New Titles in Theology, May to June 2024

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Bracketed explanatory comments are written by Noel S. McFerran, Theology Librarian.

To suggest a title not already owned by any of the libraries at the University of Toronto, email Noel S. McFerran (noel.mcferran@utoronto.ca).

PHILOSOPHY 

[ebook] The Philosophy of John Henry Newman and Pragmatism: A Comparison / Marial Corona 

[ebook] Questioning God / edited by John D. Caputo, Mark Dooley, and Michael J. Scanlon [essays by Jacques Derrida and others] 

[ebook] Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World / Tyson Yunkaporta [author is Australian] 

JUDAISM 

[ebook] Open Judaism: A Guide for Believers, Atheists, and Agnostics / Barry L. Schwartz [pluralistic and inclusive Judaism] 

[ebook] For Times Such as These: A Radical’s Guide to the Jewish Year / Ariana Katz and Jessica Rosenberg [includes anti-Zionist, decolonial, anti-racist, queer, and feminist Jewish perspectives] 

[ebook] Catholic-Jewish Relations: Twelve Key Themes for Teaching & Preaching / Teresa Pirola 

[ebook] Intimate Strangers: A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome / Frederic R. Brandfon 

[ebook] Ethics at the Center: Jewish Theory and Practice for Living a Moral Life / Elliot N. Dorff 

[ebook] What Were the Early Rabbis?: An Introduction from a Sociocultural Perspective / Jack N. Lightstone 

[ebook] Covenant and the People of God: Essays in Honor of Mark S. Kinzer / edited by Jonathan Kaplan [Messianic]

INTERFAITH RELATIONS 

[ebook] In Love with Islam, Believing in Jesus / Paolo dall’Oglio [Jesuit author] 

[ebook] Christian-Muslim Relations During the Crusades / Alexander Mallett  

[ebook] Jesus in the Hands of the Buddha: The Life and Legacy of Shigeto Vincent Oshida, OP / Lucien Miller 

[ebook] Following Christ and Confucius: Wang Mingdao and Chinese Christianity / Christopher Payk [spiritual father of China’s house church movement] 

CHURCH HISTORY 

[ebook] Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church – A 2,000 Year History / H. W. Crocker  

[ebook] How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization / Thomas E. Woods 

[ebook] A Storm of Images: Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World / Philip Jenkins 

[ebook] The Jesuit Ethos: A Social and Spiritual History / Jean-Luc Enyegue 

[ebook] The Jesuits in the United States: A Concise History / David J. Collins 

[ebook] Jesuit Father Francois Annat and His Role as Minister for Religious Affairs in 17th Century France / Brain van Hove 

[ebook] Losing a Kingdom, Gaining a World: The Catholic Church in the Age of Revolution and Democracy / Ambrogio A. Caiani [18th and 19th centuries] 

[ebook] Veiled Leadership: Katharine Drexel, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, and Catholic Race Relations / Amanda Bresie [Philadelphia religious congregation founded in 1891] 

[ebook] Katharine Drexel and the Sisters Who Shared Her Vision / Margaret M. McGuinness [Philadelphia religious congregation founded in 1891] 

[ebook] Le Saulchoir on Trial (1932-1943) / Etienne Fouilloux [French Dominican theological school] 

[ebook] Mysticism and Witness in Koinonia: Inspiration from the Martydom of Two Twentieth-Century Communities / Maria Clara Bingemer [Jesuits of Central American University and Trappists of Tibhirine] 

[ebook] Asian Pacific Catholicism and Globalization: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges / edited by José Casanova and Peter C. Phan [chapters on individual countries] 

[ebook] Restoring Identities: The Contextualizing Story of Christianity in Oceania / edited by Upolu Luma Vaai and Mark A. Lamport 

[ebook] True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church / Francis X. Maier [based on interviews with over one hundred United States bishops, priests, deacons, religious, and laity] 

[print] God Is Alive in Holland / Andrea Galli [interview with Cardinal Willem Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht] 

BIOGRAPHIES 

[ebook] John Tracey Ellis: An American Catholic Reformer / Thomas J. Shelley [church historian] 

[ebook] Le Père Roland de Vaux, O.P.: Une biographie / Jean Jacques Pérennès [French Dominican priest and archaeologist] 

[ebook] Yves Congar: A Life, 1904-1995 / Etienne Fouilloux [biography of French Dominican theologian] 

[print] A Prophet for the Priesthood / John A. Hardon [life of Gerald Fitzgerald, founder of the Congregation of the Servants of the Paraclete] 

[ebook] The Betrayal of Witness: Reflections on the Downfall of Jean Vanier / edited by Stanley Hauerwas and Hans S. Reinders 

[ebook] All the Way In: A Story of Activism, Incarceration, and Organic Farming / Jeanne Clark [autobiography of American Dominican nun] 

[print] Life: My Story through History / Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona 

PAPACY 

[ebook] Infallibility, Integrity and Obedience: The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church, 1848-2023 / John M. Rist 

[ebook] In the Courts of Three Popes: An American Lawyer and Diplomat in the Last Absolute Monarchy of the West / Mary Ann Glendon 

[ebook] Who Believes Is Not Alone: My Life Beside Benedict XVI / Georg Ganswein 

[ebook] With God You Are Never Alone: The Great Papal Addresses / Benedict XVI 

PATRISTICS 

[ebook] Studies on First Clement / William Wrede; edited by Jacob N. Gerone (Classic Studies on the Apostolic Fathers) 

[ebook] Leisure Resurrected: Rekindling the Fire of Early Christian Communities / Jeffrey Paul Crittenden 

[ebook] Rabbles, Riots, and Ruins: Twelve Ancient Cities and How They Were Evangelized / Mike Aquilina 

[ebook] Patience and Salvation in Third Century North Africa: A Christian Latin Reader / Sarah Klitenic Wear [Latin text with vocabulary and grammatical notes] 

[ebook] Defining God: Athanasius, Nicaea and the Trinitarian Controversy of the Fourth Century / Patrick Whitworth 

[ebook] The Spirit of Truth: Johannine Pneumatology in the Letters of Athansius to Serapion / Haitham A. Isaak 

[ebook] Homilies on Psalms 36-38 / Origen; edited by Michael Heintz (Fathers of the Church, 146) 

[ebook] Exegetical Epistles, volume 1 / Jerome (Fathers of the Church, 147) 

[ebook] Obstacles to Stillness: Thoughts, Hindrances, and Self-Surrender in Evagrius and the Buddha / Shodhin K. Geiman 

[ebook] The Doctrine of Addai and the Letters of Jesus and Abgar / Jacob A. Lollar [4th/5th century Syriac texts] 

[ebook] The Apocryphal Sunday: History and Texts from Late Antiquity / Uta Heil 

[ebook] The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers. 2: TH-O (Theta-Omega) / edited by Tim Vivian 

[ebook] Exploring the Literary Contexts of Patristic Biblical Exegesis / edited by Miram Cook and 

SACRED SCRIPTURE 

[ebook] Hermeneutics: Principles and Processes of Biblical Interpretation / Henry A. Virkler and Karelynne Gerber Ayayo, 3rd edition 

[ebook] Listening to Scripture: An Introduction to Interpreting the Bible / Craig G. Bartholomew 

[ebook] The Inspiration and Truth of Scripture: Testing the Ratzinger Paradigm / Aaron Pidel [Jesuit author] 

[ebook] Opening the Treasure of the Scriptures: Some Biblical Crumbs / Brother Richard of Taize 

[ebook] Mercy and the Bible: Why It Matters / Ronald D. Witherup 

[ebook] Economics and Empire in the Ancient Near East: Guide to the Bible and Economics, volume 1 / Matthew J. M. Coomber 

[ebook] Plant Metaphors in Prophetic Condemnations of Israel and Judah / Tina M. Sherman (Ancient Israel and Its Literature, 49) 

[ebook] The Psalter: The Whole of the Book of Praises / Roland Meynet 

[ebook] The Suffering Servant: Isaiah 53 for the Life of the Church / J. G. McConville 

[ebook] Son of Man, volume 1: Early Jewish Literature / Richard Bauckham 

[ebook] Living Christ: A Spiritual Reading of the Gospels / Peter Feldmeier 

[ebook] The Most Important Words of Jesus / Gerhard Lohfink 

[ebook] Pauline Theology as a Way of Life: A Vision of Human Flourishing in Christ / Joshua W. Jipp 

THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Principles of Catholic Theology, Book 1: On the Nature of Theology / Thomas Joseph White 

[ebook] Re-Introducing Christianity: An Eastern Apologia for a Western Audience / edited by Amire Azavan 

[ebook] The Thomistic Response to the Nouvelle theologie: Concerning the Truth of Dogma and the Nature of Theology / edited by Jon Kirwan [translations of 1946-1949 journal articles written by four Dominicans] 

[ebook] God without the Idea of Evil / Jean-Miguel Garrigues [Dominican author] 

[ebook] Catholic Dogmatic Theology: A Synthesis, Book 2: On the Incarnation and Redemption / Jean Herve Nicolas [Dominican author] 

[ebook] Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics / John R. Betz 

[ebook] Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics, Book Four: Sin and the Kingdom of Sin as a Contradiction and a Combat against the Supernatural Order of the World / Matthias Joseph Scheeben 

[ebook] The Difference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, Contemplation / Brian D. Robinette [creation from nothing] 

[ebook] Animal Afterlife?: A History of Hope / Betsy Clark George 

[ebook] Kneeling Theology / Anton Strukelj [Hans Urs von Balthasar, Adrienne von Speyr, Benedict XVI, Anton Strle, Anton Vovk] 

[ebook] Questioning God / Timothy Radcliffe and Lukasz Popko [Dominican authors] 

[ebook] A Defense of the Catholic Religion: The Necessity, Existence, and Limits of Infallible Church / Beda Mayr [18th century work by a Benedictine placed on the Index of Forbidden Books] 

[ebook] Icon of the Kingdom of God: An Orthodox Ecclesiology / Radu Bordeianu 

[ebook] Under the Palaver Tree: Doing African Ecclesiology in the Spirit of Vatican II: The Contributions of Elochuwu E. Uzukwu / edited by Stan Chu Ilo and Caroline N. Mbonu 

[ebook] Contemplating Country: More Gondwana Theology / Garry Worete Deverell [Australian indigenous] 

[ebook] Holy Blasphemies: God, Mystery, and the Spiritual / Thomas P. Rausch [Jesuit author] 

[ebook] Toward a Public Theology in Myanmar / edited by Lal Trin Hre and David Selvaraj 

[ebook] I Am Asking in the Name of God: Ten Prayers for a Future of Hope / Pope Francis 

[ebook] Angels: In Scripture and Tradition / Owen F. Cummings 

THEOLOGIANS 

[ebook] Julian of Norwich and the Problem of Evil / Richard Norton 

[ebook] Exploring Thomas Aquinas: Essays and Sermons (Dominican Series, 18) [contributions by seven theologians including St. Mike’s Basilian Walter Principe] 

[ebook] The Passion of Love in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas / Daniel Joseph Gordon 

[ebook] Saved as Through Fire: A Thomistic Account of Purgatory, Temporal Punishment, and Satisfaction / Luke Wilgenbusch [print

[ebook] The World and the Person: And Other Writings / Romano Guardini 

[ebook] Salvation in Henri de Lubac: Divine Grace, Human Nature, and the Mystery of the Cross / Eugene R. Schlesinger 

[ebook] The Death and Life of Speculative Theology: A Lonergan Idea / Ryan Hemmer 

[ebook] Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theology of Representation: God, Drama, and Salvation / Jacob Lett 

[ebook] The Meaning of the World in Love: Selected Texts from Hans Urs von Balthasar / with commentary by Richard Clements [sentence and paragraph-length excerpts] 

[ebook] Studies Systematic and Critical / Peter Damian Fehlner 

[ebook] Ecclesiology and the Franciscan Charism / Peter Damian Fehlner  

[ebook] Viri dignitatem: Personhood, Masculinity, and Fatherhood in the Thought of John Paul II / David H. Delaney 

[ebook] Pope Francis as Moral Leader: Ethicist, Discerner, Communicator, and Advocate for Social Justice / Thomas Massaro 

MARIAN THEOLOGY 

[ebook] The World’s First Love / Fulton J. Sheen 

[ebook] Mary for Today / Hans Urs von Balthasar, revised edition 

[ebook] Franciscan Mariology: Francis, Clare, and Bonaventure / Peter Damian Fehlner  

[ebook] Holy Presence, Holy Preaching: Santa Maria Tonantzin Guadalupe as Preacher and Community / Maria Teresa Montes Lara and Vincent J. Pastro [Our Lady of Guadalupe] 

[ebook] The Splendor of the Church in Mary: Henri de Lubac, Vatican II, and Marian Ressourcement / Therese Marie Chau Nguyen 

[ebook] A Bride Adorned: Mary-Church Perichoresis in Modern Catholic Theology / John L. Nepil 

ECOTHEOLOGY-RELATED 

[print] Religion and Nature in North America: An Introduction / edited by Laurel D. Kearns and Whitney A. Bauman 

[ebook] A Theology of Creation: Ecology, Art, and Laudato si’ / Thomas S. Hibbs 

[ebook] Good Food: Grounded Practical Theology / Jennifer R. Ayres 

[ebook] Everyone Must Eat: Food, Sustainability, and Ministry / Mark L. Yackel-Juleen 

[ebook] Harvesting Abundance: Local Initiatives of Food and Faith / Brain Sellers-Petersen 

[ebook] The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice / Christopher Carter 

[ebook] Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer 

[ebook] The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry / edited by Paul Kingsnorth 

[ebook] The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions / Greta Thunberg 

LITURGY and SACRAMENTS 

[ebook] Reconciliation in Remembrance of Jesus Christ: Treating Holy Communion, Eucharist and Holy Sacrifice with Ecumenical Sensitivity: A Contribution to the 11th Assembly of the WCC (Karlsruhe, August 2022) / edited by Hacik Gazer 

[ebook] Pastoral Guide to Pope Francis’s Desiderio desideravi / Rita Ferrone [Apostolic letter on the liturgical formation of the people of God] 

[ebook] Further Issues in Eucharistic Praying in East and West: Essays in Liturgical and Theological Analysis / edited by Maxwell E. Johnson 

[ebook] Sent out into the World: A Liturgical Theology for a Parish Community and the New Evangelization–A Reading of the New Order of The Order of a Dedication of a Church / Michael McGourty [author teaches at St. Augustine’s Seminary] 

[ebook] The Bible in the Liturgy: Studies on the Lectionary / N. Bonneau [post-Vatican II revision of the Lectionary] 

[ebook] A Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood, volume 1: Proceedings of the Symposium Sponsored by the Center for Research and Anthropology of Vocations / edited by Marc Ouellet [edited by Canadian cardinal] 

[ebook] Women Called to Catholic Priesthood: From Ecclesial Challenge to Spiritual Renewal / Sharon Henderson Callahan and Jeanette Rodriguez 

[ebook] The Bible and Reconciliation: Confession, Repentance, and Restoration / James B. Prothro (Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments) 

[ebook] Ministry to the Sick and Dying in the Late Medieval Church / Thomas M. Izbicki 

[ebook] Praying in Time: The Hours & Days in Step with Orthodox Christian Tradition / Vassa Larin 

PASTORAL THEOLOGY 

[print] Made for Mission: Renewing your Parish Culture / Tim Glemkowski 

[ebook] On the Formation of Clergy / Rabanus Maurus (Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation 21)  

[ebook] Down Deep in My Soul: An African American Catholic Theology of Preaching / Maurice J. Nutt [Redemptorist author] 

[ebook] Holy Ghost in the Catholic Machine: Spirit-Structure Tensions in Parish Preaching Work / J. E. Sigler 

[ebook] Salaam: Development as Mission / Christian Giordano and Charo Pérez [South American missions in Muslim countries comparing Catholic and Protestant theories of development] 

[ebook] Mission Bound: Short-Term Mission as Pilgrimage / Rodney Aist 

[print] Accompanying Those with Same-Sex Attractions: A Guide for Catholics / David Prosen 

CANON LAW 

[ebook] Canon Law in the Age of Reforms (ca. 1000 to ca. 1150) / Christof Rolker (History of Medieval Canon Law) 

[ebook] Penal Law in Action / Brendan Daly 

SPIRITUALITY 

[ebook] The Practice of Spiritual Direction / William A. Barry and William J. Connolly 

[ebook] Dialogue on Miracles, volume 1 / Caesarius of Heisterbach [13th century Cistercian] 

[ebook] Dialogue on Miracles, volume 2 / Caesarius of Heisterbach [13th century Cistercian] 

[ebook] Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola: A Lived Experience / Gerald O’Collins [Jesuit author] 

[ebook] How Then Shall We Guide?: A Comparative Study of Ignatius of Loyola and John Calvin as Spiritual Guides / Jimmy Boon-Chai Tan 

[ebook] Thérèse and Martin: Carmel and the Reformation in a New Light / Karin Johannesson [Martin Luther, Thérèse de Lisieux, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross; written by a Swedish Lutheran bishop] 

[ebook] A Treatise on Perfection: Saintly Counsel on Obtaining Salvation / Armand Jean du Plessis [Cardinal Richelieu] 

[ebook] The Nineteenth-Century Salesian Pentecost: The Salesian Family of Don Bosco, the Oblates and Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales, the Daughters of St. Francis de Sales, and the Fransalians / edited by Joseph Boenzi, Joseph F. Chorpenning, Suzanne Toczyski, and Wendy M. Wright (The Classics of Western Spirituality)  

[ebook] Chastity: Reconciliation of the Senses / Erik Varden [author is bishop of Trondheim, Norway] 

[ebook] Trust Your Feelings: Learning How to Make Wise Choices / Nikolass Sintobin [Jesuit author] 

[ebook] Seeing with the Heart: A Guide to Navigating Life’s Adventures / Kevin O’Brien [Jesuit author] 

[ebook] Rediscovering the Divine: New Ways to Understand, Experience, and Express God / Cyprian Consiglio 

[ebook] Catholics in Exile: Biblical Wisdom for the Journey Home / Scott Hahn and Brandon McGinley 

[ebook] Faithful Work: In the Daily Grind with God and for Others / Ross Chapman and Ryan Tafilowski 

[ebook] Dwelling in the Wilderness: Modern Monks in the American West / Jason M. Brown [four American monasteries] 

[ebook] Thomas Merton in California: The Redwoods Conferences and Letters / edited by David M. Odorisio 

[ebook] The Formation of Affectivity: A Christian Approach / Francisco Insa 

[ebook] Gratitude: Why Giving Thanks Is the Key to Our Well-Being / Cornelius Plantinga 

[ebook] Humility Illuminated: The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character / Dennis R. Edwards 

[ebook] On Obedience / Adrienne von Speyr 

[print] Counterfeit Spirituality: Exposing the False Gods / Bryan Mercier [Reiki, Enneagram, New Age, etc.] 

MEN’S SPIRITUALITY 

[print] To the Ends of the Earth: Action / Mark C. McCann 

[print] To the Ends of the Earth: Character / Mark C. McCann  

[print] To the Ends of the Earth: Legacy / Mark C. McCann 

[print] To the Ends of the Earth: Witness / Mark C. McCann 

[print] Leaving Boyhood Behind: Reclaiming Catholic Brotherhood / Jason M. Craig 

SOCIAL ISSUES 

[ebook] Faith & Religion in a Secular Society / Jozef de Kesel [Cardinal Archbishop of Mechlen-Brussels] 

[ebook] Human Dignity and Liberal Politics: Catholic Possibilities for the Common Good / Patrick Riordan 

[ebook] “All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 

[print] Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (and the Truth about Residential Schools) / edited by C. P. Champion and Tom Flanagan 

[ebook] Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult / Mary Margaret Olohan 

[ebook] C’est maintenant le temps favorable: Cinq regards de femmes sur la crise / Noëlie Djimadoumbaye, Nathalie Becquart, Geneviève Comeau, Agata Zielinski, and Odile Hardy [five Xaverian nuns respond to COVID] 

[ebook] An Indigenous People’s History of the United States / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz  

ART 

[ebook] The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo’s Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican / Benjamin Blech and Roy Doliner 

TRANSLATION STUDIES 

[ebook] Translation and Affect: Essays on Sticky Affects and Translational Affective Labour / Kaisa Koskinen