New Titles in Theology, May to June 2025

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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] From Calvinist to Catholic / Peter Kreeft [autobiography of an American Catholic philosopher] 

[ebook] Pomp, Circumstance, and Unsolicited Advice: Commencement Addresses and University Lectures / George Weigel 

HINDUISM 

[ebook] The Essential Aurobindo: Writings of Sri Aurobindo / edited by Robert A. McDermott 

[ebook] Early Writings of Sri Aurobindo (Bande Mataram & Nationalist Movement in India) 

[ebook] All Life Is Yoga / Sri Aurobindo Ashram 

[ebook] Sri Aurobindo and European Philosophy / Wilfried Huchzermayer 

[ebook] Sri Aurobindo’s Commentaries on Krishna, Buddha, Christ and Ramakrishna: Their Role in the Evolution of Humanity / Wilfried Huchzermayer 

[ebook] The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga / Patrick Beldio 

[print] The Mother: A Life of Sri Aurobindo’s Spiritual Collaborator / Peter Heehs 

CHURCH HISTORY 

[print] Apostolic Tradition: A New Commentary / Paul F. Bradshaw  

[ebook] Rome and the Eastern Churches: A Study in Schism / Aidan Nichols [Dominican author]

[ebook] Shreveport Martyr Father Jean Pierre: Fearful Steps Strengthened by Hope / Peter B. Mangum, William Ryan Smith, and Cheryl H. White [priest who died serving 1873 Louisiana Yellow Fever patients] 

[print] He Leads, I Follow: The Life of Mother Maria Theresia Bonzel, Foundress of the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration / P. Lothar Hardick 

[ebook] Love Is a Journey: The Inspiring Life and Legacy of Pope John Paul I / Mo Guernon  

[ebook] Unbecoming Catholic: Being Religious in Contemporary Ireland / Tom Inglis 

[ebook] Why I Am a Catholic / Garry Wills [described as “one part autobiography, three parts history, and one part confession of faith”] 

SACRED SCRIPTURE 

[ebook] A Guide to Biblical Commentaries and Reference Works / John F. Evans, 11th edition  

[ebook] Bible Translating as a Loyal Activity: A Model for Bible Translation in the Majority World / Tobias J. Houston [fidelity to the text and respect for cultural context of the audience]  

[ebook] Providence in the Story of Scripture: The Work of God through Creation, Fall, Redemption, and New Creation / Adamson Co 

[ebook] Planting Seeds of the Divine: Torah Commentaries to Cultivate Your Spiritual Practice / Yiscah Smith 

[ebook] The Signs of Jonah: Reading and Rereading in Ancient Yehud / Ehud Ben Zvi 

[ebook] Jonah: A Commentary / James Limburg (Old Testament Library) 

[ebook] Jonah and Lamentations / R. B. Salters (Old Testament Guides) 

[ebook] Judith / Lawrence M. Wills (Hermeneia) 

[ebook] Sirach / André Villeneuve (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture) 

[ebook] The Sermon on the Mount: An Invitation to Receive and Advance the Reign of God – Then, Across Time, and Now / Elias Chacour [author is a Palestinian Melkite archbishop] 

[ebook] The Story of Jesus Continues: A Survey of the Acts of the Apostles / Douglas S. Huffman 

[ebook] Romans / Christian A. Eberhart (Wisdom Commentary) 

[ebook] A Theology of James, Peter, and Jude: Living in the Light of the Coming King / Peter H. Davids 

[ebook] And Upon This Rock: Peter’s Transformative Journey from Fisherman to Follower to Foundational Leader / edited by Scot McKnight and Nika Spaulding [essays by Evangelicals] 

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Introducing Analytic Theology / Phil Weston 

[print] Considering Jesus: The Human Experience of the Redeemer / Joseph A. Tetlow [Jesuit author]

[ebook] Life Is Changed, Not Ended: An Introduction to Christian Eschatology / Robin Ryan 

[ebook] Church, Sacrament of the World / Joe Egan [author is a member of the Society of African Missions] 

[ebook] The Morally Divided Body: Ethical Disagreement and the Disunity of the Church / edited by Michael Root and James J. Buckley 

[ebook] The Legacy and Limits of Vatican II in an Age of Crisis / edited by Catherine E. Clifford, Kristin M. Colberg, Massimo Faggioli, and Edward P. Hahnenberg 

[ebook] Justice and Truth Shall Meet: A Dominican Exploration / Albert Nolan and Mary O’Driscoll 

[ebook] A Theology of Flourishing: The Fullness of Life for All Creation / Paul J. Schutz 

[ebook] The Essential City of God: A Reader and Commentary / Gregory W. Lee [the classic work by Saint Augustine] 

[ebook] Saint Thomas and the Problem of Evil / Jacques Maritain (Aquinas Lecture, 1942)  

[ebook] Wisdom in Bonaventure’s Hexaemeron: Philosophical Problems, Theological Solutions / Benjamin Winter 

[ebook] Four Women Doctors of the Church: Hildegard of Binen, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux / Mary T. Malone 

[print] Women of Hope: Doctors of the Church / Terry Polakovic  

[ebook] Christ and the Altar Fire: Sacrifice as Deification in Matthias Scheeben / David Augustine 

[ebook] John Henry Newman’s An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent: A Critical Guide / edited by Frederick D. Aquino and Matthew Levering

ECOTHEOLOGY-RELATED 

[ebook] Thomas Berry, A Book of Hours / edited by Kathleen Deignan 

[ebook] Ask the Animals: Developing a Biblical Animal Hermeneutic / edited by Arthur W. Walker-Jones and Susan R. Millar 

LITURGY and SACRAMENTS 

[ebook] Light on Darkness: The Untold Story of the Liturgy / Cosima Clara Gillhammer 

[print] Thomistic Mystagogy: St. Thomas Aquinas’s Commentaries on the Mass / Urban Hannon  

[ebook] How Did Jesus Want the Eucharist?: Looking Back to Find a Way Forward / Ansgar Wucherpfennig [Jesuit author] 

[ebook] Cantate Domino: A Commentary on the Hymns of the Liturgy of the Hours, volume 1: Proper of Time: Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter / edited by Andrew Wadsworth, Nicholas Richardson, Peter Finn, and Maria Kiely

[print] French Jesuits, the Wendat, and Christian Music: A Translation of Cantiques in the Wendat Language / John L. Steckley 

[ebook] Developmental Disabilities and Sacramental Access: New Paradigms for Sacramental Encounters / Edward Foley 

[ebook] Engraved upon the Heart: Children, the Cognitively Challenged, and Liturgy’s Influence on Faith-Formation / Hwarang Moon 

[ebook] Walking the Stations: 14 Way Stations on a Christian Pilgrimage / Donald Heinz [not the traditional Passion stations, but episodes from throughout Jesus’ life] 

PASTORAL THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Ministry: A Theological, Pastoral Handbook / Richard P. McBrien  

[ebook] The Case for Clerical Celibacy: It’s Historical Development and Theological Foundations / Alfons Stickler, 2nd edition  

[ebook] Women in the Orthodox Tradition: Feminism, Theology, and Equality / Ashley Marie Purpura 

[ebook] Lord, I Love You!: Homilies through the Liturgical Year, volume 1: Lent, Easter, & Solemnities of the Lord / Benedict XVI 

[ebook] To Believe or Not Believe: Young Adults and the Catholic Faith / Thomas P. Rausch [Jesuit author]

[print] Rooting Your Teen in the Faith: A Field Guide for Catholic Parents / Kim Cameron-Smith 

[print] Don’t Let the Culture Raise Your Kids / Marcia Segelstein 

SPIRITUALITY 

[ebook] Contemplation and the Cross: A Catholic Introduction to the Spiritual Life / Thomas Joseph White [Dominican author]

[ebook] Embracing God: Essays on the Spiritual Treatises of Aelred of Rievaulx / Marsha L. Dutton (Cistercian Studies Series, 302) 

[ebook] Dazzling Darkness: The Lives and Afterlives of the Christian Mystics / James Harpur 

[ebook] Saint Joseph and the Carmelite Reform of Saint Teresa of Avila: Father, Teacher of Prayer, Intercessor in Every Need / Joseph F. Chorpenning 

[ebook] Spirit of Flame: A Study of St. John of the Cross / E. Allison Peers 

[ebook] Finding Peace Here and Now: How Ignatian Spirituality Leads Us to Healing and Wholeness / Eric A. Clayton  

[ebook] The Mystic Nuns of Colonial Colombia: Voices and Visions / RoseAnna Mueller [five 17th and 18th century nuns in what is now Colombia] 

[ebook] Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence / Jean-Pierre de Caussade [classic work by Jesuit author]

[ebook] Spiritual Writings / Christian de Chergé (Modern Spiritual Masters) [author was a French Trappist martyred in Algeria in 1996] 

[ebook] Staritsa: The Spiritual Motherhood of Catherine Doherty / Donald A. Guglielmi 

[ebook] Understanding Our Story: The Life’s Work and Legacy of Adrian Van Kaam in the Field of Formative Spirituality / Rebecca Letterman and Susan Muto  

[print] The Journal of Joy / Nicolae Steinhardt [diary of a Romanian Orthodox priest] 

[ebook] Spiritual Combat Revisited / Jonathan Robinson [founder of the Toronto Oratory]

[ebook] Everyday Sacred, Everywhere Beauty; Readings from an Old Monk’s Journal / Mary Lou Kownacki [author is a Benedictine sister] 

[ebook] A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice / Matthew Fox 

[ebook] Soul and the City: Finding God in the Noise and Frenzy of Life / Marcy Heidish 

[ebook] Offer It Up: Discovering the Power and Purpose of Redemptive Suffering / Megan Hjelmstad 

[ebook] The Sacred Heart of the World: Restoring Mystical Devotion to Our Spiritual Life / David Richo 

[ebook] The Heart of the Redeemer: An Apologia for the Contemporary and Perennial Value of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus / Timothy T. O’Donnell, 2nd edition

[ebook] Contemplation and Freedom: The Liberating Power of Spiritual Practice / edited by Benedict R. Shoup and Mary Frohlich 

[ebook] Turning Points: How Thirteen Remarkable Men and Women Heard God’s Call and Responded to It / Russell Shaw 

[ebook] The Hour of Testing: Spiritual Depth and Insight in a Time of Ecclesial Uncertainty / Donald Haggerty [connection between history and spirituality]

[ebook] Black Madonna: A Womanist Look at Mary of Nazareth / Courtney Hall Lee 

[print] The Marian Apparitions at Zeitoun: An Evidential Inquiry / Travis Dumsday [events at a Coptic Orthodox church in Egypt] 

[ebook] Practical Mysticism / Evelyn Underhill [classic work by English Anglican]

[ebook] The Cost of Discipleship / Dietrich Bonhoeffer [German Lutheran pastor executed by the Nazis]

CATHERINE OF SIENA 

[ebook] Catherine of Siena / Sigrid Undset 

[ebook] Catherine of Siena: A Life of Passion and Purpose / André Vauchez 

[ebook] Catherine of Siena: A Passionate Life / Don Brophy 

[ebook] Saint Catherine of Siena / Alice Curtayne 

[ebook] Saint Catherine of Siena / Johannes Jørgensen 

[ebook] Saint Catherine of Siena: Mystic of Fire, Preacher of Freedom / Paul Murray 

[ebook] Lay Siege to Heaven: A Novel about Saint Catherine of Siena / Louis de Wohl 

SOCIAL ISSUES 

[ebook] Sacred and Social: Theological Foundations for Catholic Social Teaching / Kenneth R. Himes 

[ebook] Rethinking Justice in Catholic Social Thought / edited by Daniel F. Kinn 

[print] Faith Beyond Justice: Widening the Perspective / Martin R. Tripole, revised edition [Jesuits and social justice] 

[ebook] The Search for a Nonviolent Future: A Promise of Peace for Ourselves, Our Families, and Our World / Michael N.Nagler 

[ebook] The Nonviolence Handbook: A Guide for Practical Action / Michael N. Nagler 

[ebook] The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Virtue / Michael N. Nagler 

[ebook] The Raceless Antiracist: Why Ending Race Is the Future of Antiracism / Sheena Michele Mason 

[ebook] Letter to the White World / Alex Zanotelli [author is an Italian Comboni missionary] 

[ebook] Asians in Diaspora and Diasporas in Asia / edited by Sam George, Bulus Galadima, and Jeanne Wu [immigration policies, migrant workers, climate migration, etc.] 

[ebook] Sacrifice Lost: The Dark Legacy of the Cross / Ashley Theuring [clergy sexual abuse] 

LITERATURE 

[ebook] The Size of Chesterton’s Catholicism / David W. Fagerberg 

SCIENCE  

[ebook] Encountering ETI: Aliens in Avatar and the Americas / John Hart [extraterrestrial intelligent life] 

[ebook] A Liberation Theology of the Brain: Neuroscience, Theology, and Decolonizing Emotions / Carmelo Santos-Rolón 

[ebook] From Babel to AI: Idolatry, Transhumanism, and the Crisis of Imago Dei / Dawn Lewis Sutherland 

MEDICINE 

[ebook] Rise Up and Walk: Catholicism and Health Care across the Globe / edited by William T. Cavanaugh 

[ebook] Medical Care at the End of Life: A Catholic Perspective / David F. Kelly 

[ebook] We Are the Lord’s: A Catholic Guide to Difficult End-of-Life Questions / Jeffrey Kirby