New Titles in Theology, January 2025

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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).

The highlight this month is a new book by Professor Jean-Pierre Fortin:

[ebook] Evolving Grace: The Spiritual History of a Christian Doctrine / Jean-Pierre Fortin

Also four books by Sheptytsky Institute Visiting Scholar Father Jack Custer:

[print] It Is the Day of Resurrection: The Forty Days of Pascha / Jack Custer

[print] Rejoice Isaiah: A Lenten Journey with the Prophet / Jack Custer

[print] Rejoice, You Bring Opposites Together: Poetry and Theology in the Akathist Hymn to the Theotokos / Jack Custer

[print] Praying the Psalms in the Byzantine Church / Jack Custer

PHILOSOPHY

[ebook] God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition / Alasdair C. Macintyre

[print] I Came To Cast Fire: An Introduction to René Girard / Elias Carr

INTERFAITH STUDIES

[ebook] Restoring the Gospels’ Jewish Voice: André Chouraqui and the Intersection of Biblical Translation and Interfaith Dialogue / Murray K. Watson

[ebook] Swami Abhishiktananda: His Life Told through His Letters / James Stuart [French Benedictine monk]

[print] Une émulation de sainteté: hindouisme et christianisme en dialogue / Yann Vagneux

[ebook] The Hiding Place / Corrie Ten Boom [Dutch Christians hiding Jews during World War II]

PATRISTICS

[ebook] The Scandal of the Incarnation: Irenaeus against the Heresies / selected and introduced by Hans Urs von Balthasar

[ebook] The Confessions / Augustine of Hippo; translated by Maria Boulding

[ebook] The Theology of Augustine: An Introductory Guide to His Most Important Works / Matthew Levering

[ebook] The Life of Our Sacred Father Hypatius of the Rufinianae / Callinicus (Cistercian Studies Series, 301) [biography of abbot near Constantinople]

CHURCH HISTORY

[ebook] The Catholic Church: A Short History / Hans Küng

[print] The Baton and the Cross: Russia’s Church from Pagans to Putin / Lucy Ash

[ebook] Anthony of Padua: Franciscan, Preacher, Teacher, Saint / Valentin Strappazzon

[ebook] Men of God: Mendicant Orders in Colonial Mexico / edited by Asunción Lavrin

[ebook] Mother Teresa: Just a Pencil in God’s Hand: Reflections in Honor of a Saint / edited by Brian Kolodiejchuk

[ebook] George Cardinal Pell, Pax Invictis: A Biography / Tess Livingstone

JESUITS

[print] The Jesuits: A Thematic History / by Claudio Ferlan

[print] The First Italian Indipetae: Jesuit Petitions for the Indies (1557-80) / edited by Emanuele Colombo, Irene Gaddo, and Guido Mongini [Jesuit requests to serve in missions]

[print] Il cerimoniale per i missionari del Giappone / Alessandro Valignano [instructions for Jesuit missionaries in 16th century Japan]

[print] Confessions: The Autobiography of Pedro de Ribadeneira and Other Writings / edited by Paul V. Murphy [16th century Jesuit]

POPES

[ebook] Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II / George Weigel

[ebook] Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church / Austen Ivereigh

[ebook] The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope / Austen Ivereigh

[ebook] Hope: The Autobiography / Pope Francis

SACRED SCRIPTURE

[ebook] Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible / E. Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O’Brien [lots about the Bible, but more about different cultures]

[ebook] Sensing World, Sensing Wisdom: The Cognitive Foundation of Biblical Metaphors / Nicole L. Tilford [seeing, hearing, speaking, touching, ingesting, breathing, moving]

[ebook] Friendship in the Book of Job: Art, Context, and Theology from an African Perspective / Mark S. Aidoo

[ebook] Behind the Scenes of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts / edited by Bruce W. Longenecker, Elizabeth E. Shively, and T. J. Lang

[ebook] The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ / Brant Pitre

[ebook] The Gospel of Mark: A Theological Reading / José Enrique Aguilar Chiu

[ebook] Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans / Peter Abelard (Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation, 12)

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY

[ebook] Because God Is Real: Sixteen Questions, One Answer / Peter Kreeft

[ebook] Does God Exist?: An Answer for Today / Hans Küng

[ebook] The God Who Loves You: “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” / Peter Kreeft

[ebook] Why God?: Stories to Inspire Faith / Richard Leonard [Jesuit author]

[ebook] Christology: A Global Introduction / Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, 2nd edition

[ebook] The Emergent Christ: Exploring the Meaning of Catholic in an Evolutionary Universe / Ilia Delio

[ebook] Catholic Dogmatic Theology: A Synthesis, Book 3: On the Church and the Sacraments / Jean-Hervé Nicolas

[ebook] Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith: The Church as Communion / Benedict XVI

[ebook] Church Membership as a Catholic and Ecumenical Problem / Avery Dulles

[ebook] Confessions of a Cafeteria Catholic / Peter Kreeft and Nat Whilk

[ebook] Catholics and Protestants: What Can We Learn from Each Other? / Peter Kreeft

[ebook] Ecclesiology in Africa / edited by David K. Ngaruiya and Rodney L. Reed [essays from the annual conference of the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology]

[print] Why Christ Rejects All Church Prejudice Against Women: Meditations / John Wijngaards

[print] Heresy Disguised as Tradition / Pedro Gabriel

[ebook] Eternal Life?: Life after Death as a Medical, Philosophical, and Theological Problem / Hans Küng

[ebook] A Brief Life of Thomas Aquinas: The Theologian in His Context / Jean-Pierre Torrell

ECOTHEOLOGY-RELATED

[ebook] Earth’s Journey into Hope: Reflections on Thomas Berry’s Great Work / Brian Edward Brown

[ebook] The Gift of Creation: Theological Reflections on Ecology, Metaphysics, and Politics / edited by Mátyás Szalay

[ebook] Green Saints for a Green Generation / edited by Libby Osgood

[ebook] A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places / Christopher Brown

[ebook] H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z / Elizabeth Kolbert

[ebook] We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People / Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson [activist from the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest]

PASTORAL THEOLOGY

[ebook] Becoming a Pastoral Parish Council: A Guide for a Synodal Church / Patricia Carroll

[ebook] A Seminarian’s Toolbox: Preparing for Parish Leadership / edited by Patrick Stokely

[ebook] All Christians Are Monks: The Monastery, the Parish and the Renewal of the Church / George Guiver

[ebook] An Analytic Theology of Evangelism: A Classical Theist’s Approach / Tyler Dalton McNabb

LITURGY AND SACRAMENTS

[ebook] One Baptism–One Church?: A History and Theology of the Reception of Baptized Christians / Kimberly Hope-Belcher, Nathan P. Chase, and Alexander Turpin

[ebook] The Origins of the Canon of Hippolytus / Nathan Chase and Maxwell E. Johnson

[ebook] Mixed Marriages: An Orthodox History / Anthony Roeber

[ebook] The Sacrament of Same-Sex Marriage: An Inclusive Vision for the Catholic Church / Bridget Burke Ravizza

[ebook] Orthodox Liturgy and Anti-Judaism / edited by Alexandru Ioniță and Stefan Tobler

[print] Antiphonale Romanum ; tome I, In dominicis et festis ad laudes matutinas cum invitatoriis / Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes [Gregorian chant for the Liturgy of the Hours]

COUNSELLING

[ebook] You Don’t Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your Own Terms / Amanda Ann Gregory

SPIRITUALITY

[ebook] The Monastic Heart: 50 Simple Practices for a Contemplative and Fulfilling Life / Joan Chittister

[ebook] Dorothy Day: Spiritual Writings / edited by Robert Ellsberg (Modern Spiritual Masters)

SOCIAL ISSUES

[ebook] Be Transformed: A Biblical Journey toward a More Just World / Micah D. Kiel [Catholic social teaching]

[print] The Social Encyclicals and Saint Thomas Aquinas / Donald G Boland

[ebook] On the Dignity of Society: Catholic Social Teaching and Natural Law / F. Russell Hittinger

[ebook] Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion / Allie Beth Stuckey

[print] The Gender Revolution: A Global Agenda, A Tool for Discernment / Marguerite A. Peeters

[ebook] Who Are You, and Who Am I?: Biblical and Anthropological Models for Understanding Each Other [cultural interactions]

[ebook] Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States / Helen Prejean

[ebook] The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions / Helen Prejean

[ebook] Accountability, Healing, and Trust: Interdisciplinary Reflections for Ministry in the Midst of the Catholic Sex Abuse Crisis / edited by Kimberly Hope Belcher

[ebook] The Ethics of Disruption in Business: Contributions from Design Thinking and Catholic Social Thought / Stephanie Ann Puen

[ebook] The Role of the Congolese Catholic Church: Promotion of Economic and Social Justice in Relation to Oil / Herman-Habib Kibangou

LANGUAGE

[ebook] Easy French Reader: A Three-Part Text for Beginning Students / R. de Roussy de Sales, 4th edition

[ebook] A Short Course in Reading French / Celia Brickman

SCIENCE

[ebook] The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet / Thomas Dubay