Month: January 2024 (Page 3 of 3)

Here is a selection of recently added titles, read for use.

 A basic guide to Eastern Orthodox theology: introducing beliefs and practices /Eve Tibbs. A comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the theology, spirituality, and life of the Eastern Orthodox Church for Western readers.

  A calling to care: nurturing college students toward wholeness /editors, Timothy W. Herrmann & Kirsten D. Riedel ; coeditors, Emilie K. Hoffman, Jessica L. Martin, Kelly A. Yordy & Hannah M. Pick. This volume examines the calling that Christian educators in both curricular and cocurricular settings share in relation to the students they serve. Join this unique blend of experienced practitioners and researchers  in considering how we can best nurture our students toward health, wholeness, and purpose.

After doubt: how to question your faith without losing it /A. J. Swoboda. Swoboda shows those experiencing doubt that there is a way to question your faith without losing it.

 Choosing us: marriage and mutual flourishing in a world of difference /Gail Song Bantum and Brian Bantum. This book reveals the lessons, mistakes, and principles that have helped the Bantums navigate race, family history, and gender dynamics in their twenty-plus years of marriage, while inspiring readers to pursue mutual flourishing in their marriages and relationships. Choosing Us reflects the realities and demands of modern marriage and respects the callings and ambitions of both partners. It shows that marriage is about choosing the other’s flourishing on a daily basis, amid differences and even systemic obstacles, to build a relationship that thrives and reflects the kingdom of God.

 Confessions /Augustine ; translated, with introduction and notes, by Thomas Williams. Williams has succeeded in capturing both sides of Augustine’s mind in a richly evocative, impeccably reliable, elegantly readable presentation of one of the most impressive achievements in Western thought–Augustine’s Confessions

 Five wives: a novel /Joan Thomas. A riveting novel, set in the rainforest of Ecuador, about five women left behind in the wilderness when their missionary husbands are killed. Based on real-life events.

 Freedom starts today: overcoming struggles and addictions one day at a time /John Elmore. Pastor and director of re:generation–one of the largest and most effective Christ-centered, community-based recovery programs in the world–offers a 90-day addiction-breaking, spiritual-awakening process for readers to walk in daily freedom from sin struggles.

 From isolation to community: a renewed vision for Christian life together /Myles Werntz. With the help of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Werntz shows how reframing familiar practices can shift the church away from isolation and toward community.

  From Layton to Singh: the 20-year conflict behind the NDP’s deal with the Trudeau Liberals /Matt Fodor. An incisive analysis of the federal NDP since 2000, examining the ongoing, unresolved tension between the party’s idealistic grassroots base and centrist bureaucracy at its core. Fodor describes how, over 20 years, centrists gradually consolidated their power, turning the party to the right. He highlights how the tensions have played out as activists drawn to socialist ideals contend with card-carrying party members chasing political power.  Fodor describes the impact on the party of Jagmeet Singh’s leadership, from its rocky first days to the campaigns of 2019 and 2021 and the role the party has played in minority Parliaments. He offers an account of the changes that would allow the federal party to hew more closely to the ideals and beliefs of its members. Fodor bases his narrative on sources including party insiders and defectors alike.

 Fully alive: the apocalyptic humanism of Karl Barth /Stanley Hauerwas. Fully Alive uses the work of Karl Barth to develop a humanism that can produce a form of Christianity that gives people hope in a time of uncertainty. Reinhold Niebuhr also plays a prominent role in the book, and race is treated in a retrospective essay.

 Jesus Christ: his life and teaching. Volume one, The beginning of the Gospel / Jesus Christ: his life and teaching. Volume two, The Sermon on the mount / Jesus Christ: his life and teaching. Volume four, The parables of Jesus / Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev. This series of books on Jesus is not so much for those Christians who are rooted in holy tradition as it is for non-believers, those who doubt and who are hesitant. In the first instance, it may give some answers to those who believe that Jesus never even existed. Secondly, it is for those who believe that Jesus existed but do not believe that he is God. Thirdly, it is for those who perhaps consider themselves Christians but relate to the Gospel narratives skeptically or view the Gospels through the prism of the criticism through which it was subjected in the works of Western specialists in the New Testament in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ultimately, we would like to answer the main question of what Jesus has brought to people and why he is necessary for people today.

 Love is the resistance: learn to disagree, resolve the conflicts you’ve been avoiding, and create real change /Ashley Abercrombie. Abercromie shows how we can stop running away from conflict and instead engage those we disagree with in love, live with necessary tension, and resolve internal and external conflicts to live more productive and peace-filled lives.

Here’s a selction of titles recently added to the collection and ready for use.

 Artificial intelligence and the apocalyptic imagination: artificial agency and human hope /Michael J. Paulus Jr. This book argues that the Christian apocalyptic imagination can transform how we think about and use AI, helping us discover ways artificial agency may participate in new creation.

 DBT skills training manual /Marsha M. Linehan. This comprehensive resource provides vital tools for implementing DBT skills training. The teaching notes and reproducible handouts and worksheets have been significantly revised and expanded to reflect important research and clinical advances. The book gives complete instructions for orienting individuals with a wide range of problems to DBT and teaching them mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance skills.

 Dialectical behavior therapy in clinical practice: applications across disorders and settings /edited by Linda A. Dimeff, Shireen L. Rizvi, Kelly Koerner ; foreword by Marsha M. Linehan. Leading experts describe innovative ways to use dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) in a wide range of real-world clinical and community settings. The volume provides wise guidance on setting up, running, and evaluating a comprehensive DBT program. It also presents adaptations designed to meet the needs of particular client populations as time- and cost-effectively as possible. Vivid case examples illustrate diverse applications of DBT for helping adults, adolescents, and children reduce suicidal and self-harming behavior; overcome complex, multiple challenges; and build a life worth living.

 Redeeming vision: a Christian guide to looking at and learning from art /Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt. Premised on the belief that we are all morally formed by images, this illustrated resource provides a practical guide for Christian viewing, offering tools for closely looking at and learning from art and from images we encounter in the media.

 Renewing Christian worldview: a holistic approach for Spirit-filled Christians /Steven Félix-Jäger and Yoon Shin This book offers a brief but comprehensive introduction to Christian worldview from a Pentecostal perspective, helping students understand why Christianity is beautiful, true, and relevant to all aspects of life.

 Technē: Christian visions of technology /Gerald Hiestand and Todd A. Wilson, editors. This collection of scholarly and pastoral essays, drawn from the 2019 annual theology conference of the Center for Pastor Theologians, offers substantive Christian reflection on a wide range of issues pertinent to a distinctly Christian vision of technology today–and in the future.

 The arts and the Christian life /Earl Davey. This collection of essays pursues questions that address how we perceive value in our experience of the arts, how this experience leads to a greater measure of human fullness, and what significance engagement with the arts holds for the Christian life. The author argues that human experience and the quality of our personhood are enriched in and through the imaginative life and that our spiritual lives are profoundly impacted by our aesthetic engagements.

 The promise of social enterprise: a theological exploration of faithful economic practice /Mark Sampson ; with a foreword by John M.G. Barclay.  Arguing for the need to move beyond the narrow and reductionistic logic of mainstream economics, the economic nature of the language of gift and mutuality is explored. Drawing on the theological framework of Pope Benedict XVI and the work of John Barclay on Paul’s understanding of the social implications of the Christ-gift, this book considers the contribution that a theology of gift, with its incongruity and mutuality, makes to the theory and practice of social enterprise.