New Titles in Theology, February 2026

Links for ebooks go directly to the ebook (after patron authentication). Links for print books go to the University of Toronto Library Catalogue record where patrons can obtain a call number or submit a pickup request.

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).

A slightly shorter list this month – but with more books printed on paper than usual.  The Kelly Library purchases an ebook if it is available.  But sometimes publishers do not publish an ebook and sometimes one is not available for purchase in Canada – that’s when we purchase the book printed on paper. 

PHILOSOPHY 

[ebook] The Way of Heaven and Earth: From Either/Or to the Catholic Both/And / Matthew Becklo [polarization] 

ETHICS 

[ebook] Markets and Other Social Structures: Analyzing Moral Ecologies in Christian Ethics / edited by David Cloutier and Cristina McRorie [about the thought of David Finn] 

[print] Living and Dying Well: A Catholic Plan for Resisting Physician-Assisted Killing / Charles Camosy  

[ebook] The Christian Case against Contraception: Making the Case from Historical, Biblical, Systematic, and Practical Theology & Ethics / Bryan C. Hodge [Evangelical perspective] 

[ebook] Theology for the Unwanted: Reclaiming Your Place in God’s Church / Daniel Tillson [morality of same-sex relationships] 

[ebook] Christianity’s Missing Peace: Pope Francis, Gospel Nonviolence, and the Renewal of the Irish Church / Martin McMullan 

COUNSELLING 

[print] Dismantling Freud: Fake Therapy and the Psychoanalytic Worldview / Samuel Bendeck Sotillos 

[print] Lies My Therapist Told Me: Why Christians Should Aim for More Than Just Treating Symptoms / Greg E. Gifford 

CHURCH HISTORY 

[print] Prophet of Hope: Fulton Sheen Responds to the Modern World / Derek Rotty [about American bishop and television personality]  

[ebook] Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother / Kate Hennessy [about American social activist] 

[ebook] Hold Nothing Back: Writings / Dorothy Day 

[ebook] Thea Bowman: Faithful and Free / Maurice J. Nutt 

[ebook] This Little Light: Lessons in Living from Sister Thea Bowman / Michael O’Neill McGrath [illustrated by the author]  

[print] After Secularisation: The Present and Future of British Catholicism / Stephen Bullivant, Hannah Vaughan-Spruce & Bernadette Durcan 

 SACRED SCRIPTURE 

[ebook] Good Book: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves / Jill Hicks-Keaton [“critique of the toxicity of White evangelical apologetics”]  

[ebook] Matthew 1:1-16:20: Introduction and Commentary / Warren Carter (Illuminations) 

[ebook] Matthew 16:21-28:20: Introduction and Commentary / Warren Carter (Illuminations) 

[ebook] John for Everyone, Part One, Chapters 1 – 10 / N. T. Wright 

[ebook] John for Everyone, Part Two, Chapters 11 – 21 / N. T. Wright 

[ebook] Jesus Being Jesus: A Theological Interpretation of the Acts of the Apostles, volume 1, chapters 1-14 / Thomas G. Weinandy 

[print] Robes, Romans, and Rituals in First Corinthians: Paul and the Conflict over Head-Coverings / Aldar Nõmmik 

[ebook] Hebrews for Everyone / N. T. Wright 

[ebook] Revelation for Everyone / N. T. Wright 

The other “For Everyone” commentaries on New Testament books by N. T. Wright have been purchased by other Toronto School of Theology libraries. 

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Thinking about God: Jewish Views / Kari H. Tuling (JPS Essential Judaism Series) 

[ebook] African Synodal Theology: A Tall Tree Is as Strong as Its Roots / edited by Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator 

PASTORAL THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Practical Theology: An Introduction / Richard Robert Osmer 

[ebook] Black Practical Theology / edited by Dale P. Andrews and Robert London Smith, Jr.  

[ebook] Multiracial Cosmotheandrism: A Practical Theology of Multiracial Experiences / Aizaiah G. Yong 

[ebook] Postcolonializing God: New Perspectives on Pastoral and Practical Theology / Emmanuel Y. Lartey [African Christianity] 

[ebook] Spiritual Formation in Emerging Adulthood: A Practical Theology for College and Young Adult Ministry / David P. Setran and Chris A. Kiesling  

[ebook] Welcome as a Way of Life: A Practical Theology of Jean Vanier / Benjamin S. Wall 

LITURGY 

[print] The Mass of the Early Christians / Mike Aquilina, 3rd edition 

[print] The Sacramental Signification of the Rite of the Holy Mass: The Synthesis of St. Thomas Aquinas in Comparison with Pope Innocent III and St. Albert the Great / Dominik Pascal Witkowski 

SPIRITUALITY 

[ebook] In the Stillness, Waiting: Christian Origins of the Prayer of the Heart / Nicholas Worssam  

[ebook] The Complete Introduction to the Devout Life / Francis de Sales; translation and commentary by John-Julian 

[ebook] Introduction to the Devout Life / Francis de Sales; edited and translated by Alan Ross 

[print] Memorie secrete: giornale / Leopoldina Naudet [French-Austrian-Italian noble who became a professed religious] 

[print] Le conferenze spirituali / Leopoldina Naudet 

[print] Leopoldina Naudet: sette stanze e un’ouverture / Cristina Simonelli 

[print] The Screwtape Letters and the Catechism: Recognizing Temptation, Battling Sin, and Growing in Spiritual Courage / Marlon De La Torre 

[print] Enchanted by Eternity: Recapturing the Wonder of the Catholic Worldview / William J. Slattery 

[print] I Wait in the Night: The Death Row Journal of Jacques Fesch / Rupert Allen [about a French murderer who is now a Servant of God] 

SOCIAL ISSUES 

[print] Citizens Yet Strangers: Living Authentically Catholic in a Divided America / Kenneth Craycraft [faith and politics]  

[ebook] One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love / John Perkins 

EDUCATION 

[ebook] The Catholic School Playbook / Michael Ortner and Kimberly Begg 

ART 

[print] Russian Icons: The Oleg Kushnirskiy Collection / edited by Charles B. Edwards and Patricia Semeniuk 

LITERATURE 

[ebook] The Camp of the Saints / Jean Raspail [controversial 1973 French novel about mass migration] 

SCIENCE 

[print] In Pursuit of Wisdom: Catholicism and Science Through the Ages / Phillip Campbell