Here are some excellent new theology books * that were released in September 2026 :
* broadly interpreted, including ethics, church history, biblical studies, and other areas that intersect with theology
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Ecological Sin: Rupture of Relationships
Joshtrom Kureethadam
(Orbis Books)
Foreword by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Ecology and Justice Series The ecological crisis results at a deeper level from the rupture of the primal relationships that weave and sustain human existence. This book frames and explicates the concept of ecological sin as the rupture of fundamental relationships with the Creator, among ourselves, and with the rest of the community of creation. The first part of the book offers a relational understanding of the groaning of creation, weaving together the physical, moral, and spiritual dimensions of the contemporary ecological crisis. The second part explores at length the origin and nature of these relational ruptures in terms of seven ecological sins. Kureethadam presents ecological sin as the rupture of our fundamental and constitutive relationships with God, with our brothers and sisters, and with Mother Earth. The third part of the book explores how the rupture of basic relationships caused by ecological sin can be repaired through a transformative journey of healing by following the path of ecological conversion.
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Willing to Die: Martyrdom in the Mennonite Imagination
Jennifer Otto
( Fortress Press )
As the Reformation spread through Europe, thousands of individuals faced imprisonment, exile, and even execution for the crime of permitting themselves to be re-baptized. In the eyes of the established Church authorities–whether Catholic, Lutheran, or Reformed–these dissenters were justly condemned as dangerous heretics. But to their fellow Anabaptists, they were martyrs, reliving the persecution suffered by the early Church. Willing to Die explores the relationship between the figures of the martyr and the heretic in relations to the early Anabaptist movement, illuminating how the promoters of believers’ baptism could be understood by their fellow Christians as earnest advocates of the restoration of the church of the apostles, or as a seditious threat to the common peace. As recent scholarship on early Christian martyrdom has shown, the fact of death alone has never sufficed to make someone a martyr. Rather, martyrs are created by being commemorated as such by a community. From the earliest days of Christianity, one community’s martyr could be another’s heretic. By compiling martyrologies that included some executed Anabaptists and excluded others, surviving Anabaptists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries joined a centuries-long intra-Christian debate in which the commemoration of the special dead define the boundaries of legitimate beliefs and practices of the True Church.
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