New Titles in Theology, February 15 to February 28, 2023

Links for ebooks go directly to the ebook (after patron authentication). Links for print books go to the University of Toronto Library Catalogue record where patrons can obtain a call number or submit a pickup request.

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, ETHICS and RELIGION 

[ebook] Reading Religious Ritual with Ricoeur: Between Fragility and Hope / Christina M. Gschwandtner 

[print] Bien Commun et Éthique Chrétienne / David Hollenbach  

[ebook] Conforming to Right Reason: On the Ends of the Moral Virtues and the Roles of Prudence and Synderesis / Ryan J. Brady 

[ebook] True Crime and the Justice of God: Ethics, Media, and Forensic Science / Elizabeth T. Vasko and Lyndsie Ferrara [includes racialization of crime]  

[ebook] Disability Ethics and Preferential Justice: A Catholic Perspective / Mary Jo Iozzio 

[ebook] The Production of Consumers and the Formation of Desire: A Neo-Thomist Perspective / Christine Darr 

[ebook] No Power over God’s Bounty: A Christian Commentary on the “People of Scripture” in the Qur’an / Pim Valkenberg 

PATRISTICS 

[ebook] Africa and the Early Church: The Almost-Forgotten Roots of Catholic Christianity / Mike Aquilina 

[ebook] The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor / Jordan Daniel Wood 

[ebook] Hymns of Repentance / Romanos the Melodist 

[ebook] The Song of Tears: An Essay on Repentance Based on the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete / Olivier Clement 

CHURCH HISTORY 

[print] The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle Over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God / Robin Vose 

[ebook] The Gospel in Latin America: Historical Studies in Evangelicalism and the Global South / edited by David W. Bebbington 

[print] Saint Vincent de Paul et les missions Lazaristes en Europe au 17e siècle / Marc Thieffry 

[ebook] Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South / Barbara E. Mattick [includes education of African-American children] 

[ebook] Gratitude and Grit: The Life of Blessed Solanus Casey / Leo Wollenweber [American Capuchin friar (1870-1957) beatified in 2017] 

[ebook] Journey to Freedom / Sergei Ovsiannikov [Russian Orthodox priest imprisoned for his faith] 

SACRED SCRIPTURE 

[ebook] Between Heaven and Earth: New Explorations of Great Biblical Texts / Gerhard Lohfink 

[ebook] What is Structural Exegesis? / Daniel Patte 

[ebook] Receiving the Bible in Faith: Historical and Theological Exegesis / David M. Williams 

[ebook] Verbum Domini and the Complementarity of Exegesis and Theology / Carl Scott [responses to Pope Benedict XVI’s 2010 apostolic exhortation] 

[ebook] Medieval Exegesis: The Four Senses of Scripture, volume 1 / Henri de Lubac 

[ebook] Medieval Exegesis: The Four Senses of Scripture, volume 2 / Henri de Lubac 

[ebook] Medieval Exegesis: The Four Senses of Scripture, volume 3 / Henri de Lubac 

[ebook] A Biblical Approach to Mission in Context: A Festschrift in Honor of Sr. Prof. Teresa Okure, SHCJ / edited by Michael Ufok Udoekpo [Okure taught Biblical theology at the Catholic Institute of West Africa in Nigeria] 

[print] L’Amitié dans la Bible / Benoît Standaert 

[print] Praise Be Peace: Psalms of Peace and Nonviolence in a Time of War and Climate Change / John Dear 

[ebook] Theologies of Human Agency: Counterbalancing Divine In/Activity in the Megilloth / Megan Fullerton Strollo [Ruth and Esther] 

[ebook] To Unite the Scattered Children of God: Hope for the Spiritual Uniting of Humanity, From Isaiah to the Present Day / Stephen Finlan 

[ebook] Joel, Obadiah, Micah / Daniel Epp-Tiessen (Believers Church Bible Commentary) 

[ebook] Encountering the New Testament: A Historical and Theological Survey / Walter A. Elwell and Robert W. Yarbrough (4th edition) 

[ebook] Irrepressible Light: The Women of the New Testament / Patricia Sharbaugh 

[ebook] Archaeology and the Itinerant Jesus: A Historical Enquiry into Jesus Itinerant Ministry in the North / A. A. Lloyc (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe, 564) 

[ebook] The Cross-and-Resurrection: The Supreme Sign in John’s Gospel / Deolito V. Vistar, Jr. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe, 508) 

[ebook] For the Life of the World: The Multiplication of Simon Peter / Johannes W. H. van der Bijl [narrative retelling about Peter in Acts] 

[ebook] Baptism as an Event of Taking Responsibility: A New Reading of Romans 5:12 to 6:23 / Pontien Ndagijimana Batibuka [author teaches in the Democratic Republic of the Congo] 

[ebook] “Silence” in Translation: 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 In Myanmar and the Development of Critical Contextual Hermeneutic / Anna Sui Hluan [author from Myanmar] 

[ebook] 1 & 2 Thessalonians / Molly T. Marshall (Belief Commentary) 

[ebook] 1-2 Peter and Jude / Pheme Perkins, Eloise Tosenblatt, and Patricia McDonald (Wisdom Commentary) 

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Constructive Realism, Incarnation, and Experience of God / Jeffrey S. Privette [epistemology and ecclesiology] 

[ebook] Courageous Humility: Reflections on the Church, Diakonia, and Deacons / William T. Ditewig 

[ebook] Enabling Dialogue about the Land: A Resource Book for Jews and Christians / edited by Philip A. Cunningham, Ruth Langer, and Jesper Svartvik 

[ebook] Martin Luther and the Council of Trent: The Battle over Scripture and the Doctrine of Justification / Peter M. Folan 

[ebook] Motherly: Reimagining the Maternal Body in Feminist Theology and Contemporary Art / Rebekah Pryor 

[ebook] Following Jesus in a Warming World: A Christian Call to Climate Action / Kyle Meyaard-Schaap 

[ebook] Ecology of Vocation: Recasting Calling in a New Planetary Era / Kiara A. Jorgenson 

[print] Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual / Joyce White 

[ebook] Toward a Micro-Political Theology: A Dialogue between Michel Foucault and Liberation Theologies / Yin-Am Chen 

[ebook] The Superiority of an Evangelical Model of Religious Liberty: A Critique of Secular and Roman Catholic Conceptions / Daniel J. Trippie 

[ebook] An Asian Theology of Liberation / Aloysius Pieris [author is a Jesuit priest from Sri Lanka] 

[ebook] The Evangelical Theology of the Orthodox Church / Bradley Nassif [Lebanese-American Orthodox theologian who formerly taught at an Evangelical university] 

[ebook] The Time Has Come: Debates over the OCA Autocephaly Reflected in St. Vladimir’s Quarterly 

[ebook] The Papacy: Revisiting the Debate between Catholics and Orthodox / Erick Ybarra 

[ebook] An Evangelical Adrift: The Making of John Henry Newman’s Theology / Geertjan Zuijdwegt 

[ebook] The Trinitarian Wisdom of God: Louis Bouyer’s Theology of the God-World Relationship / Keith Edward Lemna 

[ebook] God’s World, No String Puppets: Providence in the Writings of Romano Guardini / Jane Lee-Barker 

[ebook] Love Become Incarnate: Essays in Honor of Bruce D. Marshall / edited by Justus H. Hunter, T. Adam Van Wart, and David L. Whidden III [essays on Anselm, Aquinas, Scotus, and Wesley] 

SOCIAL TEACHINGS 

[ebook] Siblings All, Signs of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis / Michael Czerny and Christian Barone 

[ebook] Strangers and Scapegoats: Extending God’s Welcome to Those on the Margins / Matthew S. Vos 

[ebook] Just Church: Catholic Social Teaching, Synodality, and Women / Phyllis Zagano 

[ebook] Forbidden: Receiving Pope Francis’s Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons / edited by Drew Christiansen and Carole Sargent 

[ebook] A Theology of Migration: The Bodies of Refugees and the Body of Christ/ Daniel G. Groody 

[print] Charité Politique / Benoît XVI [speeches to politicians in Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, and Great Britain]

PASTORAL THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Worship and Church: An Ecclesial Liturgy: Essays in Honor of Gerard Austin, OP / Sallie Latkovich 

[ebook] New Trends in Mission: The Emerging Future: Essays from Sedos Mission Symposium October 11-15, 2021, Rome, Italy / edited by Peter Baekelsmans and Marie-Hélène Robert 

[ebook] Mental Health and the Church: A Ministry Handbook for Including Children and Adults with ADHD, Anxiety Mood Disorders, and Other Common Mental Health Conditions / Steven Grcevich 

[ebook] Confronting a Church in Controversy / Bradford Hinze [clerical sexual abuse] 

[ebook] LGBTQ Catholic Ministry: Past and Present / Jason Steidl 

[ebook] Costly Obedience: What We Can Learn from the Celibate Gay Christian Community / Mark Yarhouse and Olya Zaporozhets 

[ebook] Speaking of Homosexuality: Discussing the Issues with Kindness and Clarity / Joe Dallas 

SPIRITUALITY 

[ebook] Forgotten Desert Mothers: Sayings, Lives, and Stories of Early Christian Women / Laura Swan [it looks like the link goes to a different book, but it really goes to this one] 

[ebook] Medieval Exempla in Transition: Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogus Miraculorum and Its Readers / Victoria Smirnova (Cistercian Studies Series, 296) [a collection of miracle stories] 

[ebook] The Spiritual Exercises Reclaimed: Uncovering Liberating Possibilities for Women / Elizabeth Liebert and Annemarie Paulin-Campbell (2nd edition) 

[print] Vers le Bonheur Durable: Consolation-Désolation selon Saint Ignace: Règles du Discernement des Esprits de Première Semaine des “Exercices Spirituels” de Saint Ignace / Adrien Demoustier 

[print] Dublinen. Beatificationis et canonizationis Servi Dei Matthaei Talbot, viri laici : positio super virtutibus [documents about the possible beatification of Irish layman, Matt Talbot (1856-1925)] 

[ebook] The Collected Works / Rafael Arnaiz Baron (Monastic Wisdom Series, 61) [20th century Spanish Trappist monk] 

[ebook] Father Ed: The Story of Bill W.’s Spiritual Sponsor / Dawn Eden Goldstein [advisor to the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous] 

[ebook] Thomas Merton and the Individual Witness: Kingdom Making in a Post-Christian, Post-Truth World / David E. Orberson 

[ebook] Liturgical Feasts and Seasons: Novitiate Conferences on Scripture and Liturgy, 3 / Thomas Merton 

[ebook] Bede Griffiths: An Introduction to His Interspiritual Thought / Wayne Teasdale [English Benedictine monk who lived in India] 

[ebook] Extravagant Love: The Self-Emptying of Jesus / Ruth Burrows [English Carmelite nun] 

[ebook] Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality / Matthew Fox (Modern Spiritual Masters) 

[print] Pensées spirituelles: avril 2005-mars 2006 / Benoît XVI  

[ebook] Looking East in Winter: Contemporary Thought and the Eastern Christian Tradition / Rowan Williams