Upcoming Books (Part 1)

With the fall publication schedule rapidly approaching, I thought I would draw attention to some forthcoming titles that I'm especially excited about. I've divvied up this list by subject and indicate publisher and publication date. (I will provide further lists. This covers forthcoming releases from Baker Academic, Routledge and Oxford).

Biblical Studies
Fraçois Bovon, New Testament and Christian Apocrypha (Baker Academic, Sept 2011).
Looks to be an exciting set of studies on New Testament and early Christian literature.


Historical Studies
Khaled Anatolios, Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine (Baker Academic, Oct 2011).
Anatolios' previous work includes two high-caliber volumes on Athanasius in the Routledge series on the early church. This volume looks to be an exciting complement to the work of Lewis Ayres, furthering the deep historiographic recasting of Nicene theological culture.

Robin Jensen, Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity (Baker Academic, April 2012)
Set to be a spring release, but this is volume I am eagerly anticipating. Robin Jensen is one of the foremost experts on early Christian art and in this book she will explore what images reveal about early Christian baptismal beliefs and practices.

Lawrence Besserman, Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Culture (Routledge, Oct 2011)
Exploration of the multi-faceted relationship between biblical sources/motifs and medieval English literature.

Jennifer Ebbeler, Disciplining Christians: Correction and Community in Augustine's Letters (Oxford, Dec 2011)
Examines important issues in Augustine's epistolary exchanges with figures like Jerome, Paulinus of Nola, the Donatists and Pelagians.


Systematic Theology
Paul DeHart, Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Inquiry (Routledge, Nov 2011)
Vanderbilt theologian, Paul DeHart, author of Trial of the Witnesses, offers a critical account of the appeal to Aquinas by Radical Orthodoxy. This book, I think, will be the go-to source not only for lucid, precise explication of the genealogical development and contours of the Radical Orthodox movement, but also for sharp untangling of contemporary interpretations of Aquinas.


Peter Ochs, Another Reformation: Postliberal Christianity and the Jews (Baker Academic, Oct 2011)
Ochs is a tremendous voice in contemporary theology, a Jewish scholar at the forefront of ecumenical and interfaith discussion (e.g., Society for Scriptural Reasoning).

A. N. Williams, The Architecture of Theology: Structure, System and Ratio (Oxford, Aug 2011)
A volume on theological method from an important specialist in patristic theology and the thought of Aquinas.

The Oxford Handbook of the Trinity, eds. Gilles Emery and Matthew Levering
'Nuff said!


Matthew Levering, Predestination: Biblical and Theological Paths (Oxford, Sept 2011)
Looks to be a stellar volume that carefully examines the biblical, historical and contemporary theological dimensions of this controversial doctrine.


Molly Haslam, A Constructive Theology of Intellectual Disability (Oxford, Sept 2011)
A much needed work.

Anothony Briggman, Irenaeus of Lyons and the Theology of the Holy Spirit (Oxford, Feb 2012)
A winter/spring release, but nonetheless, this is a book that I cannot wait for. An account of the pneumatology of Irenaeus, examining its deep historical context and contribution to the development of the doctrine of the Trinity. Along with Anatolios, this will be a must-have.

Ressourcement: A Movement for Renewal in Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology, eds. Gabriel Flynn and Paul D. Murray (Oxford, Feb 2012)
I am listing this because there are currently so few good secondary sources on the ressourcement movement in Catholic theology. Should be an excellent companion piece to Boersma's recent work.

Michael DeJonge, Bonhoeffer's Theological Formation: Berlin, Barth and Protestant Theology (Oxford, April 2012)
Again, a spring release, but this is a must have.