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You select the book, I mail it to you, you send me the electronic review, and I post it (about 1,500 to 2,000 reviews posted since 1997). Write to Hegy@adelphi.edu/ Here is the list of books available in November:
ZECHARIAH. In the series Wisdom Commentaries. By Leslie Hoppe (250 pp – Liturgical Press). [Historical-critical analysis of the text, chapter by chapter, in a feminist perspective]
I PETER. Revised edition. Tyndale NT Commentaries. By Wayne A. Grudem (260 pp – IVP Academic). [First published in 1988. A long introduction about date and authorship, followed by a commentary of the various sections]
REDISCOVERING THE WISDOM OF THE CORINTHIANS. Paul, Stoicism, and Spiritual Hierarchy. By Timothy Brookins (340 pp – Eerdmans. [The “wisdom” of 1 Cor 1-4 refers to the Stoic philosophy that prevailed in Corinth; some members considered themselves as “wiser” philosophically and “superior” intellectually; this led to conflictive divisions. Paul refutes this philosophical interpretation of his teachings]
CHRISTIANS AT HOME. John Chrysostom and Domestic Rituals in Fourth-Century Antioch. By Blake Leyerle (140 pp – Penn State University Press). [Drawing from Chrysostom’s sermons, the author describes the home devotions of the Antioch Christians.]
JESUS AND DIVINE CHRISTOLOGY. By Brant Pitre (360 pp – Eerdmans). [In the tradition of the study of the historical Jesus, Pitre shows that Jesus made claims of divinity for himself]
TRUST IN ATONEMEMNT. God, Creation, and Reconciliation by Teresa Morgan (240 pp – Eerdmans). [This book is a further development of the author’s theology of trust: in the NT and everyday life, with chapters on trust and suffering, trust after trauma, trust in creation, trust to forgive]
EUCHARISTIC RESERVATION. Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharistic Mystery Outside Mass. By Paul Turner (180 pp – Liturgical Press). [Commentary section by section on the new edition of Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharistic Mystery Outside Mass of 2024]
Together with
SOUNDINGS ON EUCHARIST AND PRIESTHOOD. BY Michael Dellaire (100 pp – Friesen Press) Reflections from the context the Canadian ministry] These works can be reviewed briefly together or separately.
CATHOLIC DOGMATIC THEOLOGY: A SYNTHESIS. Book 3. On the Church and the Sacraments. by Jean-Hervé Nicolas, OP (750 pp – CUA Press). [Translated from German. First published in 1985]
REMARRIAGE IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY. By Andrew Das (320 pp – Eerdmans). [Review of the Jewish and Greco-Roman sources and the witness of the early church]
The nineteenth-century salesian pentecost (Classics of Western Spirituality). edited by Joseph Boenzi (270 pp – Paulist Press). [The Salesian family, the Sisters and the Daughters of Francis de Sales, the Fransalians]
Everyday Annunciations. On Learning to Say Yes. By Susan Swetnam (120 pp – Liturgical Press). [Swetnam recounts how she came to accept her husband’s death when contemplating Fra Angelico’s Annunciation. Using numerous stories of disrupted lives, she describes how to say “Yes” through six paintings of the Annunciation.]
ALL MY SPRINGS ARE IN YOU More Explorations of Great Biblical Texts. By Gerhard Lohfink (1934-2024) (320 pp – Liturgical Press). [The springs in Psalm 87 refer to Jerusalem to which all nations converge for justice and peace. Lohfink illustrates this theme through 50 short biblical reflections.]
SOCIAL CATHOLICISM FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENRTURY? New Hope for Ecclesial and Societal Renewal. Volume 2. Edited by William Murphy Jr. (360 pp – Wipf and Stock). [Proposals for societal renewal on engaging topics like Christian humanism, post-neoliberalism, biophilic markets, new economics, race, the social media, cooperation beyond borders, pastoral leadership, after populism and polarization, etc.]
