Here are some excellent new theology books * that were released in June 2026 :
* broadly interpreted, including ethics, church history, biblical studies, and other areas that intersect with theology
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Every Somewhere Sacred: Rescuing a Theology of Place in the American Imagination
Benjamin Norquist and Brian J. Miller
(IVP Academic)
Become Stewards of God’s Vision Where You’re Placed
It’s possible for American Christians to live everywhere and nowhere at the same time. We’re often disconnected from the places we inhabit―cut off from nature, our neighbors, people different from us, and a sense of rootedness. It’s time to imagine a better way.
Each of us is placed by God in a specific “somewhere.” Drawing on social science research and their experiences across American landscapes and the Middle East, Ben Norquist and Brian Miller show how Christians in the US can develop a redemptive imagination for place. Many people have uncritically accepted American cultural assumptions about land, property, home ownership, and the good life. Yet our identity as followers of Jesus should transform how we live in the physical world, even as we recognize how places shape their inhabitants.
Every Somewhere Sacred explores
– tools for deeply understanding or “reading” places;
– interdisciplinary scholarship from Scripture, sociology, and theology on land and place; and connections between colonialism, race, social class, and American landscapes.
Norquist and Miller offer avariety of personal and corporate practices including land research, reassessing priorities and habits, advocating for others, and reconsidering the nature of sacred space, prompting us toward a broader vision for how God works through space, usingbiblical lenses of landscape as gift, sacrament, kin, and home.
Are you seeking a rooted, meaningful faith that responds to the needs of your community? If you want to dive deeper into a theology of place, Every Somewhere Sacred willhelp you connect to your own “somewhere” and offer guidance for becoming a steward of God’s vision where you are.
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Let the Church Say Amen: Practicing a Black Communal Homiletic
Timothy Adkins-Jones
( Fortress Press )
Timothy Adkins-Jones argues that a contemporary world with decreased acceptance of institutional authority and shorter attention spans leaves preachers and congregations alike searching for ways to experience renewed engagement during the preaching moment. In response, Adkins-Jones explores a homiletical practice that expands on the history of communal preaching in the Black church tradition. He argues that exploring the depth of such communal approaches can help to quicken congregants’ spiritual growth as they experience the process of co-creating the sermon with the preacher.
Let the Church Say Amen! traces ways congregational involvement in the Black preaching process can be witnessed historically before, during, and after the sermon. Through its theological examination of these patterns, the book explores how Black preachers cultivate congregational participation during the conception, performance, and evaluation of the sermon in contemporary contexts. Let the Church Say Amen! engages in a generative conversation regarding the future of Black communal homiletics, including possibilities in virtual spaces, and its potential impacts in other congregational contexts.
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