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New Books in Christian Studies

Marshall Poe
Christianity
Late Antiquity
Early Christianity
Judaism
Protestantism
Crusades
New Testament
Evangelical Christianity
Islam
Reformation
Gender Studies
World War I
Witch Trials
Interfaith Dialogue
Roman Empire
Catholicism
Prague
Ancient Slavery
Women and the Crusades
Art History

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to ... more

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A Protestant Air: Gide, Sartre, Barthes, and the Religion of Literary Modernity (Cornell UP, 2026) focuses on the Protestant connection linking three intellectual giants of twentieth-century French thought. All three came from a Protestant background... more

In Constructing Christendom: Conquest and Diocese Formation in Medieval Iberia (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026), Dr. Thomas W. Barton examines how church leaders partnered with lay rulers to integrate lands conquered from the Muslims in the Iberian Penin... more

Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible (Bodleian, 2026) by Dr. Harry Spillane is a history of the English Bible as a book. A book that in order to be read had first to be sold.

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In this special installment of the University of Notre Dame Press's Books for Better Understanding, Paul Scherz, the Our Lady of Guadalupe Professor of Theology with the University of Notre Dame, and Travis Pickell, Assistant Professor at George Fox ... more

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Recent Guests

Paul Scherz
Our Lady of Guadalupe Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and author of The Ethics of Precision Medicine.
University of Notre Dame
Episode: The Ethics of Precision Medicine and Burned Agency with Paul Scherz and Travis Pickell
Travis Pickell
Assistant professor and chair of theology and ethics at George Fox University and author of Burdened Agency.
George Fox University
Episode: The Ethics of Precision Medicine and Burned Agency with Paul Scherz and Travis Pickell
Raluca Bianca Roman
Lecturer in Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast whose research focuses on religion, ethnicity and Roma communities.
Queen's University Belfast
Episode: Kaale Belongings and Evangelical Becomings: An Ethnography of Finnish Roma with Raluca Bianca Roman (Brill Schöningh, 2025)
Gareth Breen
Assistant Professor in anthropology at the University of Sussex
University of Sussex
Episode: Sublime Sociality: An (Auto)Ethnographic Theory of Chinese Christianity with Gareth Breen (LSE Press, 2026)
N. Gray Sutanto
Associate professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary
Reformed Theological Seminary
Episode: God and Humanity: Herman Bavinck and Theological Anthropology with N Gray Sutanto (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Cyprian Consiglio
Camaldolese Benedictine monk, musician, composer, author, and teacher
Monastic Interreligious Dialogue
Episode: Epiphanies of Nature and Grace: Twelve Meditations from a Life in Dialogue with Cyprian Consiglio (Orbis Books, 2025)
Nicholas Morton
Associate professor at Nottingham Trent University and historian of the Crusades and medieval Near East.
Nottingham Trent University
Episode: The Crusader Storm: A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East with Nicholas Morton (Pegasus, 2026)
Jeffrey Champlin
Director of the Learning Commons and Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College Berlin
Bard College Berlin
Episode: Born Again: Romanticism and Fundamentalism with Jeffrey Champlin (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Thomas Breimaier
Author of Tethered to the Cross: The Life and Preaching of Charles H. Spurgeon
IVP Academic
Episode: Thomas Breimaier, "Tethered to the Cross: The Life and Preaching of Charles H. Spurgeon" (IVP Academic, 2020)

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Angela Marie Hutchinson
Host of today's episode; affiliated with New Books in Christian Studies
Dr. Miranda Melcher
Host of the episode; interview host
Michael Morales
Host of New Books and Biblical Studies; involved in broader network
Benjamin Phillips
Host of The New Books Network; multiple episode appearances

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Born Again: Romanticism and Fundamentalism with Jeffrey Champlin (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Q: Can you break down that distinction for us? I'm curious about the word choice too, like revival. Revival comes loaded with religious connotation, camp meetings, great awakening, all those religious concepts. Why deliberately pull that word out of its religious home and repurpose it as your own rhetorical term?
Champlin describes fundamentalism as an exclusionary, literal appropriation of born-again language, while revivalism names a more collaborative and creatively open approach to rebirth. The term also helps him discuss Romantic works that use humor, moral ambiguity, and stories of rebirth to challenge rigid interpretations.
Born Again: Romanticism and Fundamentalism with Jeffrey Champlin (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Q: Can you tell us how that moment led to this book? And more importantly, I came to know more about the idea of romantic literature as a way to engage with and also understand modern fundamentalism.
A student's question about why Romantic writers seemed to leave religion behind prompted Champlin to investigate the lost social connections among religion, literature, politics, and philosophy. He traced a different tradition of Romanticism centered on creativity and starting things anew together.
Epiphanies of Nature and Grace: Twelve Meditations from a Life in Dialogue with Cyprian Consiglio (Orbis Books, 2025)
Q: Why do you want to put these different ways of looking at meditation together despite their differences?
Consiglio distinguishes Western Christian meditation as reflective expansion on a text from Asian-influenced meditation as movement toward single-pointed concentration. He describes them as different practices used in different contexts, with Lectio Divina moving from reflection toward contemplative silence.
Epiphanies of Nature and Grace: Twelve Meditations from a Life in Dialogue with Cyprian Consiglio (Orbis Books, 2025)
Q: What changed for you that in this book, you could kind of end up where you wanted to go in terms of your voice? And how much of yourself was in there?
Consiglio says he wrote the book during a relaxed sabbatical after serving as prior, and that decades of experience gave him confidence to write personally and conversationally without relying as heavily on others' opinions.
The Crusader Storm: A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East with Nicholas Morton (Pegasus, 2026)
Q: When we shift our focus away from just that aspect of the Crusades, what does that do for our understanding of the history of the Crusades?
Morton says a wider view reflects the primary sources more fully and shows the Crusades within a complex regional history of trade, migration, alliances, family disputes, and cultural exchange, alongside warfare and religious conflict.

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This show features conversations with scholarly authors about recently published works in Christian studies, theology, biblical studies, liturgy, and late antiquity. Discussions often blend historical analysis, philology, and cultural context to illuminate how ideas evolve, how religious practices intersect with society, and how ancient frameworks inform contemporary faith and public life. Episodes frequently center on the translation and transmission of texts, interpretive methods, and the social impact of ideas—ranging from effective altruism in Christian life to the politics of liturgical tradition and the reception of biblical narratives. A standout pattern is the rigorous academic approach paired with accessible storytelling, inviting ... more

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