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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Modern Protestant Theology: Introducing the Classics
Wesley Vander Lugt
(T&T Clark)
This essential resource provides introductions to fifteen classics of 19th and 20th-century Protestant theology, ranging from Schleiermacher’s The Christian Faith to Dorothy Sayers’s The Mind of the Maker to Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics.
Each chapter gives a sketch of the author’s life, traces the main themes of their classic work, and indicates the impact of each theologian and their approach. By including known works and introducing new contributions into the story, Vander Lugt expands standard notions of the theological canon and provides a refreshing retelling of how Protestant theology has developed over the last two hundred years.
Students of theology and Christian leaders will find this an accessible introduction to a rich and dense theological world.
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Discontented Belief: A Theology of Restlessness
Margaret D. Kamitsuka
( Fortress Press )
Popular culture promotes happy mindfulness, academe considers happiness a serious topic of research, and theologies of Christian joy proliferate. The real and pervasive experience of discontentment is overlooked in both the secular and religious focus on contentment. Discontented Belief demonstrates that discontentment has a religious impact and theological significance. The book analyzes the variety and ubiquity of discontentment by using sources including the Bible, patristic writings, poetry and literature, psychoanalytic theory. Augustine experienced discontentment as a restless unmet desire that drew him to God. In Flannery O’Connor’s fiction, it precedes a (sometimes violent) spiritual awakening. Discontentment spurs biblical female characters searching for religious belonging to courageous, even shocking, actions. Paul preached joy but voiced discontentment. The gospels narrate a Jesus vulnerable to discontentment, and God, traditionally understood, hovers outside of time and place.
Attending to the phenomenon of human discontentment challenges traditional ways of thinking theologically. This book’s engagement with various manifestations of discontentment charts new perspectives on God, the incarnation, redemption, and the power of the Holy Spirit. Discontented Belief offers religious searchers a way of believing when joy seems a distant dream and happiness elusive.
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