New Titles in Theology, May 2026

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The date in parentheses is the original publication date of the book. 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] On the Moderation of Reason in Religious Matters / Lodovico Antonio Muratori (2024) [“doubt, authority, blind faith, the Copernican worldview, and the limitations of human reason”]

[ebook] Writings on Grace: The Complete Ecrits sur la grâce / Blaise Pascal (2025) 

[ebook] The Changing World of Atheism: Coming to Grips with Recent Atheist Strategies and Signs Pointing to God / Paul Chamberlain (2026) 

CHURCH HISTORY 

[ebook] More than Conquerors: The Churches and the Early Christians in the Roman Empire from Jerusalem to Chalcedon / Nigel Scotland (2026) 

[ebook] “Let the Children Come to Me”: Childhood and Children in Early Christianity / Cornelia B. Horn and John W. Martens (2009)  

[ebook] The Early Papacy to the Synod of Chalcedon in 451 / Adrian Fortescue (1920)  

[ebook] Between Realities and Ideals: Writing the Reform in Franciscan Observant Chronicles / Florin Leonte (2025)  

[ebook] “A Pernicious Sort of Woman”: Quasi-Religious Women and Canon Lawyers in the Later Middle Ages / Elizabeth M. Makowski (2005) [secular canonesses, beguines, tertiaries, etc.]

[ebook] Martin Luther: His Faith and His Reform / Yves Congar (2025)  

[ebook] The Curé d’Ars Today: Saint John Vianney / George Rutler (1988) [about 19th century French pastor]  

[print] The Cristero: Counterrevolution and the Battle for the Soul of Mexico / Javier P. Olivera Ravasi (2025) [1920s struggle for religious freedom in Mexico] 

[ebook] Diary of a Young Missionary: All this Freshness Fuming / Barry Martinson (2026) [Jesuit missionary in Taiwan, 1969-1976]  

[ebook] Dorothy Day: An Introduction to Her Life and Thought / Terrence C. Wright (2018)  

[ebook] A Drama of Reform / Benedict Groeschel (2005) [history of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal founded in 1987] 

[ebook] Crossing the Tiber: Evangelical Protestants Discover the Historical Church / Stephen K. Ray (1997) [story of two Baptists; also excursi on Baptism and Eucharist in the Early Church] 

SACRED SCRIPTURE 

[ebook] Cur Deus Verba: Why the Word Became Words / Jeremy Holmes (2021) [“What did God seek to accomplish by making the Bible?”] 

[ebook] Catholic Biblical Scholarship for the Third Millennium / John F. McCarthy (2017)  

[ebook] Feminist Biblical Interpretation: A Compendium of Critical Commentary on the Books of the Bible and Related Literature / edited by Luise Schottroff and Marie-Theres Wacker (2012)  

[ebook] Genesis and Christian Theology / edited by Nathan MacDonald, Mark W. Elliott, and Grant Macaskill (2012)  

[ebook] In Praise of the Virgin Mary, the God-Bearer: Alan of Lille’s Concise Elucidation of the Song of Songs (Cistercian Fathers Series; 2025)  

[ebook] Fundamentals of New Testament Greek / Stanley E. Porter, Jeffrey T. Reed, and Matthew Brook O’Donnell (2010)  

[ebook] Finding Phoebe: What New Testament Women Were Really Like / Susan E. Hylen (2023) 

[ebook] Four Gospels, One Jesus?: A Symbolic Reading / Richard A. Burridge, 3rd edition (2014) 

[ebook] Following Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship / N. T. Wright (1994)  

[ebook] The Discourses of Controversy: Meditations on John 6-12 / Adrienne von Speyr (1993)  

[ebook] Framing Paul: An Epistolary Biography / Douglas A. Campbell (2014)  

[print] The Transcendent Christ: St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews / edited by John P. Joy and Peter A. Kwasniewski (2026) 

[ebook] Athirst for the Spirit: Biblical Wisdom for Desert Times / Nina Sophie Heereman (2023) [“the Spirit-bearing mission of woman”] 

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 

[ebook] Credo for Today: What Christians Believe / Benedict XVI (2009)  

[ebook] The Distinctiveness of Christianity: Can We Be Sure of the Things That Matter Most to Us? / James V. Schall (1983) [Jesuit author] 

[ebook] Reassessing Faith and Reason: A Study of McCool, Dei filius, and Lonergan / Jeffrey A. Allen (2026) [by a graduate of the St. Michael’s Faculty of Theology]

[print] The Lion Has Conquered: An Introduction to Catholic Soteriology / Daniel Robert Waldow (2026) 

[ebook] The Augustinian Person / Peter Burnell (2005)  

[ebook] Divine Light: The Theology of Denys the Areopagite / William K. Riordan (2008)  

[ebook] Becoming God: The Doctrine of Theosis in Nicholas of Cusa / Nancy J. Hudson (2007) 

[ebook] One and Holy: Essential Ecclesiological Writings (1883-1888) / Vladimir Solovyov (2026) [by a 19th century Russian philosopher] 

[ebook] The Divine Project: Reflections on Creation and the Church / Benedict XVI (2022)  

[ebook] Daughter Zion: Meditations on the Church’s Marian Belief / Benedict XVI (1983)  

[ebook] Essential Teachings on Unity / Chiara Lupich (2026)  

[ebook] Dare We Hope “That All Men Be Saved”?: With a Short Discourse on Hell / Hans Urs von Balthasar (2014)  

[ebook] Did Christianity Replace Judaism?: The Problem of Supersessionism / Alan C. Mitchell (2025)  

[ebook] Amen: Jews, Christians, and Muslims Keep Faith with God / Patrick J. Ryan (2018) [Jesuit author]

THOMAS AQUINAS 

[ebook] Aquinas’s Summa: Background, Structure, & Reception / Jean-Pierre Torrell (2005) [Dominican author]

ebook] Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel: Thomistic Reflections on the Problem of Evil / John F. X. Knasas (2013) 

[ebook] Aquinas on the Divine Ideas as Exemplar Causes / Gregory T. Noolan (2008) 

[ebook] Aquinas the Augustinian / edited by Michael Dauphais, Barry David, and Matthew Levering (2007) 

[ebook] Anatomy of Transcendence: Mental Excess and Rapture in the Thought and Life of Thomas Aquinas / Peter A. Kwasniewski (2025) 

[ebook] Aquinas & Sartre: On Freedom, Personal Identity, and the Possibility of Happiness / Stephen Wang (2009) 

PASTORAL THEOLOGY 

[print] Come Dance with Me: A Medicine Wheel Practice of Anishinaabe Catholic Interculturation of Faith / Eva Solomon (2022) 

[ebook] Base Ecumenism: Latin American Contributions to Ecumenical Praxis and Theology / Raimundo C. Barretto (2025) 

[ebook] Words of Life: The Preaching of St. Oscar Romero / Todd Walatka (2026) 

[ebook] Training the Tongue and Growing Beyond Sins of Speech / Gregory Pine (2026) [Dominican author] 

[ebook] Pardon & Peace: The Science and Theology of Interpersonal Forgiveness / John Burns (2026) 

[ebook] Doctor and Patient / Adrienne von Speyr (2025) [the calling of a Catholic doctor or nurse] 

[print] Clericalism: The Institutional Dimension of the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis / C. Colt Anderson (2026)

[ebook] Witnessing the Wounds: Catholic Theology, Trauma, and Social Healing / edited by Stephanie Edwards (2026)  

[ebook] From Here to Maturity: Overcoming the Juvenilization of American Christianity / Thomas E. Bergler (2014) 

LITURGY 

[ebook] The Dynamics of the Liturgy: Joseph Ratzinger’s Theology of Liturgy / D. Vincent Twomey (2022)  

[print] Incarnate in Word and Song: Exploring Music in Liturgy and Life / Orin Johnson (2023)  

[ebook] Praying by the Rules: What Autistic People Teach the Church about Prayer / Helena Cundill (2026) 

SPIRITUALITY 

[ebook] Earthen Vessels: The Practice of Personal Prayer according to the Patristic Tradition / Gabriel Bunge (2002)  

[ebook] The Desert Fathers: Anthony and the Beginnings of Monasticism / Peter H. Gorg (2011)  

[ebook] The Teachings of Neilos of Ancyra: Three Essential Works from Early Christianity / edited by Tim Vivian (2026) [by a fifth century monk]  

[ebook] The Meditations with a Monastic Commentary / William of Saint Thierry (Cistercian Fathers Series 91) (2022) [author was a 12th century Cistercian]

[ebook] Holy Mountains, Holy Men: The Spirituality of Mount Athos / edited by Graham Speake (2025)  

[ebook] Drink of the Stream: Prayers of Carmelites / edited by Penny Hickey (2002) 

[ebook] Drawn to God: Manual for the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius under the Guidance of Saint Augustine / Joaquim Meseguer García (2012)  

[ebook] The Manresa Method: An Ignatian Approach to Philosophy, Jungian Psychology, and the Enneagram / Stephen J. Costello (2026) 

[ebook] The Discerning Priest: Ignatian Wisdom for Daily Life in Priesthood / Timothy M. Gallagher (2026) 

[ebook] The More Discerning Priest: Mature Discernment in Priesthood / Timothy M. Gallagher (2026)  

[ebook] Credo: Meditations on the Apostles’ Creed / Hans Urs von Balthasar (2000) 

[ebook] Priestly Spirituality / Hans Urs von Balthasar (2013)  

[ebook] Distributed like Bread: Hans Urs von Balthasar on Discernment, Vocation, and the Priesthood / Jonathan Martin Ciraulo (2026)  

[ebook] The Cross: Word and Sacrament / Adrienne von Speyr (2018) [seven last words of Christ]

[ebook] Divine Intimacy, volume 1: First Sunday of Advent through the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time / Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene (1987) 

[ebook] Divine Intimacy, volume 2: Ash Wednesday through Pentecost / Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene (1987) 

[ebook] Divine Intimacy, volume 3: Ninth Sunday through the Twenty First Week / Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene (1987) 

[ebook] Divine Intimacy, volume 4: Twenty Second Sunday through the Thirty Fourth Week of Ordinary Time / Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene (1987)  

[print] Joy within His House: A Cloistered Nun’s Reflections on Following Christ / Mary Magdalene Prewitt (2025) [Dominican author] 

[ebook] To Live Well: Practical Wisdom for Moving through Chaotic Times / Allen Noble (2025) [the cardinal virtues] 

[print] Mysticism, Magic, & Monasteries: Recovering the Sacred Mystery at the Heart of Reality / Sebastian Morello (2024) 

[ebook] Deep Conversion / Deep Prayer / Thomas Dubay (2006) 

[ebook] Making a Pilgrimage: A Companion for Catholics / Joan Watson (2025) 

SOCIAL ISSUES 

[ebook] From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought, 100-1625 / edited by Oliver O’Donovan and Joan Lockwood O’Donovan (1999)  

[ebook] Joseph Ratzinger on Politics and Morals / Vincent Twomey (2026)  

[print] Modern Monsters: Political Ideologues and Their War against the Catholic Church / George J. Marlin (2025)  

[ebook] Empowering People through Encounter: Catholic Social Teaching and Community Organizing / Erin Brigham and Maureen H. O’Connell (2025)  

[print] The Dignity of Women in the Modern World / Carino Hodder (2025) [Dominican author] 

[print] The Big Hustle: A Boston Street Kid’s Story of Addiction and Redemption / Jim Wahlberg (2020) 

[ebook] All the Lives You Can Change: Effective Altruism for Christians / Dominic Roser, David Zhang, and J. D. Bauman (2026) 

EDUCATION 

[ebook] Flourishing Together: A Christian Vision for Students, Educators, and Schools / Lynn E. Swaner and Andy Wolfe (2021) [“purpose, relationships, learning, resources, and well-being”] 

[ebook] Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum: A Guide to Catholic Home Education / Laura Berquist (1998) 

LITERATURE 

[ebook] Acts of Faith and Imagination: Theological Patterns in Catholic Fiction / Brent Little (2023) 

[ebook] Dove Descending: A Journey into T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets / Thomas Howard (2006)  

[ebook] The Diary of a Country Priest / Georges Bernanos (1937) [new 2025 English translation, about a French priest and his pastoral ministry]

[ebook] Dayspring / Harry Slvester (1945) [novel about a researcher studying the New Mexico Penitentes] 

[ebook] A Cry of Stone: A Novel / Michael D. O’Brien (2007) [novel about indigenous people in post-World War II Ontario] 

[ebook] A Danger to the State: A Historical Novel / Philip Trower (1998) [novel about the suppression of the Society of Jesus] 

SCIENCE 

[print] What Christ Suffered: A Doctor’s Journey through the Passion / Thomas W. McGovern (2026) 

[ebook] La Formation de la pratique scientifique: Le discours de l’experience en France et en Angleterre (1630-1820) / Christian Licoppe (1996)