William C. Mattison III
Christian Living
“In Living Vocationally, Wadell and Pinches serve as wise and engaging spiritual guides on the human quest for true happiness. They approach this perennial quest through the lens of vocation, which emphasizes that this is an active, changing, and communal quest, regarding one’s life as a whole. Living vocationally is living authentically, but for Christians with the added reminder it is the Lord who calls.”
Theology
“In his lucid book on grace and human action, Aiken offers a much-needed contemporary contribution from the field of moral theology/Christian ethics to this too-often-neglected topic. He establishes the need in contemporary theology for the sophistication and precision of St. Thomas Aquinas' thought on grace, and also draws on contemporary thinkers (Stanley Hauerwas and Reinhard Hutter) to extend the communal emphasis of the Angelic Doctor's work. Aiken's book is one of the first in an impending deluge of studies augmenting recent work on virtue with more detailed attention to the relationship between God's grace and human action.”
Theology
“In The Abuse of Conscience, Matthew Levering offers an encyclopedic study of twentieth-century Catholic thought on the crucial yet recently under-studied topic of conscience. His comprehensive review of significant thinkers on conscience, and his ‘mapping of their thought,’ is itself an invaluable service. Yet the book also offers a case that there are two potential directions in Catholic thought on conscience, each of which is endorsed by various Catholics today, and yet only one of which is true to the Catholic intellectual tradition.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In Politics of Penance, far from foisting a facile application of age-old terms to current problems, Griffin develops a robust method whose penetrating grasp of the 'dynamics of penitential actions' enables him to make real contributions to contemporary problems. Politics is a work of reconciliation between fractured parties: action theory and social justice; liturgy and ethics; retribution and rehabilitation . . . This expertly yet accessibly written book will reward scholars and general audiences alike.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Victor Austin’s The Sermon on the Mount continues a tradition of excellence in the edited volumes of the Pro Ecclesia series. This volume supplies a narrative overview of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew’s gospel as well as a set of reflections of how this classic Scripture passage continues to speak to topics of our own age, from economics to victimhood culture. The volume has a creative reflection on preaching the Sermon and concludes with a ‘bonus’ essay by great ecumenical theologian Michael Root on the state of ecumenism today. Readers will be rewarded.”
Christian Living
“Lucidly portrays what exactly the oft-forgotten vice of vainglory is, how it is born and develops, and how it can be resisted. . . . DeYoung writes with the wisdom and expertise of a theologian or psychologist, yet with the accessibility of a college roommate discussing life over a meal in the dining hall.”
Theology
“Fr. O’Keefe’s Virtues Abounding manages to do the near impossible. He offers an account of the virtues that both closely follows St. Thomas Aquinas, and accessibly speaks to our contemporary situation. Though addressing nearly all of the myriad sub-virtues and opposing vices found in St. Thomas’s Summa, Fr. O’Keefe manages to connect these to contemporary experiences such as 24-hour news, eating disorders, consumerism, and individualism. Scholars will recognize his stands on contested issues . . . but the reader new to Aquinas will find a penetrating and illuminating account of living virtuously, especially in the Christian life of grace.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
Theology
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