Neoliberal Religion: Faith and power in the twenty-first century by Mathew Guest (Bloomsbury, £21.99 (£19.79); 978-1-350-11638-2).

“This book explores neoliberalism as an account of contemporary society and considers what this means for our understanding of religion. It provides an accessible discussion about religion in the 21st century. Mathew Guest asks what distinguishes neoliberal religion and explores the sociological and ethical questions that arise from considering its wider significance.”

Living Culture, Living Christ: On becoming fully human by Alan M. Suggate (Sacristy Press, £14.99 (£13.49); 978-1-78959-243-6).

“This book addresses the widespread dismay and perplexity over our divided culture and searches for firmer foundations. Alan M. Suggate offers a radically different basis for culture. . . He searches for forms of Christianity which best ground this culture and proposes an integralist understanding of the Christian faith, which is modern, but rooted in the undivided Church of the first five centuries: the world is always held within God's grace and centred on Christ, which gives it cultural dynamism. Christianity is a practice which embraces worship, reflection and action in the world.”

Paul, Then and Now by Matthew V. Novenson (Eerdmans, £35 (£32.39); 978-0-8028-8171-7).

“Novenson puts contextual understandings of Paul’s letters into conversation with their Christian reception history. After a new, programmatic introductory essay that frames the other eleven essays, Novenson explores topics including the relation between theology and historical criticism; the place of Jews and gentiles in Paul’s gospel; Paul’s relation to Judaism; anti-Judaism in modern New Testament scholarship; disputes over Romans and Galatians; and the meta-question of what it would mean to get Paul right or wrong.” 

Selected by Frank Nugent, of the Church House Bookshop, which operates the Church Times Bookshop.