzi Howell.   Find out how the Maya built their cities to suit the landscape and population, traded their resources, and developed a complex system of writing. Discover how their brilliant developments in farming, astronomy, and cloth-making still influence the way we live today.

 The Letter of James: a pastoral commentary /Addison Hodges Hart. Hart argues that the epistle is indeed the work of James of Jerusalem,’the brother of the Lord,’that it was an encyclical letter, and that its chief concern was to combat a distorted version of Paul’s gospel. This commentary presents James afresh, as a living guide with a perennial message for those who seek to follow Jesus. It is pastoral in intent, written for those who teach and preach, those who desire a more authentic discipleship, and those who practice lectio divina. (Includes the entire Greek text and the new English translation of the epistle by David Bentley Hart.)

 The school for husbands ; and, Sganarelle, or, The imaginary cuckold /Molière ; translated into English verse and introduced by Richard Wilbur. Two plays in which the entertaining character of Sganarelle appears: in The School for Husbands as a guardian, and in Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold as a duped and jealous husband.

 The school for wives ; and, The learned ladies /Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière ; translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur. The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and household.

 Why you shouldn’t kill yourself: five tricks of the heart about assisted suicide /Susan Windley-Daoust. The author engages in an extended discussion with a game dialogue partner who thinks that there are five good reasons to employ physician-assisted suicide–and proves those common reasons (or tricks of the heart) may be well-intended, but make no moral or spiritual sense. She argues that physician assisted suicide is based in medical ignorance, a utilitarian understanding of the human, and a spiritual vacuum–and the Christian Church needs to engage these realities quickly and directly by recovering the art of dying well.