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BF – Psychology

Wisdom in classical and biblical tradition
Michael C. Legaspi.

BL – Religion

Criteria of discernment in interreligious dialogue
edited by Catherine Cornille.
Eschatology as imagining the end : faith between hope and despair
edited by Sigurd Bergmann.
Interfaith-interreligious studies : defining a new field
edited by Eboo Patel, Jennifer Howe Peace, Noah J. Silverman.
Perceiving the divine through the human body : mystical sensuality
edited by Thomas Cattoi and June McDaniel.
Spiritual care for allied health practice : a person-centered approach
edited by Lindsay B. Carey and Bernice A. Mathisen ; foreword by Harold G. Koenig.

BM – Judaism

The Aggada of the Bavli and its cultural world
edited by Geoffrey Herman, Jeffrey L. Rubenstein.

BP – Islam

A thirteenth
eighteenth century Quranic commentary on the chapters of The all-merciful, The event and Iron from The immense ocean : al-Baḥr al-madīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn ʻAjībah, 1747 or 1748-1809
Arab Christians and the Qurʼan from the origins of Islam to the medieval period
edited by Mark Beaumont.
Future of interfaith dialogue : Muslim-Christian encounters through A Common Word
edited by Yazid Said, Lejla Demiri.
Imams in Western Europe : developments, transformations, and institutional challenges
edited by Mohammed Hashas, Jan Jaap de Ruiter, Niels Valdemar Vinding ; with the collaboration of Khalid Hajji.
Modern Muslim theology : engaging God and the world with faith and imagination
Martin Nguyen.
Muslim women, domestic violence, and psychotherapy : theological and clinical issues
Seeing God in Sufi Qur'an commentaries : crossings between this world and the otherworld
Pieter Coppens.
Terrorism and violence in Islamic history and theological responses to the arguments of terrorists
Recep Dogan.
The crucifix on Mecca's front porch : a Christian's companion for the study of Islam
David Pinault.
The Qur'an and its biblical reflexes : investigations into the genesis of a religion
Mark Durie.
Theological issues in Christian-Muslim dialogue
edited by Charles Tieszen.

BQ – Buddhism

An introduction to Buddhist psychology and counselling : pathways of mindfulness-based therapies
Padmasiri De Silva, Research Fellow, Philosophy Department, Monash University, Australia.
Buddhism, meditation, and free will : a theory of mental freedom
Rick Repetti.
Setting out on the great way : essays on early Mahāyāna Buddhism
edited by Paul Harrison.
The healthy mind : mindfulness, the true self, and the stream of consciousness
Henry M. Vyner.
Treasures of Buddhism : a new translation with selected letters, includes other previously unpublished writings
by Frithjof Schuon ; edited by Harry Oldmeadow.

BR – Christianity

A future for Africa : critical essays in Christian social imagination
Emmanuel M. Katongole.
Christian mysticism's queer flame : spirituality in the lives of contemporary gay men
Michael Bernard Kelly.
Gregory of Nyssa. Contra Eunomium I : an English translation with supporting studies
edited by Miguel Brugarolas.
Gregory of Nyssa: In Canticum Canticorum : analytical and supporting studies. Proceedings of the 13th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Rome, 17-20 September 2014)
edited by Giulio Maspero, Miguel Brugarolas, Ilaria Vigorelli.
Handbook of denominations in the United States
Roger E. Olson, Craig D. Atwood, Frank S. Mead, Samuel S. Hill.
Reference
Homeland insecurity : a hip hop missiology for the post-Civil Rights context
Daniel White Hodge.
Jewish-Christianity and the history of Judaism : collected essays
Annette Yoshiko Reed.
Luther, Bonhoeffer, and public ethics : re-forming the church of the future
edited by Michael P. DeJonge and Clifford J. Green.
Our God in the world : the globalization of American evangelicalism
Melani McAlister.
Sideline church : bridging the chasm between churches and cultures
Thomas G. Bandy.
The Church and its mission in the New Testament and early Christianity : essays in memory of Hans Kvalbein
edited by David E. Aune and Reidar Hvalvik.
The Oxford handbook of ecclesiology
edited by Paul Avis.
The Oxford history of Protestant dissenting traditions.
The Oxford history of Protestant dissenting traditions.
The Protestant Reformation of the church and the world
edited by John Witte, Jr. and Amy Wheeler, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University.

BS – Bible

70 Hebrew words every Christian should know
Matthew Richard Schlimm.
An analysis of N.T. Wright's The New Testament and the people of God
Benjamin Laird.
Bible as notepad : tracing annotations and annotation practices in late antique and medieval biblical manuscripts
edited by Liv Ingeborg Lied and Marilena Maniaci.
Oversize
Cosmology in theological perspective : understanding our place in the universe
Olli-Pekka Vainio.
Figures of Ezra
Jan N. Bremmer, Veronika Hirschberger, Tobias Nicklas (eds.).
Jesus, Paul, and the early church : missionary realities in historical contexts : collected essays
Eckhard J. Schnabel.
Lift up your heads : nonverbal communication and related body imagery in the Bible
John A. Davies.
New Testament Christological hymns : exploring texts, contexts, and significance
Matthew E. Gordley.
Oxford handbook of Johannine studies
edited by Judith M. Lieu and Martinus C. de Boer.
Paul's 'works of the law' in the perspective of second century reception
Matthew J. Thomas.
Postcolonial commentary and the Old Testament
edited by Hemchand Gossai.
Riddles and revelations : explorations into the relationship between wisdom and prophecy in the Hebrew Bible
edited by Mark Boda, Russell L. Meek, and William R. Osborne.
Salvation in the Gospel of Mark : the death of Jesus and the path of discipleship
Gabi Markusse ; foreword by Paul Middleton.
Scribal culture in Ben Sira
by Lindsey A. Askin.
Since the beginning : interpreting Genesis 1 and 2 through the ages
edited by Kyle R. Greenwood.
Social justice and the Hebrew Bible
Norman K. Gottwald.
Social justice and the Hebrew Bible
Norman K. Gottwald.
Social justice and the Hebrew Bible
Norman K. Gottwald.
The book of Daniel
André Lacocque ; foreword by Paul Ricoeur.
The construction of Exodus identity in ancient Israel : a social identity approach
Linda M. Stargel.
The dangerous duty of rebuke : Leviticus 19:17 in early Jewish and Christian interpretation
by Matthew S. Goldstone.
The letter and spirit of biblical interpretation : from the early church to modern practice
Keith D. Stanglin.
The letter to the Romans : exegesis and application
edited by Stanley E. Porter and Francis G. H. Pang.
The Roman army and the New Testament
Christopher B. Zeichmann.
Three Jesus certitudes : pacifism, feminism, and the birth of Christianity
Leonard J. Swidler.
Unsettling the word : Biblical experiments in decolonization
edited by Steve Heinrichs.
Wom(b)an : a cultural-narrative reading of the Hebrew Bible barrenness narratives
by Janice Pearl Ewurama De-Whyte.

BT – Doctrinal Theology

Christian dying : witnesses from the tradition
edited by George Kalantzis and Matthew Levering ; foreword by J. Todd Billings.
Essays on the Trinity
edited by Lincoln Harvey
Minjung kwa Hanʼguk sinhak
NCC Sinhak Yonʼgu Wiwŏnhoe pʻyŏn.
Stacks
Miracles : God's presence and power in creation
Luke Timothy Johnson.
Predestination : a guide for the perplexed
Jesse Couenhoven.
Systematic theology
Anthony C. Thiselton.
The challenge is in the naming : a theological journey
Lydia Neufeld Harder.
The natural world and God : theological explorations
Denis Edwards.
The pivotal role of the fig-tree story in the Gospel of Mark 11
Yil Song.
The world come of age : an intellectual history of liberation theology
Lilian Calles Barger.

BV – Practical Theology

A guide to ministry self-care : negotiating today's challenges with resilience and grace
Richard P. Olson, Ruth Lofgren Rosell, Nathan S. Marsh, and Angela Barker Jackson.
Advent : the once and future coming of Jesus Christ
Fleming Rutledge.
Clergy, culture and ministry : the dynamics of roles and relations in church and society
Ian Tomlinson ; edited by Martyn Percy.
Finding ourselves lost : ministry in the age of overwhelm
Robert C. Dykstra.
Flawed church, faithful God : a reformed ecclesiology for the real world
Joseph D. Small.
Her preaching body : conversations about identity, agency, and embodiment among contemporary female preachers
Amy P. McCullough
How to be a Christian : reflections and essays
C.S. Lewis.
Intergenerate : transforming churches through intergenerational ministry
edited by Holly Catterton Allen.
Models & methods for youth & young adult ministry : ecumenical examples and pastoral approaches for the Christian Church
Arthur David Canales.
Reverberating word : powerful worship
Michael Denham.
Shout to the Lord : making worship music in evangelical America
Ari Y. Kelman.
Spirituality and reform : Christianity in the West, ca. 1000-1800
Calvin Lane.
The hymnal : a reading history
Christopher N. Phillips.
Tradition and innovation : baptismal rite and mystagogy in Theodore of Mopsuestia and Narsai of Nisibis
by Nathan Witkamp.
Urban ministry reconsidered : contexts and approaches
edited by R. Drew Smith, Stephanie C. Boddie and Ronald E. Peters.
Wade in the water : following the sacred stream of baptism
Eric E. Peterson ; foreword by Leonard Sweet.

BX – Denominations and Sects

A shared understanding of ministerial leadership : a polity manual for Mennonite Church Canada and Mennonite Church USA.
A theology of hope : contextual perspectives in Korean Pentecostalism
Sang Yun Lee ; foreword by Allan H. Anderson.
Christ existing as community : Bonhoeffer's ecclesiology
Michael Mawson.
Female friends and the making of transAtlantic Quakerism, 1650-1750
Naomi Pullin, University of Warwick.
George Whitefield : evangelist for God and Empire
Peter Y. Choi ; foreword by Mark A. Noll.
Journal
Alberta & Northwest Conference United Church of Canada Historical Society.
New critical studies on early Quaker women, 1650-1800
edited by Michele Lise Tarter and Catie Gill.
Out of Exodus : a journey of open and affirming ministry
by Darryl W. Stephens with Michael I. Alleman, Andrea Brown, Ruth A. Daugherty, and Mary Merriman ; foreword by John C. Holbert.
Shall we follow Karl Barth?
by Sidney Spencer, B.A.
The Presbyterian story : origins & progress of a Reformed tradition
S. Donald Fortson III.
The works of John Wesley
[editor in chief, Frank Baker].
Towards a theology of universality : John Wesley's socio-economic, political & moral insights on British class & Indian caste distinctions
Rev. Dr. Joseph Basappa Suray.

H – Social Sciences

Social media for academics
Mark Carrigan.
Transgender good news
Pat Conover ; photographs by Marietter Pathy Allen.

L – Education

Reimagining Christian education : cultivating transformative approaches
Johannes M. Luetz, Tony Dowden, Beverley Norsworthy, editors.

M – Music

Congregational music, conflict, and community
Jonathan Dueck.
Music in East Africa : experiencing music, expressing culture
Gregory Barz.
Music in West Africa : experiencing music, expressing culture
Ruth M. Stone.
One Lord, one faith, one baptism : an African American ecumenical hymnal
[executive editor, Dr. W. James Abbington ; contributing editors, Dr. Norah Duncan IV, Reverend Glenn L. Jones, Joseph Joubert, John Stoddart, Brandon Waddles, Wendell Craig Woods].

N – Fine Arts

Masterpieces of religious art : exhibition held in connection with the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches, July 15 through August 31, 1954.

R – Medicine

Leaving it at the office : a guide to psychotherapist self-care
John C. Norcross, Gary R. VandenBos.