New Titles in Theology, September 2025

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

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PHILOSOPHY 

[ebook] 50 Questions on the Natural Law: What It Is & Why We Need It / Charles Rice 

[print] Esotericism for Everyone: Interviews with Aldo La Fata / Bruno Bérard 

[print] Christ the Original Mystery: Esoterism & the Mystical Way, with Special Reference to the Works of René Guénon / Jean Borella 

[print] The Crisis of Religious Symbolism; & Symbolism & Reality / by Jean Borella [two separate books] 

[print] The Four Friendships: From Aristotle to Aquinas / Kevin Vost 

[ebook] Aquinas on the Emotions: A Religious-Ethical Inquiry / Diana Fritz Cates 

[print] The Art of the Good: On the Regeneration of Fallen Justice / Valentin Tomberg 

[print] Can We Believe in People?: Human Significance in an Interconnected Cosmos / Stephen R.L. Clark [philosophical anthropology] 

[print] Contra mundum: Joseph de Maistre & the Birth of Tradition / Thomas Garrett Isham 

ETHICS 

[ebook] An Introduction to Christian Ethics: Goals, Duties, and Virtues / Robin W. Lovin 

[ebook] Bound for Beatitude: A Thomistic Study in Eschatology and Ethics / Reinhard Hütter 

[print] Foundations of Free Will / Robert Bolton 

JUDAISM and ISLAM 

[ebook] Toward a Negative Theology of Judaism / Ernest Rubinstein [apophatic or negative theology investigates what God is not, rather than what God is]  

[ebook] Apocalypse against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism / Anathea E. Portier-Young [Jewish apocalyptic literature as resistance to Hellenistic imperial rule]  

[ebook] “Salvation Is from the Jews” (John 4:22): The Role of Judaism in Salvation History from Abraham to the Second Coming / Roy H. Schoeman 

[ebook] Catholic-Jewish Engagements on Israel: Holy Land, Political Territory, or Theological Promise? / edited by Gavin D’Costa, Etienne Veto, and Thomas Joseph White

[ebook] Symbol of Divine Light: The Lamp in Islamic Culture & Other Traditions / Nicholas Stone 

CHURCH HISTORY 

[ebook] A History of English Churches in 100 Objects / Matthew Byrne  

[print] Christendom or Europe? / Novalis [pamphlet about religion and the state written by a German Romantic in 1799] 

[print] A Wider View of Vatican II: Memories and Analysis of a Council Consultor / Boniface Luykx [author was a Belgian Norbertine priest who became Ukrainian Catholic] 

[print] Teokratiia: The Theocratic Principle in Russia, 1917 and Today / Matthew J. Dal Santo 

[ebook] Kagawa Toyohiko’s War Responsibility Confession / Mikio Miyagi [story of a Japanese Christian leader, 1888-1960] 

[ebook] Serve: My Lost Years at the Heart of Ireland’s Opus Dei / Anne Marie Allen  

[ebook] Struck Down, Not Destroyed: Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter / Colleen Dulle [author wrote for the weekly Jesuit magazine America] 

PATRISTICS 

[ebook] Growing into God: The Fathers of the Church on Christian Maturity / John Gavin [Jesuit author]  

[ebook] Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia / edited by Allan D. Fitzgerald 

[ebook] Basil of Caesarea as Exegete: An Analysis of His Homilies on the Hexaemeron / Volker Henning Drecoll [about the six days of Creation]  

[ebook] Homilies on Titus and Philemon / John Chrysostom (Writings from the Greco-Roman World, 51) 

[ebook] Backgrounds of Early Christianity / Everett Ferguson, 3rd edition 

SACRED SCRIPTURE 

[ebook] Reading the Sacred Text: An Introduction to Biblical Studies / V. George Shillington  

[ebook] YHWH’s Diversity: A Lot of Names and No Iconography? / Angelika Berlejung 

[ebook] Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts / edited by Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner 

[ebook] The Repentance of YHWH: Mark’s Gospel of Universal Inclusion / Sonya Shetty Cronin  

[ebook] Apostle of the Crucified Lord: A Theological Introduction to Paul & His Letters / Michael J. Gorman 

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 

[print] A Certain Faith: The Catholic Alternative / Barry R. Pearlman  

[ebook] Principles of Catholic Theology, Book 4: On the Church, Mary, Nature and Grace / Thomas Joseph White [Dominican author]

[print] Commonitory for the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith, against the Profane Novelties of all Heretics / Vincent of Lerins 

[ebook] The Fittingness of the Incarnation: Essays in Analytic Thomistic Philosophy and Theology / David Braine

[ebook] Christ the Light: The Theology of Light and Illumination in Thomas Aquinas / David L. Whidden, III 

[print] God’s Gamble: The Gravitational Power of Crucified Love / Gil Bailie 

[print] Communion of Saints: The Unity of Divine Love in the Mystical Body of Christ / Stephen Walford  

[print] The Iron Sceptre of the Son of Man: Romanitas as a Note of the Church / Alan Fimister [how the Catholic Church is Roman]  

[ebook] Word, Sacrament, Charism: Risks and Opportunities of a Synodal Church / Marc Ouellet [author is a Canadian cardinal] 

[print] Cor Jesu sacratissimum: From Secularism & the New Age to Christendom Renewed / Roger Buck 

[print] Newman and His Critics / Edward Short [third volume of a trilogy] 

[ebook] Revelation, Hermeneutics, & Doctrinal Development in Joseph Ratzinger / Mauro Gagliardi 

PASTORAL THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Surviving Catholic Ministry: A Contemporary “Soul of the Apostolate” for the Lay Minister / Brad Bursa  

[ebook] Serving Jesus without Burning Out: Faithful Ministry for the Long Haul / D. Scott Hildreth and Steven A. McKinion  

[ebook] Deep Church Rising: The Third Schism and the Recovery of Christian Orthodoxy / Andrew G. Walker and Robin A. Parry  

[print] Life Beyond Death: A Traveler’s Guide for Christians / Thomas F. O’Meara [how to die well]  

[print] Diary of an American Exorcist: Demons, Possession, and the Modern-Day Battle against Ancient Evil / Stephen J. Rossetti 

SACRAMENTS and LITURGY 

[ebook] Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries / Everett Ferguson  

[print] Close the Workshop: Why the Old Mass Isn’t Broken and the New Mass Can’t Be Fixed / Peter A Kwasniewski  

[print] Lumen Christi: Defending the Use of the Pre-1955 Roman Rite / by a Benedictine Oblate 

SAINTS 

[print] The Great Collection of the Lives of the Saints: March / Dimitriĭ of Rostov

[ebook] A School of Prayer: The Saints Show Us how to Pray / Benedict XVI 

[ebook] Saint Dominic and His Mission / Augustin Laffay and Gianni Festa 

[print] Prayers in Honor of Saint Thomas Aquinas / Thomas O’Sullivan  

[print] Thomas More: A Life / Joanne Paul 

[ebook] All Things Are Possible: The Selected Writings of Mother Cabrini / edited by Dawn Marie Beutner [select letters of the foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus] 

[print] A Shower of Roses: The Most Beautiful Miracles of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux / Camille Burette 

SPIRITUALITY  

[ebook] Women Responding to the Spirit: Selections from the Madeleva Lectures / edited by Jessica Coblent [annual spirituality lecture at St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN]  

[ebook] Meditation as Spiritual Therapy: Bernard of Clairvaux’s De consideratione / Matthew R. McWhorter 

[ebook] The Soul Also Keeps the Score: A Trauma-Informed Companion to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius / Robert W. McChesney and Lisa López Levers 

[print] Psychodynamics of the Ignatian Exercises / Carlos Domínguez Morano 

[print] Truth in Person / Luke Bell [Benedictine author] 

[print] Christian Fashion in the Teaching of the Church / introduction by Virginia Coda Nunziante [the virtue of modesty] 

[print] Imagination, Discernment and Spiritual Direction / Robert R. Marsh [Jesuit author] 

[print] Desiring to Desire God / David W. Fagerberg [prayer] 

SOCIAL ISSUES 

[print] The Common Mind: Politics, Society & Christian Humanism from Thomas More to Russell Kirk / André Gushurst-Moore  

[print] From International Law to World Peace: Jurisprudence, the Law of Nations / Valentin Tomberg 

[print] Beyond Tenebrae: Christian Humanism in the Twilight of the West / Bradley J. Birzer 

[print] The Decomposition of Man: Identity, Technocracy, and the Church / James Kalb [responding to industrialization, globalization, and technological ways of thinking] 

[ebook] Racism: Challenges to Being Church / edited by Peter Turkson [a cardinal from Ghana] and Emmanuel Katongole

[ebook] Black and Catholic: Racism, Identity, and Religion / Tia Noelle Pratt 

[ebook] From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad / Jacqueline L. Tobin [the men and women who established an escape route for former-slaves to Canada] 

[ebook] Abortion Survivors Break Their Silence / Melissa Ohden 

[print] Orban vs. Soros: The Four-Decade Duel between Viktor Orban & George Soros / Gabor Fodor [political and social conflict in Hungary] 

[ebook] Theology of Debt / Hollis Phelps 

[print] Finance, a Christian Perspective: From the Medieval Bank to Financial Globalization / Pierre de Lauzun 

EDUCATION 

[ebook] After Humanity: A Commentary on C.S. Lewis’ Abolition of Man / Michael Ward  

[ebook] The Adeodatus Handbook on Catholic Education & Culture, Volume 1: From Jesus the Teacher to St. John Henry Newman / edited by Alex E. Lessard and R. Jared Staudt 

[ebook] If You Want to Write / Brenda Ueland 

[ebook] New Hart’s Rules: The Oxford Style Guide / Anne Waddingham 

[ebook] The Elements of Style / William Strunk and E. B. White 

LITERATURE 

[ebook] Great Books for Good Men: Reflections on Literature and Manhood / Joseph Pearce  

[print] The Art of Being Human: What “Old Books” Can Tell Us (and Warn Us) about Living in the 21st Century / Michael S. Rose  

[print] Dante’s Inferno: A Graphic Novel Adaptation / Paul & Gaëtan Brizzi  

[print] Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey / Mark Vernon 

[print] Between Crisis and Catastrophe: Lyrical and Mystical Essays / Andrei Bely [20th century Russian writer] 

[ebook] A Wrinkle in Time Quartet / Madeleine L’Engle [also includes: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Many Waters] 

[print] The Chain: A Story of Faith Seeking Understanding / Anna Rist [novel about an English Catholic family by a former St. Michael’s College professor] 

[print] Dearly Beloved: A Novel / Harry Sylvester [novel about two Jesuit priests in 1930 Maryland] 

[print] Ceremonials of Common Days / Abbie Graham 

SCIENCE 

[print] At the Dawn of Humanity: The First Humans / Gerard Verschuuren 

[print] From Logos to Bios: Evolutionary Theory in Light of Plato, Aristotle & Neoplatonism / Wynand de Beer 

[ebook] Healing Purpose: Finding Satisfaction in a Healthcare Career / Mark Topazian