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A Faded Legacy: Amy Brown Lyman And Mormon Women's Activism, 1872-1959, Lisa Olsen Tait

BYU Studies

Dave Hall. A Faded Legacy: Amy Brown Lyman and Mormon Women's Activism, 1872-1959.

Salt Lake City: University of Utah, 2015.

Chicano While Mormon: Activism, War, And Keeping The Faith, Jorge Iber

BYU Studies

Ignacio M. Garcia. Chicano While Mormon: Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith.

Madison, N.J.: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015.

Sublime Physick, Darlene Young

BYU Studies

Patrick Madden. Sublime Physick.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016.

Mystery And Sacrament Of Love: A Theology Of Marriage And The Family For The New Evangelization, Angela Mccarthy

Theology Papers and Journal Articles

Book Reiew:

Ouellet, Marc Cardinal. Mystery and Sacrament of Love: A Theology of Marriage and the Family for the New Evangelization. Translated by Michelle K. Forras and Adrian J. Walker. Grand Rapids Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2015. 332 pages.

Faith, Ireland And Empire: The Life Of Patrick Joseph Clune Cssr 1864-1935, Angela Mccarthy

Theology Papers and Journal Articles

Book Review:

Christopher Dowd. Faith, Ireland and Empire: The Life of Patrick Joseph Clune Cssr 1864-1935. Strathfield NSW: St Pauls, 2014.

Martin Griver: Unearthed, Angela Mccarthy

Theology Papers and Journal Articles

Book Review: -

O'Brien, Odhran. Martin Griver: Unearthed. Strathfield NSW: St Pauls, 2014.

Wandering Realities: The Mormonish Short Fiction Of Steven L. Peck, Scott R. Parkin

BYU Studies

Steven L. Peck. Wandering Realities: The Mormonish Short Fiction of Steven L. Peck.

Provo, Utah: Zarahemla Books, 2015.

Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings, Camille S. Williams

BYU Studies

Joanna Brooks, Rachel Hunt Steenblik, and Hannah Wheelwright, eds. Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Becoming Divine: An Introduction To Deification In Western Culture, Daniel C. Peterson

BYU Studies

M. David Litwa. Becoming Divine: An Introduction to Deification in Western Culture.

Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2013.

The Civil War Years In Utah: The Kingdom Of God And The Territory That Did Not Fight, Kenneth L. Alford

BYU Studies

John Gary Maxwell. The Civil War Years in Utah: The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight.

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.

Schooling The Prophet: How The Book Of Mormon Influenced Joseph Smith And The Early Restoration, Mark L. Staker

BYU Studies

Gerald E. Smith. Schooling the Prophet: How the Book of Mormon Influenced Joseph Smith and the Early Restoration.

Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, BYU, 2016.

The Psalms Of Mercy. Pontifical Council For The Promotion Of The New Evangelization, Angela Mccarthy

Theology Papers and Journal Articles

Book Review: -

"The Psalms of Mercy". Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization. Huntington Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor Inc., 2015.

A Handbook For High Reliability Schools: The Next Step In School Reform (Book Review), Thomas M. Van Soelen

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Reviewed Title: A Handbook for High Reliability Schools: The Next Step in School Reform, by Robert J. Marzano, Phil Warrick, and Julia A. Simms. Cheltenham, Vic, Australia: Hawker Brownlow Education, 2015. ISBN: 9781760012779

Theologian Of Sin And Grace, Robert Kolb

Concordia Journal

This volume is a must for anyone seeking an understanding of the transition from the Wittenberg Reformation to seventeenth-century Lutheran theology as well as the developments in hermeneu- tics, history, and biblical exegesis shaped by this unique figure, Matthias Flacius, the Illyrian.

Blessed Are The Balanced: A Seminarian’S Guide To Following Jesus In The Academy, Bruce Hartung

Concordia Journal

Pettit and Mangum’s book focuses specifically on a seminarian’s spiritual life while at the “academy.” There are echoes of Tripp.

Gospel Handles: Old Testament, David Milz

Concordia Journal

Properly administered, a gospel handle is faithful to the text while providing a smooth yet, for the hearer, unexpected transition to the gospel.

Who Is The Church?: An Ecclesiology For The Twenty-First Century. By Cheryl M. Peterson, Theodore Hopkins

Concordia Journal

Peterson appropriates insights from communion ecclesiology, the missio Dei movement, and the Lutheran tradition, particularly Luther’s Large Catechism, in order to offer an account of the church’s identity for this time after Christendom.

A Christian In Toga: Boethius— Interpreter Of Antiquity And Christian Theologian. By Claudio Moreschini, Robert Kolb

Concordia Journal

How the world of thought fostered by Neoplatonists, pagan and Christian, was being integrated into theology by leading Christian thinkers of the early sixth century, among whom Boethius’s works have won him high standing.

Introducción A La Teología Mestiza De San Agustín. By Justo L. González, Alberto Garcia

Concordia Journal

In the introduction González defines and explains the hermeneutical key of “mestizaje” and situates Augustine within his own “mestizaje.”

Negotiating Identity: Exploring Tensions Between Being Hakka And Being Christian In Northwestern Taiwan, Henry Rowold

Concordia Journal

Christofferson speaks of the Hakka people, he prefers more malleable descriptors such as “being Hakka” or “doing things in the Hakka way.” This, in turn, expresses the frustration Christofferson felt in his own ministry, working hard for fluency in the Hakka language, but discovering that not all of the Hakka he was speaking to were as comfortable in, or even loyal to, the ancestral language.

Grassroots Asian Theology: Thinking The Faith From The Ground Up. By Simon Chan, Henry Rowold

Concordia Journal

He states his purpose as “to force a rethink on the way Asian theology is currently undertaken and in so doing to show the distinctive contributions of Asian grassroots Christianity to the wider church’s theological endeavors.”

The New Shape Of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith. By Mark A. Noll, Ken Chitwood

Concordia Journal

Noll proposes that North American Christianity molded, and is related to, worldwide Christianity via an amalgamation of missionary influence, evangelical attitudes, and shared historical contexts.

Case For Character: Towards A Lutheran Virtue Ethics. By Joel D. Biermann, Mark Mattes

Concordia Journal

Over all, Biermann’s contribution is significant, timely, and a remarkable achievement that will alter current discussions of ethics among Lutherans and other Christians.

Divine Kingdom, Holy Order: The Political Writings Of Martin Luther. By Jarrett A. Carty, Paul Robinson

Concordia Journal

Carty has collected the texts from Luther’s Works that touch significantly on topics such as law, government, authority, and war.

1–3 John. Concordia Commentary Series. By Bruce G. Schuchard, Robert Yarbrough

Concordia Journal

The commentary will prove particularly valuable to seminary students seeking to get a feel for these epistles’ message in light of ongoing scholarly discussion.

Zechariah 9–14. International Exegetical Commentary On The Old Testament. By Paul L. Redditt, Reed Lessing

Concordia Journal

Redditt’s commentary is a welcome contribution, not only in Zechariah studies, but also for those who continue to research and write on the Book of the Twelve.

Reading Zechariah With Zechariah 1:1–6 As The Introduction To The Entire Book. Contributions To Biblical Exegesis And Theology, 59. By Heiko Wenzel, Reed Lessing

Concordia Journal

Those who preach and teach from this, the longest of the Minor Prophets, will find Wenzel’s study to be invaluable.

A Lighthearted Book Of Common Errors. By Don Hoeferkamp, Francis Rossow

Concordia Journal

Helpful as well as humorous is the author’s occasional practice of deliberately committing an error even as he simultaneously corrects it, thereby putting literacy and illiteracy side by side to facilitate the learning process.

My Bright Abyss: Meditation Of A Modern Believer. By Christian Wiman, Travis Scholl

Concordia Journal

Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss stands in a long line of spiritual writings that mix memoir with theology with a kind of deep spiritual insight.

Divine Kingdom, Holy Order: The Political Writings Of Martin Luther By Jarre Carty, Editor, Theodore Hopkins

Concordia Journal

Only Carty’s introductory essay is necessary in order for the reader to understand Luther from Carty’s perspective, which enables the reader to read any selection of interest with a lessened chance of confusion.