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Spring 2015 Booklist Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family (Updated 12/19/14) JPI 532 Biblical Theology of Marriage and Family: Old Testament Atkinson Joseph C. Atkinson, Biblical and Theological Foundations of the Family: The Domestic Church (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2014). ISBN: 0813221706 JPI 554/764 Catechesis on Human Love Meroni John Paul II, Man and Woman He Create Them – A Theology of the Body. Translated by Michael Waldstein. Boston: Pauline Books and Media, 2006. ISBN: 0-8198-7421-3 José Granados and Carl Anderson, Called to Love. New York: Random House, 2009. ISBN: 978-0- 7704-3574-5 Scola A., The Nuptial Mystery. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2005. ISBN: 978-0802828316 Ouellet M., Divine Likeness, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2006. ISBN: 978-0802828330 JPI 546/762 The Nuptial Mystery According to St. John Prosperi Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth, vol. I and II, (New York: Doubleday, c2007-c2011. San Francisco: Ignatius Press). Francis, J. Moloney, Love in the Gospel of John: An Exegetical, Theological, and Literary Study, (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2013). Students may choose one of the following to purchase: De la Potterie, Ignace, The Hour of Jesus: Passion and Resurrection of Jesus According to John (New York: Alba House, 1997). Senior, Donald, The Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of John, (Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, c1991). JPI 549 Marriage and Virginity as States of Life Meroni Lumen Gentium Gaudium et Spes Perfectae caritatis Apostolicam Actuositatem Presbiterorum Ordinis John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio (1981) ______. Redemptionis Donum (1984) ______. Christifideles Laici (1988) ______. Mulieris Dignitatem, (1988) ______. Pastores dabo vobis (1992) ______. Vita Consecrata (1996) ______. Letter to Families (1994) ______. Pastores gregis (2003) Pope Francis, “To All Consecrated People” (2014) Catechism of the Catholic Church (Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1994), 1602-1666. Crawford D., Marriage and the Sequela Christi (Lateran University Press: Rome 2004). Ratzinger J., Called to Communion, (Ignatius Press, San Francisco 1996). _______, Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith, (Ignatius Press, San Francisco 2005). H.U., von Balthasar, The Christian State of Life, (Ignatius Press: San Francisco, 1983). _______, The Laity and the Life of the Counsels: The Church's Mission in the World, (Ignatius Press, San Francisco 2003). JPI 550/850 Gender and the Sexual Difference Schindler Compendium of readings (available through University Readers) Simon Baron-Cohen, The Essential Difference. (New York: Basic Books, 2003). John Paul II, Man and Woman He Created Them: Theology of the Body. JPI 555 Encyclicals of John Paul II Healy Nota bene: It is recommended (but not required) that you purchase copies of the following Encyclical Letters as published by Pauline Books and Media: Redemptor Hominis (1979) Dives in Misericordia (1980) Laborem Exercens (1981) Dominum et Vivificantem (1986) Redemptoris Mater (1987) Centesimus Annus (1991) Veritatis Splendor (1993) Evangelium Vitae (1995) Fides et Ratio (1998) Ecclesia de Eucharistia (2003) JPI 570/770 Sexual Ethics and the Person Crawford Karol Wojtyła, Love and Responsibility, trans. G. Ignatik ISBN 0-8198-4558-2 John Paul II, Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body, trans. Michael Waldstein ISBN 0-8198-7421-3 _____. Familiaris Consortio ISBN 0-8198-6449-8 Pius XI, Casti Connubii ISBN-10: 097829856X Compendium of readings (available through University Readers) JPI 619 Bioethics II Hurley The Ethics of Organ Transplantation (Catholic University of America Press, 2011; ISBN 9780813218748) John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae (Pauline Books & Media, 1995; ISBN 9780819830784) Leon Kass, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics (Encounter Books, 2004; ISBN 9781594030475) Joseph Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity (Ignatius Press, 2004; ISBN 9781586170295) Compendium of readings (available through University Readers) JPI 620/813 Communio Personarum: The Triune God López Ratzinger, Joseph. Introduction to Christianity. Translated by J. R. Foster. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2004. ISBN: 978-1586170295. Balthasar, Theo-logic. vol. 2: Truth of God. Translated by Adrian J. Walker. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2004. ISBN: 978-0898707199. Antonio López, Gift and the Unity of Being.Eugene, Or: Cascade, 2014. ISBN 9781620326671. Karl Rahner, The Trinity, ISBN 9780824516277 Compendium of readings (available through University Readers) JPI 634 The Sacrament of Marriage Healy John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio. ISBN: 0819818453 Marc Ouellet, Divine Likeness. Toward a Trinitarian Anthropology. ISBN: 0802828337 Communio: International Catholic Review (Summer 2014) JPI 666 Creation, Nature, and Life Hanby Leon Kass, Life Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2002. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, “In the Beginning…” A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), ISBN 0-820804106-6. Hans Jonas. The Phenomenon of Life (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2001). Richard McKeon (ed.), The Basic Works of Aristotle, (Modern Library, 2001), ISBN-10: 0375757996; ISBN-13: 978-0375757990. E.A. Burtt, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science (Mineola: Dover, 2003), ISBN 0-486-42551-7. Baldner and Carroll (eds), Aquinas on Creation (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies), ISBN 0888442858. Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Theology of Karl Barth (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1992). Hans Urs von Balthasar: Theologic I: The Truth of the World (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2000). ISBN 0-89870-718-8. Lee Silver, Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family (New York: Harper Collins, 1997), ISBN 0-0380-123519-1. Angelo Cardinal Scola, The Nuptial Mystery (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005), ISBN 0-8028-2831-0. JPI 669/769 Science, Theology and Ethics Hanby Compendium of readings (available through University Readers) Stephen Jay Gould, Rock of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life (New York: Ballantine, 1999). Joseph Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2004). Richard McKeon (ed.), The Basic Works of Aristotle, (Modern Library, 2001), ISBN-10: 0375757996; ISBN-13: 978-0375757990. Thomas Aquinas, The Division and Methods of the Sciences (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1986), ISBN 0-88844-279-3. Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theo-Logic I, The Truth of the World (San Francisco: Ignatius, 2000). ISBN: 0-89870-718-8. Richard Lewontin, Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1992). Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th ed (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998). Francis Bacon, The New Organon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). JPI 743 Church in the Acts of the Apostles Atkinson TBA JPI 854 Philosophical Anthropology D.C. Schindler Scheler, Man’s Place in Nature (New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1962) Schmitz, At the Center of the Human Drama (Washington, D.C.: CUA Press, 2002) Compendium of readings (available through University Readers) JPI 969 Recovering Origins: Fatherlessness López Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit. ISBN: 9780198245971. Hegel, Lectures on The Philosophy of Religion (=VPR). ISBN: 0520213742. Hegel, Science of Logic (=WL). ISBN: 1573922803. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. ISBN: 9780140150629. Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals. ISBN: 9780679783398. Heidegger, The Principle of Reason. ISBN: 0253210666. Heidegger, Pathmarks. ISBN: 052143968X. JPI 927 Eros and Agape McCarthy Scola, The Nuptial Mystery. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005. 802828310 Plato, Symposium _____.Phaedrus Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics Bernard, St. On the Love of God and Other Select Writings. Edited by Charles Dolan. Alba House, 1996. ISBN 13: 978-0818907319 Nygren, A. Eros and Agape. Translation, Philip S. Watson. London: SPCK, 1982. ISBN. 281040060 Pieper, J. Faith, Hope, and Love. San Franciso: Ignatius Press, 1997. 898706238. Rousselot, P. The Problem of Love in the Middle Ages. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 1998. 874626234. St. Augustine, On Christian Doctrine. Translation D. w. Robertson, Jr. New York, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1958. ISBN 0-02-402150-4. Dionysius the Areopagite, The Divine Names. Translated by C. E. Rolt. London: SPCK, 1940. ISBN 0-281-01255-5 Richard of St. Victor, The Twelve Patriarchs, The Mystical Ark, Book Three of the Trinity. Translated by G. Zinn. Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1979. ISBN 0-8091-2122-0 Balthasar, Glory, VII: Theology: The New Covenant. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1989. ISBN 0-89870-249-6 JPI 987 Roots of Catholic Phenomenology D.C. Schindler Husserl. The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970). _____. Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy (New York: Torchbook, 1965). Scheler. Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values: A New Attempt Toward the Foundation of an Ethical Personalism (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973). Stein, Knowledge and Faith (Washington, D.C.: ICS Publications, 2000). Compendium of readings (available through University Readers) JPI 978 Action and Destiny Crawford Maurice Blondel, Action (1983): Essay on a Critique of Life and a Science of Practice Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theo-Drama II-III .
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  • The Holy See

    The Holy See

    The Holy See ADDRESS OF THE HOLY FATHER POPE JOHN PAUL II TO THE MISSIONARIES OF INFINITE LOVE Friday, 4 September 1998 Dear Missionaries of Infinite Love, 1. Welcome to this meeting, which you desired in order to mark the 50th anniversary of the foundation of your secular institute. I extend my cordial greeting to each of you, with a special mention of fraternal affection for Bishop Luigi Bettazzi, who is accompanying you. He rightly wished to join you today as Bishop of the particular Church where the foundation took place, that is, the Diocese of Ivrea. In fact, the Work of Infinite Love originated in that land, made fertile at the beginning of this century by the witness of the Servant of God Mother Luisa Margherita Claret de la Touche, and it was from this work that your family was founded. Having obtained diocesan recognition in 1972, the institute was later approved by me for the whole Church. It is now present, in fact, in various parts of the world. Your basic sentiment in celebrating this anniversary is certainly one of thanksgiving, in which I am very pleased to join. 2. Dear friends, we are living in a year that is entirely dedicated to the Holy Spirit. Well, is the coincidence that you are celebrating the institute’s 50th anniversary in the year dedicated to the Holy Spirit not another special reason for gratitude? It is only because of the Spirit and in the Spirit that we can say: “God is love” (1 Jn 4: 8;16), a statement that constitutes the inexhaustible core, the well-spring of your spirituality.