Reading Recommendations from the Faculty
Fr. Michael J. Dodds, O.P. recommends...
Placher, William C.
The Domestication of Transcendence: How Modern Thinking about God went Wrong,
Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996. (amazon)
Wallace, William A., O.P.
The Modeling of Nature: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Nature in Synthesis,
Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1996. (amazon)
Shanley, Brian, O.P.
The Thomist Tradition,
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. (amazon)
Sr. Marianne Farina recommends...
CHRISTIAN ETHICS
Pincakers, Servais . O.P.
The Sources of Christian Ethics
Catholic University Press, 1995. (amazon
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An important overview of the history of moral theologies with an in depth study of Thomistic understanding of freedom,virtue, and moral development. The material presented in this volume is essential to contemporary explorations in moral theology.
Pope, Stephen J.
The Ethics of Aquinas
Georgetown University Press, 2002. (amazon
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This anthology of articles on Thomas Aquinas' ethics covers various aspects of the Aquinas' work. The twenty-seven articles focus on all aspects of historical and contemporary interpretations of Aquinas. It is the starting point for anyone interested in studying Aquinas' moral theology.
ISLAM
Murata, Sachiko and William Chittick
The Vision of Islam
Paragon House, 1994. (amazon
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A theology study of Islam. The authors present a unique, yet thoroughly comprehensive exposition of various aspects of Islamic belief and practice. People of all faiths will welcome this honest and deeply spiritual approach to understanding Islam.
Safi, Omid
Progressive Muslims
One World, 2003 (amazon
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An anthology covering the topics of democracy, pluralism and gender justice in Islam. The scholars represented in this volume are some of the leading Muslim thinkers in the world today. The introduction essay alone is worth the price of this volume.
Sr. Barbara Green, O.P. recommends...
Anderson, Cheryl B.
Women, Ideology, and Violence: Critical Theory and the Construction of Gender in the Book of the Covenant and the Deuteronomic Law,
London & New York: Y & T Clark International, 2004. (amazon)
Bordewich, Fergus M.
Bound for Canaan,
New York: Amistad, 2005. (amazon)
McDonnell, Kilian, OSB.
The Other Hand of God: The Holy Spirit as the Universal Touch and Goal,
Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2003. (amazon)
Fr. Edward Krasevac, O.P. recommends...
Lewis, C. S.
The Four Loves,
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1960. (amazon)
The Four Loves: one of C.S. Lewis' great classics, is a "simple," yet thoroughly profound, analysis of the ways in which human beings love (as those who have affection for one another, as friends, as "lovers," and as lovers of God). It remains unsurpassed in its interweaving of practical wisdom, metaphysical insight, and Christian sensibility.
Tarnas, Richard
The Passion of the Western Mind,
New York, Harmony Books (Crown): 1991. (amazon)
Passion of the Western Mind: this is a landmark, one-volume, narrative intellectual and cultural history of the Western tradition from its ancient Greek origins to "post-modernity." Written with great fluency and style, Tarnas makes easily accessible the broad development of the tradition in a balanced, synthetic, and nuanced fashion.
Tarnas, Richard
Cosmos and Psyche,
New York, Viking: 2006. (amazon)
Cosmos and Psyche: Tarnas' second major work is a scholarly retrieval of elements of the astrological tradition which stresses its archetypal, indicative, and participatory nature. His argument is that the Greek concept of form, which was lost in the development of modern thought, has been rediscovered in both depth psychology and archetypal astrology; the latter provides an important avenue for reuniting the subjective and objective aspects of form that have been bifurcated for so long.
Cates, Diana Fritz
Choosing to Feel,
South Bend Indiana, University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. (amazon)
Choosing to Feel: This beautifully written book develops the importance of compassion in the framework of the Aristotelian/Thomist tradition of the virtues in general, and of friendship in particular.
Porter, Jean
The Recovery of Virtue: The Relevance of Aquinas for Christian Ethics,
Louisville KY, Westminster/John Knox Press: 1990. (amazon)
The Recovery of Virtue: This was the first book of Jean Porter, one of the premier Roman Catholic moral theologians in the country. In it she eloquently develops Aquinas' basic understanding of the moral life, with emphasis on the place of the virtues in such a life.
Weinandy, Thomas
Does God Change? The Word's Becoming in the Incarnation,
Still River, MA, St. Bede's: 1985 (amazon)
Does God Change?: Although dealing with the complex development of the doctrine of the Incarnation and its metaphysical suppositions, Weinandy is able to articulate with remarkable clarity the crucial issues that the Christian tradition has wrestled with for two millennia; his sections on Cyril of Alexandria and Thomas Aquinas are particularly well-written and cogent.
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