New Titles in Theology, August 2024

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

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PHILOSOPHY

[ebook] Philosophy: What Every Catholic Should Know / Peter Kreeft [an overview]

[ebook] A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century / Robert Royal

CHURCH HISTORY

[ebook] Why Study History?: Reflecting on the Importance of the Past / John Fea, 2nd edition

[ebook] The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: History in Three Dimensions / Joseph Pearce [examples of each trait from each century in church history]

[ebook] Entangling Web: The Fractious Story of Christianity in Europe / edited by Alec Ryrie and Mark A. Lamport (The Global Story of Christianity)

[ebook] Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in China / Glen T. Thompson [7th century Syriac-speaking Christians]

[ebook] The Lotus Cross: Orthodox Christianity in China and the Diaspora [articles from Road to Emmaus Journal]

[ebook] Heresy in the Middle Ages: A History of Authority and Exclusion / Andrea Janelle Dickens

[ebook] Francis of Assisi, Movement Maker: The Unconventional Leadership of a Simple Saint / Howard A. Snyder

[ebook] With Bridget in the Holy Land / Luca Cesarini [Bridget of Sweden and 14th century pilgrimage]

[ebook] Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America: Parish, Church, and Mission / edited by Kathleen Deagan [Florida]

[print] Little Do We Know: History and Historians of the North Atlantic, 1492-2010 / Luca Codignola  [includes several essays on Jesuits in New France and in China]

[print] Faith Unseen: Greek Crypto-Christianity in Asia Minor (17th-20th Century) / edited by Nectaria McLees

[ebook] Beyond the Crises in the Church: The Pontificate of Benedict XVI / Roberto Regoli

SACRED SCRIPTURE

[ebook] Hebraica veritas versus Septuaginta auctoritatem: Does a Canonical Text of the Old Testament Exist? / Ignacio Carbajosa

[ebook] Beyond the Texts: An Archaeological Portrait of Ancient Israel and Judah / William G. Dever

[ebook] A Pledge of the Truth: Theophilus of Antioch’s Doctrine of Scripture and Its Role in His Ad Autolycum / Taylor Evan Walls

[print] The Kennicott Bible: A Masterpiece of Jewish Book Art / edited by Katrin Kogman-Appel [facsimile of 15th century Hebrew manuscript]

[ebook] Genesis: A Bible Study and Commentary / Stephen K. Ray

[ebook] Jewish Temple Theology and the Mystery of the Cross: Atonement and the Two Goats of Yom Kippur / Richard J. Barry, IV

[ebook] Lectures on the Psalms / Didymus the Blind (Ancient Christian Texts) [fourth century Alexandrian theologian]

[ebook] Justice in the Balance: Learning from the Prophets / John McLaughlin (Regis-St. Mike’s professor)

[ebook] Reforming the Household of God: Paul’s Models of Belonging / Allison L. Gray

[ebook] The Divine Christology of the Apostle Paul: Retrospect and Prospect / Christopher R. Bruno, John J. R. Lee, and Thomas R. Schreiner

[ebook] The Epistle of James within Judaism: The Earliest First-Century Window into Messianic Jewish Belief and Practice / A. Boyd Luter

THEOLOGY

[ebook] What Is Christianity?: The Last Writings / Benedict XVI

[ebook] The Ex-Muslim’s Guide to Christianity / Kenza Haddock

[ebook] What Is Theology?: An Orthodox Methodology / Jean-Claude Larchet

[ebook] Theology as an Ecclesial Discipline: Ressourcement and Dialogue / J. Augustine Di Noia [Dominican author]

[ebook] Summa Theologiae Prima Pars: With the Commentary of Cardinal Cajetan, volume 1: The One God, QQ. 1-26

[ebook] Summa Theologiae Prima Pars: With the Commentary of Cardinal Cajetan, volume 2: On the Holy Trinity and Creation in General, QQ. 27-74

[ebook] Summa Theologiae Prima Pars: With the Commentary of Cardinal Cajetan, volume 3: Human Beings and God’s Governance of Creation, QQ. 75-119

[ebook] Principles of Catholic Theology, Book 2: On the Rational Credibility of Christianity / Thomas Joseph White [Dominican author]

[ebook] Vatican II at 60: Re-Enacting the Renewal / edited by Catherine E. Clifford [editor is a USMC graduate]

[ebook] The Afternoon of Christianity: The Courage to Change / Tomás Halik [Czech theologian]

[ebook] The Theology of Renewal for His Church: The Logic of Vatican II’s Renewal in Paul VI’s Encyclical Ecclesiam Suam and Its Reception in John Paul II and Benedict XVI / Douglas G. Bushman

[ebook] Toward a Synodal Church in Africa: Echoes from an African Christian Palaver / edited by Ikenna U. Okafor, Josee Ngalulu, Nicholaus Segeja, and Stan Chu Ilo

[ebook] Trinitarian Ecclesiology: Charles Journet, the Divine Missions, and the Mystery of the Church / John F. O’Neill

[ebook] Baptism of Desire and Christian Salvation / Anthony Lusvardi [Jesuit author]

[ebook] Paradise in Purgatory: The Eschatological Healing of Victims in the Catholic Tradition / Nathan W. O’Halloran [Jesuit author] [purgatory as a place for healing wounds inflicted by the sins of others]

[ebook] Remarriage in Early Christianity / A. Andrew Das

[ebook] Beautiful Bodies: Augustine, Nunc et Tunc / Margaret R. Miles

[ebook] Theology and Media(tion): Rendering the Absent Present / edited by Stephen Okey and Katherine G. Schmidt

[ebook] Work out Your Salvation: A Theology of Markets and Moral Formation / D. Glenn Butner, Jr. [theology and economics]

[ebook] Ignatius of Loyola and Thomas Aquinas: A Jesuit Ressourcement / edited by Justin M. Anderson, Matthew Levering, and Aaron Pidel

[ebook] The Threshold: Trials at the Crossroads of Eternity / Ignatius Brianchaninov [Russian Orthodox bishop (1807-1867)]

[ebook] Stones the Builders Rejected: The Jewish Jesus, His Jewish Disciples and the Culmination of History / Mark S. Kinzer [Messianic Judaism in Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodoxy]

ECOTHEOLOGY

[ebook] Rooted Faith: Practices for Living Well on a Fragile Planet / Sarah Renee Werner

[ebook] The Coming Jesus and the Anthropocene / Ryan LaMothe

[ebook] Come, Have Breakfast: Meditations on God and the Earth / Elizabeth A. Johnson

[ebook] The Heart at the Heart of the World: Re-Visioning the Sacred Heart for the Ecozoic Era / Mary Frohlich

PASTORAL THEOLOGY

[ebook] Fire of Love, Water of Life: Exploring the Meaning and the Beauty of the Easter Vigil / Goffredo Boselli

[print] Your Heart Knows the Way: A Guide to Christian-Muslim Marriage / Helene Ijaz

[ebook] Understanding Pastoral Counseling / Elizabeth A. Maynard and Jill L. Snodgrass

SPIRITUALITY

[ebook] Ignatian Mysticism: Exploring the Spiritual Exercises / Stephen J. Costello

[ebook] Praying for Freedom: Racism and Ignatian Spirituality in America / edited by Laurie Cassidy

[ebook] The Dazzling Light of God: A Madeleine Delbrêl Reader [French social worker and poet (1904-1964)]

[ebook] A New Awareness: The Theological Insights of Sebastian Moore / Dominic Arcamone [Benedictine moral and spiritual theologian]

[ebook] Return to the Center: The Discovery of India / Bede Griffiths [Benedictine monk]

[ebook] First Belong to God: On Retreat with Pope Francis / Austen Ivereigh

[ebook] The One Body of Christ in a Quantum Age / Bernard Tickerhoof [physics and spirituality]

[ebook] Friendship: The Forgotten Spiritual Discipline / Pamela Baker Powell

SOCIAL ISSUES

[ebook] The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy / Aristotle Papanikolaou [Orthodox support for liberal democracy]

[ebook] Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor / Caleb E. Campbell

[ebook] Put Away Your Sword: Gospel Nonviolence in a Violent World / edited by Michael L. Budde (Studies in World Catholicism, 14)

[ebook] Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Noviolent Conflict / edited by Erica Chenoweth

[ebook] Building the Benedict Option: Architecture, Urban Planning, and Placemaking in a Post-Christian Culture / Ward Davis [community design and architecture]

[ebook] Our Greatest Weapon Is Love: The Essential Writings of Christophe Munzihirwa, SJ [Jesuit and Archbishop of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo]

EDUCATION

[ebook] The Idea of a Christian School: And Why It Matters for the Child You Love / Tom Stoner

[ebook] Educating in Faith: A History of the English Catholic Public School / Mark Cleary

ART

[ebook] Gospel as Work of Art: Imaginative Truth and the Open Text / David Brown

[ebook] All My Eyes See: The Artistic Vocation of Fr. William Hart McNichols / Christopher Pramuk [iconographer; former Jesuit]