New Titles Tuesday, January 14

Here is a selection of print and eBooks recently added to the collection.

A critical and exegetical commentary on Galatians /by Christopher M. Tuckett. For over one hundred years the International Critical Commentary has had a special place amongst works on the Bible. This new volume on Galatians brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis – linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary and theological – to enable the scholar to have a complete knowledge and understanding of this New Testament book. Tuckett incorporates new evidence available in the field and applies new methods of studies.

 A primer for emotionally focused individual therapy (EFIT): cultivating fitness and growth in every client/Susan M. Johnson and T. Leanne Campbell.  Johnson et al, apply the key interventions of EFT to work with individuals, providing an overview and clinical guide to treating clients with depression, anxiety, and traumatic stress. Designed for therapists at all levels of expertise, Johnson and Campbell focus on introducing clinicians to EFIT interventions, techniques, and change processes in a highly accessible and practical format.

Atonement and the life of faith /Adam J. Johnon.  Johnson addresses the key soteriological theme of atonement, showing students how to integrate theology into the life of faith and how the practices of Christian worship influence theological thinking.

Egypt under el-Sisi: a nation on the edge /Maged Mandour. This book follows President Sisi’s regime in the aftermath of the 2013 coup that brought him to power. It is a chronology of the devastating political, economic and social consequences of direct military rule.  Mandour explains exactly how Sisi operates and what makes his regime so different, and so dangerous, compared to those that came before. It shows, for the first time, how Egypt has been pushed to the brink of the abyss and why this will change the country for decades to come.

Faith in reading: religious publishing and the birth of mass media in America /David Paul Nord. This is the remarkable story of the unlikely origins of modern media culture. In the early 19th century, a few entrepreneurs decided the time was right to launch a true mass media in America. Though they were savvy businessmen, their publishing enterprises were not commercial businesses but nonprofit religious organizations.

Heart. soul. mind. strength.: a narrative history of InterVarsity Press, 1947-2022 /Andrew T. Le Peau and Linda Doll ; expanded edition edited by Al Hsu.  In this behind-the-scenes narrative of InterVarsity Press, Peau and Doll offer a glimpse into the stories, people, and events that made IVP what it is today. Recording good times and bad, celebrations and challenges, they place IVP in its historical context and demonstrate its contribution to the academy, church, and world.

Jansenism: an international anthology /edited by Shaun Blanchard and Richard T. Yoder. The first comprehensive anthology of Jansenist texts in English translation. Covering the full sweep of the Jansenist movement from the 1630s until the early nineteenth century, this anthology is a major asset to historians of early modernity, theologians, advanced and beginner students, and interested non-specialists. Readers of English can now directly hear the voices of the women and men, nuns and priests, and politicians and pamphleteers embroiled in some of the most dynamic controversies of early modern Christianity.

New laws of robotics: defending human expertise in the age of AI /Frank Pasquale.  AI threatens to disrupt the professions as it has manufacturing.  Pasquale argues that law and policy can avert this outcome and promote better ones: instead of replacing humans, technology can make our labor more valuable. Through regulation, we can ensure that AI promotes inclusive prosperity.

Religion and poverty: monotheistic responses around the globe /Susan Crawford Sullivan, Stephen Offutt, and Shariq Ahmed Siddiqui.  This book offers a timely and compelling look at religion and poverty, focusing primarily on the two largest world religions, Christianity and Islam, and considering religion and poverty in the United States and international contexts. Written by social scientists, the book incorporates relevant theology with a focus on how theology is lived in relation to issues of poverty.

Scholarship reconsidered: priorities of the professoriate /Ernest L. Boyer ; updated and expanded by Drew Moser, Todd C. Ream, John M. Braxton, and associates.  Shifting faculty roles in a changing landscape.  Boyer challenges the publish-or-perish status quo that dominated the academic landscape.  The rise of the non-tenure-track class of professors is well documented. If the historic rule of promotion and tenure is waning, what role can scholarship play in a fragmented, unbundled academy? Boyer calls for a broadened view of scholarship, audaciously refocusing its gaze from the tenure file and to a wider community.

Staple security: bread and wheat in Egypt /Jessica Barnes.  Egyptians often say that bread is life; most eat this staple multiple times a day, many relying on the cheap bread subsidized by the government. In Staple Security,  Barnes explores the process of sourcing domestic and foreign wheat for the production of bread and its consumption across urban and rural settings. She traces the anxiety that pervades Egyptian society surrounding the possibility that the nation could run out of wheat or that people might not have enough good bread to eat, and the daily efforts to ensure that this does not happen.