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General

  • Almond, Philip C., The AntiChrist. A new biography. Pp. xvi + 323 incl. 30 colour plates. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £29.99. 978 1 108 47965 3

  • Calhoun, Robert Matthew, David P. Moessner and Tobias Nicklas (eds), Modern and ancient literary criticism of the Gospels. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 451.) Pp. xvi + 619 incl. 8 figs. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. €169. 978 3 16 159413 7

  • Doig, Allan, A history of the Church through its buildings. Pp. xvi + 376 incl. 27 ills and 18 colour plates. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £30. 978 0 19 957536 7

  • Levering, Matthew and Plested, Marcus (eds), The Oxford handbook of the reception of Aquinas. Pp. xxii + 730. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £125. 978 0 19 879802 6

  • Sommar, Mary E., The slaves of the Churches. A history. Pp. xii + 268. Oxford–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £22.99. 978 0 19 007326 8

  • Verheyden, Joseph and Müller, Daniela (eds), Imagining paganism through the ages. Studies on the use of the labels ‘pagan’ and ‘paganism’ in controversies. (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, cccxii.) Pp. xiv + 353. Leuven–Bristol, Ct: Peeters, 2020. €95 (paper). 978 90 429 4253 0

Ancient world

  • Anagnostou-Laoutides, Eva, Ken Parry, , Eastern Christianity and late antique philosophy. (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, 18.) Pp. xvi + 342 incl. 2 figs and 1 table. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €159. 978 90 04 411883; 2213 0039

  • Anatolios, Khaled, Deification through the cross. An eastern Christian theology of salvation. Pp. xxii + 463. Grand Rapids, Mi: William B. Eerdmans, 2020. $50. 978 0 8028 7798 7

  • Belayche, Nicole and Massa, Francesco (eds), Mystery cults in visual representation in Graeco-Roman antiquity. (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 194.) Pp. xiv + 237 incl. 63 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €104. 978 90 04 43932 0; 0927 7633

  • Bergren, Theodore A., 1 Clement. A reader's edition. Pp. x + 193. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2020. £25.95 (paper). 978 0 8132 3236 2

  • Butts, Aaron M., Heal, Kristian S. and Kitchen, Robert A., Narsai. Rethinking his work and his world. (Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity, 121.) Pp. xvi + 291. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. €89 (paper). 978 3 16 159349 9; 1436 3003

  • Choi, Hyung Guen, Between ideals and reality. Charity and the letters of Barsanuphius and John of Gaza. (Early Christian Studies, 21.) Pp. xiv + 237 incl. 2 tables. Sydney: SCD Press, 2020. $45 (paper). 978 1 925730 17 3

  • Donaldson, Terence L., Gentile Christian identity from Cornelius to Constantine. The nations, the parting of the ways and Roman imperial ideology. Pp. xvi + 560. Grand Rapids, Mi: William B. Eerdmans, 2020. $75. 978 0 8028 7175 6

  • Eckhardt, Benedikt (ed), Private associations and Jewish communities in the Hellenistic and Roman cities. (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 191.) Pp. vi + 227. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €105. 978 90 04 40537 0; 1384 2161

  • Frankfurter, David, Guide to the study of ancient magic. (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 189.) Pp. xx + 797 incl. 41 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. 978 90 04 17157 2; 0927 7633

  • Hahn, Johannes and Menze, Volker (eds), The wandering holy man. The life of Barsauma, Christian asceticism, and religious conflict in late antique Palestine. (Transformation of the Classical Heritage.) Pp. x + 307 incl. 3 ills and 5 maps. Oakland, Ca: University of California Press, 2020. £78. 978 0 520 30414 7

  • Kingreen, Sarah-Magdalena, Tertullians Schrift ‘Adversus Valentinianos’. Die argumentative Widersetzung Tertullians gegen die Valentinianer als ein in rehetorischer Perspektive geschlossenes Werk. (Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity, 120.) Pp. xiv + 497. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. €104 (paper). 978 3 16 159602 5; 1436 3003

  • Laato, Antti (ed.), The challenge of the Mosaic Torah in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. (Studies on the Children of Abraham, 7.) Pp. xiv + 261. Brill, Leiden–Boston:, 2021. €165. 978 90 04 44189 7; 2210 4720

  • Minov, Sergey, Memory and identity in the Syriac cave of treasures. Rewriting the Bible in Sasanian Iran. (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 26.) Pp. xii + 411. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €198. 978 90 04 44550 5; 1570 078X

  • Pettersen, Alvyn, The second-century apologists. (Cascade Companions.) Pp. xx + 177. Eugene, Or: Cascade Books, 2020. $25. 978 1 7252 6535 6

  • Snyder, H. Gregory (ed.), Christian teachers in second-century Rome. Schools and students in the ancient city. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 159.) Pp. x + 219 incl. 20 colour and black-and-white figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €115. 978 90 04 42247 6; 0920 623X

  • Syria. Archéologie, art et histoire. Tome 96, Année 2019. Pp. 496 incl. 419 colour and black-and-white figs and 6 tables. Beyrouth: Presses de l'Ifpo, 2019 (for Institut Français du Proche-Orient). €91 (paper). 978 2 35159 764 4

  • Vos, Nienke M. and Geljon, Albert C. (eds), Rituals in early Christianity. New perspectives on tradition and transformation. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 164.) Pp. xii + 363 incl. 16 colour and black-and-white figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €125. 978 90 04 44097 5; 0920 623X

  • Zachhuber, Johannes, The rise of Christian theology and the end of ancient metaphysics. Patristic philosophy from the Cappadocian Fathers to John of Damascus. Pp. xii + 357. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £75. 978 0 19 885995 6

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

  • Ayers, Tim (ed.) (trans Maureen Jurkowski), The fabric accounts of St Stephen's Chapel Westminster, 1292–1396. 2 vols. Pp. x + 999; ix + 1000–1523 incl. 2 frontispieces, 7 figs, 15 tables and 4 plans. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2020. £150. 978 1 78327 444 4

  • Barron, Caroline M. and Daunton, Claire Gobbi (eds), The English Church in the thirteenth century. Collected papers of C. H. Lawrence. Pp. viii + 332. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020. £24 (paper). 978 1 907730 87 0

  • Biget, Jean-Louis, Caucanas, Sylvie, Fournié, Michelle and Blévec, Daniel Le (eds), Le ‘Catharisme’ en questions. (Cahiers de Fanjeaux, 55.) Pp. 448. Fanjeaux: Centre d’études historiques de Fanjeaux, 2020. €30 (paper). 978 2 9568972

  • Black, Daisy, Playtime. Gender, anti-semitism and temporality in medieval biblical drama. (Medieval Literature and Culture.) Pp. xii + 234 incl. 5 figs. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. £80. 978 1 5261 4686 1

  • Bricout, Hélène, Kranemann, Benedikt and Pesenti, Davide (eds), Die Dynamik der Liturgie im Spiegel ihrer Bücher. La dynamique de la liturgie au miroir de ses livres. Festschrift für Martin Klöckener. Mélanges offerts à Martin Klöckener. (Liturgiewissenschaftliche Quellen und Forschungen, 110.) Pp. vii + 654 incl. 2 ills. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2020. €79 (paper). 978 3 402 11286 1; 0076 0048

  • Champion, Matthew S., Masolini, Serena and Nothaft, C. Philipp E. (eds), Peter de Rivo on chronology and the calendar. (Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Series 1.) Pp. cxxxvi + 152 incl. 1 ill and 7 tables. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020. €85. 978 94 6270 244 8

  • Crispin, David, ‘Ihr Gott kämpft jeden Tag für Sie'. Krieg, Gewalt und religiöse Vorstellungen in der Frühzeit der Kreuzzüge (1095–1187). Pp. viii + 241. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2020. €49.90. 978 3 506 79242 6

  • Flaujac, Raphaël, Foulon, Jean-Hervé and Véronique, Gazeau, (eds), La Bienheureux Herluin. Fondateur et premier abbé du Bec. Vita Herluini de Gilbert Crespin. Traduction et études. Pp. 177 incl. 14 figs. Le Bec–Hellouin: Ateliers du Bec, 2020. €18 (paper). 978 2 908109 16 0

  • Fournié, Michèle, Le Blévec, Daniel and Théry, Julien, L’Église et la chair (XIIe–XVe siècle). (Cahiers de Fanjeaux, 52. Publication annuelle d'histoire religieuse du Midi de la France au Moyen Âge.) Pp. 599 incl. 35 ills and 2 tables. Toulouse: Éditon Pivat, 2019. €35.50 (paper). 978 2 7089 3457

  • Goris, Harm (ed.) (trans. Faber, Riemer A.), Synopsis purioris theologiae/Synopsis of a purer theology. Latin text and English translation, III: Disputations 43–52. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 222; Texts and Sources, 9.) Pp. xiv + 716. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €126. 978 90 32996 6; 1573 4188

  • Hamilton, Bernard and Jotischky, Andrew, Latin and Greek monasticism in the crusader states. Pp. xii + 552 incl. 11 figs and 1 map. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75. 978 0 521 83638 8

  • Johnson, Timothy J., Shelby, Katherine Wrisley and Zamora, Marie Kolbe (eds), Saint Bonaventure. Friar, teacher, bishop. A celebration of the eighth century of his birth. Essays from Frater, Magister, Minister, et Episcopus: The works and worlds of St Bonaventure, an international conference hosted by the Franciscan Institute at St Bonaventure University. Pp. xii + 726. St Bonaventure University, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2021. $89.95 (paper). 978 1 57659 445 2

  • Latinovic, Vladimir, Christologie und Kommunion, II: Liturgische Einführung und Rezeption der homoousianischen Christologie. Pp. xii + 315. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2020. €52. 978 3 402 24751 8

  • Mazzanti, Giuseppe, Un Imperatore Musulmano. II Liber de sceleribus et infelicitate perfidi turchi ac de spurcitia et fediate gentis et secte sue (1467/1468) di Rodrigo Sànchez de Arévalo. (Diritto Cultura Società. Storia e problem della giustizia criminale, 15.) Pp. 216. Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2020. €30 (paper). 978 88 6923 604 4

  • Ruffiot, Frank, Théodulf d'Orléans, compilateur du Supplementum au Sacramentarium Gregorianum Hadrianum. Le tèmoignage du corpus des prefaces eucharistiques. (Liturgiewissenschaftliche Quellen und Forschungen, 111.) Pp. 410. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2021. €69 (paper). 978 3 402 11280 9

  • Sider, Robert D, Erasmus on the New Testament. Selections from the paraphrases, the annotations, and the writing on biblical interpretation. Pp. xvi + 331. Toronto–London: University of Toronto Press, 2020. $47.95. 978 1 4875 2410 4

  • Turner, Philippa and Hawkes, Jane (eds), The rood in medieval Britain and Ireland, c. 800–c.1500. (Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture.) Pp. xvi + 224 incl. 45 figs and 13 plates. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2020. £60. 978 1 78327 552 6

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

  • Aers, David, Versions of election. From Langland and Aquinas to Calvin and Milton. (Reformations.) Pp. xviii + 310. Dame, Notre, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. £36.99 (paper). 978 0 268 10866

  • Allen, Michael and Swain, Scott R. (eds), The Oxford handbook of Reformed theology. Pp. xii + 663 incl. 1 table. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £110. 978 0 19 872391 2

  • Crankshaw, David J. and Gross, George W. C. (eds), Reformation reputations. The power of the individual in English Reformation history. Pp. xxviii + 474 incl. 18 colour and black-and-white figs. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. £99.99. 978 3 030 55433 0

  • Cumming, Nicholas A., Francis Turretin (1623–87) and the Reformed tradition. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xii + 224 incl. colour frontispiece and 12 colour and black-and-white figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €121. 978 90 04 34791 5; 2468 4317

  • DeSilva, Jennifer Mara and Rihouet, Pascale (eds), Eternal ephemera. The papal Possesso and its legacies in early modern Rome. (Essays and Studies, 45.) Pp. 304 incl. 42 colour and black-and-white ills. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2020. $49.95. 978 0 7727 2520 2

  • Duffy, Eamon, A people's tragedy. Studies in Reformation. Pp. viii + 264 incl. 16 colour ills. New York–London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2020. £20. 978 1 4729 8385 5

  • Jones, Pamela M., Wisch, Barbara and Ditchfield, Simon (eds), A companion to early modern Rome, 1492–1692. (Companions to European History, 17.) Pp. xxiv + 629 incl. 119 colour and black-and-white figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €171. 978 9004 39195 6; 2212 7410

  • Joudrier, Pascal, Un ‘Miroir’ Calviniste. Les emblemes, ou devises Chrestiennes de Georgette de Montenay et Pierre Woeiriot, 1567/1571. (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 169.) Pp. 509 incl. 111 ills and 1 table. Genève: Librairie Droz, 2021. 58.99 CHF (paper). 978 2 600 06067 7

  • Lucci, Diego, John Locke's Christianity. Pp. viii + 244. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £75. 978 1 108 83691 3

  • McGinn, Bernard, The persistence of mysticism in Catholic Europe. France, Italy, and Germany, 1500–1675. Part 3. (The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism, VI, part 3.) Pp. xvi + 591. New York: The Crossroads Publishing Company, 2020. £78.50. 978 0 8245 8900 4

  • Mazzanti, Giuseppe, Matrimoni post-tridentini. Un dibattito dottrinale fra continuità e cambiamento (secc. XVI–XVIII.). (Diritto Cultura Società. Storia e problem della giustizia criminale, 14.) Pp. 237. Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2020. €30 (paper). 978 88 6923 588 7

  • Tibble, Matthew. Nicolaus Mameranus. Poetry and politics at the court of Mary Tudor. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 220.) Pp. xii + 389. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €157. 978 90 04 41173 9; 1573 4188

  • Wainwright, Matthew Coneys and Michelson, Emily (eds), A companion to religious minorities in early modern Rome. (Companions to the Christian Tradition, 95.) Pp. xii + 429 incl. 11 colour and black-and-white figs and 6 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €229. 978 90 04 39378 3; 1871 6377

  • Wood, Andy, Faith, hope and charity. English neighbourhoods, 1500–1640. Pp. xvi + 291. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper). 978 D 108 81445 4

Modern Europe

  • de Lavergnée, Brejon, Matthieu, The streets as a cloister. History of the Daughters of Charity. 17th and 18th centuries. Pp. 665 incl. 13 colour ills, 21 graphs and 14 maps. Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 2020. $79 (paper). 978 1 56548 027 8

  • Bruce, Steve, British gods. Religion in modern Britain. Pp. xvi + 282 incl. 15 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £25. 978 0 19 885411 1

  • Brychuk, Irene, Petro Werhun (1890–1857). Der Seelsorger für die Ukrainer im Deutschen Reich im Spannungsfeld zwischen Weimarer Republik, Nationalsozialismus und sowjetischer Repression. (Das Östliche Christentum, Neue Folge, 64.) Pp. 424 incl. 7 ills. Würzburg: Echter Verlag, 2020. €48 (paper). 978 3 429 04218 9

  • Doe, Norman, A new history of the Church in Wales. Governance and ministry, theology and society. Pp. xxii + 370 incl. 16 colour and black-and-white plates. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £74.99. 978 1 108 49957 6

  • LaPorte, Charles, The Victorian cult of Shakespeare. Bardology in the nineteenth century. (Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture.) Pp. xii + 219 incl. 6 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £75. 978 1 108 49615 5

  • McCall, Thomas H. and Stanglin, Keith D. (eds), After Arminius. A historical introduction to Arminian theology. Pp. x + 281. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £22.99 (paper). 978 0 19 087420 9

  • Messer, Peter C. and Taylor, William Harrison (eds), Revolution as Reformation. Protestant faith in the age of revolutions, 1688–1832. Pp. x + 294 incl. 1 ill. Tuscaloosa, Al: University of Alabama Press, 2021. $54.95. 978 0 8173 2075 1

  • Rossi, Valfredo Maria, Carlo Passaglia on Church and virgin. New perspectives in systematic theology in light of nineteenth century Catholic renewal. (Studies in Catholic Theology, 8.) Pp. viii + 287. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €132. 978 90 04 42684 9; 2352 5746

  • Ryan, Salvador and Sheridan, John-Paul (eds), We remember Maynooth. A college across four centuries. Pp. 512 incl. 81 colour ills. Dublin–Messenger Publications, 2020. £40. 978 1 78812 263 4

  • Spinks, Bryan D., Scottish Presbyterian worship. Proposals for organic change, 1843 to the present day. Pp. xx + 299 incl. frontispiece and 21 ills. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 2020. £25. 978 1 8008 3000 4

  • Usher, John M., Cecil Polhill. Missionary, gentleman and revivalist, I: (1860–1914). (Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, 38.) Pp. xvi + 297 incl. 34 colour and black-and-white figs, 6 colour maps and 5 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €59 (paper). 978 90 04 42681 8; 1876 2247

  • Van Osselaer, Tine (in collaboration with Andrea Graus, Leonardo Rossi and Kristof Smeyers), The devotion and promotion of stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800–1950. Between saints and celebrities. (Numen Book Series, 167.) Pp. xvi + 470 incl. 24 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €199. 978 90 04 43919 1; 0169 8834

Africa, Asia and Australasia

  • Grant, Paul Glen, Healing and power in Ghana. Early indigenous expressions of Christianity. (Studies in World Christianity.) Pp. xiv + 327 incl. 5 ills, 2 tables and 10 maps. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2020. $59.95. 978 1 4813 1267 7

  • Hill, Kimberly D., A higher mission. The careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston in Central Africa. Pp. xii + 225 incl. 10 figs and 1 map. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 2020. $60. 978 0 8131 7891 0

  • Ireland, Daryl R., John Song. Modern Chinese Christianity and the making of a new man. (Studies in World Christianity.) Pp. xx + 248 incl. 2 ills. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2020. $49.95. 978 1 4813 1270 7

  • Meynard, Thierry and Dawei Pan (trans.), A brief introduction to the study of human nature. Giulio Aleni. (Jesuit Studies, 29.) Pp. xxviii + 400 incl. 10 colour and black-and-white ills and 8 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €149. 978 90 04 42625 2; 2214 3289

  • Mugambi, Kyama M., A spirit of revitalization. Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya. (Studies in World Christianity.) Pp. xviii + 330 incl. 2 ills and 2 maps. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2020. $54.95. 978 1 4813 1355 1

  • Rioli, Maria Chiara, A liminal Church. Refugees, conversions and the Latin diocese of Jerusalem, 1946–1956. (Open Jerusalem, 2.) Pp. xiv + 387 incl. 46 figs and 1 map. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €165. 978 90 04 42372 5; 2543 0211

  • Viaene, Vincent, Cleys, Bram and de Maeyer, Jan (eds), Religion, colonization and decolonization in Congo, 1885–1960. Religion, colonisation et décolonisation au Congo, 1885–1960. Pp. 355 incl. 21 ills and 1 table. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020. €49.50 (paper). 978 94 6270 142 7

The Americas

  • Bremer, Francis J., One small candle. The Plymouth Puritans and the beginning of the English new world. Pp. x + 257 incl. 7 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £21.99. 978 0 19 751004 9

  • Crozier, Karen D., Fannie Lou Hamer's revolutionary practical theology. Racial and environmental justice concerns. (Theology in Practice, 9.) Pp. xvi + 261. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €55 (paper). 978 90 04 43145 4; 2352 9288

  • Delahaye, Agnès, Settling the good land. Governance and promotion in John Winthrop's New England (1620–1650). (Early American History Series. The American Colonies, 1500–1830, 11.) Pp. xii + 357 incl. 6 colour and black-and-white figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €124. 978 90 04 43139 3; 1877 0216

  • Duve, Thomas and Danwerth, Otto (eds), Knowledge of the pragmatici. Legal and moral theological literature and the formation of early modern Ibero-America. (Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds, 1.) Pp. xiv + 382 incl. 8 colour ills and 8 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €94. 978 90 04 42162 2; 2590 3292

  • Freeman, Tyrone McKinley (foreword A'lella Bundles), Madam C. J. Walker's gospel of giving. Black women's philanthropy during Jim Crow. (New Black Studies Series.) Pp. xviii + 282 incl. 24 ills. Urbana–Springfield, Il: University of Illinois Press, 2020. £88. 978 0 252 04345 1

  • Jemison, Elizabeth L., Christian citizens. Reading the Bible in black and white in the postemancipation South. Pp. xvi + 225 incl. 1 map. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. $29.95 (paper). 978 1 4696 5969 5

  • Locke, Joseph L., Making the Bible belt. Texas prohibitionists and the politicization of Southern religion. Pp. xii + 283 incl. 13 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020 (first publ. 2017). £17.99 (paper). 978 0 19 753291 1

  • Pagán, Jonathan Warren, Giles Firman and the transatlantic Puritan tradition. Polity, piety, and polemic. (Studies in the History of Christian Tradition.) Pp. viii + 318. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €119. 978 90 04 41291 0; 1573 5664

  • Vaudry, Richard W., Andrew Fernando Holmes. Protestantism, medicine, and science in nineteenth-century Montreal. Pp. viii + 390 incl. frontispiece and 12 ills. Toronto–London: University of Toronto Press, 2020. $80. 978 1 4875 0219 5

General : Modern world

  • Chow, Alexander and Wild-Wood, Emma (eds), Ecumenism and independency in world Christianity. Historical studies in honour of Brian Stanley. (Theology and Mission in World Christianity, 15.) Pp. xvi + 370 incl. colour frontispiece. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €59 (paper). 978 90 04 43753 1; 2452 2953

  • Fesko, J. V., The need for creeds today. Confessional faith in a faithless age. Pp. xx + 131. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2020. $21.99 (paper). 978 1 5409 6259 1

  • Shortall, Sarah and Steinmetz-Jenkins, Daniel (eds), Christianity and human rights reconsidered. (Human Rights in History.) Pp. xiv + 281 incl. 1 fig. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75. 978 1 108 42470 7

  • Weir, Todd H. and McLeod, Hugh (eds), Defending the faith. Global histories of apologetics and politics in the twentieth century. (Proceedings of the British Academy, 232.) Pp. x + 308. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press (for The British Academy), 2020. £85. 978 0 19 726691 5; 0068 1202