New Titles in Theology, April 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 book by Regis Saint Michael’s professor, Sister Susan Wood.

[ebook] A Synodal Church: The Christian Faithful on Pilgrimage / Susan K. Wood 

MORAL THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Moral Theology at the End of the Century / Charles E. Curran (Père Marquette Lecture in Theology, 1999)  

[ebook] Christian Economic Ethics: History and Implications / Daniel K. Finn 

[ebook] When Stories Wound: Responsible Living in a Polarized World / Nathaniel Samuel [moral agency shaped by inherited narratives] 

CHURCH HISTORY 

[print] The Church of the East: Apostolic and Orthodox / Mar Bawai Soro [written by the former Chaldaean Catholic Eparch of Toronto]  

[ebook] Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of Its Practices and Beliefs / J. Patout Burns 

[ebook] The Latin Lives of St. Laurence of Dublin / edited by Maurice F. Roche  

[ebook] To the Other Towns: The Life of Blessed Peter Favre, First Companion of St. Ignatius / William V. Bangert 

[ebook] Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World: Chief Charlo and Father de Smet in the Rocy Mountains / Sally Thompson 

[ebook] Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic / Michael F. Steltenkamp [Lakota convert to Catholicism] 

[ebook] Diary of a Young Jesuit: All This Beauty Blooming / Barry Martinson [autobiography of early 1960s Jesuit assigned to Taiwan] 

[ebook] The Life of Sr. Mary Wilhelmina [African American foundress of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles] 

[ebook] Ethiopian Diaspora Churches on Mission: An Intergenerational Perspective on Ethiopian Churches in the United States / Mehari Tedla Korcho [Evangelical churches] 

SACRED SCRIPTURE 

[ebook] From Land to Lands, From Eden to the Renewed Earth: A Christ-Centred Biblical Theology of the Promised Land / Munther Isaac [author is a Palestinian Lutheran pastor in the West Bank]  

[ebook] How to Read Genesis / Tremper Longman, 2nd edition  

[ebook] Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy / Stephen K. Sherwood (Berit Olam)  

[ebook] Joshua / L. Daniel Hawk (Berit Olam) 

[ebook] 2 Kings / Robert L. Cohn (Berit Olam) 

[ebook] Ezra and Nehemiah / Gordon F. Davies (Berit Olam) 

[ebook] The Song of Songs / Dianne Bergant (Berit Olam) 

[ebook] The Twelve Prophets, volume 2: Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi / Martin A. Sweeney (Berit Olam)  

[ebook] Boy Jesus: Growing Up Judean in Turbulent Times / Joan E. Taylor 

[print] Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus / Elaine H. Pagels 

[ebook] The Earth Is the Lord’s: Land Justice in Luke-Acts / João Paulo Thomaz de Aquino 

[ebook] The Hour of Justification in the Fourth Gospel / Stephen C. Amador 

[ebook] Co-Stars of the Acts of the Apostles / Patrick Whitworth [studies on twelve men and women] 

[ebook] Romans: A Commentary / Beverly Roberts Gaventa (New Testament Library)  

[ebook] Galatians / Frank J. Matera (Sacra Pagina) 

[ebook] First and Second Thessalonians / Earl J. Richard (Sacra Pagina)  

[ebook] The Pastoral Epistles / Benjamin Fiore (Sacra Pagina) [Jesuit author]

[ebook] James / Patrick J. Hartin (Sacra Pagina) 

[ebook] The Gnostic Gospels / Elaine H. Pagels 

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious / Ross Douthat  

[ebook] The Divine Milieu / Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; translated by Sion Cowell 

[ebook] An Analogy of Grace / Henry Shea [Jesuit author]  

[print] Ecclesiology for a Global Church: A People Called and Sent / Richard R. Gaillardetz 

[ebook] Infallibility / George A. Lindbeck (Père Marquette Theology Lecture, 1972)  

[ebook] Whose Experience Counts in Theological Reflection? / Monika Hellwig (Père Marquette Theology Lecture, 1982)  

[ebook] A Defense of Free Will against Luther: Assertionis Lutheranae Confutatio, Article 36 / John Fisher 

[ebook] Alleluias of the Mind: The Songs of Aquinas / Dakin Matthews 

[ebook] Theology of Fear in Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae / Nathan Luis Cartagena 

[ebook] The Power and Vulnerability of Love: A Theological Anthropology / Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo 

[ebook] “Without Ceasing to Be a Christian”: A Catholic and Protestant Assess the Christological Contribution of Ramon Panikkar / Erik Ranstrom and Bob Robinson 

[ebook] Erich Przywara, S.J.: His Theology and His World / Thomas F. O’Meara 

PASTORAL THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Witnesses of Synodality: Good Practices and Experiences / edited by Jos Moons  

[ebook] Call to Allyship: Preparing Your Congregation for Leaders of Color / edited by Angela T. !Khabeb [Lutheran perspective]  

CANON LAW 

[ebook] From Vision to Legislation: From the Council to a Code of Laws / Ladislas M. Orsy (Père Marquette Theology Lecture, 1985)  

[ebook] Bending toward Justice: Sr. Kate Kuenstler and the Struggle for Parish Rights / Christine Schenk [history of various United States canon law cases] 

SPIRITUALITY 

[ebook] The Sacred Heart: A Love for All Time / Dawn Eden Goldstein  

[print] The Definitive Guide to Catholic Fasting & Abstinence / Mathew R. Plese  

[ebook] The Battle of the Virtues and Vices: Defending the Interior Castle of the Soul / Leo IX  

[ebook] Liber Christo Method: A Field Manual for Spiritual Combat / Dan Schneider [release from demonic influence] 

[ebook] Terror of Demons: Reclaiming Traditional Catholic Masculinity / Kennedy Hall  

[ebook] Firm Footsteps: Seven Timeless Christian Practices for Journeying Disciples / Joseph T. LaBelle 

[ebook] Circles and the Cross: Cosmos, Consciousness, Christ and the Human Place in Creation / Loren Wilkinson 

[ebook] The Practice of Spiritual Direction / William A. Barry and William J. Connolly, 2nd edition 

IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY 

[ebook] What Is Ignatian Spirituality? / David L. Fleming 

[ebook] Ignatian Spirituality from A-Z: The Essential Guide to All Things Jesuit / Jim Manney 

[ebook] Making Choices in Christ: The Foundations of Ignatian Spirituality / Joseph A. Tetlow 

[ebook] The Ignatian Tradition / Kevin F. Burke and Eileen Burke-Sullivan 

[ebook] To the Greater Glory: A Psychological Study of Ignatian Spirituality / W. W. Meissner 

SOCIAL ISSUES 

[ebook] Catholics for the Common Good: An Eternal Offering / Daryl Russell Grigsby [thirty short biographies]  

[ebook] Motherhood Redeemed: How Radical Feminism Betrayed Maternal Love / Kimberly Cook 

[ebook] The Catholic Church and the Struggle for Racial Justice: A Prophetic Call / Mathew Kappadakunnel 

[ebook] On Class / Deborah Dundas [talking about poverty, by a Toronto author]  

[ebook] Sacred Resistance: Eco-Activism and the Rise of New Spiritual Communities / edited by Mark Clatterbuck 

[ebook] Should War Be Eliminated?: Theological & Philosophical Investigations / Stanley Hauerwas (Père Marquette Theology Lecture, 1984) 

[ebook] Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza / Munther Isaac [author is a Palestinian Lutheran pastor in the West Bank] 

[ebook] The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope / Munther Isaac [author is a Palestinian Lutheran pastor in the West Bank] 

[ebook] The Persistence of the Ideological Lie:  The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now / Daniel J. Mahoney 

ART 

[ebook] In the Beauty of Holiness: Art and the Bible in Western Culture / David Lyle Jeffrey 

LITERATURE 

[ebook] Catholic Horror and Rhetorical Dialectics / Gavin F. Hurley [horror fiction including Robert Hugh Benson]

[ebook] Letter to the Future: A Novel / Michael D. O’Brien [by the Canadian author of Father Elijah] 

SCIENCE 

[ebook] Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Catholic Faith: Are We Alone in the Universe with God and the Angels? / Paul Thigpen 

[ebook] 101 Questions & Answers on Catholicism and Evolution / Louis M. Savary  

[print] A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design / Martin Hilbert [author is a Toronto Oratorian]