Five Books for Catholics

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Vatican II: Catholic Doctrines on Jews and Muslims by Gavin d’Costa
2. Catholic Doctrines on Jews after the Second Vatican Council by Gavin d’Costa
3. From Sinai to Rome: Jewish Identity in the Catholic Church by Angela Costley and Gavin d’Costa
4. Catholic - Jewish Engagements on Israel: Holy Land, Political Territory, or Theological Promise? by Gavin d’Costa, Étienne Vetö CCN, and Thomas Joseph White OP
5. Contemporary Catholic Approaches to the People, Land, and State of Israel by Gavin d’Costa and Faydra Shapiro
6. Israel: A Christian Grammar by Paul J. Griffiths
7. Jewish Church: A Catholic Approach to Messianic Judaism by Fr. Antoine Lévy OP

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The Tree of Life: An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature by Fr. Roland E. Murphy OCarm
2. De officiis (On the Duties of the Clergy) by St. Ambrose
3. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
4. Summa theologiae II-II, qq. 47-56 by St. Thomas Aquinas
5. The Virtues by Peter Geach

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The Predestination of the Saints and On the Gift of Final Perseverance by St. Augustine
2. Summa theologiae I, q. 23 by St. Thomas Aquinas
3. On Divine Foreknowledge: Part IV of Concordia by Luis de Molina SJ
4. Predestination by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
5. Grace, Predestination, and the Permission of Sin: A Thomistic Analysis by Taylor Patrick O’Neill ...and some further recommendations...
6. The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil by Brian Davies OP
7. Into Your Hands, Father: Abandoning Ourselves to the God Who Loves Us by Wilfrid Stinissen
8. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. On the American Indians by Francisco de Vitoria OP
2. Deliberation on the Cause of the Poor by Domingo de Soto OP
3. Exsul Familia by Pius XII
4. Erga migrantes caritas Christi by Pontifical Council For The Pastoral Care Of Migrants And Itinerant People
5. Migrants and Refugees: Witnesses to Hope by Pope Francis, edited by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Monologion by St. Anselm
2. Proslogion by St. Anselm
3. Cur Deus homo (Why Did God Become Man?) by St. Anselm
4. De veritate (On Truth) by St. Anselm
5. De concordia (The Compatibility of God's Foreknowledge, Predestination, and Grace with Human Freedom) by St. Anselm

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The books and resources discussed in this episode are:

1. Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration by Benedict XVI
2. Light on the Mountain: Greek Patristic and Byzantine Homilies on the Transfiguration of the Lord  by Brian E. Daley SJ
3. The Uncreated Light: An Iconographiocal Study of the Transfiguration In the Eastern Church by Solrunn Nes
4. Light and Glory: The Transfiguration of Christ in Early Franciscan and Dominican Theology by Aaron Canty
5. Thomas Tallis, Sacred Choral Works: Spem in alium The Sixteen, directed by Harry Christophers

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Armenia: Art, Religion, and Trade in the Middle Ages edited by Helen C. Evans
2. Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome by Rodney Stark
3. The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks
4. The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert L. Wilken
5. Who Were the First Christians: Dismantling the Urban Thesis by Thomas A. Robinson

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The Journey of the Soul into God (Itinerarium mentis in Deum) by St. Bonaventure
2. Mystical Opuscula by St. Bonaventure, translated by Jose de Vinck
3. Simply Bonaventure: An Introduction to His Life, Thought, and Writings by Ilia Delio OSF
4. Crucified Love: Bonaventure's Mysticism of the Crucified Christ by Ilia Delio OSF
5. The Philosophy of Saint Bonaventure by Étienne Gilson

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The book discussed in this episode is The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1 by Enid Dinnis.

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. History of the Council of Trent (vol. 1) (vol. 2) (German Edition) by Hubert Jedin
2. Trent: What Happened at the Council by John W. O’Malley SJ
3. The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Trent edited by Nelson H. Minnich
4. Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils: Volume II edited by Norman Tanner SJ…and for readers of Italian or French...
5. Le Concile de Trente by Alain Tallon
6. Il Concilio di Trento (1545-1563) by Franco Buzzi
7. Il Concilio di Trento: una introduzione storica by Adriano Prosperi

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