New Titles in Theology, September 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).

 ETHICS

[ebook] Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion / Peter Kreeft

[ebook] The Moral Life: Eight Lectures / James F. Keenan

PSYCHOLOGY

[ebook] We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love / Robert A. Johnson

[ebook] The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth / M. Scott Peck

[print] The Spiritual Unconscious / Jean-Claude Larchet [Eastern Orthodox author]

RELIGION

[ebook] Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age / Antonia Tripolitis

[ebook] Christianity and Other Religions: Selected Readings / edited by John Hick and Brian Hebblethwaite

CHURCH HISTORY

[ebook] A Little Book for New Historians: Why and How to Study History / Robert Tracy McKenzie

[ebook] St. Thomas Aquinas / G. K. Chesterton

[ebook] Strangers in a Strange Land: The Trappist Monastery of Saint Susan at Lulworth, Dorset, 1794-1817 / David N. Bell (Cistercian Studies Series, 299)

[ebook] Uncommon Allies: American Jews and Christians Uniting against Hitler, 1933-1945 / Alan M. Shore

[print] The Quality of Mercy: A Father’s Life Story as a Catholic Missionary in Guyana, His Rise through the Vatican, His Love for a Young Woman and His Departure from the Church / Kerry McNamara [biography of Scarboro Mission Father written by his daughter]

[print] The Jesuit Disruptor: A Personal Portrait of Pope Francis / Michael W. Higgins

PATRISTICS AND THE EARLY CHURCH

[ebook] Against the Heresies, Books 4 and 5 / Irenaeus of Lyons (Ancient Christian Writers, 72)

[ebook] A Pure Mirror Turned to Face the Sun: The Story and Wisdom of Saint Macrina the Younger with Reflection Meditations / R. K. Cogburn [sister of Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa]

[ebook] Exegetical Epistles, volume 2 / Jerome (Fathers of the Church, 148)

SACRED SCRIPTURE

[ebook] Central and Eastern European Bible Commentary / edited by Corneliu Constantineanu [1697 pages]

[ebook] The Critical Meaning of the Bible: How a Modern Reading of the Bible Challenges Christians, the Church and Churches / Raymond E. Brown, revised edition

[ebook] The Messiah of the Targums: Messianic Exegesis of the Hebrew Bible / Michael B. Shepherd

[ebook] Body Symbolism in the Bible / Silvia Schroer and Thomas Staubli

[ebook] Rock Doctrine: A Biblical Theology of God’s Presence through Stone Imagery / Greg Anthony Crawford [rocks and stones in the Bible]

[ebook] The Bible and Farm Animal Welfare / David Grumett

[ebook] Genesis 1-11 / Jan Christian Gertz (Historical Commentary on the Old Testament)

[ebook] Ezra-Nehemiah / Bob Becking (Historical Commentary on the Old Testament)

[ebook] Commentary on the Song of Songs / Rupert of Deutz (Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation, 22)

[ebook] Ezekiel / Daniel A. Keating (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture)

[ebook] Illuminating the New Testament: The Gospels, Acts, and Paul / Gerald O’Collins [Jesuit author]

[ebook] Words of Faith: A Vocabulary of Paul, the Apostle / Brendan Byrne [Jesuit author] [explanations of Paul’s use of over one hundred keywords]

THEOLOGY

[ebook] Why I  Am a Roman Catholic / Matthew Levering

[ebook] Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics / Peter Kreeft

[ebook] Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith / Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli

[ebook] God Sent His Son: A Contemporary Christology / Christoph von Schonborn

[ebook] Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics, Book 6: The Realization of the Salvation Merited by Christ in Individual Human Beings by the Justifying Grace of Christ / Matthias Joseph Scheeben

[ebook] Angels and Demons: What Do We Really Know about Them? / Peter J. Kreeft

[ebook] On the Demonic / Fulton J. Sheen; edited by Dave Tomaszycki

[ebook] Jansenism: An International Anthology / edited by Shaun Blanchard and Richard T. Yoder

[ebook] The Ambiguity of Being: Bernard Lonergan and the Problems of the Supernatural / Jonathan R. Heaps

[ebook] Rethinking Catholic Theology: From the Mystery of Existence to the New Creation / Harvey D. Egan [Jesuit author]

[ebook] Theology and Technique: Toward an Ethic of Non-Power / Jacques Ellul [posthumous publication from unpublished essays and notes]

[ebook] Theology of the In-Between: The Value of Syncretic Process / Carl F. Starkloff (Marquette Studies in Theology, 33)

PASTORAL THEOLOGY

[ebook] Eucharistic Reservation: Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharistic Mystery outside Mass / Paul Turner

[ebook] The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture / Gabor Maté

[ebook] Lay Me in God’s Good Earth: A Christian Approach to Death and Burial / Kent Burreson and Beth Hoeltke

EVANGELIZATION

[ebook] New Directions in Mission and Evangelization, 1: Basic Documents, 1974-1991 / edited by James A. Scherer

[ebook] New Directions in Mission and Evangelization,  2: Theological Foundations / edited by James A. Scherer

[ebook] New Directions in Mission and Evangelization, 3: Faith and Culture / edited by James A. Scherer

[ebook] What Is the Mission of the Church?: A Guide for Catholics / Roger P. Schroeder

[ebook] The New Catholicity: Theology between the Global and the Local / Robert J. Schreiter

[ebook] Landmark Essays in Mission and World Christianity / edited by Robert L. Gallagher and Paul Hertig

HOLY ORDERS

[ebook] Deacons and Diakonia in Late Antiquity: The Third Century Onwards / edited by Bart J. Koet

[ebook] Man of God: The Catholic Priest and the Cornerstones of His Life / Athanasius Schneider

[ebook] The Lost Art of Walking on Water: Reimagining the Priesthood / Michael Heher

[ebook] The First Five Years of the Priesthood: A Study of Newly Ordained Catholic Priests / Dean R. Hoge

SPIRITUALITY

[ebook] Apatheia in the Christian Tradition: An Ancient Spirituality and Its Contemporary Relevance / Joseph H. Nguyen [Jesuit author]

[ebook] Transformation in Christ: On the Christian Attitude / Dietrich von Hildebrand

[ebook] Wisdom of the Benedictine Elders: Thirty of America’s Oldest Monks and Nuns Share Their Lives’ Greatest Lessons / Mark W. McGinnis

[ebook] The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World / Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu

[ebook] A Matter of the Heart: A Monk’s Journal, 1970-2022 / Paul Quenon [Trappist monk who studied under Thomas Merton]

[ebook] Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir / Joan Chittister [Benedictine author]

[ebook] Happiness / Joan Chittister

[ebook] Becoming Fully Human: The Greatest Glory of God / Joan Chittister

[ebook] A Passion for Life: Fragments of the Face of God / Joan Chittister [meditations on individuals from Mary Magdalene to Martin Luther King, Jr., with icon-style images by Robert Lentz]

[ebook] Pause for Thought: Making Time for Prayer, Jesus, and God / Gerald O’Collins [Jesuit author]

[ebook] Redeeming Masculinity: A Catholic Theology of Masculinity / Peter D. Holmes

[ebook] The Tent of Abraham: Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims / Arthur Waskow, Joan Chittister and Saadi Shakur Chishti [authors are Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim]

[ebook] Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living / Pema Chödrön [author is a Buddhist nun]

[ebook] Teachings on Love / Thich Nhat Hanh [author is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk]

SOCIAL ISSUES

[ebook] The Family as Basic Social Unit: Living out Catholic Social Teaching / Kevin Schemenauer

[ebook] Who Is My Neigbor?: A Guide for Increasing Cultural Competency / Adam C. Sikorski

[print] Reproductive Justice and the Catholic Church: Advancing Pragmatic Solidarity with Pregnant Women / Emily Reimer-Barry

EDUCATION

[ebook] Formative Theological Education / edited by Colleen M. Griffith and Hosffman Ospino

LITERATURE

[ebook] The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview behind the Lord of the Rings / Peter Kreeft

[ebook] Philip Pullman’s Jesus / Gerald O’Collins [theologian’s critique of fictional The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ]

[ebook] Villa del Seminario / Sacha Naspini [a novel]