I Judge No One: A political life of Jesus by David Lloyd Dusenbury (Hurst, £25 (£22.50); 978-1-78738-805-5).

“I Judge No One is a philosophical reading of the four memoirs, or ‘gospels’, that were fashioned by early Christ-believers and collected in the New Testament. It offers original ways of seeing a deeply enigmatic figure who calls himself the Son of Man. David Lloyd Dusenbury suggests that Jesus offered his contemporaries a scandalous double claim. First, that human judgements are pervasive and deceptive; and second, that even divine laws can only be fulfilled in the human experience of love. Though his life led inexorably to a grim political death, what Jesus’s sayings revealed-and still reveal-is that our highest desires lie beyond the political.”

The Home of God: A brief story of everything by Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz (Brazos Press, £18.99 (£17.09); 978-1-58743-479-2).

“This book tells the ‘story of everything’ in which God creates the world as the home for humans and for God in communion with God’s creatures. The authors render the story of creation, redemption, and consummation through the lens of God’s homemaking work, and show the theological fruit of telling the story this way. The result is a vision that can inspire creative Christian living in our various homes today in faithfulness to God’s ongoing work.”

Building Durham Cathedral by Brian K. Roberts (The History Press, £17.99 (£16.19); 978-1-8039-9118-4).

“Building Durham Cathedral explores this magnificent structure by questioning its architectural plans and stonework. As there have been minimal additions, we catch sight of it as the Norman builders intended. Remarkably, a few early documents and the stonework itself allow us to glimpse its beginnings and some of the personalities involved. Questions remain, but there may even be a clue to the identity of its original master mason.”

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