New Publications

Thomas Aquinas's Summa Contra Gentiles: A Mirror of Human Nature

Matthew Kostelecky

This book shows the integral relationship between the conceptions of human nature and God in Thomas Aquinas's remarkable Summa contra gentiles. As such, it provides robust accounts of Aquinas's view of human nature (as constituted by God), the scope and function of human language (about God), and human desire (for God).

Taking the Next Step

Richard Rymarz

Teaching religious education to students in Catholic schools in the twenty-first century presents many challenges. Students come to Catholic schools from a great diversity of religious and secular backgrounds. As well, many come from families who, for various reasons, have little or no connection with their local parish communities.

In attempting to address some of these challenges Taking The Next Step has been designed to assist classroom practitioners in planning and implementing a religious education program that will engage students in learning. It has been written with the aim of providing teachers of religious education with insight into a range of contemporary issues and perspectives which are of relevance to the discipline of religious education.

John among the Other Gospels

Lorne Zelyck

In John Among the Other Gospels: The Reception of the Fourth Gospel in the Extra-Canonical Gospels, Lorne Zelyck explores the influence of the Fourth Gospel on the extra-canonical gospels from the second and third centuries CE. He concludes that the majority of these apocryphal gospels were influenced by the Fourth Gospel, and many of these texts use and interpret John in a way similar to patristic authors of this era.