Controversies in Church History is back! The first episode of 2025 is a review of the books I've been reading the past year, featuring some interesting works on theology and liturgy with a side dollop of nothing-to-do-with-Catholicism-in-particular. If you like hearing someone's else's opinions about books you've never read, this is the episode for you. Also, I preview upcoming episodes and lament how behind I am on book reviews. Cheers!
Books Discussed:
1. Peter Kwasniewski, Treasuring the Goods of Marriage in a Throwaway Society
2. Abbé Claude Barthe, A Forest of Symbols: the Traditional Mass and its Meaning
3. Peter Kwasniewski, Ultramontanism and Tradition: the Role of Papal Authority in the Catholic Church
4. Erick Ybarra, The Papacy: Revisiting the Debate Between Catholic and Orthodox
5. Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms (Sword of Honor Trilogy #1)
6. Tim Blanning, The Romantic Revolution
7. Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
8. David Grann, The Wager: a Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
9. Fawwaz Traboulsi, A History of Modern Lebanon
10. Augustus Richard Norton, Hezbollah: a Short History
11. John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
12. Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
13. Ilan Pappé, A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
14. Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: the Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassination Program
