Spring 2013 Booklist
JPI 532/707 Biblical Theology of Marriage and Family
No Books Required.
JPI 539/859 The Nuptial Body in Historical-Theological Perspective
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
Jose Granados and Carl Anderson, Called to Love. New York: Random House, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-
7704-3574-5
K. Wojtyła, Love and Responsibility. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1993.
K. Wojtyła, The Jeweler’s Shop. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 199n. 0-89870-426-X
John Paul II, The Poetry of John Paul II. Roman Triptych – Meditation. Washington D.C.: United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2003. ISBN: 1-57455-556-1
K. Schmitz, At the Center of the Human Drama, K. Schmitz. Washington D.C.: The Catholic
University of America Press, 1993. ISBN: 0-8132-0779-7
A. Scola, The Nuptial Mystery. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishin Company,
2005. ISBN: 0-8028-2831-0
K. Schmitz, Creation: The Gift. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1982. ISBN: 0874621496
Recommended:
M. Shivanandan, Crossing the Threshold of Love. A New Vision of Marriage in the Light of John Paul II’s
Anthropology. Washington, DC: CUA Press, 2002. ISBN: 0813209412.
JPI 546/762 Johannine and Patristic Exposition of Love and Nuptial Mystery
Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth, Vol. I and II, (New York: Doubleday, c2007-c2011. San
Francisco: Ignatius Press).
Ignace De la Potterie, The Hour of Jesus: Passion and Resurrection of Jesus According to John
(New York: Alba House, 1997).
Jocelyn McWhirter, The Bridegroom Messiah and the People of God: Marriage in the Fourth
Gospel (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Donald Senior, The Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of John, (Collegeville, MN.: Liturgical Press,
c1991).
JPI 550/850 Gender and the Sexual Difference
Compendium.
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
Jose Granados and Carl Anderson, Called to Love. New York: Random House, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-
7704-3574-5
Simon Baron-Cohen, The Essential Difference. (New York: Basic Books, 2003).
Recommended:
Louis Cozolino, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships (New York: Norton, 2006).
JPI 553/763 Being As Gift
Kenneth L. Schmitz,The Gift: Creation. Marquette University Press, 1982. ISBN: 0874621496.
Plato’s, Aristotle’s, and Dionysius’s texts are available online. However, in print recommended translations are:
Aristotle.Metaphysics. Translated by Joe Sachs. Santa Fe, NM: Green Lion Press, 2002. ISBN: 978-
1888009033.
Aristotle,The Basic Works of Aristotle, Barnes (ed.)The Complete Works of Aristotle.The Revised Oxford
Translation, 2 vols, trans. W. D. Ross. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. 1552-1728. ISBN 0691016518.
Plato.Complete Works. Edited by John M. Cooper. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1997. ISBN:
978-0872203495.
Pseudo-Dionysius.The Divine Names. The Mystical Theology. Translated by John D. Jones. Milwaukee,
WI: Marquette University Press, 2011. ISBN: 0-87462-221-2.
Joe Sachs,Aristotle’s Physics: A Guided Study. Translated by Joe Sachs. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers
University Press, 1995. ISNB: 0-8135-2192-0.
Antonio López.Spirit’s Gift: The Metaphysical Insight of Claude Bruaire(Washington DC: CUA Press,
2006). ISBN: 9780813214436.
JPI 570 Sexual Ethics and the Person
Compendium.
Pius XI, Casti Connubii ISBN 0-8198-1488-1
Paul VI, Humanae Vitae ISBN 0-8198-3347-9
Karol Wojtyła, Love and Responsibility ISBN 0-374-19247-2
John Paul II, Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body, trans. Michael Waldstein ISBN 0-8198-7421-3
John Paul II. Familiaris Consortio ISBN 0-8198-6449-8
John Paul II. Letter to Families ISBN 0-8198-4471-3
JPI 611 Soul of Medicine
No Books Required.
JPI 669/769 Science, Theology and Ethics
Compendium.
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 670 Environment and Cosmological Order
Compendium.
Henri de Lubac, Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man (San Francisco: Ignaitus, 1988).
Richard McKeon (ed.), The Basic Works of Aristotle, (Modern Library, 2001), ISBN-10: 0375757996; ISBN-13: 978-0375757990.
Leon Kass, The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of our Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1994). ISBN: 0-226-42568.
Hans Jonas, The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology (Evanston: Northwestern, 2001).
Stratford Caldecott, Beauty for the Sake of Truth: On the Re-Enchantment of Education (Brazos Press: 2009), ISBN # 1587432625
JPI 847 Faith and Knowledge in the Catholic Tradition
Martin Buber, Two Types of Faith, (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2003).
John of the Cross, The Ascent to the Carmel Mount (Tunbridge Wells: Burns & Oates, 1983).
John Paul II, Faith According to John of the Cross (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, c1981).
Pierre Rousselot, The Eyes of Faith (New York: Fordham University Press, 1990).
Joseph Pieper, Faith, Hope, Love (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1997).
Joseph Ratzinger, Mary: God’s Yes to Man (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1988).
Joseph Ratzinger, The Yes of Jesus Christ, Spiritual Exercises on Faith, Hope and Love (The Crossroad
Publishing Company, 2005).
JPI 956 Covenant, Nupiality and Biblical Vision of Reality
No Books Required.
JPI 978 Action and Destiny
Maurice Blondel, Action (1893)
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theo-drama II & III
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica I-II, qq. 1-5.
JPI 979 The American Way of Life
William T. Cavanaugh, The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
Christopher Ferrara, Liberty and the God that Failed: Policing the Sacred and Constructing the Myths of the Secular State, from Locke to Obama. Tacoma: Angelico Press, 2012.
Brad S. Gregory, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society. President and Fellows of Harvard University, 2012.
George M. Marsden, The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Boston: Beacon Press Books, 2001.
George H. Speltz, The Importance of Rural Life: According to the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 1945.
R.H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2008.
Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Vintage Books, 1991.