Author: Library News

Holiday break is almost here! Hopefully, we can all get some much needed rest and relaxation, but also take some time to remember and reflect why we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ! No matter where you are, the following eBooks are convenient and easily accessible!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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• Christmas as religion: rethinking Santa, the secular and the sacred by Christopher Deacy. Amazon page
• Inventing the Christmas tree by Bernd Brunner and translated from the German by Benjamin A. Smith. Amazon page
• A Kosher Christmas: ‘Tis the Season to be Jewish by Joshua Eli Plaut. Amazon page
• Prayers for Advent and Christmas by David Mosser and Estee Carel Valendy. Amazon page
• Lectures on New Testament theology by Ferdinand Christian Baur; Peter Crafts Hodgson; Robert F Brown. Amazon Page  
• Pastors and public life: the changing face of American Protestant clergy by Corwin E Smidt. Amazon Page
• Soul mates: religion, sex, love, and marriage among African Americans and Latinos by William Bradford Wilcox; Nicholas H Wolfinger. Amazon page
• Can science explain religion? : the cognitive science debate by James William Jones. Amazon page
• A theology in outline: can these bones live? By Robert W Jenson; Adam Eitel. Amazon page
• When the Son of Man didn’t come: a constructive proposal on the delay of the Parousia by Christopher M Hays. Amazon page
• Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences by William A. Richards. Amazon page
• How repentance became biblical: Judaism, Christianity, and the interpretation of scripture by David A Lambert. Amazon page
• The next worship: glorifying God in a diverse world by Sandra Van Opstal. Amazon page
• Choosing our religion: the spiritual lives of America’s Nones by Elizabeth Drescher. Amazon page
• Womanist interpretations of the Bible: expanding the discourse by Gay L Byron; Vanessa Lovelace. Amazon page
• The soul of doubt: the religious roots of unbelief from Luther to Marx by Dominic Erdozain. Amazon page
• The hidden God: Luther, philosophy, and political theology by Marius Timmann Mjaaland. Amazon page
• On Purpose by Paul Froese

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Please be advised that the eReserves system will be offline all day tomorrow, December 15 and should be back online on Friday. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the eReserves team: [email protected]. Thank you for your patience in this matter!

Finals are right around the corner! May you ace your exams and be blessed like Solomon: “God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight, and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore.” I Kings 4:29 NIV. Hopefully, you still have time to check new books in the library!

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• Networked theology: negotiating faith in digital culture by Heidi Campbell. Amazon Page
• Jeremiah and Lamentations by J Daniel Hays. Amazon Page
• Skills for Effective Counseling: A Faith-Based Integration by Elisabeth A. Nesbit Sbanotto, Heather Davediuk Gingrich, Fred C. Gingrich. Amazon Page
• Paul the ancient letter writer: an introduction to epistolary analysis by Jeffrey A D Weima. Amazon Page
• The heart of Revelation: understanding the 10 essential themes of the Bible’s final book by J Scott Duvall. Amazon Page
• Being disciples: essentials of the Christian life by Rowan Williams. Amazon Page
• Paul and gender: reclaiming the apostle’s vision for men and women in Christ by Cynthia Long Westfall. Amazon Page
• Psalms 1-72 by Federico Villanueva. Amazon Page
• The book of Isaiah and God’s kingdom: a thematic theological approach by Andrew T Abernethy. Amazon Page
• Biblical Theology: The God of the Christian Scriptures by John Goldingay. Amazon Page
• The world of medieval monasticism: its history and forms of life by Gert Melville. Amazon Page
• How to survive the Apocalypse : zombies, cylons, faith, and politics at the end of the world by Robert Joustra; Alissa Wilkinson. Amazon Page
• The future of our faith: an intergenerational conversation on critical issues facing the church by Ronald J Sider. Amazon Page
• What Does the Bible Say About Suffering? by Brian Han Gregg. Amazon Page
• The earliest Christologies: five images of Christ in the postapostolic age by James L Papandrea. Amazon Page
• Calling in today’s world: voices from eight faith perspectives by Kathleen A Cahalan. Amazon Page
• The Face of Forgiveness: A Pastoral Theology of Shame and Redemption by Philip D Jamieson. Amazon Page
• Jesus the God-man: the unity and diversity of the gospel portrayals by Darrell L Bock. Amazon Page

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It’s hard to believe that November is halfway over! I hope you are all enjoying your Fall Quarter classes, as well as the warm and sunny Southern Californian weather. Please don’t forget to check out our new books every other two weeks!

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1. America’s original sin : racism, white privilege, and the bridge to a new America by
2. Jim Wallis. Please reference Amazon Page
3. Reading sacred scripture: voices from the history of biblical interpretation by Stephen Westerholm. Amazon Page
4. Jesus and the temple : the crucifixion in its Jewish context by Simon J Joseph. Amazon Page
5. Introduction to world Christian history by Derek Cooper. Amazon Page
6. God Has Spoken in His Son by Peter T. O’Brien . Amazon Page
7. From Topic to Thesis: A Guide to Theological Research by Michael Kibbe. Amazon Page
8. Paul as a Problem in History and Culture: The Apostle and His Critics through the Centuries by Patrick Gray. Amazon Page
9. Hebrews by Mary Healy. Amazon Page
10. An introduction to empire in the New Testament by Adam Winn. Amazon Page
11. The woman, the hour, and the garden: a study of imagery in the gospel of John by Addison Hodges Hart. Amazon Page
12. Sacred tradition in the New Testament: tracing Old Testament themes in the Gospels and Epistles by Stanley E Porter. Amazon Page
13. The End of the Timeless God by R T Mullins. Amazon Page
14. Calling on the Name of the Lord by Gary Millar. Amazon Page
15. Church in an age of global migration: a moving body by Susanna Snyder. Amazon Page
16. Christological anthropology in historical perspective: ancient and contemporary approaches to theological anthropology by Marc Cortez. Amazon Page
17. Discovering Genesis: content, interpretation, reception by Iain W Provan. Amazon Page
18. The invisible bestseller: searching for the Bible in America by Kenneth A Briggs. Amazon Page
19. Ecce Homo: on the divine unity of Christ by Aaron Riches. Amazon Page

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EBSCO has allowed open access to the American Doctoral Dissertations database! There are more than 153,000 theses and dissertations in total, including 70,000 new citations for theses and dissertations from 1902 to the present.

Click here to check out this new resource and happy researching!

For those of you that have used EndNote and would like to transfer your records to Zotero, this video does
a great job of explaining how to do it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smrf20wGUlA

A big thank you to the AU Library for this resource!

Have you used the Philosophy and Religion video collection yet? If not, you still have time to peruse the videos for one more week!

If you would like the log in information, please email [email protected].

This trial database will end next Friday, November 11.

If you have already tried this database, please take the time and let us know if you liked it or not with this Feedback Form.

So many books and so little time!  It is good to check back frequently for newly purchased titles. Here’s what’s new at Fuller Library:

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• Revelation: a handbook on the Greek text by David Mathewson, click HERE to the Amazon page.
• Reading Ruth in the restoration period: a call for inclusion by E Allen Jones, click HERE to the Amazon page.
• Daniel and the Twelve Prophets for Everyone by John Goldingay, click HERE to the Amazon page.
• Pictures at a theological exhibition: scenes of the church’s worship, witness, and wisdom by Kevin J Vanhoozer, click HERE to the Amazon page.
• Jesus as healer: a gospel for the body by Jan-Olav Henriksen, click HERE to the Amazon page.
• Disability and World Religions: An Introduction by Darla Y. Schumm (Editor) &Michael Stoltzfus, click HERE to the Amazon page.
• Who is like Yahweh?: A Study of Divine Metaphors in the Book of Micah by Juan Cruz, click HERE to the Amazon page.
• Lifting Hearts to the Lord: Worship with John Calvin in Sixteenth-Century Geneva by Karin Maag (Editor), click HERE to the Amazon page.
• Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian: A Kingdom Corrective to the Evangelical Gender Debate by Michelle Lee-Barnewall, Click HERE to the Amazon page.
• Race, gender, sexuality, and social class: dimensions of inequality and identity by Susan J Ferguson, click HERE to the Amazon page.
• A manifesto for theological interpretation by Craig G Bartholomew, click HERE to the Amazon page.
• A Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality, and the Shape of a Human Life by Ephraim Radner,click HERE to the Amazon page.
• A theology of grace in six controversies by Edward T Oakes, click HERE to the Amazon page.
• Karl Barth’s Infralapsarian Theology: Origins and Development,1920-1953 by Shao Kai Tseng, click HERE to the Amazon page.
• Making All Things New: Inaugurated Eschatology for the Life of the Church by Benjamin L. Gladd  & Matthew S. Harmon, click HERE to the Amazon page.
• The Book of Zechariah by Mark J Boda, click HERE to the Amazon page.
• Christian practical wisdom: what it is, why it matters by Dorothy C Bass, click HERE to the Amazon page.
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