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Word for Word
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentaryby robert alternorton, 3500 pages, $125 In 1582, Catholic scholars in exile at Rheims published an English version of the New Testament prefaced...
Comfort to Predators
In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisyby frédéric marteltranslated by shaun whitesidebloomsbury, 576 pages, $30 The cursus of Frédéric Martel’s work can be expressed quite simply: He...
His Excellency
American Priest: The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame’s Father Ted Hesburghby wilson d. miscamble, c.s.c. image, 464 pages, $28 In 2008, Father Theodore Hesburgh (1917–2015) gave an...
Historical-Critical Qur’an
The Qurʾān and the Bible: Text and Commentaryby gabriel said reynoldsyale, 1032 pages, $40 This book is misleadingly named. The blame, if blame there be, rests with the stingy conventions...
Dem Bones
Ossa Latinitatis Sola ad Mentem Reginaldi Rationemque: The Mere Bones of Latin According to the Thought & System of Reginaldby reginaldus thomas foster and daniel patricius mccarthycatholic university of america, 831...
The Gospel According to
David Bentley
The New Testament: A Translationby david bentley hartyale, 616 pages, $35 David Bentley Hart’s new single-handed translation of the New Testament will strike the fair-minded reader by turns as...
Waugh on the Merits
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisitedby philip eadehenry holt, 432 pages, $32 Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in 1903 to upper-middle-class Anglicans who lived in a suburb of...
Pontifex Minimus
Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivityby james martin, s.j.harperone, 150 pages, $19.99 Is sodomy...
Flannery O’Connor: A Life
Flannery O’Connor: A Lifeby jean w. cashuniversity of tennessee press, 392 pages, $30 Writing of her mother, Flannery O’Connor once told a friend, “I always thought that if she...
The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Corrected
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The Skimpole Syndrome: Childhood Unlimited
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Assassins of a Lesser God
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Why Universities Went Secular
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Academic Religion: Playground of the Vandals
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What I Saw at the American Academy of Religion
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