{"id":3149,"date":"2019-12-10T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2019-12-06T12:17:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T20:17:15","slug":"new-titles-tuesday-december-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2019\/12\/10\/new-titles-tuesday-december-10\/","title":{"rendered":"New Titles Tuesday, December 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the past week 53 titles<\/strong> were added to the library\u2019s collection; below is a sample. Click on the link for more information.<\/p>\n

\"\"Approaches to teaching the works of Flannery O’Connor<\/a> \/edited by Robert Donahoo and Marshall Bruce Gentry.
\n<\/strong>This title offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the works of Flannery O\u2019Connor, including considerations of race, whiteness, class, religion, disability, gender, technology, the environment, and the post-World War II period.<\/p>\n

Dance me to the end: ten months and ten days with ALS<\/a> \/Alison Acheson.
\n<\/strong>This title is a memoir about the emotional impact of witnessing a loved one suffer from a neurological, degenerative, and terminal disease.<\/p>\n

Isaiah through the centuries<\/a> \/John F.A. Sawyer.
\n<\/strong>This title is a systematic and comprehensive attempt to identify and analyze the role of Isaianic language and imagery in literature, art, and music.<\/p>\n

\"\"The mysticism of the Cloud of unknowing<\/a><\/strong> \/William Johnston: \u00a0foreword by Thomas Merton.
\n<\/strong>This title is a work of an anonymous fourteenth-century English writer with a powerful message of God’s unconditional love in the face of despair. Johnston’s theological treatment of this and other works by the same writer makes a conscious comparison with Oriental ways of contemplation.<\/p>\n

The outrageous idea of Christian scholarship<\/a> \/George M. Marsden.
\n<\/strong>This thought-provoking title on the relationship of religious faith and intellectual scholarship, and argues that mainstream American higher education needs to be more open to explicit expressions of faith and to accept what faith means in an intellectual context.<\/p>\n

Political order and political decay: from the industrial revolution to the globalization of democracy<\/a> \/Francis Fukuyama.
\n<\/strong>This title questions how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions. The author follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics.<\/p>\n

\"\"Thomas Merton and Henri Nouwen: principal architects of our spiritual wisdom<\/a> \/Michael W. Higgins.
\n<\/strong>This title explores Merton and Nouwen\u2019s encounter with one another and their relationship rooted in common sources, shared interests, acute crises, and effective witness in a time of turmoil and chaos.<\/p>\n

Toxic parents: overcoming their hurtful legacy and reclaiming your life<\/a> \/Susan Forward, with Craig Buck.
\n<\/strong>This self-help guide draws on case histories and the real-life voices of adult children of toxic parents to help the reader free oneself from the frustrating patterns of relationship with parents, and discover a new world of self-confidence, inner strength, and emotional independence.<\/p>\n

Visions of the Apocalypse: receptions of John’s revelation in western imagination<\/a> \/Bruce Chilton.
\n<\/strong>This title maps the ways in which John\u2019s Revelation has been read through the centuries and introduces these main interpretations of Revelation, such as Papias’ millenarian kingdom, Augustine’s vertical ascent to heaven, Origen’s transcendent message, and Dionysius’ belief in Revelation’s hidden message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the past week 53 titles were added to the library\u2019s collection; below is a sample. Click on the link for more information. Approaches to teaching the works of Flannery O’Connor \/edited by Robert Donahoo and Marshall Bruce Gentry. This title offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the works of Flannery O\u2019Connor, including considerations of race, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,20,69,76,9,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-health-sciences","category-new-books","category-poetry","category-political-science","category-psychology","category-religious-studies","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PcsH-ON","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10792,"url":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2025\/04\/01\/new-titles-tuesday-april-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":3149,"position":0},"title":"New Titles Tuesday – April 1","author":"Jennifer Sheen","date":"April 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a selection of new print and e-books recently added to our collection: Theistic evolution: a contemporary Aristotelian-Thomistic perspective \/Mariusz Tabaczek, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome.\u00a0 Deeply rooted in the classical tradition, this book develops a contemporary, re-imagined proposal of an Aristotelian-Thomistic perspective on theistic evolution. 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