New Titles in Theology, January 2026

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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 Essence of Thomism / Galls M. Manser 

[ebook] The Christian Philosophy of Jacques Maritain / Jason L. A. West 

ETHICS 

[ebook] Black Womanist Ethics / Katie G. Cannon 

[ebook] Counting the Cost: Financial Decision-Making, Discipleship, and Christian Living / Clemens Sedmak [Catholic social teaching on personal and corporate finances] 

INTER RELIGIOUS STUDIES 

[ebook] An Emulation of Sanctity: Hinduism and Christianity in Dialogue / Yann Vagneux 

[ebook] Christian de Chergé: A Theology of Hope / Christian Salenson [about martyred Cistercian theologian of Islam] 

[ebook] Demythologizing Celibacy: Practical Wisdom from Christian and Buddhist Monasticism / William Skudlarek 

[ebook] Celibacy in the Ancient World: Its Ideal and Practice in Pre-Hellenistic Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece / Dale Launderville 

CHURCH HISTORY 

[paper] The Turning of a Tide: Ignace Lissner and the Society of African Missions in the U.S.A. / Edmund M. Hogan 

[ebook] Christian Monks on Chinese Soil: A History of Monastic Missions to China / Matteo Nicoloini-Zani 

[ebook] American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Era / Deirdre M. Moloney [1880 – 1925] 

[ebook] “Go to the Worker”: America’s Labor Apostles / Kimball Baker [priests and the rights of workers, 1930-1960] 

[ebook] The Vanishing Church: How the Hollowing Out of Moderate Congregations Is Hurting Democracy, Faith, and Us / Ryan P. Burge [political and religious polarization in the United States; statistics] 

[ebook] American Pontiff: Pope Leo XIV and His Plan to Heal the Church / Paul Kengor 

[ebook] The Election of Pope Leo XIV: The Last Surprise of Pope Francis / Gerard O’Connell and Elisabetta Piqué

SACRED SCRIPTURE 

[ebook] Justice for All: How the Jewish Bible Revolutionized Ethics / Jeremiah Unterman 

[ebook] The Old Testament and Ethics: A Book-by-Book Survey / edited by Joel B. Green and Jacqueline E. Lapsley

[ebook] The Torah Revolution: Fourteen Truths that Changed the World / Reuven Hammer 

[ebook] Ethical and Unethical in the Old Testament: God and Humans in Dialogue / edited by Katherine J. Dell 

[ebook] On Job, volume 2 / Albert the Great (Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation, 23)  

[ebook] The Challenge of Jesus’ Parables / edited by Richard N. Longenecker 

[ebook] Divorce in the New Testament / Raymond F. Collins 

[ebook] Beatitudes and Terror: A Ukrainian Theological Response to Russian Agression / edited by Oleksandr Geychenko, Roman Soloviy, and Yevgeny Ustinovich [Evangelical theologians on the Beatitudes] 

[ebook] A Costly Freedom: A Theological Reading of Mark’s Gospel / Brendan Byrne 

[ebook] The New Voice of God: Language, Worldview, and the Cherokee Bible / Margaret Bender and Thomas N. Belt [translating English Bible into Cherokee] 

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Catholicism in the Third Millennium / Thomas P. Rausch 

[ebook] The College Student’s Introduction to Theology / edited by Thomas P. Rausch 

[ebook] The College Student’s Introduction to Christology / William P. Loewe 

[ebook] Does God Need the Church?: Toward a Theology of the People of God / Gerhard Lohfink 

[paper] Receiving the First Council of Nicaea Today: Ecumenical Learning from Synodal Discernment in the Early Church, Proceedings of the 22nd Academic Consultation of the Societas Oecumenica / edited by Heta Hurskainen and Johannes Oeldemann 

[ebook] Church, Faith, Future: What We Face, What We Can Do / Louis J. Cameli 

[ebook] The Christian Vision of Humanity: Basic Christian Anthropology / John R. Sachs  

[ebook] Pope John Paul II on the Body: Human, Eucharistic, Ecclesial / edited by John M. McDermott and John Gavin 

[ebook] Called to Love: Approaching John Paul II’s Theology of the Body / Carl Anderson and José Granados 

[ebook] The Doctor of Mercy: The Sacred Treasures of St. Gregory of Narek / Mayki Papazyan [about tenth century Armenian theologian]

[ebook] Caminemos con Jesus: Toward a Hispanic/Latino Theology of Accompaniment / Roberto S. Goizueta 

[ebook] My Chinese Dream: Dialogues and Encounters with Christianity / Chiaretto Yan [points of agreement between the Christian culture of unity and the Chinese culture of harmony] 

[ebook] Christ’s Gift, Our Response: Martin Luther and Louis-Marie Chauvet on the Connection between Sacraments and Ethics / Benjamin M. Durheim 

PASTORAL THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Christian Ministry in the Divine Milieu: Catholicity, Evolution and the Reign of God / Donald C. Maldari [Jesuit author]  

[ebook] Priesthood and Diaconate: The Recipient of the Sacrament of Holy Orders from the Perspective of Creation Theology and Christology / Gerhard Müller [author is a German cardinal]  

[ebook] Teaching and Learning the Love of God: Being a Priest Today / Benedict XVI 

[ebook] Called to Holiness: On Love, Vocation, and Formation / Benedict XVI 

[ebook] With the Smell of the Sheep: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests, Bishops, and Othe Shepherds 

[ebook] Priests – What Lies Ahead?: A Dialogue of Carlos Granados with Luis F. Ladaria, George Pell, Livio Melina and Charles Chaput 

[ebook] Strengthen Your Brothers: Letters of Encouragement from an Archbishop to His Priests / J. Peter Sartain 

[ebook] Priests in Love with God and Eager to Witness to the Gospel / Alfred Hughes 

[ebook] Priestly Fatherhood: Treasure in Earthen Vessels / Jacques Philippe 

[ebook] Clericalism: The Death of Priesthood / George B. Wilson [Jesuit author] 

[ebook] Ministerial Priesthood in the Third Millenium: Faithfulness of Christ, Faithfulness of Priests / Ronald D. Witherup, Lawrence B. Terrien, Michael Witczak, Paul G. McPartlan, and Kevin W. Irwin 

[ebook] Nothing but You, Lord: Reflections on the Priesthood and Priestly Formation through the Lens of Bishop Robert Barron / John P. Cush  

[ebook] Renewal: How a New Generation of Faithful Priests and Bishops Is Revitalizing the Catholic Church / Anne Hendershott and Christopher White 

[ebook] Making Confession, Hearing Confession: A History of the Cure of Souls / Annemarie S. Kidder 

[ebook] The Deacon’s Ministry of the Liturgy / Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt 

[ebook] The Deacon’s Ministry of the Word / Jay Cormier 

[ebook] The Deacon’s Ministry of Charity and Justice / William T. Ditewig 

[ebook] The Layperson’s Distinctive Role / Francis Arinze [written by a Nigerian cardinal] 

[ebook] In the Midst of Our World: Forces of Spiritual Renewal / Paul Josef Cordes [Catholic laity; written by a German cardinal] 

[ebook] Still Here: Bearing the Weight of Lay Ministry in a Disaffiliated World / Andrew Reyes 

LITURGY 

[ebook] The Spiritual Meaning of the Liturgy: School of Prayer, Source of Life / Goffredo Bosselli 

[ebook] Documents of the Baptismal Liturgy / edited by E. C. Whitaker 

[ebook] Compassionate Christ, Compassionate People: Liturgical Foundations of Christian Spirituality / Bob Hurd 

[ebook] Connecting Pulpit and Pew: Breaking Open the Conversation about Catholic Preaching / Karla J. Bellinger 

[ebook] The Beauty of the Liturgy: Ars celebrandi and the Thomisitic Aesthetics of Jacques Maritain / Donald T. Anstoetter 

[paper] Full Communion with Us: The Reception of Candidates in the OCIA / Paul Turner 

SPIRITUALITY 

[ebook] The Climate of Monastic Prayer / Thomas Merton  

[ebook] Do Not Judge Anyone: Desert Wisdom for a Polarized World / Isaac Slater [a monastic approach to everyday living] 

[ebook] The Breath of Christ: Discovering the Power of the Jesus Prayer / Hoa Trung Dinh [Jesuit author]  

[ebook] An Ignatian Spirituality Reader, Volume II: Contemporary Writings on St. Ignatius of Loyola, the Spiritual Exercises, Discernment, and More / edited by Eileen C. Burke-Sullivan, Julia A. Dowd, Mark Mossa, Stephanie Russell, and Lori Stanley 

[paper] A Woman Used by God: The Spirituality of Mother Mary Lange, OSP / Magdala Marie Gilbert [about an African American woman religious] 

[ebook] Courage and Conviction: Unpretentious Christianity / Anthony J. Gittens 

[ebook] Christian Marriage: The New Challenge / David M. Thomas 

[ebook] 16 Marriages that Made History / Gerard Castillo [particular married couples throughout history]

[paper] Achieving Chastity in an Unchaste World / T. G. Morrow 

[paper] The World of Jesus’ Apparitions: From St. Margaret Mary to Today / Wincenty Łaszewski 

[paper The World of Marian Apparitions / Wincenty Łaszewski 

SOCIAL ISSUES 

[ebook] Embracing God’s Design: Addressing the Spiritual and Psychological Crisis Behind Transgender Identity / Jennifer Bauwens and Walt Heyer  

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

[ebook] The Aesthetics of Solidarity: Our Lady of Guadalupe and American Democracy / Nichole M. Flores [Our Lady of Guadalupe as a symbol in democratic campaigns] 

[ebook] In the Twilight of the Christian West: A Theology of Mourning and Resistance / Mac Loftin [critique of right wing politicized Christianity] 

[ebook] Jubilee Economics: The Purpose, Practices, and Possibilities for a Better Future / Kelley Nikondeha [resetting just economic systems]  

[ebook] Scrolling Ourselves to Death: Reclaiming Life in a Digital Age / edited by Brett McCracken and Ivan Mesa 

ART and MUSIC 

[ebook] The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma / Victoria Whitworth  

[paper] The Holy Rosary In Chant = Sanctissimum Rosarium in cantu [multiple Gregorian chant settings]