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.
Fall 2021
Instructor: D. Pryds
Five Required Texts:
* The Story of Christianity (vol. 1 & 2, 2010 edition)
ST 501 Theology, Church and World: Introduction to Theology
Instructor: Kiesler
Four Required Texts
Available on the DTL:
- Stephen B. Bevans, An Introduction to Theology in Global Perspective
- William Short, Poverty and Joy: The Franciscan Tradition
- Lamin Sanneh, Whose Religion Is Christianity? The Gospel Beyond the West
OT 501 Introduction to the Old Testament
Instructor: Guinan
Two Required Texts
Available on the DTL:
- Michael D. Coogan and Cynthia R. Chapman, The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures
LS 501 Introduction to Liturgy
Instructor: Bergin
Available on the DTL:
- Goffredo Boselli, The Spiritual Meaning of the Liturgy: School of Prayer, Source of Life
ST 503 Franciscan Christology
Instructor: Blastic/Ingham
Four Required Texts:
Available on the DTL:
- Thomas P. Rausch, Who Is Jesus? An Introduction to Christology
- Elizabeth A. Johnson, Consider Jesus: Waves of Renewal in Christology
On Reserve in FST Library:
- Robin Ryan, CP, Christology: Understanding Jesus: Now You Know Media, 2016
HS 505 Modern Social Justice Prophets
Instructor: Burns
5 Required Texts
Available on the DTL:
- Albert J. Raboteau, American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice
HS 507 History of Christianity I
Instructor: Short/Pryds
Three Required Texts
Available on the DTL:
- Justo L. Gonzalez, The story of Christianity: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation
- Darleen Pryds: Enduring Presence: Diversity and Authenticity Among the First Generations of Franciscan Laity
CE 610 Accompanying Families
Instructor: Day
Eight Required Texts
Available on the DTL:
- (older version available) Arlie Russell Hochchild, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution
- Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
CE 601 Information Technology and Ethics
Instructor: Carbajo
Two Required Texts:
Six Recommended Texts:
Paglia Vincenzo – Pecoraro Renzo, (ed), Robo-Ethics. Humans, machines and health, Pontifical Academy for Life, Vatican City 2020.
Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church
Available on the DTL:
- Antonio Spadaro, Maria Way, Cybertheology: Thinking Christianity in the Era of the Internet (Also available online for FST students)
NT 604 Mark and Matthew
Instructor: Constantinou
One Required Text:
PS 607 Ministry Seminar: Spirituality of Ministry
Instructor: Gutierrez
Two Required Texts:
SP 607 Franciscan Seminar: Lives of Francis & Clare
Instructor: Blastic
Three Required Texts:
These texts are available online at the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition Webpage – Early Sources
Recommended Texts:
Available on the DTL:
- André Vauchez and Michael Cusato, Francis of Assisi: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint
- Catherine M. Mooney, Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church: Religious Women, Rules, and Resistance
