Library Acquisitions for August 2025

These are the books and e-books added to the Covenant Library in August 2025.

• God and being
  Nathan Lyons, The University of Notre Dame Australia
  Book
• Real talk: creating space for hearts to change
  Mark C. Good
  Book
• The ethics of care: personal, political, and global
  Virginia Held
  Book
• Divine doppelgängers: YHWH's ancient look-alikes
  edited by Collin Cornell
  Book
• Israel's day of light and joy: the origin, development, and enduring meaning of the Jewish Sabbath
  Jon D. Levenson
  Book
• Maximus the Confessor
  Andrew Louth
  Book
• Early Christian Greek and Latin literature: a literary history
  Claudio Moreschini and Enrico Norelli; translated by Matthew J. O'Connell
  Book
• Disruptive inclusion: why and how Christian adult learning is for everyone
  Jen Smith
  Book
• Made in our image: God, artificial intelligence and you
  Stephen Driscoll; foreword by Tim Challies
  Book
• The body God gives: a biblical response to transgender theory
  Robert S. Smith
  Book
• Discerning the mystery: an essay on the nature of theology
  Andrew Louth
  Book
• Global gospel: an introduction to Christianity on five continents
  Douglas Jacobsen
  Book
• Disputations
  Martin Luther; edited by Christopher Boyd Brown
  Book
• Reckoning with history: settler colonialism, slavery, and the making of American Christianity
  William Yoo
  Book
• Church growth in African diaspora communities: Yoruba shaped ecclesiology and mission
  Paul Araoluwa Ayokunle
  Book
• A social history of Christianity: North-West India since 1800
  John C.B. Webster
  Book
• Shandong: inside the greatest Christian revival in history
  Paul Hattaway
  Book
• Guizhou: inside the greatest Christian revival in history
  Paul Hattaway
  Book
• Zhejiang: inside the greatest Christian revival in history
  Paul Hattaway
  Book
• Tibet: inside the greatest Christian revival in history
  Paul Hattaway
  Book
• Henan: inside the greatest Christian revival in history
  Paul Hattaway
  Book
• Xinjiang: China's gateway to the world
  Paul Hattaway
  Book
• Shaanxi: the cradle of Chinese civilization
  Paul Hattaway
  Book
• Hainan: pearl of the South China Sea
  Paul Hattaway
  Book
• Fujian: the blessed province
  Paul Hattaway
  Book
• A material history of the Bible, England 1200-1553
  Eyal Poleg
  Book
• In all the scriptures: the three contexts of biblical hermeneutics
  Nicholas G. Piotrowski
  Book
• The food and feasts of Jesus: inside the world of first century fare, with menus and recipes
  Douglas E. Neel, Joel A. Pugh
  Book
• A table in the presence of my enemies: banqueting and battling in ancient Israel
  Matthew Wade Umbarger
  Book
• Everything is never enough: Ecclesiastes' surprising path to resilient happiness
  Bobby Jamieson
  Book
• Jeremiah 1-25
  Christl M. Maier; translated by Linda M. Maloney and Christl M. Maier
  Book
• Six minor prophets through the centuries: Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi
  Richard Coggins & Jin H. Han
  Book
• Hosea, Joel, and Obadiah through the centuries
  Bradford A. Anderson
  Book
• Hesed and the New Testament: an intertextual categorization study
  Karen Nelson
  Book
• Archaeology and the ministry of Paul: a visual guide
  David A. deSilva
  Book
• Ecclesial solidarity in the Pauline corpus: relationships between churches in Paul's letters
  James T. Hughes
  Book
• A three-dimensional Jesus: an introduction to the Synoptic Gospels
  C. Clifton Black
  Book
• The earth is the Lord's: land justice in Luke-Acts
  João Paulo Thomaz de Aquino
  Book
• That you may believe: essays on John in honor of Andreas J. Köstenberger
  editors: Quinn R. Mosier, T. Desmond Alexander, Robert W. Yarbrough
  Book
• Turning the world upside down: lessons for the church from Acts 1-8
  Iain M. Duguid
  Book
• Perspectives on Paul: five views
  edited by Scot McKnight and B. J. Oropeza
  Book
• 2 Corinthians
  David E. Garland
  Book
• How to preach the prophets
  Andrew C. Thompson
  Book
• Theology and the end of doctrine
  Christine Helmer
  Book
• Five views on the gospel
  Scot McKnight, Michael Horton, David A. deSilva, Julie Ma, Shively T. J. Smith; Michael F. Bird and Jason Maston, general editors
  Book
• The reception of Jesus in the first three centuries
  Book
• Christ of the consummation: a New Testament biblical theology
  O. Palmer Robertson
  Book
• Victorious substitution: exploring the nature of salvation and Christ's atoning work
  Vee Chandler
  Book
• The people of the parables: Galilee in the time of Jesus
  R. Alan Culpepper
  Book
• Preaching the parables: a practical model
  Geoff New and Wilfredo Weigandt; with Paul Windsor and Esteban Améstegui
  Book
• The soul of theological anthropology: a Cartesian exploration
  Joshua R. Farris
  Book
• Knowing sin: seeing a neglected doctrine through the eyes of the Puritans
  Mark Jones
  Book
• Healing conversations on race: four key practices from scripture and psychology
  Veola Vazquez, Joshua Knabb, Charles Lee-Johnson, and Krystal Hays
  Book
• Christian education: a guide to the foundations of ministry
  edited by Freddy Cardoza
  Book
• Grace alone: salvation as a gift of God, what the Reformer's taught and why it still matters
  Carl R. Trueman; foreword by R. Kent Hughes
  Book
• Three views on the Rapture: pretribulation, prewrath, or posttribulation
  Alan Hultberg, [also] general editor, Craig Blaising, Douglas Moo
  Book
• Word and sacrament: tracing the theological movements of reformed worship
  Paul Galbreath
  Book
• The multigenerational church crisis: why we don't understand each other and how to unite in mission
  Bryan Chapell
  Book
• The baptism debate: understanding and evaluating reformed infant baptism
  Peter Goeman
  Book
• Dealing with mission drift in parachurch agencies: an analysis of holistic mission of Christian non-governmental organizations and non-profit organizations
  Israel K. Kombaté
  Book
• Transforming mission theology
  Charles Van Engen
  Book
• A new vision for missions: William Cameron Townsend, the Wycliffe Bible translators, and the culture of early evangelical faith missions, 1896-1945
  William Lawrence Svelmoe
  Book
• Communicating Christ in the Buddhist world
  Paul De Neui and David Lim, eds
  Book
• Communicating Christ through story and song: orality in Buddhist contexts
  edited by Paul H. De Neui
  Book
• Cameroon on a clear day
  Helga Bender Henry
  Book
• Counseling through the storm: a guide to treating crisis and trauma
  Brooke Osborn & Karen Roudkovski
  Book
• The Christian counselor's medical desk reference
  Charles D. Hodges Jr., MD, editor
  Book
• Celebration of discipline: the path to spiritual growth
  Richard J. Foster
  Book
• Unrelenting pursuit: becoming God's instrument in making disciples
  Dr. Edward Rose
  Book
• The deep-rooted marriage: cultivating intimacy, healing, and delight
  Dan B. Allender, PhD, and Steve Call, PhD
  Book
• The seven deadly sins today
  Henry Fairlie; drawings by Vint Lawrence
  Book
• The spirit of hope: theology for a world in peril
  Jürgen Moltmann
  Book
• Faith at work: Christian vocation in the professions
  edited by David W. Loy
  Book
• The path out of loneliness: finding and fostering connection to God, ourselves, and one another
  Dr. Mark Mayfield; foreword by Curt Thompson, MD
  Book
• Bernard of Clairvaux on the spirituality of relationship
  John R. Sommerfeldt
  Book
• The dialogue of the seraphic virgin, Catherine of Siena: dictated by her, while in a state of ecstasy, to her secretaries, and completed in the year of Our Lord 1370: together with an account of her death by an eye-witness
  translated ... by Algar Thorold
  Book
• Traditional worship in Russian-speaking churches: formation, features, and internal conflicts with a focus on Belarus
  Leonid Mikhovich
  Book
• Men who met God
  A.W. Tozer; compiled and edited by Gerald B. Smith
  Book
• Latter-day Saint theology among Christian theologies
  Grant Underwood
  Book
• When Christians disagree: lessons from the fractured relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter
  Tim Cooper; foreword by Michael A. G. Haykin
  Book
• John Calvin's illustrated Institutes
  John Calvin; text by Martin Williams & Joy Williams; illustrations by Paul Cox
  Book
• Daily life through world history in primary documents
  Lawrence Morris, general editor
  Book
• The illustrated history of the world. Volume 1, Prehistory and the first civilizations
  J.M. Roberts
  Book
• New Rome: the empire in the east
  Paul Stephenson
  Book
• Translating Christ: the memoirs of Herman Peter Aschmann, Wycliffe Bible translator
  Hugh Steven
  Book
• The little book of restorative justice for people in prison: rebuilding the web of relationships
  Barb Toews
  Book
• The structure of ideas: mapping a new theory of free expression in the AI era
  Jared Schroeder
  Book
• The pronunciation of New Testament Greek: Judeo-Palestinian Greek phonology and orthography from Alexander to Islam
  Benjamin Kantor
  Book
• Bones in the Womb: living by Faith in an Ecclesiastes World
  Susan E. Erikson
  Book
• The poetic wonder of Isaac Watts
  Douglas Bond
  Book
• Stony the road we trod: the Grimké family's journey from slavery to suffrage
  Rosemary T. Curran
  Book
• The craft of research
  Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, William T. FitzGerald
  Book
• The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma
  Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D.
  Book
• Stepping into emotionally focused therapy: key ingredients of change
  Lorrie L. Brubacher
  Book
• A concise Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament: based upon the lexical work of Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner
  William L. Holladay
  eBook
• Brill encyclopedia of early Christianity online
  general editors: David G. Hunter, Paul J.J. van Geest, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte
  eBook
• Children matter: celebrating their place in the church, family, and community
  Scottie May [and others]
  eBook
• Community
  edited by Bradley K. Storin
  eBook
• Crisis intervention handbook: assessment, treatment, and research
  edited by Kenneth R. Yeager, PhD
  eBook
• Cultural sanctification: engaging the world like the early church
  Stephen O. Presley
  eBook
• Josephus and Jesus: new evidence for the one called Christ
  T.C. Schmidt
  eBook
• Knowing sin: seeing a neglected doctrine through the eyes of the Puritans
  Mark Jones
  eBook
• Old Testament textual criticism: a practical introduction
  Ellis R. Brotzman and Eric J. Tully
  eBook
• On the reliability of the Old Testament
  K.A. Kitchen
  eBook
• Paul: apostle of grace
  Frank Thielman
  eBook
• Postcolonial studies and New Testament criticism
  Tat-siong Benny Liew
  eBook
• Preaching Christ from Ecclesiastes: foundations for expository sermons
  Sidney Greidanus
  eBook
• Reading Akkadian prayers and hymns: an introduction
  edited by Alan Lenzi
  eBook
• Seventy-five sermons on various important subjects: In this complete collection is included the eighteen sermons taken in short hand by Mr. Gurney. And to which is now added, a sermon of the character, preaching, &c. of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield
  Joseph Smith
  eBook
• The ancient Near East: an anthology of texts and pictures
  edited by James B. Pritchard; foreword by Daniel E. Fleming
  eBook
• Vineyard imageries in the Old Testament prophets
  David Stanford Keller
  eDissertation
• Violence in the Bible and its reception
  Mark McEntire
  eBook
• [Shemot] = Exodus
  M. Kalisch
  eBook
• [Ṿayyiḳra] = Leviticus
  M.M. Kalisch
  eBook