New Titles in Theology, August 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 

[ebook] Guide to Thomas Aquinas / Josef Pieper  

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

[ebook] Socrates Meets Kierkegaard: The Father of Philosophy Cross-Examines the Father of Christian Existentialism / Peter Kreeft 

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

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

[ebook] The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics / Henri Bergson 

ETHICS 

[ebook] By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment / Edward Feser and Joseph M. Bessette 

[ebook] The Conjugal Act as Personal Act: A Study of the Catholic Concept of the Conjugal Act in the Light of Christian Anthropology / Donald P. Asci 

INTERFAITH 

[ebook] Prayer: Christian and Muslim Perspectives / edited by David Marshall and Lucinda Mosher

JUDAISM 

[ebook] The Seed of Abraham: Intersections of Jewish and Christian Thought / edited by Michael M. C. Reardon and Pesach Wolicki 

[ebook] Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition / David Nirenberg 

[print] How It’s Made: Torah Scroll / by Allison Ofanansky 

CHURCH HISTORY 

[ebook] Reconstructing Past Monastic Life, volume 1: Bioarchaeology, Life and Death: New Trends from Archaeological, Bioanthropological and Documentary Perspectives / edited by Lluis Lloveras, Carme Rissech, Jordi Nadal, and Philip Banks 

[ebook] Reconstructing Past Monastic Life: Volume 2: Diet, Landscape and Monastic Space: New Trends from Archaeological, Bioanthropological and Documentary Perspectives / edited by Lluís Lloveras, Carme Rissech, Jordi Nadal, and Philip Banks  

[ebook] Ethiopian Christianity: History, Theology, Practice / Philip Francis Esler  

[ebook] Thomas More: A Very Brief History / John Guy [about the English statesman and martyr] 

[ebook] Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life / Diarmaid MacCulloch [about the English statesman and persecutor of the Catholic Church] 

[ebook] The Correspondence of John Carroll and Charles Plowden, 1779-1815 / edited by Thomas W. Jodziewicz [letters between the first bishop of Baltimore and an English Jesuit]  

[print] Walking with Father Vincent / Andrew McNabb [about the Irish Dominican priest Vincent McNabb] 

[ebook] Catholics Confronting Hitler: The Catholic Church and the Nazis / Peter Bartley  

[ebook] Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan: Man of Joy and Hope / Elisabeth Nguyen Van Thuan and Stefaan Lecleir [about a Vietnamese archbishop] 

[print] The North American Thebaid: Orthodox Christian Monasteries across the American Continent: A Photographic Pilgrimage / Ralph H. Sidway 

[print] The Martyrs of the New Millennium: The Global Persecution of Christians in the Twenty-First Century / Robert Royal 

[ebook] Pope Leo XIV: Inside the Conclave and the Dawn of a New Papacy / Christopher White 

[ebook] Pope Leo XIV: An Apostle of Peace / Samuel Pruvot 

SACRED SCRIPTURE 

[print] Biblical Anthropology: A Philosophical, Medical, and Sociological Sourcebook / Annette Weissenrieder, Katrin Dolle  

[ebook] Adventures of an Itinerant Imagination: Essays Celebrating John Dominic Crossan on His Ninetieth Birthday / edited by Bernard Brandon Scott [about the Biblical scholar and former Jesuit priest] 

[print] Biblia cum Glossa ordinaria, Matthew / translated and annotated by Samuel J. Klumpenhouwer [the second volume to be published of the most influential medieval biblical commentary] 

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Contesting the Body of Christ: Ecclesiology’s Revolutionary Century / Myles Werntz  

[ebook] Called to Be the Children of God: The Catholic Theology of Human Deification / edited by David Vincent Meconi and Carl E. Olson 

[ebook] In the Shadow of Christ: A Theology of Creational Suffering / Derek Wiertel [by a Ukrainian Catholic deacon] 

[ebook] Inventing Authority: The Use of the Church Fathers in Reformation Debates over the Eucharist / Esther Chung-Kim [from a Protestant perspective] 

[print] La réception du concile Vatican II, volume 1 / Christoph Theobald  

[ebook] Reforming the Church: Global Perspectives / edited by Declan Marmion [essays about synodality]

[print] Marian Approaches to Synodality / Josephine Lombardi [by a St. Augustine’s Seminary professor] 

[ebook] By Strange Ways: Theologians and Their Paths to the Catholic Church / edited by Jonathan Fuqua and Daniel Strudwick [includes a chapter by Father Andrew Summerson] 

LITURGY 

[ebook] Turning towards the Lord: Orientation in Liturgical Prayer / Uwe Michael Lang  

[ebook] Why We Gather: Psychology, Theology and Liturgical Practice / Joshua Cockayne 

[ebook] The Bible and the Anointing of the Sick: Healing in Christ / Michael Patrick Barber (A Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments) 

CONSECRATED LIFE 

[ebook] Deaconesses: An Historical Study / Aimé Georges Martimort  

[ebook] “…And You Are Christ’s”: The Charism of Virginity and the Celibate Life / Thomas Dubay 

SPIRITUALITY 

[ebook] Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from St. Thomas Aquinas: 358 Ways Your Mind Can Help You to Become a Saint from the Summa theologiae / Peter Kreeft  

[ebook] Coached by Philip Neri: Lessons in Joy / Rob Marco 

[ebook] The World of Prayer / Adrienne von Speyr 

[ebook] Living the Jubilee / Saverio Gaeta 

[ebook] The Shock of Holiness: The Romance of Everyday Life / Michael Pakaluk 

[ebook] Happy Are You Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom / Thomas Dubay 

[print] The Miracle Book: A Simple Guide to Asking for the Impossible / Anthony DeStefano  

[print] Lourdes: Healing and Rebirth / Sophie Delay 

COUNSELING 

[ebook] Principles of Trauma Therapy: A Guide to Symptoms, Evaluation, and Treatment / John N. Briere and Catherine Scott 

SOCIAL ISSUES 

[ebook] Values in a Time of Upheaval / Benedict XVI [essays published between 1992 and 2004]

[ebook] The Global Sexual Revolution: Destruction of Freedom in the Name of Freedom / Gabriele Kuby  

[ebook] The Porn Myth: Exposing the Reality behind the Fantasy of Pornography / Matt Fradd 

[ebook] All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory / Edward Feser 

[print] AI for Theological Education / Thomas E. Phillips, also available as ebook 

POLITICS 

[ebook] Faith and Politics: Selected Writings / Benedict XVI 

[ebook] The Godless Constitution and the Providential Republic / Steven D. Smith [a religious or secular foundation to the United States of America] 

LITERATURE 

[ebook] Before Austen Comes Aesop: The Children’s Great Books and How to Experience Them / Cheri Blomquist  

[ebook] A Landscape with Dragons: The Battle for Your Child’s Mind / Michael D. O’Brien [critique of contemporary children’s literature]  

[ebook] Eclipse of the Sun / Michael O’Brien [novel about a family living under a totalitarian government] 

SCIENCE 

[ebook] Creation and Evolution: A Conference with Pope Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo / compiled by Stephan Otto Horn and Siefried Wiedenhofer 

[ebook] The Case of Galileo: A Closed Question? / Annibale Fantoli 

[ebook] Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible: Including a Translation of Foscarini’s Letter on the Motion of the Earth / Richard J. Blackwell