Blogging has several functions. One function that I particularly enjoy is broadcasting what’s “out there,” an appropriately vague phrase to capture the bewildering number of events, films, and books that deserve attention. I informed Evangel readers about recent films that are stirring the culture wars. In this post, I want to mention some promising new and upcoming books. Of course what qualifies as “promising” is relative to my idiosyncrasies and interests. Please let me know if any of them interest you, and if there are other new and upcoming titles that you want to read.
INTERVARSITY PRESS
- James R. Payton, Getting the Reformation Wrong: Correcting Some Misunderstandings (July)
- Thomas C. Oden, How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the Seedbed of Western Christianity (September)
- Alister McGrath, The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith and the Discipleship of the Mind (September)
- Richard Mouw, Uncommon Decency: Christian Civility in an Uncivil World: Revised & Expanded (September)
- Lisa Graham McMinn & Megan Anna Neff, Walking Gently on the Earth: Making Faithful Choices About Food, Energy, Shelter and More (September)
- Peter J. Leithart, Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom (November)
- Richard F. Carlson & Tremper Longman III, Science, Creation and the Bible: Reconciling Rival Theories of Origins (November)
EERDMANS
- Julie Canlis, Calvin’s Ladder: A Theology of Ascent and Ascension (June)
- Brian Brock, Christian Ethics in a Technological Age (June)
- Ellen T. Charry, God and the Art of Happiness (September)
- Charles Mathewes, The Republic of Grace: Augustinian Thoughts for Dark Times (September)
- Conor Cunningham, Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong (November)
BAKER PUBLISHING GROUP (Baker, Baker Academic, Brazos)
- Steven Bouma-Prediger, For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care: 2nd Edition (April)
- Brett McCracken, Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide (August)
- Robert H. Woods, Jr. & Paul D. Patton, Prophetically Incorrect: A Christian Introduction to Media Criticism (August)
- Phillip Cary, Good News for Anxious Christians: 10 Practical Things You Don’t Have to Do (October)
- James K. A. Smith, Letters to a Young Calvinist: An Invitation to the Reformed Tradition (November)
- John Milbank, Slavoj Zizek & Creston Davis, Paul’s New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology (November)
BAYLOR
- Richard Bauckham, The Bible and Ecology: Rediscovering the Community of Creation (August)
- M. G. Piety, Ways of Knowing: Kierkegaard’s Pluralist Epistemology (September)
- David G. Horrell, Cherryl Hunt & Christopher Southgate, Greening Paul: Rereading the Apostle in a Time of Ecological Crisis (October)
- Laura Hobgood-Oster, The Friends We Keep: Unleashing Christianity’s Compassion for Animals (October)
ZONDERVAN
- Wesley Hill, Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality (September)
- Michael S. Horton, The Christian Faith: Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way (January 2011). From the publisher: “Michael Horton’s highly anticipated The Christian Faith represents his magnum opus and will be viewed as one of––if not the––most important systematic theologies since Louis Berkhof wrote his in 1932.”
PRINCETON
- Julian E. Zelizer (ed.), The Presidency of George W. Bush: A First Historical Assessment (October)
- James T. Kloppenberg, Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition (November)
- Lynn A. Stout, Cultivating Conscience: How Good Laws Make Good People (November)
- Pascal Bruckner, Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy (February 2011)
- Robert Wuthnow, Remaking the Heartland: Middle America Since the 1950s (March 2011)
HARVARD
- Robert D. Richardson (ed.), The Heart of William James (August)
- Helen Vendler, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries (September)
- Patricia Meyer Spacks (ed.), Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice: Annotated Edition (October)
- Charles Taylor, Dilemmas and Connections: Selected Essays (February 2011)
YALE
- Sissela Bok, Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science (August)
OXFORD
- Roy F. BaumeisterDonna Freitas, Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America’s College Campuses (August)
- Roy F. Baumeister, Is There Anything Good About Men?: How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men (August)
- Paul Froese & Christopher Bader, America’s Four Gods: What We Say About God––And What That Says About Us (October)
- D. Stephen Long, Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (October)
- Robert Scruton, The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope (October)
- Henry Chadwick, Augustine of Hippo: A Life (October)
- Daniel K. Williams, God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right (October). From the publisher: “The most comprehensive history of the Christian Right ever published, revealing how the movement has transformed national politics.”
- Anthony Kenny, A New History of Western Philosophy (October). Combining the individual volumes into a single volume, this is the most important history of Western philosophy since Frederick Copleston’s.
- Elizabeth Knowles, How to Read a Word (December)
- Bernard Schweizer, Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism (December)
- Michael Schaller, Ronald Reagan (January 2011)
- Kevin Whitehead, Why Jazz?: A Concise Guide (January 2011)
- David Sehat, The Myth of American Religious Freedom (January 2011)
- Lisa D. Pearce & Melinda Lundquist Denton, A Faith of Their Own: Stability and Change in the Religiosity of America’s Adolescents (January 2011)
- Mark Regnerus & Jeremy Uecker, Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying (January 2011)
- Cass R. Sunstein, Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide (February 2011)
- Scott H. Hendrix, Luther: A Very Short Introduction (February 2011)
WILEY-BLACKWELL
- David M. Holley, Meaning and Mystery: What It Means to Believe in God (February)
- Samuel Wells & Ben Quash, Introducing Christian Ethics (March)
- Samuel Wells (ed.), Christian Ethics: An Introductory Reader (May)
- Charles Mathewes, Understanding Religious Ethics (May)
