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01:05:19

Epiphanies of Nature and Grace: Twelve Meditations...

New Books in Christian Studies ·

2026/10/05

Tune in to this discussion ofEpiphanies of Nature and Grace: Twelve Meditations from a Life in Dialogue(Orbis Books, 2025)These moving and eloquent meditations on a range of spiritual themes draw on the author’s study of scripture and his deep monastic experience, as well as on his many pilgrimages to India and his immersion in the spiritual wisdom both of Asia and the Christian West.Cyprian Consiglio is a Camaldolese Benedictine monk, musician, composer, author, and teacher. After retiring from

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00:56:11

The Crusader Storm: A Global History of the Wars for...

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2026/10/05

From their foundational era in 1097 to Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem almost a century later, the Crusader States transformed the Middle Eastern world. In an era shaped by many conflicts, this was not simply a war between Christianity and Islam, but an epic contest among multiple rival empires, dynasties, and cultures. Nicholas Morton's The Crusader Storm: A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East(Pegasus, 2026) unfolds through a kaleidoscope of perspectives: a Byzantine renegade, a

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00:50:06

Born Again: Romanticism and Fundamentalism with...

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2026/10/01

Born Again: Romanticism and Fundamentalism(U Toronto Press, 2025)examines the deep historical roots of fundamentalism in Protestantism and the imaginative traditions of Romantic literature. It explores how the resurgence of fundamentalist thought within “born again” Christianity seeks to repress the trauma of modernity through the belief that the world must be radically transformed to align with a divine standard.By analysing the logic of this repression, the book reveals an alternative vision: a

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00:36:43

Matthew Montgomery, "An Intercessor Like Moses: A Key...

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2026/09/22

In this episode of the New Books Network, Željko Stanojević speaks with Matthew Montgomery about his article “An Intercessor Like Moses: A Key Component of the Psalter’s Message”, published in the European Hebrew Journal.Montgomery’s study asks how the final form of the Masoretic Psalter communicates hope after the collapse of Judah and the Babylonian exile. Building on the widely recognized observation that Book III of the Psalter engages the downfall of the Southern Kingdom while Book IV places

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36:06

Thomas Breimaier, "Tethered to the Cross: The Life...

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2026/09/09

"Tethered to the cross" is how the renowned nineteenth-century English Baptist minister Charles H. Spurgeon (1834–1892) described the task of ministry and his approach to preaching. For nearly four decades, Spurgeon served as the pastor of the church at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. But what specifically guided the reading of Scripture by the man known as the "Prince of Preachers"? Tracing the development of Spurgeon's thought and his approach to biblical hermeneutics throughout his

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Gabrielle Thomas, "The Problem of the Devil in...

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2026/09/07

InThe Problem of the Devil in Cappadocian Thought(Cambridge UP, 2026),Gabrielle Thomas questions the popular assumption that the devil served as the primary explanation for evil, sin, and suffering as early Christians grappled with all that is wrong in the world. Interrogating the status of the devil in the teachings of the Cappadocians – Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, and Macrina the Younger – she identifies their points of agreement, that the devil is a fallen angel,

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37:23

Francesca Sbardella, "Inhabiting Silence: An...

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2026/09/07

Monasteries are typically characterized by physical and symbolic limitations on access as they are usually known through written texts and accounts by nuns who live in that world but do not allow others to have access. This has often resulted in research based on indirect sources.Inhabiting Silence: An Anthropologist in the Cloister(Berghahn Books, 2025)is the result of observant participation in which the ethnographer is a protagonist social actor in two French monasteries of Discalced Carmelite

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37:59

Fr. Dwight Longenecker, "Bloodshed and Blessing:...

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2026/08/30

Something deep within you recognizes it–the instinct that sacrifice matters, that something must be offered, that violence and beauty are woven together in ways that mere reason cannot explain. You are not alone. Civilizations throughout history have felt it.InBloodshed and Blessing: Stories of Sacrifice from Ancient Altars to the Holy Mass(Sophia Institute Press, 2026),Fr. Dwight Longenecker takes you on a gripping journey through ten ancient cultures, from the Aztecs to the Vikings, in which

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37:36

Holly Crawford Pickett, "The Drama of Serial...

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2026/08/28

After mounting London’s outdoor pulpit known as St. Paul’s Cross on 8th December, 1588, Anthony Tyrrell found himself perched before a skeptical audience. He stood in the shadow of St. Paul’s Cathedral to declare his recantation of Catholicism and return to England’s official Protestant Church. The trouble was he had been there before – in January of the same year, in fact – to do the same thing. On that occasion, however, he had shocked on-lookers by delivering an anti-Protestant tirade

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43:14

Jamie L. Brummitt, "Protestant Relics in Early...

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2026/08/27

Edward Blum interviews Dr. Jamie L. Brummitt on how new bookProtestant Relics in Early America. InProtestant Relics in Early America(Oxford UP, 2025), JamieL. Brummitt upends long-held assumptions about religion and material culture in the early United States. Brummitt chronicles how American Protestants cultivated a lively relic culture centered around collecting supernatural memory objects associated with dead Christian leaders, family members, and friends. These objects materialized the real

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Sabrina Inowlocki, "Ancient Apologetics and the...

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2026/08/24

Ancient apologetics is usually treated as a literary genre or a branch of early theology. This Element offers a different account. It argues that many Jewish and Christian texts conventionally labeled 'apologetic' are better understood through a bibliographic and archival lens: They produce authority not only by defending doctrines, but by organizing books, constructing corpora, mobilizing archives, and regulating interpretation. Tracing a trajectory from the Letter of Aristeas to Jerome's De viris

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Robin Whelan, "Serving the Christian State in Late...

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2026/08/24

How did the state become Christian in late antiquity? Many scholars have traced the Christianization of the Roman world in the centuries following the conversion of the emperor Constantine in 312 CE. Robin Whelan, however, turns his attention away from the usual suspects in such accounts-emperors, empresses, bishops, ascetics, and other holy people-to consider a surprisingly understudied set of late ancient Christians: those who served the state as courtiers, bureaucrats, and governors. By

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36:09

Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, "God and Knowledge: Herman...

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2026/08/15

N. Gray Sutanto offers a fresh reading of Herman Bavinck's theological epistemology and argues that his Trinitarian and organic worldview utilizes an extensive range of sources. Sutanto unfolds Bavinck's understanding of what he considered to be the two most important aspects of epistemology: the character of the sciences and the correspondence between subjects and objects. Writing at the heels of the European debates in the 19th and 20th centuries concerning theology's place in the academy,

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55:03

David W. Congdon, "Who is a True Christian?:...

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2026/08/14

Who Is a True Christian?: Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture(Cambridge UP, 2024)examines how American Christians have tried to determine who qualifies as an authentic Christian and which beliefs should be treated as authoritative. Congdon approaches the question historically, tracing debates over terms such as orthodox, historic and biblical Christianity across the twentieth century and into the present. The book distinguishes between describing Christianity as it has existed and

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Younus Y. Mirza, "The Islamic Mary: Maryam Through...

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2026/08/12

Mary, the mother of Jesus, has been historically revered throughout the Islamic tradition. This began already in the Qur'an, where she is called by the name "Maryam."The Islamic Mary: Maryam Through the Centuries(Fortress Press, 2025)examines the varied appearances of Maryam in different Islamic cultural and theological contexts. The chapters in this history extend from Maryam's scriptural mentions in the Qur'an and the biography of the Prophet Muhammad, her appearances in medieval debates regarding

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Dominic Roser et al., "All the Lives You Can Change:...

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2026/08/05

All the Lives You Can Change: Effective Altruism for Christians(William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2026)is a practical guide for Christians who want their compassion, generosity and service to create meaningful change in the world. The book asks readers to look beyond good intentions and consider which choices can make the greatest difference in the lives of others.The authors introduce effective altruism, an evidence-based approach to doing the most good, through a Christian framework. They

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46:26

Discovering the Latin Mass (with Amb. Archd. Eduard...

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2026/08/04

The reason Eduard Habsburg, Archduke of Austria and formerly Hungarian Ambassador to the Vatican, has written a ‘travel guide’ to the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) is that he finds beauty, meaning, and joy in the experience of being a pilgrim in a foreign land. We pass through the doors—the portals—of the Church and the otherness of it pulls at our hearts and lays on us a bit of a yoke that will feel new. Especially for young people who’ve been crushed softly by the constant entertainment and

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Onyekachi Ugwu, "The Woman Caught in Adultery and the...

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2026/08/02

The story of the woman caught in adultery in John’s Gospel has long stirred controversy. Given its checkered manuscript witness, many scholars don’t believe it belongs in John’s Gospel or even in the Scriptures at all, while others think it is Scripture but belongs in a different canonical setting, and still others, like our guest today, believe it is indeed authentically Johannine, foreshadowing Jesus’ own trial and his final victory over darkness.Tune in as we speak with Onyekachi Ugwu about his

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31:30

Katie Barclay, "The Kiss: A History of Passion and...

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2026/08/01

The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power (Reaktion, 2026) by Professor Katie Barclay tells the surprising history of our most intimate gesture: the kiss. Richly illustrated, it explores a millennium of kisses, asking how and why the kiss has retained its power over the centuries, and what it might mean today. From the furtive kisses of fated lovers Heloise and Abelard to The Godfather’s ‘kiss of death’, Professor Barclay shows how the kiss can be romantic, peaceful, transgressive, intimate, erotic

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Marios Koutsoukos, "Restoring the Ancient Religion:...

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2026/07/30

Restoring the Ancient Religion: The Theurgic Orthopraxy of Iamblichus(Palgrave MacMillan, 2026)reconsiders Iamblichus’Response to Porphyry, Late Antiquity’s seminal work on theurgy, which is often referred to asDe Mysteriis. Was this text intended to be more than just a defense of ritualism or a philosophical crossing of metaphysical wits between Porphyry and Iamblichus? This volume examines whetherDe Mysteriisconstituted a manifesto of restoration, a call to resignify and revive a religion that

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