====== Theology Books ====== An index of book lists for theological reading by fields. ====== Books by Categories ====== * [[:books|Book Index]] * [[:books:theology|Theology]] * [[:books:philosophy|Philosophy]] * [[:books:fiction|Fiction]] * [[:books:non-fiction|Non-Fiction]] * [[:books:classics|Classics]] * [[:books:history|History]] * [[:books:science|Science]] ====== Particular Fields of Theology ====== * [[:books:theology:scripture|Scripture]] * [[:books:theology:dogmatic|Dogmatic]] * [[:books:theology:liturgical|Liturgical]] * [[:books:theology:moral|Moral]] * [[:books:theology:spirituality|Spirituality]] * [[:books:theology:primary-sources|Primary Sources]] * [[:books:theology:theologians|Theologians to Read]] * [[:books:theology:abbreviations|Abbreviations]] ====== General Research Method ====== * What does the Bible say? * Reference dictionaries and commentaries. * What do the Church Fathers say? * Reference dictionaries and encyclopedias. * What do theological authorities say? * Aquinas in particular. * What does the Magisterium say? * Early Councils, Trent, Vatican II * Denzinger ===== Research Databases ===== * [[https://www.ixtheo.de/|Index theologicus]] * Free theological database search engine * Atla Religion Database (Atla RDB) * [[http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/selectdb?vid=0&sid=4cf98d12-b943-4123-9e41-3ebcd952a74c@sessionmgr102|http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/selectdb?vid=0&sid=4cf98d12-b943-4123-9e41-3ebcd952a74c%40sessionmgr102]] * [[https://www.magisterium.com/|Magisterium AI]] ===== Research Guides ===== * [[https://libguides.slu.edu/theological_studies|SLU]] * [[https://guides.lib.cua.edu/theology|CUA]] ====== Useful Websites ====== Websites on various topics that are quite helpful. * [[https://www.papalencyclicals.net/|https://www.papalencyclicals.net/]] * [[https://www.ncbcenter.org/|National Catholic Bioethics Center]] * [[https://www.academic-bible.com/en/online-bibles/about-the-online-bibles/|Original Languages Texts for Scripture]] * [[https://oadtl.org/|https://oadtl.org/]] * Collection of open online resources (journals, databases, books, etc.) * [[https://aquinasinstitute.org/|https://aquinasinstitute.org/]] * Online texts of Aquinas * [[http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerus/index_eng.html|http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerus/index_eng.html]] * Collection of magisterial documents and church fathers linked to scripture * [[https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/index_sp.htm|https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/index_sp.htm]] * [[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRkUFBfVVqv5Tr2aZS4apFNpTJ-ys6VqeQxgsAI1v7cH5putIgchYWJAVGHuu0lWGmdD2DU7Vb1o7XH/pubhtml#|https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRkUFBfVVqv5Tr2aZS4apFNpTJ-ys6VqeQxgsAI1v7cH5putIgchYWJAVGHuu0lWGmdD2DU7Vb1o7XH/pubhtml#]] * Massive list of links to classical and medieval texts with online scans. ====== Journals ====== * [[http://www.annalestheologici.it/en|Annales Theologici]] * Santa Croce's Journal * [[https://www.cuapress.org/journals/nova-et-vetera/|Nova et Vetera]] * CUA * [[https://www.cuapress.org/journals/the-thomist/|The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review]] * CUA * [[https://www.communio-icr.com/|Communio]] ====== Church History ====== ===== Useful Websites ===== * [[http://www.earlymedievalmonasticism.org/bibliographymonasticism.htm|Bibliography on the History of Monasticism in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages]] ===== Historical Works ===== * The Jewish War by Flavius Josephus * In The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged by William Whiston, 1987 * Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus * In The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged by William Whiston, 1987 * Historia Ecclesiastica by Eusebius of Caesarea * Eusèbe de Césarée. Histoire ecclésiastique (SCh 31, 41, 55) by G. Bardy, , 1952-1958 * Eusebius Werke, II, Die Kirchengeschichte (Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte, 9, 1-3), by Th. Mommsen, apud E. Schwartz, 1903-1909 * CPG 3495 (Not yet in CCGL) * PG 20: 45-906 * Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum by Venerable Bede * [[https://archive.org/details/bedesecclesiasti0000bede_y6a2|Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People]] by B. Colgrave, R. Mynors, 1969 * CPL 1375 (Not yet in CCSL) * PL 95: 21, 289 ===== General ===== * Belloc, Hillaire. 2017. //The Great Heresies//. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. * Bradley, James, and Richard Muller. 2016.// Church History: An Introduction to Research Methods//. Gran Rapids: Eerdmans. * Carroll, Warren H. 2004-2013. //A History of Christendom//. 6 vols. Front Royal, VA: Christendom Press. * Franzen, August, John Patrick Dolan, and Peter Becker. 1969. //A Concise History of the Church//. London: Burns & Oates. * Hitchcock, James. 2012. //History of the Catholic Church: From the Apostolic Age to the Third Millennium//. San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press. * Tanner, Norman P. 2014. //New Short History of the Catholic Church//. London: Bloomsbury Continuum. * Tanner, Norman P. 2008. //The Church in the Later Middle Ages//. London: I.B. Tauris. * Woods, Thomas E. 2017. //How the Catholic Church built Western Civilization//. Washington: Regnery Publishing. ===== Important Authors ===== * Christopher Dawson * Norman Tanner ====== Patristics ====== For particular works by patristic fathers refer to the theologians section here [[:books:theology:theologians#fathers|fathers]] or look at the different theological sections for patristic works on those topics. This section contains works on the study of patristics in general or collected patristic works. ===== General Works and Select Collections ===== * The Fathers of the Church: A Comprehensive Introduction by Hubertus R. Drobner * The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks by Benedicta Ward [R] * La Predicacion cristiana antigua by Alexandre Olivar ===== Useful Websites ===== Some sites the have original text available: * [[https://ccel.org/|CCEL Christian Classics Library]] * [[https://www.catholiccrossreference.online/fathers/index.php/|CCEL Scripture Search Tool]] * [[http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/christian.html|The Latin Library - Christian Writers]] * [[https://www.biblindex.org/en|Patristic Scripture Use Database]] * [[http://mlat.uzh.ch/MLS/xanfang.php?corpus=2&lang=0|Patrologia Latina Database]] * [[http://www.earlymedievalmonasticism.org/index.html|http://www.earlymedievalmonasticism.org/index.htm]] ===== Bibliographies ===== * The early church: an annotated bibliography of literature in English * Dictionary of early Christian literature ===== Reference Works ===== * Encyclopedia of the early church translated by Adrian Walford * Dizionario patristico e di antichitá cristiane by by Angelo Di Berardin * Encyclopedia of ancient Christianity by Angelo Di Berardino * Nuovo dizionario patristico e di antichità cristiane * A dictionary of early Christian beliefs by David Bercot * Letteratura patristica by I Dizionari San Paolo * Clavis Patrum Latinorum (CPL) * List of critical editions for patristic works * There are other reference works like this for other classic christian works from Brepols * [[https://clavis.brepols.net/clacla/Default.aspx|https://clavis.brepols.net/clacla/Default.aspx]] * Patrology by Johannes Quasten * [[https://archive.org/details/bibliapatristica0001unse|Biblia patristica: index des citations et allusions bibliques dans la littérature patristique]] * The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies, edited by Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David G. Hunter. * The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics ===== Particular Fathers ===== ==== Latin Fathers ==== * //Liber Pontificalis// * Duchesne Edition: [[https://archive.org/details/duchesne01|Vol 1]], [[https://archive.org/details/duchesne02|Vol 2]] * He included the //Annales Romani// which extends the chronology into 1187. * Mommsen (MGH): [[https://www.dmgh.de/gesta_pontificum_romanorum.htm|Vol 1]] * Incomplete, only to 715. * Called //Gesta Pontificum Romanorum// * See also: [[https://www.dmgh.de/mgh_ss_5/index.htm#page/468/mode/1up|Annales Romani (1044-1187)]] in MGH Scriptores V 18 (pgs. 468-480) * Augustine (354 - 430) * [[http://www.augustinus.it/latino/index.htm|Works in Latin]] * //[[https://www.focolaremedia.com/bookstore/works-saint-augustine-complete-set-46-volumes|The Works of Saint Augustine, A Translation for the 21st Century]]// * Brown, Peter. 2000. //Augustine of Hippo: A Biography//. Berkeley: University of California Press. ==== Greek Fathers ==== * Cyril of Jerusalem (313 - 386) * Protocatechesis and Catecheses * Athanasius (328 - 373) * On the Incarnation * Basil of Caesarea (330 - 379) * On the Holy Spirit * Gregory of Nyssa (335 - 394) * Gregory of Nazianzus (329 - 390) * Gregory Palamas (1296 - 1357/59) * Pino, Tikhon. 2022. //Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas//. New York: Routledge. ====== Counciliar Studies ====== ===== First Seven Councils (Studies) ===== * Davis, Leo Donald. 1983. //The First Seven Ecumenical Councils (325-787) : Their History and Theology//. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press. * Kelly, Joseph F. 2009. //The Ecumenical Councils of the Catholic Church: A History//. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press. * L’Huillier, Peter. 1996. //The Church of the Ancient Councils: The Disciplinary Work of the First Four Ecumenical Councils//. Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press. * Tanner, Norman P. 2001. //The Councils of the Church: A Short History//. New York: Crossroad. ===== Nicaea ===== * Anatolios, Khaled. 2011. //Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine//. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic. * Ayres, Lewis. 2004. //Nicaea and Its Legacy: An Approach to Fourth-Century Trinitarian Theology//. Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Kim, Young Richard, ed. 2021. //The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea//. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. * International Theological Commision. 2025. //[[https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_cti_doc_20250403_1700-nicea_it.html|Gesù Cristo, Figlio di Dio, Salvatore: 1700o anniversario del Concilio Ecumenico di Nicea (325-2025)]]// . ===== Trent ===== * Schroeder, Henry J. 1978. //Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent//. Rockford, Ill.: Tan Books and Publishers. ===== Second Vatican Council ===== ==== Texts ==== * //The Documents of Vatican II: Vatican Translation//. 2009. Vatican: Libreria Editrice Vaticana. ==== Studies ==== * Congar, Yves. 2012. //My Journal of the Council//. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press. * Guarino, Thomas. 2018. //The Disputed Teachings of Vatican ll: Continuity and Reversal in Catholic Doctrine//. Grand Rapids, Michigan: W.B. Eerdmans. * Levering, Matthew. 2017. //An Introduction to Vatican II as an Ongoing Theological Event//. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. * Lubac, Henri de. 2015-2016. //Vatican Council Notebooks//. 2 Vols. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. * Ratzinger, Joseph. 1966. //Theological Highlights of Vatican II//. New York: Paulist Press. ====== Ecumenism and Inter-religious ====== * Nostra Aetate by VII * Dominus Jesus [R] * Le religioni del mondo by I Dizionari San Paolo ====== Pastoral ====== ===== Marriage Prep ===== * Fitzgibbons, Richard. 2019. //Habits for a Healthy Marriage: A Handbook for Catholic Couples//. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. ====== Canon Law ====== ===== Book Series ===== * [[http://www.edizionisantacroce.it/catalogo/canonico/collane-e-raccolte/subsidia-canonica.html|Subsidia Canonica]] * PUSC canonical studies ===== References ===== * Introduction to the study of canon law by Javier Hervada * Metodologia: la tesi e lo studio del diritto canonico by Eutimio Sastre Santos * Canon Law Digest * Collection of authoritative comments and documents by year and canon. * [[https://clsa.org/store/viewproduct.aspx?id=16224378|Sold as a CD]] * Roman Replies & CLSA Advisory Opinions (RRAO) * [[https://clsa.org/store/ListProducts.aspx?catid=785501&ftr=|Can buy pdfs of all editions]] ===== Commentaries ===== * Marzoa, Ángel, Jorge Miras, Rafael Rodríguez-Ocaña, Ernest Caparros, Patrick Lagges, and Instituto Martín de Azpilcueta, eds. //Exegetical Commentary on the Code of Canon Law//. Engl. language ed. 8 vols. Annotated Legislative Texts. Montreal: Wilson & Lafleur, 2004. * Code of Canon Law Annotated ===== History of Canon Law ===== * Rolker, Christof. //Canon Law in the Age of Reforms (C. 1000 to C. 1150)//. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2023. ===== Procedural Law ===== * [[https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20240517_norme-fenomeni-soprannaturali_en.html#|Norms for Proceeding in the Discernment of Alleged Supernatural Phenomena]], DDF May, 17 2024 ===== Liturgical Law ===== ==== Clarification Notes ==== * Dicastery of Clergy. 2025. //[[https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2025/04/13/0251/00475.html|Decreto del Dicastero per il Clero sulla disciplina delle intenzioni delle Sante Messe]]//. (Norms on Combining Intentions) * Congregation of the Clergy. 1991. //[[https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cclergy/documents/rc_con_cclergy_doc_22021991_miug_it.html|Mors Iugiter]]//. (Tentative permision to combine intentions) * Dicastery of Legislative Texts. 2025. //[[https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2025/04/17/0259/00486.html|Nota esplicativa del Dicastero per i Testi Legislativi sul divieto di cancellazioni nel Registro parrocchiale dei battesimi]]//. ==== Studies ==== * //Il rito e il diritto. Quale relazione?//. Rivista Liturgica. 2021 108/4. * Del Pozzo, Massimo. 2013. //La giustizia nel culto: profili giuridici della liturgia della Chiesa//. Roma: EDUSC. * Mussone, Davide. 2002. //L'eucaristia nel Codice di diritto Canonico: Commento ai Can. 897-958//. Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana. * Rincón-Pérez, Tomás, Antonio Sánchez Sánchez-Gil, and Alberto Perlasca. 2014. //La liturgia e i sacramenti nel diritto della chiesa//. Roma: EDUSC.