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An Interesting Book: Understanding Jonathan Edwards by Gerald R. McDermott

Understanding Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to America's Theologian
Gerald R McDermott
ISBN10: 0195373448
Paper, 248 pages
Also available: hardback
Oct 2008, In Stock
Price: $24.95

Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) is widely recognized as America's greatest religious mind. A torrent of books, articles, and dissertations on Edwards have been released since 1949, the year that Perry Miller published the intellectual biography that launched the modern explosion of Edwards studies. This collection offers an introduction to Edwards's life and thought, pitched at the level of the educated general reader. Each chapter serves as a general introduction to one of Edwards's major topics, including revival, the Bible, beauty, literature, philosophy, typology, and even world religions. Each is written by a leading expert on Edwards's work. The book will serve as an ideal first encounter with the thought of "America's theologian."

• Kenneth P. Minkema
  
• Chris Chun
  
• Harry S. Stout
  
• Willem van Vlastuin
  
• Douglas A. Sweeney
  
• Wolter H. Rose
  
• Tibor Fabiny
  
• Sang Hyun Lee
  
• Katalin G. Kallay
  
• Wilson H. Kimnach
  
• Anna Svetlikova
  
• Miklos Veto
  
• Magdalena Sevcikova
  
• Michal Valco
  

New Book: Denis Sureau Pour une nouvelle théologie politique

In English that would be: For a New Political Theology. And here are the chapter headings in English...

Book summary

Introduction

Chapter I - The political theologies of the twentieth century

The Schmitt-Peterson debate

Action Française and Neo-Thomisms

From "Political Theology" to "Liberation Theology"

Henri de Lubac at the turn of contemporary theology

Chapter 2 - The Church as Communion: After Vatican II

David Schindler or how to be American, anti-liberal, and theologian of communion

Tracey Rowland or postmodern Augustinian Thomism

Aidan Nichols or the revival of Christianity

Chapter 3 - Morality: the wind rises

Alasdair MacIntyre or revolutionary Aristotelianism

Stanley Hauerwas or the Kingdom of Peace

John Porter or natural law rediscovered

Therese Lysaught or the search for a Christian bioethics

Chapter 4 - Radical Orthodoxy: the Cambridge revolution

John Milbank or beyond secular reason

Catherine Pickstock or how an Anglican theologian rethinks the truth about the Mass.

Chapter 5 - Exercises of theopolitical imagination

John Howard Yoder or the politics of Jesus

Oliver O'Donovan or the Biblical roots of politics

William Cavanaugh or Eucharistic anarchy

Emmanuel Katongole or the new African theopolitics

Stephen Long or theological critique of capitalism

Daniel Bell or to think of God in the city after the end of history

Appendix: European Cousins [?]

Chrétiens dans la Cité

Ignatius Press Book Meme (including bonus questions)

From the Ignatius Insight Blog

1. What was the first Ignatius Press book that you read?

• Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man by Henri de Lubac, a splendid synthesis of the sacramental and social justice dimensions of the Church.
  

2. The most recent Ignatius Press book that you read?

• The Laity in the Life of the Counsels by Balthasar

3. What are your favorite Ignatius Press books?

• Test Everything: Hold Fast to What is Good - Balthasar interviewed by Scola;
• The Threefold Garland: the world's salvation in Mary's prayer - Balthasar on the rosary (his tiny summa);
• The Moment of Christian Witness - Balthasar on dialogue and martyrdom (Truth is Symphonic is a nice companion to this one);
• Ephesians (and Colossians) - Adrienne von Speyr's commentary on St. Paul;
• The Laity and the Life of the Counsels: the Church's Mission in the World - Balthasar's essays over the years on the essentially lay apostolic character of the consecrated life;
• Gospel, Catechisis, Catechism - Ratzinger introduces the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a great introduction to the kerygma;
  
• The Christian State of Life by Adrienne von Speyr (but not Balthasar's book of the same name).
• Explorations in Theology II: The Spouse of the Word - Balthasar's collected essays on ecclesiology including "Casta Meretrix" an exploration of the prostitution theme in the Fathers of the Church, and "The Layman and the Church" a brilliant understanding of the origin of the lay and ministerial levels of the Church in the life of Christ;
• Church and State in Early Christianity - H. Rahner's introduction to the political thought of the first 800 years of the Church;
• Theology in History by Henri de Lubac - collected theological essays.
• The Drama of Atheist Humanism by Henri de Lubac
  

Looking over this list, what do I notice? These books tend to be shorter books or collections of essays.

4. What is your least favorite Ignatius Press book?

• The Bacon Priest

5. How many Ignatius Press books have you read? Do you own?

• about 55, about 55. I own about 7 that I haven't read and there's about 7 that I've read that I don't own.

6. What book do you wish Ignatius Press would publish?

• patristics studies by Jean Daniélou and Hugo Rahner;
• Charles Péguy's full trilogy on the three virtues.
  

7. What are the next Ignatius Press books you plan to read?

• something by Louis de Wohl
• Jesus of Nazareth by Benedict XVI
• Joseph and Chico
  

BONUS Questions (the following questions have not been approved by Ignatius Press):

1. What books best complement Ignatius Press books
The Ressourcement series published by Eerdmans Publishing

2. What books did Ignatius Press miss?

• Origen: Spirit and Fire published by CUA
• The Portal of the Mystery of Hope by Charles Péguy published by Eerdmans
  

3. What are the best books published by Ignatius Press NOT written by Ratzinger/ B16, Henri de Lubac, Balthasar, or von Speyr?

• The Cantata of Love - Arminjon on the Song of Songs;
• The Hidden Manna - O'Connor on the history of the Eucharist.
• Church and State in Early Christianity by H. Rahner
• Morality: Memory and Desire by Luigi Giussani
• novels by Louis de Wohl

4. Where did you buy your first Ignatius Press book?

• Newman Bookstore in Washington, DC.