Other Books Received
- Other Books Received
Aram I. The Armenian Church: An Introduction to Armenian Christianity. (Antelias, Lebanon: Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia. 2016. Pp. 241.)
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Baum, Gregory. The Oil Has Not Run Dry: The Story of My Theological Pathway. [Footprints Series, volume 23.] (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2017. Pp. xii, 259. $37.95 cloth.)
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Benz, Arnold. Astrophysics and Creation: Perceiving the Universe through Science and Participation. Trans. Martin Knoll. (Crossroad Publishing Company. 2017. Pp. xvi, 201. $19.95 cloth.)
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Bruening, Michael W. (ed.). A Reformation Sourcebook. Documents from an Age of Debate. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2017. Pp. xxiv, 273. $59.95 paperback.)
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Cornelissen, Christoph, and Paolo Pombeni (eds.). Spazi politici, società e individuo: le tensioni del moderno. [Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, Quaderni, 98.] (Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino. 2016. Pp. 405. €32.00 paperback.) Among the essays in the second part, "Lo spazio del politico nell'età moderna," are "Somatizzazione dell'io nelle scienze mediche e reazioni cattoliche nel primo Ottocento," by Fernanda Alfieri (pp. 189–214), and "La Compagnia di Gesù e la modernità del cattolicesimo. Da Ignazio di Loyola a Pedro Arrupe," by Claudio Ferlan (pp. 215–37). In the fourth part, "Riflessioni conclusive," is "Politica e religione," by Antonio Trampus (pp. 363–80).
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D'Souza, Mario O. A Catholic Philosophy of Education. The Church and Two Philosophers. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2016. Pp. xii, 290. $32.95 paperback.) The two philosophers are Jacques Maritain and Bernard Lonergan.
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Dei, Francesco. La Chiesa senza leggi. Religione e potere secondo un vescovo della Rivoluzione francese (1791–1794). [Storia, 65.] (Brescia: Editrice Morcelliana. 2014. Pp. 162. €16.00 paperback.)
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Ferngren, Gary B. (ed.). Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction. 2nd ed. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press. 2016. Pp. xiv, 484. $32.95 paperback.) The first edition was published in 2002. The second edition includes revised chapters that reflect current scholarship and new chapters on the relation of new scientific approaches and disciplines to various religious traditions. Part V, "The Response of Religious Traditions," contains a chapter (17) on "Roman Catholicism since Trent," by Steven J. Harris and Mariusz Tabaczek (pp. 251–67). [End Page 403]
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Harrington, Jay, O.P. (ed.). Christian Faith and the Power of Thinking. A Collection of Essays Marking the 800th Anniversary of the Founding of the Order of Preachers in 1216. (Chicago: New Priory Press. 2017. Pp. xiv, 181. $12.95 paperback.) Contents: "'The Astonishing Wonder': Albert the Great (1200–1280), Scientist, Theologian, and Politician," by Thomas F. O'Meara, O.P. (pp. 1–12); "Meister Eckhart and the Rhineland Mystics," by Richard Woods, O.P. (pp. 13–33); "Augustine of Dacia, O.P. (†1285) and the Fourfold Sense of Scripture. The Bible in the Thirteenth Century," by Jay Harrington, O.P. (pp. 35–66); "Chenu's Vision of the Gospel and Church Institutions," by Paul Philibert, O.P. (pp. 67–83); "Engaging Modernity through Art: The Dominicans and L'Art Sacré," by Mark Wedig, O.P. (pp. 85–99); "Conflicts and Ministries: The Dominicans in Bolivia in Recent Times," by Charles Dahm, O.P. (pp. 101–26); "Channeling the Divine," by Scott Steinkerchner, O.P. (pp. 127–48); "Democracy in the Bible and in the Dominican Order," by Benedict Thomas Viviano, O.P. (pp. 149–61); "The Power of Preaching Through Music," by James V. Marchionda, O.P. (pp. 163–68).
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Kolin, Philip C. Benedict's Daughter: Poems. (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock. 2017. Pp. 80. $11.00 paperback.) The poems in Benedict's Daughter offer a spiritual biography of a remarkable woman of faith, a Benedictine Oblate and spiritual director who lived her life according to St. Benedict's Holy Rule ("ora et labora"). Though she lived and taught in the world, she "cultivated the monk within." Juxtaposed with poems on her life, other poems reflect on such Benedictine traditions as praying the Liturgy of the Hours; taking vows of stability, hospitality, and silence; plus engendering respect for the environment and all living things. There are poems, too, on Benedictine saints, abbeys, and history. This collection...
