Theology Shorts

This week on the podcast I speak with David Mahfood, Assistant Professor of Theology at Johnson University Florida, about Anselm of Canterbury. The primary source works that David mentions can be found inAnselm of Canterbury: The Major Works, which is edited by Brian Davies and G.R. Evans in the Oxford World’s Classics Series. https://www.amazon.com/Anselm-Canterbury-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/019954008X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=anselm+of+canterbury&qid=1553709276&s=gateway&sr=8-1  Here are the secondary sources David mentions:  R.W. Southern. Saint Anselm: A Portrait in a Landscape. Cambridge University Press, 1990. https://www.amazon.com/St-Anselm-Landscape-Richard-Southern/dp/0521438187/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1553709583&sr=8-1-fkmrnull Karl Barth. Anselm: Fides Quaerens Intellectum: Anselm’s Proof of the Existence of God in the Context of his Theological Scheme. SCM Press, 1960. https://www.amazon.com/Anselm-Intellectum-Existence-Theological-Pittsburgh/dp/0915138751/ref=sr

This week I talk with Joseph Gordon, Associate Professor of Theology at Johnson University and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lonergan Institute at Boston College, about his forthcoming Cascade Companions volume on the life and work of Canadian Jesuit theologian and priest Bernard Lonergan. In the interview Joe mentions several works in the Collected Works of Lonergan. You can see information on the series at the University of Toronto Press website: https://utorontopress.com/ca/books/by-series/collected-works-of-bernard-lonergan Joe also mentions two secondary sources: Jeremy D. Wilkins. Before Truth: Lonergan, Aquinas, and the Problem of Wisdom. The Catholic University of America Press, 2018. https://www.hfsbooks.com/books/before-truth-wilkins/ Frederick Crowe. Lonergan. Outstanding Christian Thinkers. Liturgical Press, 1992. https://www.amazon.com/Lonergan-Outstanding-Christian-Thinkers-Frederick/dp/081465052X/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?keywords=liturgical+press+outstanding+christian+thinkers+lonergan&qid=1551812609&

This week I speak with Peter Gavin-Griffin, a PhD Candidate in Theological Studies at Regis College, University of Toronto, about German Catholic theologian Romano Guardini. Here are the primary sources on Guardini that Peter mentions: Guardini, Romano. Freedom, Grace, and Destiny: Three Chapters in the Interpretation of Existence. Trans. John Murray. New York: Pantheon Books, 1961. Guardini, Romano. The Virtues: On Forms of Moral Life. Trans. Stella Lange. Regnery Publishing, 1967. Reprinted as: Learning the Virtues That Lead You to God. Revised edition. Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 1998. Secondary Sources: Balthasar, Hans Urs von Balthasar. Romano Guardini: Reform From the Source. Trans. Albert K. Wimmer and D.C. Schindler. San Francisco: A Communio Book/Ignatius Press, 2010. Krieg, Robert. Romano Guardini: A Precursor of Vatican II. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. Ratzinger, Joseph. “From Liturgy to Christology: Romano Guardini’s Basic Theological Approach and Its Significa

This episode, Stephen Lawson, a PhD Candidate in Historical Theology at St Louis University, joins me on the podcast to discuss his work on Erik Peterson. Michael Hollerich wrote two essays that engage Erik Peterson that have been published in Pro Ecclesia: "Retrieving a Neglected Critique of Church, Theology and Secularization in Weimar Germany." Pro Ecclesia 2, no 3 (Summer 1993): 305-332. "The Antisecular Front Revised: Reflections on Catholics and Politics in Hitler's Germany." Pro Ecclesia 16, no 2 (Spring 2007): 141-164. Hollerich also translated the Peterson dialogue with Adolf von Harnack for Pro Ecclesia, which can be found in 2, no 3 (Summer 1993): 333-334. The book by Peterson that Stephen mentions is: Peterson, Erik. Theological Tractates. Trans. Michael Hollerich. Cultural Memory in the Present. Stanford University Press, 2011.