New Titles in Theology, July 2024

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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).

ETHICS 

[ebook] The Catholic Case against War: A Brief Guide / David Carroll Cochran  

[ebook] Just War as Christian Discipleship: Recentering the Tradition in the Church Rather than the State / Daniel M. Bell, Jr.

[ebook] The Dove, the Fig Leaf and the Sword: Why Christianity Changes Its Mind about War / Alan Billings 

[ebook] What about Hitler?: Wrestling with Jesus’s Call to Nonviolence in an Evil World / Robert W. Brimlow 

[ebook] Bodies and Battlefields: Abortion, War, and the Moral Sentiments of Sacrifice / Todd Ruetenik 

RELIGION 

[ebook] Religion and the Rise of Western Culture: The Classic Study of Medieval Civilization / Christopher Dawson 

[ebook] Religion and Culture / Christopher Dawson 

[ebook] Progress and Religion: An Historical Inquiry / Christopher Dawson 

INDIGENOUS RELIGION 

[ebook] Think Indigenous: Native American Spirituality for a Modern World / Doug Good Feather 

[ebook] Native American Spiritualism: An Exploration of Indigenous Beliefs and Cultures / L. M. Arroyo 

[ebook] All My Relatives: Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, and Ritual / David C. Posthumus 

[ebook] Deep Inculturation: Global Voices on Christian Faith and Indigenous Genius / edited by Antonio D. Sison 

[ebook] Gannentaha: The 17th Century French Jesuit Mission Ste. Marie among the Iroquois Haudenosaunee at Onondaga Lake / Jonathan Anderson 

CHURCH HISTORY 

[ebook] Women of the Church / Bronwen McShea [survey of Church history] 

[ebook] Apostolikos Thronos: Rival Accounts of Roman Primacy in Eusebius and Athanasius / Vincent Twomey 

[ebook] When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome / Richard E. Rubenstein [4th century Christianity] 

[ebook] Magic and Religion in Medieval England / Catherine Rider 

[ebook] Alchemical Belief: Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England / Bruce Janacek 

[ebook] Seven Myths of the Spanish Inquisition / Gretchen D. Starr-Lebeau 

[print] The Jesuits in Spanish America in 1767 / Robert H. Jackson and Juan Antonio Siller Camacho 

[print] A Defence of Monarchy: Catholics under a Protestant King / edited by Joseph Shaw [Britain] 

[print] L’affaire: les dominicains face au scandale des frères Philippe: enquête historique / Tangi Cavalin [sexual abuse by two French Dominicans; l’Arche and Vanier-related] 

[print] L’Arche, entre ombres et lumières : une histoire de l’aventure communautaire de la fondation / Jean de La Selle 

[print] Emprise et abus: enquête sur Thomas Philippe, Jean Vanier et L’Arche (1950-2019) / la commission d’étude mandatée par l’Arche Internationale

[print] Oral Roberts and the Rise of the Prosperity Gospel / Jonathan Root 

CHURCH IN CHINA 

[ebook] Ways of Confucius and of Christ: From Prime Minister of China to Benedictine Monk / Pierre-Celestin Yu

[ebook] The Iron Man of China / Paul Lavin and Robert Lavin [about Maryknoll missioner Joseph Lavin] 

[ebook] Evangelization in China: Challenges and Prospects / Kin Sheung Chiaretto Yan [especially Catholic] 

[ebook] Sino-Vatican Relations: From Denunciation to Dialogue / Ambrose Mong 

SACRED SCRIPTURE 

[ebook] Toward a Holy Ecology: Reading the Song of Songs in the Age of Climate Crisis / Ellen Bernstein 

THEOLOGY 

[print] The Longer Catechism of the Eastern Orthodox Church / Filaret of Moscow 

[ebook] The Development of Dogma: A Systematic Account / Guy Mansini  

[ebook] Five Proofs of the Existence of God / Edward Feser 

[print] Apodictic Treatises on the Procession of the Holy Spirit / Gregory Palamas  

[ebook] The Mystery of Death: Awakening to Eternal Life / Ladislas Boros [Jesuit author]

[ebook] Soul-Making by Grace: Purgatory’s Past, Present, and Future / Matthew S. Hendzel [Jesuit author; foreword by R-SM’s Michael Stoeber] 

[print] On the Dogma of the Church: An Historical Overview of the Sources of Ecclesiology / Hilarion Troitsky the Hieromartyr 

[ebook] The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy: Letters to a Greek Orthodox on the Unity of the Church / James Likoudis 

THEOLOGIANS 

[ebook] A Man Born out of Due Time: New Perspecitives on St. Anselm of Canterbury / edited by Dunstan Robidoux 

[ebook] Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature / Irven M. Resnick 

[ebook] An Anglo-Catholic Visionary for Modern America: Gordon Butler Wadhams and “The Way of Christ” / Joseph F. Byrnes [Episopalian convert to Catholicism] 

[ebook] The Personalism of Edith Stein: A Synthesis of Thomism and Phenomenology / Robert McNamara 

[print] Per amore del suo popolo: La vita eroica del metropolita Andrea Szepetyckyj (1865-1944) / Augustyn Babiak 

[ebook] Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy / Eric Metaxas [biography of German Lutheran pastor executed in 1945] 

[ebook] Melodies of a New Monasticism: Bonhoeffer’s Vision, Iona’s Witness / Craig Gardiner 

[ebook] Romano Guardini: A Precursor of Vatican II / Robert Anthony Krieg 

[ebook] Romano Guardini: Reform from the Source / Hans Urs von Balthasar 

[ebook] From Union Square to Rome / Dorothy Day [autobiography of American Catholic social activist] 

[ebook] All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day 

[ebook] Yves Congar: Journal of a Theologian (1946-1956) [French Dominican] 

[ebook] Thomas Berry, Dreamer of the Earth: The Spiritual Ecology of the Father of Environmentalism / edited by Ervin Laszlo 

[ebook] Exploring the World’s Foundation in Christ: An Introduction to the Writings and Thought of Donald J. Keefe, S.J. / edited by Keven A. McMahon 

[print] An African Perspective on the Thought of Benedict XVI / edited by Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai and Kizito Forbi 

LITURGY and SACRAMENTS 

[ebook] The Theology of the Liturgy: The Sacramental Foundation of Christian Existence / Benedict XVI 

[ebook] Liturgical Hermeneutics of Sacred Scripture / Marco Benini  

[print] The Latin Mass and the Intellectuals: Petitions to Save the Ancient Mass from 1966 to 2007 / edited by Joseph Shaw

[print] Exomologetarion: A Manual of Confession / Nikodemos the Hagiorite 

[ebook] Elements of Homiletic: A Method of Preparing to Preach / O. C. Edwards, Jr. 

[ebook] Autistic Thinking in the Life of the Church / Stewart Rapley [retaining cognitive engagement of worshippers on the autistic spectrum]

PASTORAL THEOLOGY 

[print] Redeeming Power: Exercising the Gift as God Intended: 12 Lessons for Catholics Who Lead / Ann M. Garrido  

[ebook] God’s Call Is Everywhere: A Global Analysis of Contemporary Religious Vocations for Women / Patricia Wittber, Mary L. Gautier, and Gemma Simm 

[ebook] Defend Us in Battle: Catholic Chaplains in the British Military / James Hagerty and Barry Hudd  

[ebook] The Traditional Teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tawahedo Church: Faith and Spirituality / Christine Chaillot [what Ethiopian seminarians studied traditionally] 

SPIRITUALITY 

[ebook] Love, The Driving Force: Mary Ward’s Spirituality: Its Significance for Moral Theology / Jeanne Cover  

[ebook] Asceticism and the Eucharist: Exploring Orthodox Spirituality with John Zizioulas / Maxym Lysack  

[print] Athonite Fathers of the 20th Century / Cell of the Resurrection [24 monks of Mount Athos] 

[ebook] In the Midst of Much-Doing: Cultivating a Missional Spirituality / Charles R. Ringma [maintaining social justice activism with prayer and contemplation] 

[ebook] Enduring Friendship: Sticking Together in an Age of Unfriending / Bryan C. Loritts 

SOCIAL ISSUES 

[ebook] Building a Civilization of Love: A Catholic Response to Racism / Harold Burke-Sivers  

[ebook] Being about Borders: A Christian Anthropology of Difference / Michele Saracino 

[ebook] Fratelli tutti: A Global Commentary / edited by William T. Cavanaugh, Carlos Mendoza-Álvarez, Ikenna Ugochukwu Okafor, and Daniel Franklin E. Pilario

[ebook] Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay: How I Reclaimed My Sexual Reality and Found Peace / Daniel C. Mattson 

EDUCATION 

[ebook] The Absorbent Mind / Maria Montessori 

[print] Formation in the Love of Truth: Principles of Orthodox Education / Peter Heers 

ART and ARCHITECTURE 

[ebook] The Cross and Creation in Christian Liturgy and Art / Christopher Irvine 

[print] Treasures of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin / compiled by Ruth Kenny 

FILM 

[print] Popcorn with the Pope: A Guide to the Vatican Film List / David Paul Baird, Andrew Petiprin, and Michael Ward

[ebook] Film as an Expression of Spirituality: The Arts and Faith Top 100 Films / edited by Kenneth R. Morefield 

[ebook] Movies on a Mission: American Protestants and the Foreign Missionary Film, 1906-1956 / Glenn Reynolds