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Academic Theology

New Academic Theology to Watch

by The Picky Reader

The heavier end of the shelf — monographs, commentaries and collected essays coming this autumn. Not everything here is for everyone, and that is rather the point.

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Classical Theology for the Modern Mind
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Classical Theology for the Modern Mind

Carl R. Trueman · Crossway · Sept 2026

Trueman on why remembering history, reciting creeds and studying the classical tradition is not antiquarianism but survival. See the book →

God’s Presence with Us and in Us
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God’s Presence with Us and in Us

Miguel Echevarría · IVP Academic · Sept 2026

The Spirit across the whole canon rather than the usual few chapters on gifts. A volume in IVP’s Essential Studies in Biblical Theology. See the book →

Justification and the Churches
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Justification and the Churches

Gerald Hiestand · Baker Academic · Oct 2026

A careful, pastorally framed account of how Protestant, Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions actually differ on justification. See the book →

Joshua
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Joshua

John D. Currid · Eerdmans · Oct 2026

A full commentary from a veteran Reformed Old Testament scholar and archaeologist, opening Eerdmans’ new Pillar Old Testament series. See the book →

The Gospels Are Reliable History
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The Gospels Are Reliable History

Craig S. Keener · Eerdmans · Oct 2026

Keener brings genre and memory studies to bear, arguing the Synoptics function as ancient biographies and behave like it. See the book →

The Order of the Old Testament
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The Order of the Old Testament

Mario Melendez · Baker Academic · Oct 2026

Six approaches to how the Hebrew Bible is arranged, and a case that the shape of a canon is a theological question, not only a historical one. See the book →

The Biblical Canon
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The Biblical Canon

Matthew Y. Emerson · Baker Academic · Oct 2026

The canon as a theological reality God gave rather than a historical artifact the church stumbled into. See the book →

The Westminster Confession of Faith
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The Westminster Confession of Faith

J. V. Fesko · Crossway · Oct 2026

Essays from Reformed Theological Seminary faculty, assembled as a single-volume guide to the Confession. See the book →