General

Bale, Kevin and Michael Rota (eds), Friends of God and slaves of men. Religion and slavery, past and present. (Slaveries since Emancipation.) Pp. xii + 251 incl. 9 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2026. £30. 978 1 009 63112 9

Ancient world

Bingham, D. Jeffrey, The tyranny of time? Time, world, and knowledge in second-century Christian and Christian-Gnostic texts. (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 162.) Pp. xii + 262. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2025. £117.60. 978 3 11 162031 2; 1861 5996

Canévet, Mariette, Françoise Vinel and Grec de H. Langerbeck, Grégoire de Nysse. Homélies sur le Cantique des cantiques , III: Homélies XI–XV. (Sources Chrétiennes, 659.) Pp. 367. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2025. €49 (paper). 978 2 204 17428 2; 0750 1978

Courtray, Régis, Jérôme. Contre Helvidius. Sur la virginité perpétuelle de la bienheureuse Marie. (Sources Chrétiennes, 653.) Pp. 576. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2025. €59 (paper). 978 2 204 16798 7; 0750 1978

Fairbairn, Donald, Christology and the logic of grace in fifth-century Gaul. (Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xiv + 224. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. £84. 978 0 19 893619 0

Fernández, Samuel (foreword David G. Hunter), Nicaea 325. Reassessing the contemporary sources. (Contexts of Ancient and Medieval Anthropology, 14.) Pp. xx + 329. Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2025. €92. 978 3 506 79796 5

Georges, Tobias (ed.), Justin, Dialog mit Tryphon. Christen und Juden im Gespräch. (SAPERE, xlvii.) Pp. xiv + 625. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025. €99. 978 3 16 200074 3

Jürgens, Johanna A., Christlich Lehren, Lehren und Leben nach Clemens von Alexandria. (Education and Religion in Ancient and Pre-Modern History in the Mediterranean and its Environs, 27.) Pp. xii + 436. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025. €130. 978 3 16 164639 3

Kruger, Michael J., Miniature codices in early Christianity. (Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xii + 218 incl. 9 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. £84. 978 0 19 894039 5

Magree, Michael C., The interpretation of Kenosis from Origen to Cyril of Alexandria. Dimensions of self-emptying in the reception of Philippians 2:7. (Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xii + 315. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. £90. 978 0 19 889666 1

Petruccione, John F. and István Pásztori-Kupán (trans. John F. Petruccione; intro. István Pásztori-Kupán), Theodoret of Cyrus. The correspondence of Theodoret of Cyrus. The Collectio Sirmondiana. (Library of Early Christianity, 4, 5.) Pp. cccvi + 261 incl. frontispiece; pp. lxxxiv + 460 incl. frontispiece and 1 map. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2025. $45 (paper). 978 0 8132 3884 5; 978 0 8132 3886 9

Pietri, Luce and B. Krusch, Grégoire de Tours. Les miracles de saint Julien de Brioude. (Sources Chrétiennes, 656.) Pp. 200. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2025. €34 (paper). 978 2 204 16898 4; 0750 1978

Ramelli, Ilaria L. E., Origen, the philosophical theologian. Trinity, Christology, and philosophy-theology relation. Selected studies/Kleine Schriften. (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 160.) Pp. xvi + 723 incl. 1 colour ill. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2025. £127. 978 3 11 136863; 1861 5996

Vopřada, David, Markéta Dudzikovà and Viacheslav V. Lytvynenko (eds), The pattern and the image. Insights from the Alexandrian exegetical tradition. (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 164.) Pp. x + 289. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2025. £97.50. 978 3 11 156212 4; 1861 5996

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Balmont, Alexis, Textes chrétiens chinois du haut moyen âge. (Sources Chrétiennes, 658.) Pp. 480. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2025. €55 (paper). 978 2 204 17282 0; 0750 1978

Bäumer, Friederike, Das Papsttum im siebten Jahrhundert. Eine Untersuchung päpstlicher Repräsentationsprozesse anhand schriftlicher und bildlicher Quellen. (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 162.) Pp. viii + 424 incl. 23 colour ills. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2024. £95. 978 3 11 138896 0; 1861 5996

Bowden, Sarah, Writing sin in the German lands, 1050–1215. Confession, penance, and textuality. (Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture.) Pp. xii + 253 incl. 12 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. £83. 978 0 19 894830 8

Räsänen, Marika and Kirsi Salonen (eds), Religious communities in Rome during the Great Western Schism. (Collection de l’École française de Rome, 626.) Pp. 340. Rome: École française de Rome, 2025. €32 (paper). 978 2 7283 1852 0; 0223 5099

Wöller, Florian and Ueli Zahnd (eds), Dominican culture, Dominican theology. The Order of Preachers and its spheres of action (1215–ca. 1600). (Archa Verbi, 24.) Pp. 437. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2025. €81. 978 3 402 10333 3

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Annese, Andrea, Ludovico Battista and Antonio Gerace (eds), The renaissance papacy’s projects of religious reform between ancient Christianity and ‘Catholic Orientalism’. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 110.) Pp. 270 incl. 4 ills and 1 table. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2025. €140. 978 3 525 57365 5

Griesel, Jake and Esther Counsell (eds), Reformed identity and conformity in England, 1559–1714. (Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain.) Pp. xii + 280. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. £95. 978 1 5261 6797 2

Hammond, Wilfred, Catholic nobles and the Elizabethan state, 1558–1588. Northern affinities and the politics of religion. (Catholicisms, c. 1450–c. 1800, 3.) Pp. xvi + 450 incl. 7 ills and 4 maps. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Durham University IMEMS Press in association with The Boydell Press, 2025. £130. 978 1 914967 03 0

Martínez-Ortega, Manuel, Juan de Valdés (c. 1490–1541) in light of his religious background. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 107.) Pp. 559. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2025. £160. 978 3 525 50233 4; 2198 3089

Pattenden, Miles, Electing the pope in early modern Italy, 1450–1700. Pp. xvi + 309 incl. 5 figs and 12 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2025 (first publ. 2017). £30 (paper). 978 0 19 896195 6

Reutcke, Chelsea, Catholic print networks in restoration London, 1660–1688. The cross–confessional world of later Stuart print culture. (Catholicisms, c. 1450–c. 1800, 5.) Pp. xii + 323 incl. 10 ills, 4 diagrams and 2 maps. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Durham University IMEMS Press in association with The Boydell Press, 2026. £95. 978 1 914967 10 8

Modern Europe

Leroy-Beaulieu, Anatole (trans. Richard Robinson), Anti-protestantism. Doctrines of hatred, part II. Pp. 124. Portland, Or: Sunny Lou Publishing, 2025. £12 (paper). 978 1 955392 84 6

Mesa, Ivan E., The Jews in English Baptist eschatology. Conversion, restoration, and national identity, 1649–1815. (Reformed Historical Theology, 84.) Pp. 266. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. €140. 978 3 525 50230 3

Ringshausen, Gerhard and Andrew Chandler (eds), The George Bell–Alphons Koechlin correspondence. The German Church struggle in an international perspective, 1933–54. (Selected Letter and Papers of George Bell, Bishop of Chichester.) Pp. viii + 341. New York–London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. £28.99 (paper). 978 1 350 45516 0

Stobart, Jon, Life in the Georgian parsonage. Morals, material goods and the English clergy. Pp. xiv + 377 incl. 102 colour and black-and-white ills and 15 tables. London–New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025. £27.99 (paper). 978 1 350 38207 7

The Americas

Fallon, Richard, Contesting earth’s history in transatlantic literary culture, 1860–1935. Believers and visionaries on the borderlines of geology and palaeontology. Pp. x + 264 incl. 28 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. £88. 978 0 19 892616 0

Hampton, Hunter M., The gridiron gospel. Faith and college football in twentieth-century America. (Sport and Society.) Pp. xii + 205 incl. 5 ills. Urbana–Chicago, Il: University of Illinois Press, 2025. $27.95 (paper). 978 0 252 088995

Hazard, Sonia, Empire of print. Evangelical power in an age of mass media. Pp. xxii + 311 incl. 31 colour ills and 4 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. £97. 978 0 19 760809 8

Hummel, Daniel G. (foreword Mark A. Noll), The rise and fall of dispensationalism. How the Evangelical battle over the end times shaped a nation. Pp. xxvi + 382 incl. 25 figs. Grand Rapids, Mi: Wm B. Eerdmans, 2023. £15.99 (paper). 978 0 8028 8486 2

Krivulskaya, Suzanna, Disgraced. How sex scandals transformed American Protestantism. Pp. xiv + 231 incl. 12 ills and 2 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. £22.99. 978 0 19 759968 6

Massa, Mark S., Catholic fundamentalism in America. Pp. viii + 226. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. £19.99. 978 0 19 775999 8

Nachaj, Alexander, Prime-time bishop. Fulton J. Sheen and religious celebrity in America. Pp. viii + 265 incl. 2 ills. London–Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025. £26.99 (paper). 978 0 2280 2644 0

Tuininga, Matthew J., The wars of the Lord. The Puritan conquest of America’s first people. Pp. xxxiv + 429 incl. 15 ills, 2 tables and 9 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. £26.99. 978 0 19 767176 4