Here are some excellent new theology books * that were released in April 2026 :
* broadly interpreted, including ethics, church history, biblical studies, and other areas that intersect with theology
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Traumatized Church: What Paul’s Relationship with the Corinthian Church Teaches Us About Helping Those Who are Hurting
Scot McKnight and Adrienne Gibson
(Zondervan)
A compassionate and practical framework to address the wounds of trauma and learn how to develop churches as trauma-informed spaces.
Whether you’re a pastor, counselor, church leader, or someone who has been hurt by the church, Traumatized Church—written jointly by New Testament scholar Scot McKnight and therapist Adrienne Gibson—will help you on the road to healing and understanding.
Diving deeply into the realities of trauma—how it impacts individuals, communities, and ministries—Traumatized Church pairs theological insights with counseling expertise to guide readers through the four R’s of trauma care: Realize, Recognize, Respond, and Resist.
McKnight examines the life of the apostle Paul and his complex relationship with the Corinthian church, offering biblical wisdom from Paul’s life that helps us shape a renewed response to trauma within the church today.
Gibson relates stories of real experiences, practical advice, and scripturally grounded therapy insights to encourage a Kingdom-minded approach to community, rooted in love and restoration rather than re-traumatization.
From understanding the symptoms of trauma in today’s church members to providing actionable steps to foster safety, trust, support, collaboration, and empowerment, this book creates a roadmap for healing.
If you’re ready to transform your understanding of trauma and begin building spaces of redemption, Traumatized Church is an essential resource for your ministry or personal growth.
Together, we can create churches that reflect Christ’s healing and compassion.
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Embodied Reconciliation: Congregational Healing as Pastoral Care
Leanna K. Fuller
( Fortress Press )
Leanna K. Fuller notes that conflict is a pervasive feature of contemporary churches. Faith communities today face increasingly complex and difficult dynamics such as same-sex marriage, immigration, church-state relationships, and many more–both internally and in the surrounding culture. And congregants and pastoral leaders need resources to help them navigate the aftermath of such conflicts. Embodied Reconciliation responds by offering a set of practices to help congregations explore reconciliation as a form of communal pastoral care.
Fuller presents an understanding of reconciliation that includes elements of forgiveness and accountability, emphasizes process rather than outcome, recognizes human dignity and differences, and acknowledges that God is the primary agent of transformation. She describes practices–truth-telling, grieving and lamenting, confessing and repenting, and blessing and releasing–that congregations can implement any time they experience conflict or tension. These practices, in turn, help congregations imagine how their faith communities might move toward embodying reconciliation.
This book is ideal for leaders of faith communities, whether clergy or lay, who have varying levels of pastoral care experience–or no experience at all. Embodied Reconciliation can be used effectively in seminary classrooms as well as church leadership trainings.
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