Modern Believing Books Received July 2022

Stefanos Alexopoulos and Maxwell E. Johnson, Introduction to Eastern Christian Liturgies, Alcuin Club Collections 96.  Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press Academic, 2021.  Pp. xlii, 430.  Pb.  $59.95.  ISBN 978-0-8146-6355-4.

Lisa M. Allen, A Womanist Theology of Worship: Liturgy, Justice, and Communal Righteousness.  Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2021.  Pp. xx, 231.  Pb.  $28.  ISBN 978-1-62698-444-8.

2021. Michael Allen and R. David Nelson, eds., A Companion to the Theology of John Webster.  Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2021.  Pp. xxii, 344.  Hb.  £40.99.  ISBN 978-0-8028-7674-4.

Paul D. L. Avis, ed., Neville Figgis, cr: His Life, Thought and Significance, Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History 7.  Leiden: Brill, 2022.  Pp. xviii, 260.  Pb.  €55.  ISBN 978-90-04-50311-3.

Matthew A. Benton and Jonathan L. Kvanvig, eds., Religious Disagreement and Pluralism.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.  Pp. x, 293.  Hb.  £65.  ISBN 978-0-19-884986-5.

Stanley S. Bill, Czesław Miłosz’s Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.  Pp. x, 204.  Hb.  £60.  ISBN 978-0-19-284439-2.

Karel Blei, Karl Barth: Theologian in the Tempest of Time, tr. Allan J. Janssen.  Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021.  Pp. xx, 388.  Pb.  $47.  ISBN 978-1-7252-6959-0.

Massimo Borghesi, Catholic Discordance: Neoconservatism vs. the Field Hospital Church of Pope Francis, tr. Barry M. Hudock.  Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press Academic, 2021.  Pp. viii, 271.  Hb.  £23.99.  ISBN 978-0-8146-6735-4.

Laurena A. Brink, The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God: An Emerging Chapter for Religious Life: Science, Theology, and Mission.  Pp. xxxviii, 281.  Pb.  £27.99.  ISBN 978-0-8146-6724-8.

Richard A. Burridge, Holy Communion in Contagious Times: Celebrating the Eucharist in the Everyday and Online Worlds.  Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2022.  Pp. xii, 282.  Pb.  £25.  ISBN 978-1-7252-8577-4.

James P. Byrd and James D. Hudnut-Beumler, The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction.  Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2021.  Pp. xiv, 424.  Pb.  $40.  ISBN 978-0-664-26466-6.

Heidi A. Campbell and John C. D. Dyer, eds., Ecclesiology for a Digital Church.  London: SCM Press, 2022.  Pp. xviii, 180.  Pb.  £40.  ISBN 978-0-334-06159-5.

Renie C. Choy, Ancestral Feeling: Postcolonial Thoughts on Western Christian Heritage.  London: SCM Press, 2021.  Pp. xx, 201.  Pb.  £19.99.  ISBN 978-0-334-06090-1.

Grace R. C. Davie and Lucian N. Leustean, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.  Pp. l, 820.  Hb.  £110.  ISBN 978-0-19-883426-7.

Andrew M. Davis, Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020.  Pp. xiv, 229.  Hb.  £77.  ISBN 978-1-7936-3639-3.

Frederick P. Edie and Mark A. Lamport, Nurturing Faith: A Practical Theology for Educating Christians.  Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2021.  Pp. xxii, 512.  Pb.  £36.99.  ISBN 978-0-8028-7556-3.

Clive D. Field, Counting Religion in Britain, 1970–2020: Secularization in Statistical Context.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.  Pp. xxiv, 464.  Hb.  £110.  ISBN 978-0-19-284932-8.

Thomas H. Groome, What Makes Education Catholic: Spiritual Foundations.  Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2021.  Pp. xx, 243.  Pb.  $24.  ISBN 978-1-62698-447-9.

Delroy W. Hall, A Redemption Song: Illuminations on Black British Pastoral Theology.  London: SCM Press, 2021.  Pp. xiv, 183.  Pb.  £22.99.  ISBN 978-0-334-06072-7.

Jione Havea, Losing Ground: Reading Ruth in the Pacific.  London: SCM Press, 2021.  Pp. xiv, 281.  Pb.  £25.  ISBN 978-0-334-05983-7.

Christopher B. Hays and Carly L. Crouch, eds., God and Guns: The Bible against American Gun Culture.  Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2021.  Pp. xx, 150.  Pb.  £19.  ISBN 978-0-664-26682-0.

Gregory K. Hillis, Man of Dialogue: Thomas Merton’s Catholic Vision.  Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2021.  Pp. xviii, 297.  Pb.  £19.99.  ISBN 978-0-8146-8460-3.

Richard A. Horsley, Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine, 2nd edn.  Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021.  Pp. xx, 240.  Pb.  $31.  ISBN 978-1-6667-0742-7.

Richard A. Horsley, You Shall Not Bow Down and Serve Them: The Political Economic Projects of Jesus and Paul.  Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021.  Pp. viii, 236.  Pb.  £22.  ISBN 978-1-6667-2706-7.

Kwok Pui-lan, Postcolonial Politics and Theology: Unraveling Empire for a Global World.  Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2021.  Pp. xii, 261.  Pb.  £23.  ISBN 978-0-664-26749-0.

Hak Joon Lee, Christian Ethics: A New Covenant Model.  Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2021.  Pp. xiv, 558.  Hb.  £38.99.  ISBN 978-0-8028-7687-4.

Mary Joan W. Leith, The Virgin Mary: A Very Short Introduction.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.  Pp. xxii, 172.  Pb.  £8.99.  ISBN 978-0-19-879491-2.

Matthew W. Levering, The Abuse of Conscience: A Century of Catholic Moral Theology.  Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2021.  Pp. viii, 360.  Hb.  £36.99.  ISBN 978-0-8028-7950-9.

Andrew Linzey and Claire S. Linzey, eds., Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism.  Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2019.  Pp. xvi, 301.  Pb.  £34.99.  ISBN 978-1-138-59099-1.

Clair S. Linzey, Developing Animal Theology: An Engagement with Leonardo Boff.  Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022.  Pp. xii, 205.  Hb.  £120.  ISBN 978-1-03-205286-1.

2021. Stephen Long, The Art of Cycling, Living, and Dying: Moral Theology from Everyday Life.  Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021.  Pp. xiv, 144.  Pb.  £16.  ISBN 978-1-6667-0715-1.

Luke J. Miller, A Life-Long Springtime: The Life and Teaching of George Congreve SSJE.  Durham: Sacristy Press, 2022.  Pp. x, 260.  Hb.  £24.99.  ISBN 978-1-78959-198-9.

Alicia D. Myers, An Introduction to the Gospels and Acts.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.  Pp. xviii, 210.  Pb.  £16.99.  ISBN 978-0-19-092681-6.

Dayne E. Nix, Moral Injury and a First World War Chaplain: The Life of G. A. Studdert Kennedy.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021.  Pp. viii, 225.  Hb.  £77.  ISBN 978-1-66690-865-7.

Karen M. O’Donnell, The Dark Womb: Re-Conceiving Theology through Reproductive Loss.  London: SCM Press, 2022.  Pp. xiv, 210.  Pb.  £19.99.  ISBN 978-0-334-06093-2.

Thomas J. Oord, Pluriform Love: An Open and Relational Theology of Well-Being.  Grasmere, ID: SacraSage Press, 2022.  Pp. xiv, 253.  Hb.  £19.99.  ISBN 978-1-948609-58-6.

Angela N. Parker, If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I? Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority.  Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2021.  Pp. xvi, 117.  Pb.  £13.99.  ISBN 978-0-8028-7926-4.

Richard N. Pitt, Church Planters: Inside the World of Religion Entrepreneurs.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.  Pp. x, 326.  Hb.  £22.99.  ISBN 978-0-19-750941-8.

Rebekah J. Pryor, Motherly: Reimagining the Maternal Body in Feminist Theology and Contemporary Art.  London: SCM Press, 2022.  Pp. xiv, 161.  Pb.  £35.  ISBN 978-0-334-05596-9.

Mark Reasoner, Five Models of Scripture.  Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2021.  Pp. viii, 303.  Pb.  £13.99.  ISBN 978-0-8028-7682-9.

Joanna M. Rzepa, Modernism and Theology: Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, Czesław Miłosz.  Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.  Pp. xx, 438.  Hb.  £79.99.  ISBN 978-3-030-61529-1.

Mark C. Scanlan, An Interweaving Ecclesiology: The Church, Mission and Young People.  London: SCM Press, 2021.  Pp. viii, 254.  Pb.  £25.  ISBN 978-0-334-06076-5.

Ulrich Schmiedel and Joshua B. Ralston, eds., The Spirit of Populism: Political Theologies in Polarized Times, Political and Public Theologies 1.  Leiden: Brill, 2022.  Pp. xiv, 333.  Pb.  €59.  ISBN 978-90-04-49831-0.

Joy A. Schroeder and Marion A. Taylor, Voices Long Silenced: Women Biblical Interpreters through the Centuries.  Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2022.  Pp. xvi, 355.  Pb.  £29.  ISBN 978-0-664-26512-0.

Roger P. Schroeder, Christian Tradition in Global Perspective.  Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2021.  Pp. xviii, 317.  Pb.  $45.  ISBN 978-1-62698-434-9.

Joseph Sievers and Amy-Jill Levine, eds., The Pharisees.  Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2021.  Pp. xxiv, 482.  Hb.  £44.99.  ISBN 978-0-8028-7929-5.

Robert B. Slocum and Martyn W. Percy, eds., Fearful Times; Living Faith.  Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2021.  Pp. xiv, 177.  Pb.  £18.  ISBN 978-1-6667-3155-2.

Anne Spurgeon, Christ’s Politics: A Life of William Moore-Ede.  Malvern: Aspect Design, 2021.  Pp. x, 312.  Pb.  £12.  ISBN 978-1-912078-05-9.

2022. N. Jonathan Tran, Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.  Pp. xxviii, 339.  Pb.  £22.99.  ISBN 978-0-19-761791-5.

Victoria A. Turner, ed., Young, Woke and Christian: Words from a Missing Generation.  London: SCM Press, 2022.  Pp. xiv, 173.  Pb.  £16.99.  ISBN 978-0-334-06153-3.

Kevin M. Vander Schel and Michael P. DeJonge, eds., Theology, History, and the Modern German University, Christianity in the Modern World 1.  Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021.  Pp. vi, 358.  Hb.  €74.  ISBN 978-3-16-161054-7.

2021. Edward Walters, ed., Eastern Christianity: A Reader.  Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2021.  Pp. xvi, 423.  Hb.  £44.99.  ISBN 978-0-8028-7686-7.

J. S. Keith Ward, The Priority of Mind.  Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021.  Pp. vi, 82.  Pb.  £11.  ISBN 978-1-6667-3528-4.