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Dogmatic Books

Particular Fields of Theology

References

Book Series

Dictionaries and Encyclopediae

  • Teologia by by I Dizionari San Paolo
  • Sacramentum Mundi

Introduction to Theology

  • The Light of Christ by Thomas Joseph White, OP
  • Theology for Beginners by F.J. Sheed
  • Theology and Sanity by F.J. Sheed
  • Introduction to Christianity by Joseph Ratzinger

General

  • 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.
  • Friedman, Russell L. 2010. Medieval Trinitarian Thought from Aquinas to Ockham . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Christology

Magisterial

Patristic

  • On the Resurrection of the Flesh (De Carnis Resurrectuone) by Tertullian
  • On the Incarnation of the Word by St. Athanasius
  • Norris, Richard A. 1980. The Christological Controversy. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

General

  • Begasse de Dhaem, Amaury. 2021. Mysterium Christi: Cristologia e Soteriologia Trinitaria. Assisi: Cittadella Editrice.
  • Benedict, Adrian J. Walker, and Philip J. Whitmore. 2007. Jesus of Nazareth. 3 vols. New York: Doubleday.
  • Betz, John. 2023. Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics. Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Academic.
  • Bulgakov, Sergiĭ. 2008. The Lamb of God. Grand Rapids, Mich: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
  • Galot, Jean. 1981. Who is Christ?: A Theology of the Incarnation. Chicago, IL: Franciscan Herald Press.
  • Kasper, Walter. 2016. The God of Jesus Christ. New York: Paulist Press.
  • Lonergan, Bernard, Robert M. Doran, and Jeremy D. Wilkins. 2016. The Incarnate Word. Toronto: Lonergan Research Institute of Regis College.
  • Pitre, Brant James. 2024. Jesus and Divine Christology. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
  • White, Thomas Joseph. 2017. The incarnate Lord a Thomistic Study in Christology. Washington D.C: The Catholic University of America Press.

Soteriology

Magisterial

General

  • 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.
  • Casagrande, Dominicus. 1974. Enchiridion Marianum Biblicum Patristicum. Romae: Cor Unum.
  • De Fiores, et al. eds. 2009. Mariologia. Milano: San Paolo.
  • Maggioni, Corrado. 2025. Tutte le generazioni mi chiameranno beata. Due millenni di litur-gia e pietà mariana. Roma: IF Press.
  • Maunder, Chris, ed. 2019. The Oxford Handbook of Mary. First edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Nepil, John L. 2023. A Bride Adorned: Mary-Church Perichoresis in Modern Catholic Theology. Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Academic.
  • Pitre, Brant James. 2018. Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah. New York: Image.

Angelology

  • Angels and Their Mission by Jean Danielou
    • Good patristic summary of the role of angels.
  • Celestial Hierarchy by Psuedo-Dionysius
    • The patristic source, can be read here
  • Jacob's Ladder: On Angels by Sergius Bulgakov
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