New Titles in Theology, July to September 2023

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This month’s list includes a number of titles published in India, purchased to support research and classes in the St. Michael’s College Christianity and Culture Programme. 

PHILOSOPHY 

[ebook] Being Human: Bodies, Minds, Persons / Rowan Williams [author was Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury] 

[ebook] Leisure: The Basis of Culture: The Philosophical Act / Josef Pieper [“one of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century”]

RELIGION 

[ebook] Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam / Jon D. Levenson [challenges the idea of common religious heritage]

[ebook] Humour in the Beginning: Religion, Humour and Laughter in Formative Stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism / edited by Roald Dijksta and Paul van der Velde  

CHURCH HISTORY 

[ebook] The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity / Robert Louis Wilken 

[ebook] The Worst of Indignities: The Catholic Church on Slavery / Paul Kengor 

[ebook] The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church / Rachel L. Swarns [group of enslaved persons sold by the Jesuits in 1838 to pay for Georgetown University]

[ebook] The Evangelization of Slaves and Catholic Origins in Eastern Africa / Paul V. Kollman [Spiritan mission in present-day Tanzania]

[ebook] The Spiritual Conversion of the Americas / edited by James Muldoon [17th and 18th century missionary activity] 

[ebook] The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquouis League in the Era of European Colonialization / Daniel K. Richter 

[ebook] Spiritual Encounters: Interactions between Christianity and Native Religions in Colonial America / edited by Nicholas Griffiths and Fernando Cervantes  

[ebook] Salt and Light, volume 2: More Lives of Faith that Shaped Modern China / edited by Carol Lee Hamrin 

[ebook] Salt and Light, volume 3: More Lives of Faith that Shaped Modern China / edited by Carol Lee Hamrin 

[ebook] The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist / Dorothy Day 

[print] Glorifying Christ: The Life of Cardinal Francis E. George, O.M.I. / Michael R. Heinlein [biography of a cardinal who was archbishop of Chicago from 1997 to 2014] 

[ebook] There and Back Again: A Somewhat Religious Odyssey / Dwight Longenecker [autobiography of married American Catholic convert priest] 

EASTERN CHRISTIANITY 

[print] On the Reception of the Heterodox into the Orthodox Church: The Patristic Consensus and Criteria 

[ebook] Glorified in America: Laborers in the New World from Saint Alexis to Elder Ephraim / Holy Monastery of St John the Forerunner of Mesa Potamos [short lives of ten American Orthodox bishops and priests] 

[ebook] Christian Orthodox Political Philosophy: A Theological Approach / Pavlos M. Kyprianou 

[ebook] Global Initiatives of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: Peace, Reconciliation, and Care for Creation / edited by John Chryssavgis 

[ebook] Encountering the Mystery: Understanding Orthodox Christianity Today / Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople 

SACRED SCRIPTURE 

[ebook] The Jewish Study Bible / edited by Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, 2nd edition 

[ebook] How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now / James L. Kugel 

[ebook] The Art of Biblical Narrative / Robert Alter [the classic work on the Bible as literature] 

[ebook] The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading / Meir Sternberg 

[ebook] The Natural History of the Bible: An Environmental Exploration of the Hebrew Scriptures / Daniel Hillel 

[ebook] Wind, Sun, Soil, Spirit: Biblical Ethics and Climate Change / Carol S. Robb 

[ebook] Ecological Hermeneutics: Biblical, Historical, and Theological Perspectives / edited by David G. Horrell, Cherryl Hunt, Christopher Southgate, and Francesca Stavrakopoulou 

[ebook] Deuteronomy and the Meaning of “Monotheism” / Nathan MacDonald 

[print] The Theology and Spirituality of the Psalms of Ascents / Bradley C. Gregory [Psalms 120-134]

[print] Novum testamentum Graece / Nestle-Aland 28th revised edition [standard critical edition of the Greek New Testament]

[ebook] Who Chose the Gospels?: Probing the Great Gospel Conspiracy / C. E. Hill 

[ebook] Matthew: Interpreted by Early Christian Commentators / edited by D. H. Williams (The Church’s Bible) 

[ebook] John: Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators / edited by Bryan A. Stewart and Michael A. Thomas (The Church’s Bible) 

THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Christianity in a Nutshell / Leonardo Boff 

[ebook] The Faith Once for All Delivered: Doctrinal Authority in Catholic Theology / edited by Kevin L. Flannery 

[ebook] Persons in Communion: Trinitarian Description and Human Participation / Alan Torrance 

[ebook] Being with God: Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine-Human Communion / Aristotle Papanikolaou 

[ebook] Engaging Catholic Doctrine: Essays in Honor of Matthew Levering / edited by Robert Barron, Scott Hahn, and James R. A. Merrick 

[ebook] The Church: Theology in History / Frederick J. Cwiekowski 

[ebook] Communion and Otherness: Further Studies in Personhood and the Church / John D. Zizioulas [author is a Greek Orthodox bishop]

[print] Human Responsibility in Salvation: Understanding Christian Soteriology in a Hindu Context / Joseph Oliparambil 

[ebook] The Pastoral Luther: Essays on Martin Luther’s Practical Theology / edited by Timothy J. Wengert 

[ebook] Martin Luther’s Theology of Beauty: A Reappraisal / Mark C. Mattes 

[ebook] The Reformation of the Image / Joseph Leo Koerner [early Lutheran use of church images] 

[ebook] Engaging the Church Fathers in Nineteenth-Century Catholicism: The Patristic Legacy of the Scuola Romana / Joseph Carrola [Jesuit author] [19th century theologians Möhler, Newman, Perrone, Passaglia, Schrader, Franzelin, Scheeben] 

[print] The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II / edited by Catherine E. Clifford and Massimo Faggioli 

[print] L’evoluzione della libertà religiosa dopo il Concilio Vaticano II: Le Costituzioni e i Concordati in Polonia, Spagna, e Italia / Michelangelo de Donà and Daniele Trabucco 

[print] Mary for Today / Hans Urs von Balthasar, revised edition 

[ebook] Epilogue / Hans Urs von Balthasar 

[ebook] Resurrection Realism: Ratzinger the Augustinian / Patrick J. Fletcher [theological debates about the Resurrection] 

[ebook] Dogma and Preaching: Applying Christian Doctrine to Daily Life / Benedict XVI 

[ebook] Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures / Benedict XVI 

[print] The Church of ‘the Poor’: A Liberating Ecclesiology for the Tamil Nadu Church from Evangelii gaudium / Raphael Vellankanni 

[print] Fratelli tutti: An Indian Reading / edited by Michael Amaladoss, Antony Lawrence, and Joseph Victor Edwin 

[ebook] African Church Fathers, Ancient and Modern: A Reading of Origen and John S. Mbiti / Hans S. A. Engdahl [the resurrection in the thought of Origen and of Anglican theologian Mbiti] 

[ebook] Sallie McFague: Collected Readings / edited by David B. Lott 

[ebook] Becoming New: Finding God within Us and in Creation / Anselm Grün and Leonardo Boff  

[print] God’s Providence in Nature: Theological Reflections on Nature’s Ecosystem and Our Responsibilities / Silai Hla Aung 

[ebook] Christianity in Evolution: An Explanation / Jack Mahoney 

[print] The Concept of Inclusive Pluralism: Jacques Dupuis’s Theology of Religious Pluralism and Its Implication for Interreligious Dialogue Today / Cirilo Boloron Jr. 

PASTORAL THEOLOGY 

[print] Le reliquie nella Chiesa: Autenticità e conservazione: Istruzione / Dicastero delle Cause delli Santi [Vatican instructions about relics of the saints] 

[print] The Liturgy, the Family, and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays of a Traditional Catholic / Joseph Shaw 

[print] The Mystical Dimension of Priestly Formation Today: A Study on the Spirituality of Ministerial Priesthood in the Writings of Henri J.M. Nouwen with Special Reference to Priestly Formation in Kerala / V. M. Antony 

[ebook] Understanding Faith Formation: Theological, Congregational, and Global Dimensions / Mark A. Maddix, Jonathan H. Kim, and James Riley Estep, Jr. 

[print] Evangelizing the Parking Lot Parent: A Catechist’s Guide to “Casual-Catechesis” for Families / Patricia M. McCormack 

[print] The Obedience Paradox: Finding True Freedom in Marriage / Mary Stanford 

[print] Catholic Church and Higher Education in Kerala (A Socio-Historical Study): Social Contributions of the Catholic Church in Kerala with Special Reference to Higher Education / Gibi Jose 

[print] No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model / Richard C. Schwartz 

SPIRITUALITY 

[print] The Nineteenth-Century Salesian Pentecost: The Salesian family of Don Bosco, the Oblates and Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales, the Daughters of St. Francis de Sales, and the Fransalians / edited by Joseph Boenzi, Joseph F. Chorpenning, Suzanne Toczyski, and Wendy M. Wright (The Classics of Western Spirituality) 

[print] Seminal-Conversion Experience of Paul and Newman: A Comparison and Relevance to Contemporary Catholic Spirituality / Bosco Anthony Ryan 

[DVD] Mother Teresa, No Greater Love [documentary produced by the Knights of Columbus] 

[print] Finding Frassati: And Following His Path to Holiness / Christine M. Wohar 

[print] Money and Salvation: An Invitation to the Good Way / Andrew Geleris [charity done for our own salvation] 

SOCIAL ISSUES 

[ebook] The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights / Hans Joas 

[print] Confusion in the West: Retrieving Tradition in the Modern and Post-Modern World / Anna Rist and John Rist 

[print] How to Remain Sane in a World That Is Going Mad / Donald DeMarco [author is professor emeritus at St. Jerome’s University] 

[print] Faith, Morality, Science / Péter Erdő, József Schweitzer, and Sylvester Vizi [authors are the  Cardinal Archbishop of Esztergom in Hungary, the former chief rabbi of Hungary, and the president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences]  

[print] Catholics & Contempt: How Catholic Media Fuel Today’s Fights, and What to Do about It / John L. Allen, Jr. 

[print] To Rome with the Homeless: Eight Stories of Hope / Tanya Cangelosi, Elise Ann Allen [an American charity which takes homeless people to Rome] 

[print] Reclaiming Motherhood from a Culture Gone Mad / Samantha N. Stephenson 

[ebook] The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us / Carrie Gress 

[ebook] Metaphysics and Gender: The Normative Art of Nature and Its Human Imitations / Michele M. Schumacher [gender identity] 

[ebook] Black Theology and Black Power / James H. Cone 

ART and LITERATURE 

[ebook] All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel / Jeannie Marshall 

[DVD] Grantchester, Fifth Season; Sixth Season; Seventh Season [fictional life of an Anglican vicar in 1950s England] 

[print] Understanding the Hillbilly Thomist: The Philosophical Foundations of Flannery O’Connor’s Narrative Art / Damian Ference

READING 

[ebook] How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading  / Mortimer Adler and Charles van Doren 

[ebook] Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind / Alan Jacobs 

SCIENCE 

[ebook] A Christian’s Guide to Planet Earth: Why It Matters and How to Care for It / Betsy Painter [includes “How You Can Make a Difference” sections] 

[ebook] Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science / Jessica Hernandez [indigenous environmental work in South and Central America]