Lynneth Miller Renberg and Adam R. Renberg, Candles in the Darkness: Experiencing Advent with the Early and Medieval Church

Renberg, Lynneth Miller, and Adam R. Renberg. Candles in the Darkness: Experiencing Advent with the Early and Medieval Church. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2026. 182 pp., Hb. $29.99 Link to IVP Academic Lynneth Miller Renberg (PhD, Baylor University) is associate professor of history and associate director of the Honors College at Anderson University. She is the author of several publications, including Women, Dance, and Parish Religion in England, 1300–1600: Negotiating the Steps of Faith (Boyd and Brewer, 2022). She co-edited The Cursed Carolers in Context (Routledge, 2021). Her husband, Adam R. Renberg (PhD, University of St Andrews), is an assistant professor of theology at Anderson University and a theologian-in-residence and teaching pastor at Capstone Church. His publications include The Son Is Truly Son: The Trinitarian and Christological Theology of Eusebius of Caesarea (Brepols, 2021). Both contribute to The Anxious Bench.Candles in the Darkness is not simply a Christmas devotional book. The book combines the insights of a historian (Lynneth) and a theologian (Adam). In their introduction, the Renbergs introduce the reader to Egeria, a woman who made a pilgrimage from Spa...