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Spring 2020 Booklist Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family Spring 2020 Booklist Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family JPI 510/729 Theological Anthropology McCarthy • Compendium of readings (available through Cognella) • Burns, J., Ed. Theological Anthropology. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981. • Balthasar, Hans Urs. The Christian State of Life. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1983. • ______. Theo-Drama II, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1990. ISBN 0898702879 • ______. Theo-Drama III. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 11992. ISBN 089870295X. • De Lubac, H. The Drama of Atheist Humanism. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1995. ISBN: 089870443X • De Lubac, H. A Brief Catechesis on Nature and Grace. Ignatius Press, 1984. ISBN: 0898700353 • John Paul II. Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body. Pauline, 1997. • Schmitz, K. The Gift: Creation. Marquette University Press, Milwaukee, 1982. • Scola. The Nuptial Mystery. Trans. M. Borras. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2005. • Spaemann, R. Essays in Anthropology – Variations on a Theme. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2010. JPI 532/707 Biblical Theology of Marriage and Family (OT) Atkinson • Holy Scriptures [The most recent edition of Ignatius Press’ RSV is particularly good.] • Biblical and Theological Foundation of the Family, Joseph Atkinson (Washington, DC: CUA Press, 2014). • Jean-Baptiste Edart (with Himbaza and Schenker). The Bible on the Question of Homosexuality. (Washington, DC: CUA Press, 2012). JPI 550/850 Gender and the Sexual Difference D.L. Schindler • Compendium of readings (available through Cognella) • Simon Baron-Cohen, The Essential Difference. (New York: Basic Books, 2003). • John Paul II, Man and Woman He Created Them: Theology of the Body. • Eve Tushnet, Gay and Catholic (Ave Maria Press, 2014). JPI 554/764 Catechesis on Human Love Lopez • John Paul II, Man and Woman He Created Them. A Theology of the Body. Boston: Pauline Press, 2006. ISBN: 0819874213. • Karol Wojtyła, Love and Responsibility. Boston: Pauline Books and Media, 2013. ISBN: 0819845582. • John Paul II, Redemptor hominis. • John Paul II, Dominum et vivificantem. • John Paul II, Dives in Misericordia. • Joseph Ratzinger, Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life. Washington DC: CUA Press, 2007. 2nd edition. ISBN 0813215161 • Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Christian State of Life. San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2002. ISBN 0898707889 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) • 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 615 Biotechnical Anthropology Hanby • Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (San Francisco: Harper Classics, 2006), ISBN-10: 0060850523. • CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man (San Francisco: Harper One, 2009), ISBN-10: 0060652942. • John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy (Forgotten Books, 2012), PIBN 1000026166. • Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition 2nd ed., (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), ISBN 10:-226-02598-5 • Kass, Beyond Therapy, Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness: A Report by the President’s Council on Bioethics (New York: Regan Books, 2003), ISBN: 0-06073490-6. • Kass, Human Cloning and Human Dignity: A Report of the President’s Council on Bioethics (New York: Public Affairs, 2002), ISBN I-58648-176-2. • Henry T Greely, The End of Sex and the Future of Reproduction (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016), ISBN 9780674728967. • Amy Laura Hall, Conceiving Parenthood: American Protestantism and the Spirit of Reproduction (Grand Rapids, Eerdmans 2008) ISBN 978-0-8028-3936-7. • Hans Jonas, The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2001). JPI 619 Bioethics II Rice • Compendium of readings (available through Cognella) • Thomas V. Berg, L.C., and Edward J. Furton, eds., Human Embryo Adoption: Biotechnology, Marriage, and the Right to Life, (Philadelphia: National Catholic Bioethics Center; Thornwood, N.Y.: Westchester Institute for Ethics and the Human Person, 2006). • Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon’s Note on an Imperfect Science (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002). • Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2014). • Leon Kass, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics, (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2002). • Josef Pieper, The Four Cardinal Virtues, (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 1966). • Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler, The Sexual Person: Toward a Renewed Catholic Anthropology, (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2008). JPI 623/853 Mystery of the Church McCarthy • De Lubac, The Splendor of the Church. San Francisco: Ignatius press, 1999. ISBN: 9780898707427. • Adrian Fortescue, The Early Papacy to the Synod of Chalcedon in 451. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1920 • J. Ratzinger, The Meaning of Christian Brotherhood. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1993. ISBN - 0-898704464 • J. Ratzinger, Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780898705782 • J. Ratzinger, Daughter Zion: Meditations on the Church’s Marian Belief. San Francisco: Ignatius Press 1983. ISBN: 9780898700268. JPI 628/854 Philosophical Anthropology D.C. Schindler • Plato, Phaedo, trans. Eva Brann, et al. (Indianapolis: Focus Philosophical Library, 1998). • Aristotle, De Anima, trans. Mark Shiffman (Indianaopolis: Focus Philosophical Library, 2010). • Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, prima pars (complete) and prima secundae (complete), in the Dominican Fathers translation. JPI 634 The Sacrament of Marriage Healy • John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio. ISBN: 0819818453 • Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia. • Marc Ouellet, Mystery and Sacrament of Love: A Theology of Marriage and Family for the New Evangelization. Eerdmans ISBN: 9780802873347 JPI 668/868 Law, Family, & the Person Crawford • Course compendium of readings (available from Cognella) • St. Thomas, Treatise on Law (Hackett, 2000) ISBN-13: 978-0872205482 • J.S. Mill, On Liberty (Dover Publications, 2002) ISBN-13: 978-0486421308 • Henry Veatch, Human Rights: Fact or Fancy? (LSU Press, 2007) ISBN-13: 978-0807133217 JPI 669/769 Science, Theology, & Ethics Hanby • Compendium of readings (available through Cognella) • 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 768 Revelation, Scripture, and the Nature of Exegesis Atkinson • Bartholomew, Craig G. Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic Press, 2015). • Virkler, Henry. Hermeneutics: Principles and Processes of Biblical Interpretation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008). JPI 869 Bonaventure: Wisdom and Trinitarian Theology Bieler • Hayes, Zachary, The Hidden Center: Sprituality and Speculative Christology in St. Bonaventure, Franciscan Institute Publications, 2012 (reprint) • Bonaventure, Disputed Questions on the Mystery of the Trinity, transl. Z. Hayes (Works of St. Bonaventure Series Volume III), Franciscan Institute Publications 2000. • Bonaventure, Itinerarium Mentis in Deum, ed. By. P. Boehner and Z. Hayes (Works of St. Bonaventure Series Volume II), Franciscan Institute Publications 2002. • Bonaventure, The Life of St. Francis, transl. E. Cousins (Classics of Western Spirituality), Paulist Press 1979. JPI 982 Christian Metaphysics: Ulrich and 20th Century Thomism D.C. Schindler • Cornelio Fabro, Selected Works, vol. 1: Metaphysics and Participation (IVE Press, 2015) • Etienne Gilson, Being and Some Philosophers (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1952) • Norris Clarke, Explorations in Metaphysics (Notre Dame, 1995) • Ferdinand Ulrich, Homo Abyssus: The Drama of the Question of Being (Humanum Academic Press, 2018) • Recommended but not required: D.C. Schindler, Companion to Ferdinand Ulrich’s Homo Abyssus (Humanum Academic Press, 2019) JPI 1002 Maximus the Confessor Bieler • Maximus Confessor, On Difficulties in the Church Fathers, Vol. 1 and 2: The Ambigua, translated by M. Constas (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library Vol. 28-29), Harvard University Press 2014. • Maximus Confessor, On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture: The Responses to Thalassios (Fathers of the Church Patristic Series), translated by M. Constas, CUA Press 2018. Also available on JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvvnhjf • Maximus Confessor, On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy - A Theological Vision of the Liturgy, translated by J. Armstrong (Popular Patristics), St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press
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