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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]