New Titles in Theology, March 2023

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

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PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS, and RELIGION 

[ebook] The Foundations of Wisdom, Volume 1, Logic / Sebastian Walshe 

[ebook] The Foundations of Wisdom, Volume 2, Philosophy of Nature / Sebastian Walshe 

[ebook] Logic: A God-Centered Approach to the Foundation of Western Thought / Vern Sheridan Poythress 

[ebook] God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in the Light of the Philosophy of Saint Thomas / Fulton J. Sheen  

[ebook] How Should We then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture / Francis A. Schaeffer 

[print] Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth / Wahinkpe Topa and Darcia Narvaez 

[ebook] On the Meaning of ‘Miracle’ in Christianity: A Philosophical Evaluation of the Current Miracle Debate and a Proposal of a Balanced Hermeneutical Approach / T. Bersee 

[ebook] Mass Society and Its Culture, and Three Essays Concerning Etienne Gilson on Bergson, Christian Philosophy, and Art / Étienne Gilson and Henri Gouhier 

[print] Modernity and Transcendence: A Dialogue with Charles Taylor / edited by Anthony J. Carroll 

[print] “L’Affirmation” de L’Homme dans le Personnalisme de Jacques Maritain: Et Son Apport dans la Vision Intégrale de L’Être Humain / Wojciech Gliniecki 

[ebook] The Historical Development of Fundamental Moral Theology in the United States / edited by Charles E. Curran (Readings in Moral Theology, 11) 

[print] Valentin Tomberg and the Ecclesia Universalis: A Biography, the Unity of Exoteric & Esoteric Christianity / Harrie Salman 

[ebook] How to Be an Atheist: Why Many Skeptics Aren’t Skeptical Enough / Mitch Stokes 

[ebook] The Concept of God, the Origin of the World, and the Image of the Human in World Religions / edited by P. Koslowski 

[ebook] Nature and Technology in the World Religions / edited by P. Koslowski 

[ebook] Ancient Roots of Creation and Afterlife Beliefs / Mitra Ara [Ancient Near East religions] 

GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY 

[ebook] A Tapestry of Global Christology: Weaving a Three-Stranded Theological Cord / Isuwa Y. Atsen 

[ebook] A History of the Christian Tradition: From the Reformation to the Present / Thomas C. McGonigle and James F. Quigley 

[ebook] The Byzantine Empire / Robert Browning (revised edition) 

[ebook] Christianity and European Culture: Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson 

[ebook] The Russian Orthodox Church and Modernity: A Historical and Theological Investigation into Eastern Christianity Between Unity and Plurality / Regina Elsner 

[print] Avec le Coeur et le Regard du Père Henri Planchat: Religieux de Saint-Vincent de Paul, Martyr de Paris, 1871 / François Vayne [French priest martyred during the Paris Commune] 

[ebook] Controversial Concordats: The Vatican’s Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler / edited by Frank J. Coppa 

[ebook] How Latin America Saved the Soul of the Catholic Church / Edward L. Cleary 

[ebook] Bartolome de las Casas: Great Prophet of the Americas / Paul S. Vickery 

[ebook] Saint Charles de Foucauld: Passionné de Dieu / Jacques Gauthier [French hermit and martyr in Algeria] 

[ebook] Discourses on Indigenous-Christian Elites in Colonial Societies in Asia / edited by Klaus Koschorke, Adrian Hermann, E. Phuti Mogase, and Ciprian Burlacioiu 

[ebook] Christianity in India: Conversion, Community Development, and Religious Freedom / edited by Rebecca Samuel Shah and Joel Carpenter 

[print] Saint François Xavier: Le Missionnaire / Aimé Richardt 

[ebook] Shaping of Christianity in Greater China: Indigenous Christians in Focus / Paul Woods 

[ebook] Wise Man from the East: Critique of Indigenous Theology; Critique of Humanism / Lit-Shen Chang 

PATRISTICS 

[ebook] Commentary on the Didache and on 1-2 Clement / Rudolf Knopf 

[ebook] Jerome, Epistle 106 (On the Psalms) / edited by Michael Graves (Writings of the Greco-Roman World, 47) 

[ebook] The Reception of John Chrysostom in Early Modern Europe: Translating and Reading a Greek Church Father from 1417 to 1624 / Sam Kennerley 

SACRED SCRIPTURE 

[ebook] The Paulist Biblical Commentary / edited by José Enrique Aguilar Chiu, Richard J. Clifford, Carol J. Dempsey, Eileen M. Schuller, Thomas D. Stegman, and Ronald D. Witherup 

[ebook] The Baker Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words / edited by Tremper Longman, III, and Mark L. Strauss 

[ebook] The Concise New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology and Exegesis / Christopher A. Bee 

[ebook] The Old and the New: Christ as the Center of Both Testaments / Laurent Clémenceau 

[ebook] Confessing Community: An Entryway to Theological Interpretation in North-East India / Taimaya Ragui [theological interpretation of Scripture and tribal theology] 

[ebook] The Septuagint: What It Is and Why It Matters / Gregory R. Lanier and William A. Ross 

[ebook] Spoken Into Being: Self and Name(s) in the Hebrew Bible / Søren Lorenzen 

[ebook] “Now These Records are Ancient”: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical History, Language and Culture in Honor of K. Lawson Younger, Jr. / James K. Hoffmeier, Richard E. Averbeck, J. Caleb Howard, and Wolfgang Zwickel 

[ebook] Murmuring against Moses: The Contentious History and Contested Future of Pentateuchal Studies / John S. Bergsma and Jeffrey L. Morrow 

[ebook] Sabbath in the Making: A Study of the Inner-Biblical Interpretation of the Sabbath Commandment / Ottilia Lukacs 

[print] The Economy of Deuteronomy’s Core / Philippe Guillaume 

[ebook] Honor and Shame in 1 Samuel 1-7 / Bin Kang [includes honor/shame cultures in Asia] 

[ebook] The Love of Loves in the Song of Songs / Philip Ryken 

[ebook] Jonah: A Commentary / Susan Niditch (Hermeneia) 

[ebook] Ezekiel, Law, and Judahite Identity: A Case for Identity in Ezekiel 1-33 / Joel B. Kemp (Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. Reihe, 123) 

[ebook] Prophetic Conflicts in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Micah: How Post-Exilic Ideologies Created the False (and the True) Prophets / Francesco Arena (Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. Reihe, 121) 

[ebook] Canon Revisited: Establishing the Origins and Authority of the New Testament Books / Michael J. Kruger 

[ebook] The Jews in the Time of Jesus: An Introduction / Stephen M. Wylen 

[ebook] Love Your Enemies: Jesus’ Love Command in the Synoptic Gospels and the Early Christian Paraenesis / John Piper 

[ebook] The Massacre of the Innocents: Studies in the Cultural Afterlife of a Gospel Scene / Warren Carter 

[ebook] The Sudarium of Oviedo: Signs of Jesus Christ’s Death / César Barta [cloth believed to have been wrapped around Jesus’ head after his death] 

[print] L’École de Jésus dans l’Évangile de Matthieu / Alain de Boudemange 

[print] The Man Who Left His Mark: How Mark’s Gospel Answers Modern Questions / Peter Kreeft 

[ebook] Communal Participation in the Spirit: The Corinthian Correspondence in Light of Early Jewish Mysticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Christopher G. Foster 

[ebook] Women in the Church: An Interpretation and Application of 1 Timothy 2:9-15 / edited by Andreas J. Köstenberger and Thomas R. Schreiner (3rd edition) 

[ebook] Recovering the Monstrous in Revelation / Heather Macumber [2012 USMC PhD graduate] 

[ebook] The Heart of Anger: How the Bible Transforms Anger in Our Understanding and Experience / Christopher Ash and Steve Midgley 

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Basic Christianity / John R. W. Stott (3rd edition) 

[ebook] Why Believe?: A Reasoned Approach to Christianity / Neil Shenvi 

[print] Christianity is Credible / Louis-Marie de Blignieres [author is the founder of the Fraternity of Saint Vincent Ferrer, a religious institute which uses the Dominican Rite] 

[ebook] Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith / Robert E. Barron [bishop of Winona-Rochester] 

[print] La Foi: Le Bien le Plus Précieux: Catéchèses du 17 octobre 2012 au 13 février 2013 / Benoît XVI 

[ebook] Introduction to Scholastic Theology / Ulrich G. Leinsle 

[ebook] The Trinity and the Spirit: Two Essays from Christian Dogmatics / Robert W. Jenson [from the classic work published in 1984] 

[ebook] The Person of Christ: An Introduction / Stephen J. Wellum 

[ebook] Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict / James Crossley and Robert J. Myles 

[ebook] The Deity of Christ / edited by Christopher W. Morgan and Robert A. Peterson 

[ebook] God the Son Incarnate: The Doctrine of Christ / Stephen J. Wellum 

[ebook] For Us and for Our Salvation: The Doctrine of Christ in the Early Church / Stephen J. Nichols 

[print] The Filioque: Revisiting the Doctrinal Debate Between Catholics and Orthodox / Erick Ybarra 

[ebook] Fidelity without Fundamentalism: A Dialogue with Tradition / Gerard J. Hughes [Jesuit author] 

[ebook] God’s Knowledge of the World: Medieval Theories of Divine Ideas from Bonaventure to Ockham / Carl A. Vater 

[ebook] Elonei Mamre: The Encounter of Judaism and Orthodox Christianity / edited by Nicholas de Lange, Elena Narinskaya, and Sybil Sheridan 

[ebook] On Christians and Jews / Jean-Marie Lustiger [late Cardinal Archbishop of Paris] 

[print] Ordered by Love: An Introduction to John Duns Scotus / Thomas M. Ward 

[ebook] Introducing Nicholas of Cusa: A Guide to a Renaissance Man / edited by Christopher M. Bellitto, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Gerald Christianson 

[ebook] Space, Time, and Science/ Raimon Panikkar 

[ebook] Bernard Lonergan: An Introductory Guide to Insight / Terry J. Tekippe 

[ebook] The Contribution of Cornelio Fabro to Fundamental Theology: Reason and Faith / Marcelo Javier Navarro Muñoz 

[print] La Voie Libre: Théologie du Franc-Parler / Bernard Forthomme [French Franciscan priest] 

[ebook] The Eucharistic Vision of Laudato si’: Praise, Conversion, and Integral Ecology / Lucas Briola 

[print] The Eucharistic Vision of Laudato si’: Praise, Conversion, and Integral Ecology / Lucas Briola 

[print] Les Moissonneurs: Au Cœur de la Théologie de la Libération / Timothée de Rauglaudre [author is a French journalist] 

[print] The Divine Project: Reflections on Creation and the Church / Pope Benedict XVI 

[ebook] Process Thought and Roman Catholicism: Challenges and Promises / edited by Marc A. Pugliese and John Becker 

[ebook] Miracles / C. S. Lewis 

[print] How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now / James K. A. Smith [importance of sense of history and time for orienting faith] 

SACRAMENTS and LITURGY 

[ebook] How the Eucharist Can Save Civilization / Jared Staudt 

[ebook] The Indissolubility of Marriage and the Council of Trent / E. Christian Brugger 

[print] Le Mariage, Symbole, Analogie et Sacrement: Le Dynamisme Eschatologique de la Conjugalité, Enquête de l’Ecriture à Jean-Paul II / Henri Delavenne 

[ebook] Women Deacons: Past, Present, Future / Gary Macy, William T. Diteweg, and Phyllis Zagano 

[ebook] Frauen ins Amt!: Männer der Kirche Solidarisieren Sich / edited by Philippa Rath and Burkhard Hose [men in support of the admission of women to the priesthood] 

[ebook] The Liturgical Cosmos: The World Through the Lens of the Liturgy / David W. Fagerberg 

[ebook] The Study of Liturgy and Worship / edited by Juliette Day and Benjamin Gordon-Taylor (An Alcuin Guide) 

[ebook] The Once and Future Roman Rite: Returning to the Traditional Latin Liturgy after Seventy Years of Exile / Peter Kwasniewski 

[ebook] The Efficacy of the Exorcistic Prayers in the Athonite Manuscript of Xiropotamou 98 (2260) 16 / Jesmond Micallef [includes extensive introduction on Jesus the Exorcist and on Byzantine exorcism] 

PASTORAL THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Why Catholics Leave, What They Miss, and How They Might Return / Stephen Bullivant, Catherine Knowles, Hannah Vaughan-Spruce, and Bernadette Durcan 

[ebook] Spiritual Care in Psychological Suffering: How a Research Collaboration Informs Integrative Practice/ Alexis D. Abernethy 

[ebook] Discipling in a Multicultural World / Ajith Fernando 

[ebook] Reaching Your Muslim Neighbor with the Gospel / A. S. Ibrahim 

[ebook] Horizons & Hopes: The Future of Religious Education / edited by Thomas H. Groome and Harold Daly Horell 

[ebook] Keeping Your Children’s Ministry on Mission: Practical Strategies for Discipling the Next Generation / Jared Kennedy 

[ebook] What God Has to Say about Our Bodies: How the Gospel Is Good News for Our Physical Selves / Sam Allberry 

[ebook] Pure in Heart: Sexual Sin and the Promises of God / J. Garrett Kell 

[ebook] The Death of Porn: Men of Integrity Building a World of Nobility / Ray Ortlund 

[ebook] Gewollt, Geliebt, Gesegnet: Queer-Sein in der Katholischen Kirche / edited by Wolfgang F. Rothe [Wanted, Loved, Blessed: Being Queer in the Catholic Church] 

[print] God’s Works Revealed: Spirituality, Theology, and Social Justice for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Catholics / Sam Albano 

[ebook] Interpersonal Reconciliation between Christians in a Shame-Oriented Culture: A Sri Lankan Case Study / Mano Emmanuel 

[ebook] Canon Law as Ministry: Freedom and Good Order for the Church / James A. Coriden 

SPIRITUALITY 

[ebook] Christian Spirituality: Themes from the Tradition / Lawrence S. Cunningham and Keith J. Egan 

[ebook] Handbook of Spirituality for Ministers, Volume 2: Perspectives for the 21st Century / edited by Robert C. Wicks 

[ebook] The Life of Jesus Christ, Part 2, Volume 2: Chapters 58-89 / Ludolph of Saxony 

[ebook] The Seven Last Words of Christ / Bonaventure and Arnold of Bonneval 

[ebook] The Life of Saint Joseph as Seen by the Mystics / compiled by Paul Thigpen 

[ebook] Saint Joseph, the Man Closest to Christ / Sebastian Walshe 

[ebook] Carmelite Prayer: A Tradition for the 21st Century / edited by Keith J. Egan 

[ebook] Angelic Virtues and Demonic Vices: Aquinas’s Practical Principles for Reaching Heaven and Avoiding Hell / Basil Cole 

[ebook] The Ignatian Way: Key Aspects of Jesuit Spirituality / Charles J. Healey 

[print] L’Institution, Obstacle et Chemin vers Dieu: Session Février 2020, Centre Sèvres-Facultés Jésuites de Paris / edited by Jean-Paul Lamy, Sylvie Robert, and Étienne Grieu 

[print] Jung on Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises: Lectures Delivered at ETH Zurich. Volume 7, 1939-1940 / C. G. Jung 

[print] Pedro Arrupe: A Heart Larger Than the World / Brian Grogan [Arrupe was Jesuit Superior General 1965-1983] 

[print] Compassionate Presence: The Trinitarian Spirituality of Adrienne von Speyr / Matthew Lewis Sutton [Speyr was a Swiss mystic, 1902-1967] 

[print] Father Stonor’s Love: Letters and Sermons / Julian Stonor [English Benedictine] 

[ebook] The Strangest Way: Walking the Christian Path / Robert E. Barron 

[ebook] The Biblical Roots of Marian Consecration: Devotion to the Immaculate Heart in Light of Scripture / Shane Kapler 

[ebook] Identity, Calling, and Workplace Spirituality: Meaning Making and Developing Career Fit / Thomas V. Frederick and Scott E. Dunbar 

[ebook] The Camino de Santiago: Curating the Pilgrimage as Heritage and Tourism / Michael Murray 

[ebook] Manual for Suffering / Jeffrey Kirby 

[ebook] Heroic Habits: Discovering the Soul’s Potential for Greatness / Ezra Sullivan [Dominican author] 

[ebook] The Virtue of Hope: How Confidence in God Can Lead You to Heaven / Philip Bochanski [the author is Executive Director of Courage International] 

[ebook] Hope: Promise, Possibility, and Fulfillment / edited by Richard Lennan and Nancy Pineda-Madrid 

[ebook] Hope in an Age of Despair: And Other Talks and Writings / Albert Nolan 

[print] Le Mal à l’Âme: l’Acédie, de la Mélancolie à la Joie / Alexandra Puppinck Bortoli 

[ebook] Overcoming Apathy: Gospel Hope for Those Who Struggle to Care / Uche Anizor 

[ebook] Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament / Mark Vroegop [see also his work on lament and racial reconciliation] 

[ebook] Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer / C. S. Lewis 

[ebook] A Grief Observed / C. S. Lewis 

[ebook] Lewis on the Christian Life: Becoming Truly Human in the Presence of God / Joe Rigney 

SOCIAL ISSUES 

[ebook] Sanctify Them in Truth: How the Church’s Social Doctrine Addresses the Issues of Our Time / Jeffrey Kirby 

[ebook] Catholic Social Teaching and Pope Benedict XVI / Charles E. Curran 

[print] Restoring Humanity: Essays on the Evangelization of Culture / R. Jared Staudt 

[ebook] Joy for the World: How Christianity Lost Its Cultural Influence and Can Begin Rebuilding It / Greg Forster 

[ebook] Post Christian: A Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture / Gene Edward Veith, Jr. 

[ebook] People Get Ready: Twelve Jesus-Haunted Misfits, Malcontents, and Dreamers in Pursuit of Justice / edited by Peter Slade, Shea Tuttle, and Jacqueline A. Bussie [includes Pete Seeger, Toni Morrison, and Flannery O’Connor] 

[ebook] Transforming Church: Participating in God’s Mission through Community Development / Tim Monger [based on work in East Africa] 

[ebook] Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution / Carl R. Trueman 

[ebook] Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism / edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem 

[ebook] The Prosperity Gospel: How Greed and Bad Philosophy Distorted Christ’s Teachings / Thomas Storck  

[ebook] Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy / Luke Bretherton 

[ebook] Communism and the Conscience of the West / Fulton J. Sheen 

[ebook] The Devil and Bella Dodd: One Woman’s Struggle against Communism and Her Redemption / Mary A. Nicholas and Paul Kengor 

[ebook] Public Theology and Institutional Economics: All Is Economy / Toine Van Den Hoogen [author is a Dutch Dominican; includes Gregory of Nazianzus] 

[ebook] Weep with Me: How Lament Opens a Door for Racial Reconciliation / Mark Vroegop 

[ebook] Cultural Identity and the Purposes of God: A Biblical Theology of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Race / Steven M. Bryan [author worked in Ethiopia] 

[ebook] The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure / Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt 

LITERATURE 

[ebook] Recovering the Lost Art of Reading: A Quest for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful / Leland Ryken and Glenda Faye Mathes 

[ebook] Becoming C. S. Lewis: A Biography of Young Jack Lewis (1898-1918) / Harry Lee Poe 

[ebook] The Making of C. S. Lewis: From Atheist to Apologist (1918-1945) / Harry Lee Poe 

[ebook] The Completion of C. S. Lewis: From War to Joy (1945-1963) / Harry Lee Poe 

[ebook] All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927 

[ebook] The Romantic Rationalist: God, Life, and the Imagination in the Works of C. S. Lewis / edited by John Piper and David Mathis 

[print] The Shining Cord of Sheila Kaye-Smith / Shaun Cooper [about an English Catholic novelist] 

[ebook] The Antichrist in Post-Soviet Russia: Transformations of an Ideomyth / Magda Dolinska Rydzek 

[ebook] Theology and the Marvel Universe / edited by Gregory Stevenson [Marvel comics, movies, and television] 

ART 

[print] Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God through Art and Time / Stephen F. Auth 

[ebook] Recent Studies on the Image of Edessa: Iconography, History, and Theology / edited by Mark Guscin 

[print] The Lindisfarne Gospels: Art, History & Inspiration, the British Library Guide / Eleanor Jackson 

[print] Cathedral Treasures of England and Wales / Janet Gough 

MUSIC 

[ebook] The Benedictine Gift to Music / Katherine W. Le Mée 

[ebook] Text, Liturgy, and Music in the Hispanic Rite: The Vespertinus Genre / Raquel Rojo Carrillo 

SCIENCE 

[ebook] The God Experiment: Can Science Prove the Existence of God? / Russell Stannard 

[ebook] God and Galileo: What a 400-Year Old Letter Teaches Us about Faith and Science / David L. Block and Kenneth C. Freeman