Overview
Welcome to the Franciscan School of Theology Bookstore. Find required and optional course materials below, arranged by course number. You may purchase directly from FST’s Amazon-affiliate bookstore or from any other preferred vendor. Booklists are posted as soon as they are available.
Dear Students
If you are taking a course and there are no books listed for that course it means the professor has not assigned any books to it and will be working from their own materials and articles they assign to you.
Spring 2021
Instructor: D. Pryds
Five Required Texts:
* The Story of Christianity (vol. 1 & 2, 2010 edition)
LS 801 Advanced Preaching/Presiding
Instructor: Weldon
Four Required Texts:
Roman Missal, Your own chapel sized (study) copy would be helpful
PS 608 Ministry Seminar: Leadership
Instructor: Day
One Required Texts:
OT 503 Old Testament Wisdom Literature
Instructor: Guinan
Two Required Texts:
Recommended but not Required
Richard J. Clifford, The Wisdom Literature (Interpreting Biblical Texts;
Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1998).
https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Literature-Interpreting-Biblical-Texts/dp/0687008468
Roland E. Murphy, The Tree of Life: An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature (3rd edition; Grand Rapids, MI: Wm B. Eerdmans, 2002).
https://www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-Exploration-Biblical-Literature/dp/0802839657
Leo G. Perdue, Wisdom Literature: A Theological History (Louisville, i. KY: WestminsterJohnKnox, 2007).
https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Literature-Theological-Leo-Perdue/dp/0664229190
NT 501 Intro to the New Testament
Instructor: Zautzke
One Required Texts:
NT 601 The Letters of St. Paul
Instructor: Constantinou
Two Required Texts:
HS 508 History of Christianity II
Instructor: Chinnici/ Burns
Four Required Texts:
SP 501 Writings of Francis and Clare of Assisi
Instructor: Short
Five Required Texts:
*R. Armstrong, J. A. Wayne Hellmann, W. Short, eds., Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, Vol. 1 (The Saint), (Hyde Park NY: 2000)
*R. Armstrong, ed., Clare of Assisi: Early Documents (The Lady) (Hyde Park NY: 2001)
*also available in online format: http://www.franciscantradition.org
SP 800 Franciscan Spirituality: Varieties of Lived Experience of Faith
Instructor: Pryds
Five Required Texts:
Recommended:
Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125–1325 (9780271029092): Thompson, Augustine
The Lay Saint: Charity and Charismatic Authority in Medieval Italy, 1150–1350: Doyno, Mary Harvey: 9781501740206
HS 503 Interpreting the Church Today
Instructor: Chinnici/Burns
Two Required Texts:
ST 702 God and Trinity
Instructor: Freyer
Three Required Texts:
Chapters:
Approaching the Christian Understanding of God by David Tracy, 109ss.
The Trinitarian Mystery of God: A “Theological Theology” by Anthony J. Godzieba, 131ss.
Optional:
EDWARDS DENIS, Partaking of God: Trinity, Evolution, and Ecology, Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN 2014.
https://www.amazon.com/Partaking-God-Trinity-Evolution-Ecology/dp/0814682529
God in Early Christian Thought, E-Book, Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, Vol. 94, MCGOWAN ANDREW – DALEY BRIAN – GADEN TIMOTHY, Hg., Brill, Leiden – Boston 2009.
https://www.amazon.com/God-Early-Christian-Thought-Supplements/dp/9004174125
HUGHES GERARD, The Nature of God, E-Book, Routledge, London 2005
Most Books are available on Digital Theological Library
LS 604 Sacraments of the Church
Instructor: Freyer
Three Required Texts:
Optional:
Osborne K.B., Christian Sacraments in a Postmodern World, Paulist Press, New York/Mahwah, N.J. 1999.
https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Sacraments-Postmodern-World-Millennium/dp/0809139049
Systematic Theology: Roman Catholic Perspectives, SCHÜSSLER FIORENZA FRANCIS – GALVIN JOHN P., Hg., Fortress Press, Minneapolis 2011.
https://www.amazon.com/Systematic-Theology-Catholic-Perspectives-Sciences/dp/0800662911
Chapters
General by David N. Power, 461ss.
Baptism and Confirmation by David N. Power, 497ss.
Eucharist by David N. Power, 515 ss.
Sacrament and Order of Penance and Reconciliation by David N. Power, 543ss.
Anointing of the Sick by David N. Power, 559ss.
Order by David N. Power, 567ss.
Marriage by Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, 583ss.
Most Books are available on Digital Theological Library
ST 603 Intercultural Theology
Instructor: J. Kiesler
Two Required Texts:
CL 501 Canon Law: Introduction, Canon Law/Marriage
Instructor: Laverone
Three Required Texts:
*Code of Canon Law, Latin-English Edition, New English Translation, Third Printing, 2020, 764 pp., ISBN 978-1-932208-55-9. [hence CIC 1983 (Must be the third Edition)
Professor will provide this document:
Papal and Curial Pronouncements: Their Canonical Significance in Light of the Code of Canon Law. Francis G. Morrisey, OMI ISBN 0-919261-38-8 Saint Paul University Faculty of Canon Law: Ottawa, 2001
Professor will provide this document for purchase
Quick Help: Canon Law of Marriage
ST 703 Theology of the Religious and Diocesan Presbyter
Instructor: Chinnici
One Required Texts:
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CE 501 Fundamental Moral Theology
Instructor: Day
Eight Required Texts:
Nairn, et al, The Franciscan Moral Vision: Responding to God’s Love(St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute, 2013).
*John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor.
*Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate.
*Francis, Evangelii Gaudium.
*Francis, Gaudete et Exsultate.
*Available for free on Vatican website
