New Titles in Theology, July 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).

 PHILOSOPHY  

[print] Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise: Contributions of the Society of Jesus to the Discipline of Philosophy / edited by Andrew Barrette, Jeffrey Bloechl, Patrick Byrne  

[ebook] Phenomenology: A Basic Introduction in the Light of Jesus Christ / Donald Wallenfang [teaches at Sacred Heart Seminary, Detroit]

[ebook] Metaphysics: A Basic Introduction in a Christian Key / Donald Wallenfang 

[ebook] Socrates Meets Descartes: The Father of Philosophy Cross-Examines the Father of Modern Philosophy / Peter Kreeft 

[ebook] Socrates Meets Hume: The Father of Philosophy Cross-Examines the Father of Modern Skepticism / Peter Kreeft  

[ebook] Musings on a Starry Night: A Constellation of Cosmic Contemplations / Thomas Howard [short essays by the famous philosopher] 

[ebook] Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment / Robert P. George 

[ebook] To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory from Marx to Marcuse / Carl R. Trueman 

ETHICS 

[ebook] Ambassadors of Reconciliation, volume 1: New Testament Reflections on Restorative Justice and Peacemaking / Ched Myers and Elaine Enns [nonviolence] 

[ebook] Ambassadors of Reconciliation, volume II: Diverse Christian Practices of Restorative Justice and Peacemaking / Elaine Enns and Ched Myers

[ebook] American Nonviolence: The History of an Idea / Ira Chernus 

[ebook] Caesar and the Lamb: Early Christian Attitudes on War and Military Service / George Kalantzis, 2nd edition 

[ebook] The Right to Privacy / Janet E. Smith 

[ebook] Victims of the Revolution: How Sexual Liberation Hurts Us All / Nathanel Blake 

CHURCH HISTORY 

[ebook] We Look for a Kingdom: The Everyday Lives of the Early Christians / Carl J. Sommer  

[ebook] Remembering Nicaea: The Ecclesiastical History of Anonymous Cyzicenus / translated by Martin Shedd, Sean Tandy, and Jeremy M. Schott [fullest surviving account of the Council of Nicaea]  

[ebook] The Council of Chalcedon and the Syriac Orthodox Church: Efforts of Reconciliation, 451-631 / Baby Varghese 

[ebook] Christians in China: A.D. 600 to 2000 / Jean-Pierre Charbonnier 

[ebook] Merchant Saint: The Church, the Market, and the First Lay Canonization / Paul J. Voss and Donald S. Prudlo [Saint Omobono of Cremona (1117-1197), the Church, and business] 

[ebook] The Life of St. Philip Neri / Antonio Gallonio 

[ebook] Crosses in the Sky: Jean de Brebeuf and the Destruction of Huronia / Mark Bourrie 

[ebook] For the Glory: Olympic Legend Eric Liddell’s Journey of Faith and Survival / Duncan Hamilton [Protestant missionary in China] 

[ebook] Benedict XVI Rethinking Africa: Tasks for Today / edited by Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai and Kizito Forbi [essays about the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Africae munus] 

[ebook] Remembering George Cardinal Pell: Recollections of a Great Man of the Church / edited by Tracey Rowland [includes an essay by Cardinal Thomas Collins] 

[ebook] A Life in the Spirit: A Memoir / Ralph Martin [autobiography of lay Catholic Charismatic theologian] 

SACRED SCRIPTURE 

[ebook] Ultimate Bible Atlas: Hundreds of Full-Color Photos, Maps, Charts, and Reconstructions of the Bible Lands  

[ebook] Genesis 1-11: A Narrative-Theological Commentary / James Chukwuma Okoye, 2nd edition  

[ebook] First Nations Version Psalms and Proverbs: An Indigenous Bible Translation / Terry M. Wildman  

[ebook] Egypt My People … and Israel My Inheritance: The Non-Israelite Nations in the Latter Prophets / Daniel C. Timmer 

[ebook] The Johannine Gospel’s Concept of Community: An Intercultural Reading / Godibert Kelly Gharbin 

[ebook] “Do You Love Me?”: Jesus Questions the Church / Michael H. Crosby [Gospel of St. John] 

[ebook] Feasting with Demons or with Christ?: An African Spiritual Reading of Ritual Meals in 1 Corinthians 8:1-11:1 and 11:17-34 / Samantha Chambo 

[ebook] Apocryphal Prophets and Athenian Poets: Non-Canonical Influences on the New Testament / Gregory R. Lanier 

[ebook] “Come Out, My People!”: God’s Call out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond / Wes Howard-Brook 

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Catholic Dogmatic Theology: A Synthesis: Book 4, On Creation and the Creator / Jean Herve Nicolas  

[ebook] C.S. Lewis’ Case for the Christian Faith / Richard L. Purtill 

[ebook] God’s Human Face: The Christ-Icon / Christoph Schönborn  

[ebook] Conceived by the Holy Spirit: The Virgin Birth in Scripture and Theology / Rhyne R. Putman 

[ebook] On the Resurrection, volume 3: Scholarly Perspectives / Gary Habermas [Emmanuel College purchased volume 1, Evidences; Trinity College purchased volume 2, Refutations

[ebook] Man, the Image of God: The Creation of Man as Good News / Christoph Schönborn  

[ebook] Introduction to the Mystery of the Church / Beonit-Dominique de la Soujeole [Dominican author]

[ebook] The Church of the Word Incarnate: An Essay in Speculative Theology, volume 1: The Apostolic Hierarchy / Charles Journet 

[ebook] Mary in the Middle Ages: The Blessed Virgin Mary in the Thought of Medieval Latin Theologians / Luigi Gambero 

[ebook] Recovering the Eucharistic Ecclesiology of the Early Church: An Introduction to Nicolas Afanasiev / Anastacia K. Wooden 

[ebook] Between Faith and Reason: Essays on Catholic Modernism / Jeffrey L. Morrow 

[ebook] Hans Urs von Balthasar: His Life and Work / edited by David L. Schindler 

THOMAS AQUINAS 

[ebook] Aquinas and the Early Chinese Masters: Chinese Philosophy and Catholic Theology / Joshua R. Brown 

[ebook] Peace in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas: Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics / John M. Meinert 

[ebook] Christ and Spirituality in St. Thomas Aquinas / Jean-Pierre Torrell [Dominican author]

[ebook] Person Means Relation / David Walsh [Thomistic] 

PASTORAL THEOLOGY 

[ebook] For Us and for Our Salvation: A Pastoral Theology to Cope with These Strange Times / Robert E. Schmitz [author is a Cincinnati priest]  

[ebook] Theology of the Priesthood / Jean Galot  [Jesuit author]

[ebook] Understanding Spiritual Abuse: What It Is and How to Respond / Karen Roudkovski  

[ebook] Touching God: Dementia and the Bodies of Christ / Peter Kevern 

[print] Principles of Trauma Therapy: A Guide to Symptoms, Evaluation, and Treatment / John Briere and Catherine Scott, 3rd edition 

[ebook] Marriage and Family Therapy: A Practice-Oriented Approach / edited by Linda Metcalf, 3rd edition 

LITURGY 

[ebook] The Apostolic Tradition: It’s Origins, Development, and Liturgical Practices / Nathan P. Chase and Maxwell E. Johnson

[ebook] Liturgy after Vatican II: Collapsing or Resurgent? / Denis Crouan  

[ebook] Looking at the Liturgy: A Critical View of Its Contemporary Form / Aidan Nichols  [Dominican author]

[ebook] Celebrating the Holy Eucharist / Francis Arinze [Nigerian cardinal]

[ebook] The Liturgical Environment: What the Documents Say about Roman Catholic Churches / Mark G. Boyer, 4th edition 

[print] Liturgical Travels through France: or, Researches Made in Various Cities of the Realm / Jean-Baptiste Le Brun des Marettes 

[print] Mantilla: The Veil of the Bride of Christ / Anna Elissa 

SPIRITUALITY 

[ebook] Slaves of Christ: A First-Century Understanding for Twenty-First-Century Christians / Robert Gadeken [retrieving the lost sense of responsibility and obedience to Jesus]  

[ebook] Return to the Heart: The Biblical Spirituality of St. Augustine’s Confessions / Shane Owens  

[ebook] Praying with Icons / Jim Forest, 3rd revised edition 

[ebook] Into Your Hands, Father: Abandoning Ourselves to the God Who Loves Us / Wilfrid Stinissen [Carmelite author] 

[ebook] The Spiritual Formation of Seminarians: Learning to Live in Intimate and Unceasing Union with God / James Keating 

[ebook] Play, Sport, and Spirit / Patrick Kelly 

[print] Dorothy Day: Radical Devotion / Jeffry Odell Korgen and Christopher Cardinale 

[ebook] The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints / Ralph Martin 

[ebook] Santo: Varieties of Latino/a Spirituality / Edwin David Aponte 

[print] Planting with Prayer: The Catholic Gardening Handbook / Margaret Rose Realy 

[print] My Conversations with Poor Souls / Eugenie von der Leyen 

SOCIAL ISSUES 

[ebook] Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac / Steven D. Smith  

[ebook] The Way of Christ in Culture: A Vision for All of Life / Benjamin T. Quinn and Dennis T. Greeson  

[ebook] Catholic Social Learning: Educating the Faith that Does Justice / Roger Bergman, expanded edition [Ignatian perspective] 

[ebook] The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts / Gary D. Chapman 

EDUCATION 

[ebook] Foundations: Contemporary Topics in Christian Education / edited by Matthew Etherington 

[ebook] Another Sort of Learning: Selected Contrary Essays on the Completion of Our Knowing / James V. Schall 

LITERATURE 

[ebook] C.S. Lewis, Man of Letters: A Reading of His Fiction / Thomas Howard 

SCIENCE 

[ebook] How Does God Act in the World?: Science, Miracle, and Mission / David Wilkinson  

[ebook] The Origins of Catholic Evolutionism, 1831-1950 / Kenneth W. Kemp  

[ebook] Creation through Evolution: New Perspectives from Thomistic Philosophy and Theology / edited by Nicano Pier Giorgio Austriaco  

[ebook] Divine Radiance in Human Evolution / Diarmuid O’Murchu [author is an Irish priest]  

[ebook] Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply about the Meaning of Our Existence / Samuel T. Wilkinson 

[ebook] Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe / Michael Behe, Stephen Meyer, and William Dembski 

[ebook] The Uninhabitable Earth: Life after Warming / David Wallace-Wells [environmental issues] 

[ebook] Silent Spring / Rachel Carson [the classic environmental work about pesticides]