Pitts Theology Library

July, 2021
Greetings from Pitts Theology Library!

It goes without saying that the extensive and diverse collection at Pitts is due in part to the institution’s continuing conversation with Candler and Emory’s students, faculty, and staff. Our acquisitions should first and foremost support the present and future teaching, research, and service missions of the Candler School of Theology, as well as those of the Graduate Division of Religion and Emory University.

In consideration of the above, Pitts is expanding its reach about ongoing acquisitions and new resources by providing each tract with monthly reports via the New Acquisitions Newsletter.

Please find newly released resources in the History and Interpretation of Christianity tract below, and don’t hesitate to make purchase suggestions by visiting pitts.emory.edu/suggest.

Highlights of New Book Acquisitions

Body-Poetics of The Virgin Mary: Mary's Maternal Body as Poem of The Father by Jane Petkovic Pickwick Publications

What does it mean that human beings are made in the image of God? If God is pure uncreated spirit, where does human embodiment fit in? Reflecting on the writing of John Paul II, Body-Poetics offers a Mariological slant on theological anthropology and a new way to think of how humans poetically image God.

No Small Matter: Features of Jewish Childhood by Anat Helman Oxford University Press

Jews have been renowned for the efforts they put into their children's welfare and education. Eventually, prioritizing children became a modern Western norm. In some academic fields, however, children have received less attention. This volume seeks to overcome this challenge by delving into different facets of Jewish childhood in history, literature, and film.

Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy by Lyndal Roper
Princeton University Press

Always a controversial figure, Martin Luther's influence is nonetheless pervasive, particularly in Germany where he has left an indelible imprint on the culture, musical, linguistic, material, and visual. Roper presents new sides of this complicated man made more complicated by his followers and detractors.

Economics of Faith: Reforming Poor Relief in Early Modern Europe by Esther Chung-Kim
Oxford University Press

Economics of Faith highlights the leaders of the Reformation who served as catalysts, organizers, stabilizers, and consolidators of relief programs to alleviate poverty. Discover how Catholic humanists and Protestant reformers moved beyond traditional charity to urge the coordination and centralization of a poor relief system.

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Periodicals: New Issues

Augustinian Studies

Articles include:

On Creation, Science, Disenchantment, and the Contours of Being and Knowing
Desires in Paradise: An Interpretative Study of Augustine’s City of God 14

Essays in Medieval Studies

Articles include:

Dying, Death, and the Afterlife: Non-Gendered Teachings from Beyond the Grave
Madness and Prophecy in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Vita Merlini

More New Issues
Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures publishes peer-reviewed essays on mystical and devotional texts, with an emphasis on the Western Middle Ages.

Studies in Church History is an annually published series comprising papers and communications delivered at the Ecclesiastical History Society’s conferences.

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