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This month, in addition to many recently published items, there are also some classic works by major theologians including Raymond Brown, John Dominic Crossan, Scott Hahn, Roger Haight, Gerald O’Collins, and Phyllis Zagano.
ACADEMIC WRITING
[print] How to Read and Write Critically / Alex Baratta
PHILOSOPHY and ETHICS
[ebook] Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins’ Case against God / Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker
[ebook] The Concept of Woman, volume 3: The Search for Communion of Persons, 1500-2015 / Prudence Allen
[ebook] Why You Shouldn’t Kill Yourself: Five Tricks of the Heart about Assisted Suicide / Susan Windley-Daoust
[ebook] Speaking for the Unborn: 30-Second Pro-Life Rebuttals to Pro-Choice Arguments / Steven A. Christie
CHURCH HISTORY
[ebook] Canon Law, Religion, and Politics: Liber amicorum Robert Somerville / edited by Uta-Renate Blumenthal [a collection of essays on the Church in the Middle Ages]
[ebook] Calming the Storm: Navigating the Crises Facing the Catholic Church and Society/ Gerald E. Murray, with Diane Montagna
SACRED SCRIPTURE
[ebook] Catholic Bible Dictionary / edited by Scott Hahn
[ebook] The Sensus plenior of Sacred Scripture / Raymond E. Brown
[ebook] The Bible for Theology: Ten Principles for the Theological Use of Scripture / Gerald O’Collins and Daniel Kendall
[ebook] How the Fathers Read the Bible: Scripture, Liturgy, and the Early Church / Mike Aquilina
[ebook] The Authority of Mystery: The Word of God and the People of God / edited by Scott Hahn (Letter and Spirit, 2)
[ebook] The Bible and the Church Fathers: The Liturgical Context of Patristic Exegesis / edited by Scott Hahn (Letter and Spirit, 7)
[ebook] The Meaning of “Make Disciples” in the Broader Context of the Gospel of Matthew: A New Approach to Understanding Discipleship in the First Gospel / Lindsay D. Arthur
[ebook] Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography / John Dominic Crossan
[ebook] Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts / John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L. Reed
[ebook] Raid on the Articulate: Comic Eschatology in Jesus and Borges / John Dominic Crossan [parables of Jesus]
[ebook] Cliffs of Fall: Paradox and Polyvalence in the Parables of Jesus / John Dominic Crossan
[ebook] Finding Is the First Act: Trove Folktales and Jesus’ Treasure Parable / John Dominic Crossan
[ebook] In Fragments: The Aphorisms of Jesus / John Dominic Crossan
[ebook] Christ in the Gospels of the Liturgical Year / Raymond E. Brown
[ebook] Reading the Gospels with the Church: From Christmas through Easter / Raymond E. Brown
[ebook] Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God / Scott Hahn
[ebook] The Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of New Testament Thought / edited by Benjamin Reynolds and Loren Stuckenbruck
[ebook] Four Other Gospels: Shadows on the Contour of Canon / John Dominic Crossan [Gospel of Thomas, Secret Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Peter, and Egerton Papyrus 2]
SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY
[ebook] The Creed: Professing the Faith through the Ages / Scott Hahn
[ebook] The Christian Faith Explained in 50 Letters / Gerhard Lohfink
[ebook] The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith / Marcus J. Borg
[print] Neither Nature nor Grace: Aquinas, Barth, and Garrigou-Lagrange on the Epistemic Use of God’s Effects / T. Adam Van Wart [ebook also available]
[ebook] The Resurrection of Jesus Christ: Some Contemporary Issues / Gerald O’Collins (Père Marquette Lecture in Theology, 24)
[ebook] Believing in the Resurrection: The Meaning and Promise of the Risen Jesus / Gerald O’Collins
[ebook] The Crucified Jesus Is No Stranger / Sebastian Moore, revised edition
[ebook] How Christ Saves Souls – With Us: The Mystery of Co-Redemption / Michael Giesler
[ebook] Mary in the Christian Tradition / Owen F. Cummings
[ebook] Who are the Church? / Joseph A. Komonchak (Père Marquette Lecture in Theology, 2008)
[ebook] Christ Alive in Me: Living as a Member of the Mystical Body / David Vincent Meconi (Living Faith Series) [Jesuit priest]
[ebook] Faith and Evolution: A Grace-Filled Naturalism / Roger Haight
[ebook] Theology of the Body, Extended: The Spiritual Signs of Birth, Impairment, and Dying / Susan Windley-Daoust
[ebook] “In the Beginning …”: A Theology of the Body / Eduardo J. Echeverria
[print] Open and Relational Theology: An Introduction to Life-Changing Ideas / Thomas Jay Oord
[print] Pluriform Love: An Open and Relational Theology of Well-Being / Thomas Jay Oord
[print] God Can’t: How to Believe in God and Love after Tragedy, Abuse, or Other Evils / Thomas Jay Oord
THEOLOGIANS
[ebook] The Word within the Words / Malcolm Guite (My Theology) [Anglican poet and songwriter]
[ebook] Return from a Distant Country / Alister McGrath (My Theology) [English theologian]
[ebook] The Serendipity of Life’s Encounters / Ann Loades (My Theology) [British feminist theologian]
[ebook] Spectres of God / Rachel Mann (My Theology) [British feminist theologian]
[ebook] Personal Idealism / Keith Ward (My Theology) [English philosopher and theologian]
[ebook] Batman is Jesus / Siku (My Theology) [artist and theologian; creator of the Manga Bible]
[ebook] Joseph Ratzinger and the Healing of the Reformation-Era Divisions / edited by Emery de Gaal
PASTORAL THEOLOGY
[ebook] On Fraternity and Social Friendship: The Encyclical Letter Fratelli tutti / Francis
[ebook] Just Ministry: Professional Ethics for Pastoral Ministers / Richard M. Gula
LITURGY and SACRAMENTS
[ebook] The Early History of the Syriac Liturgy: Growth, Adaptation and Inculturation / Baby Varghese
[ebook] Hatch, Match, and Dispatch: A Catholic Guide to Sacraments / Richard Leonard
[ebook] The Reception of Vatican II Liturgical Reforms in the Life of the Church / Pierre-Marie Gy (Père Marquette Lecture in Theology, 2003)
[ebook] Hope from the Ashes: Insights and Resources for Welcoming Lenten Visitors / Paul E. Jarzembowski
[ebook] The Lamb’s Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth / Scott Hahn
[ebook] The Word of the Lord: Reflections on the Mass Readings for Solemnities and Feasts / John Bergsma
[ebook] The Word of the Lord: Reflections on the Sunday Mass Readings for Year B / John Bergsma
[ebook] The Word of the Lord: Reflections on the Sunday Mass Readings for Year C / John Bergsma
[ebook] Annulment: A Guide for RCIA Candidates, Ministers, and Others / Kevin E. McKenna
HOLY ORDERS and CONSECRATED LIFE
[ebook] Called to Joy: Celebrating Priesthood / George Augustin
[ebook] Priest and Bishop: Biblical Reflections / Raymond E. Brown
[print] Icons of Christ: A Biblical and Systematic Theology for Women’s Ordination / William G. Witt [ebook also available]
[ebook] The Deacon: Icon of Christ the Servant, Minister of the Threshold / Tim O’Donnell
[ebook] Ordained Women Deacons of the Church’s First Millennium / John Wijngaards
[ebook] Women Deacons?: Essays with Answers / edited by Phyllis Zagano
[ebook] Women Religious, Women Deacons: Questions and Answers / Phyllis Zagano
[print] Illuminate the Future: Pope Francis in Conversation with Religious Superiors / edited by Antonio Spadaro
SPIRITUALITY
[ebook] Western Monastic Spirituality: Cassian, Caesarius of Arles, and Benedict / Roger Haight
[ebook] Christian Spirituality for Seekers: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola / Roger Haight
[ebook] Discernment: The Art of Choosing Well: Based on Ignatian Spirituality / Pierre Woolf
[ebook] Spiritual Writings / Karl Barth (Classics of Western Spirituality)
[ebook] Essential Spiritual Writings / Ronald Rolheiser (Modern Spiritual Masters)
[print] Remembering Father Robinson: Essays on His Life and Spirituality [founder of the Toronto Oratory]
[ebook] Through the Heart of St. Joseph / Boniface Hicks
[ebook] Walking with Francis of Assisi: From Privilege to Activism / Bruce Epperly
[ebook] When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life’s Sacred Questions / Sue Monk Kidd
[ebook] Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope / Joan D. Chittister
[ebook] Being Well When We’re Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity / Marva J. Dawn
[print] Five Smooth Stones: Facing the Goliath of Our Fears / Robert LeBlanc
FAITH DEVELOPMENT and CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
[ebook] Growing in the Life of Faith: Education and Christian Practices / Craig Dykstra
[ebook] Awakening Youth Discipleship: Christian Resistance in a Consumer Culture / Brian J. Mahan, Michael Warren, and David F. White
[ebook] Logic of the Spirit in Human Thought and Experience: Exploring the Vision of James E. Loder Jr. / edited by Dana R. Wright and Keith J. White
[ebook] Educational Ministry in the Logic of the Spirit / James E. Loder
[ebook] Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church / Kenda Creasy Dean
[ebook] Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Emerging Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith / Sharon Daloz Parks
CROSS-CULTURAL EVANGELISM
[ebook] Christian Barriers to Jesus: Conversations and Questions from the Indian Context / J. Paul Pennington [Christian missions to Hindus]
[ebook] Abuse of Christian Women in India, and Remedy: In 12 Biblical Studies on Equality of Man and Woman / Jane A. McNally [two separate books; the second is about women in the Bible]
[ebook] Becoming the People of God: Creating Christ-Centered Communities in Buddhist Asia / edited by Paul H. De Neui
[ebook] Authentic Lives: Overcoming the Problem of Hidden Identity in Outreach to Restrictive Nations / Thomas Hale [countries that do not welcome Christian missionaries]
[ebook] Communicating Christ in Animistic Contexts / Gailyn Van Rheenen
[ebook] Against the Tide: Mission amidst the Global Currents of Secularization / edited by W. Jay Moon and Craig Ott
[ebook] Appropriate Christianity / edited by Charles H. Kraft [contextualization]
[ebook] The Bible in Cross-Cultural Perspective / Jacob A. Loewen [Biblical worldview vs. western/secular and traditional/animist worldviews]
[ebook] Building Bridges to Oral Cultures: Journeys among the Least-Reached / K. Carla Bowman, with James Bowman
SOCIAL ISSUES
[print] Reconciliation & Indigenous Justice: A Search for Ways Forward / David Milward
[ebook] Catholics, Politics, and Public Policy: Beyond Left and Right / Clarke E. Cochran and David Carroll Cochran (Traditions of Christian Spirituality)
[ebook] Walking with the Poor: Principles and Practices of Transformational Development / Byrant L. Myers
[ebook] When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself / Steve Corbett and Brian Finkert
[ebook] Nurturing the Nations: Reclaiming the Dignity of Women in Building Healthy Cultures / Darrow L. Miller, with Stan Guthrie [women and world poverty]
[ebook] Beyond Poverty: Multiplying Sustainable Community Development / Terry Dalrymple
[ebook] Biblical Holism and Agriculture: Cultivating Our Roots / edited by David J. Evans, Ronald J. Vos, and Keith P. Wright
[print] Fragments in a Season of Fury / Michael O’Brien [“a collection of stories, essays and talks on the disintegration of society and its remedies”]
ART and LITERATURE
[print] Sant’Onofrio al Gianicolo: Journeying to a Citadel of Faith / John Paul Sonnen and Dana Ambrose Christensen [Renaissance church building in Rome]
[print] Miller Brittain: When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears / Tom Smart [Canadian painter; ebook also available]
[ebook] Vanishing Voices: Silence(s) in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot and R.S. Thomas / Katarzyna Dudek