Scheeben, Matthias Joseph. The Mysteries of Christianity. Translated by Cyril Vollert. Second edition. Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Academic, 2023.
Chenu, Marie-Dominique. La Théologie Comme Science au XIIIe Siècle. 3e éd. Paris: Librairie Philosophique Vrin, 1969.
Chenu, Marie-Dominique. La Teologia Come Scienza nel XIII Secolo. Translated by P. Vian. 2 ed. Milano: Jaca Book, 1985.
Fundamental
Dei Filius by VI [R]
Dei Verbum by VII [R]
Feingold, Lawrence. 2018. Faith comes from what is heard: an introduction to fundamental theology. Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Academic.
De Doctrina Christiana by Augustine [R]
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Newman
An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman
Tradition and Development of Dogma
Congar, Yves. 1967. Tradition and traditions; an historical and a theological essay. New York: Macmillan.
Congar, Yves. 2004. The meaning of tradition. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.
Mansini, Guy. The Development of Dogma: A Systematic Account. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2023.
Trinity
General Studies
De Trinitate by Augustine
Emery, Gilles, and Matthew Levering. 2011. The Oxford Handbook of the Trinity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Maspero, Giulio, and Robert Józef Wozniak. 2012. Rethinking Trinitarian Theology: Disputed Questions and Contemporary Issues in Trinitarian Theology. London: T & T Clark.
Maspero, Giulio. 2020. The Mystery of Communion: Encountering the Trinity. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press.
Ratzinger, Joseph. 1976. The God of Jesus Christ: Meditations on the Triune God. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.
Rusch, William G. 1980. The Trinitarian Controversy. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.
Durand, Emmanuel, and Vincent Holzer. 2010. Les Réalisations Du Renouveau Trinitaire au XXe Siècle. Paris: Cerf.
White, Thomas Joseph. 2022. The Trinity: On the Nature and Mystery of the One God. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.
Studies of Particular Theologians
Ayres, Lewis. 2010. Augustine and the Trinity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Emery, Gilles, and Francesca Aran Murphy. 2007. The Trinitarian Theology of St Thomas Aquinas. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
God So Loved the World: Clues to Our Transcendent Destiny from the Revelation of Jesus by Robert Spitzer, S.J.
Dare We Hope “That All Men Be Saved”? by Hans Urs von Balthasar
Pneumatology
On the Holy Spirit by St. Basil
The Comforter by Sergius Bulgakov
Creation
O'Callaghan, Paul. 2022. God's Gift of the Universe : An Introduction to Creation Theology. Washington D.C: Catholic University of America Press.
Warnez, Matthew T., B.H. “De Natura: The Church Fathers on Creation's Fallenness.” Nova et vetera 19, no. 3 (2021): 933-978. doi:10.1353/nov.2021.0051.
Overview of the patristic understand of original sin's effect upon creation.
Anthropology
General
Bibawy. 2025. Adam’s Sin, Our Humanity, and Christ’s Redemption in Cyril of Alexandria: An Eastern Christian Theological Anthropology. Washington D.C.: CUA Press.
Ladaria, Luis F. 2012. Antropologia teologica. Roma: G&B Press.
Grace and Nature
Feingold, Lawrence. 2010. The natural desire to see God according to St. Thomas and his interpreters. Ave Maria, FL: Sapientia Press.
Scheeben, Matthias Joseph. The Glories of Divine Grace. Translated by Patrick Shaughnessy. Gastonia, NC: TAN Books, 2023.
Wood, Jacob W. 2019. To stir a restless heart: Thomas Aquinas and Henri de Lubac on nature, grace, and the desire for God. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.
Deification
Augustine, David. 2025. Christ and the Altar Fire: Sacrifice as Deification in Matthias Scheeben. Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Academic.
Ortiz, Jared. 2019. Deification in the Latin patristic tradition. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.
Russell, Norman. 2009. The doctrine of deification in the Greek patristic tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Eschatology
Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life by Joseph Ratzinger
Ecclesiology
Magisterium
Lumen Gentium
Ut Unum Sint by JP II
Studies
Bulgakov, Sergiĭ. The Bride of the Lamb. Translated by Boris Jakim. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Edinburgh: W.B. Eerdmans; T&T Clark, 2002.
Congar, Yves. Lay People in the Church: A Study for a Theology of Laity. Translated by D Attwater. Rev. ed. London: Newman Press, 1965.
Original Language: Congar, Yves. 1954. Jalons Pour Une Théologie Du Laïcat 2 éd. Paris: Éditions du Cerf.
La Soujeole, Benoît-Dominique de. Introduction to the Mystery of the Church. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2014.
Zizioulas, Jean. 1985. Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church. Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press.
Zizioulas, Jean. 2006. Communion and Otherness: Further Studies in Personhood and the Church. Edited by Paul McPartlan. London: T & T Clark.
Mariology
Magisterium
Redemptoris Mater by JPII
Studies
Bulgakov, Sergiĭ. 2009. The Burning Bush: On the Orthodox Veneration of the Mother of God. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Carol, Juniper B. 1956. Fundamentals of Mariology. New York: Benziger Bros.