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Rev. John N. Saward publications

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Homeward to Heaven: The Christian and Monastic Quest
(Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

Cradle of Redeeming Love: The Theology of the Christmas Mystery
(Ignatius Press, 2002)

The Way of the Lamb: The Spirit of Childhood and the End of Age
(T & T Clark, May 1999)

The Beauty of Holiness and the Holiness of Beauty: Art, Sanctity, and the Truth of Catholicism
(Ignatius Press, 1997)

Christ is the Answer: The Christ-Centred Teaching of Pope John Paul II
(Alba House/T & T Clark, 1995)

Redeemer in the Womb: Jesus Living in Mary
(Ignatius Press, 1993)

The Mysteries of March: Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Incarnation and Easter
(Harper Collins/Catholic University of America Press, 1990)

Dieu à la folie: Histoire des saints fous pour le Christ
(translation of title below, Editions du Seuil, 1983)

Perfect Fools: Folly for Christ’s Sake in Catholic and Orthodox Spirituality
(Oxford University Press, 1980)
Re-printed in Oxford Scholarly Classics series
(Oxford University Press, 2000)

Booklets

Re-awakening the Catholic Memory: The Sources of the New Catechism
(Crux Publications, 1994)
This Great Sacrament Revere
(Crux Publications, 1992)
The Theology of the Laity
(Crux Publications, 1989; new edition, 1996)
Christ, the Light of the Nations: The Rediscovery of Vatican II
(Crux Publications, 1987; new edition, 1996)
The Beggar Saint: St Benedict Joseph Labre
(Catholic Truth Society, 1984)
The Social Theology of the Sacrament of Penance
(Church Literature Association, London, 1977)
Christ and His Bride: Women’s Ordination in the Light of Christology
(Church Literature Association, London, 1977)
The Case against the Ordination of Women
(Church Literature Association, London, 1975)

Contributions to Collected Works

‘Discerning the Rose: Pope John Paul II and the Causes of the Saints’,
in W. Oddie (ed.), John Paul the Great
(Catholic Truth Society, 2003)

‘The Centrality of Christ in the Ordo Missae of the Classic Roman Rite’
in Faith and Liturgy: The Proceedings of the Seventh International Colloquium of Historical, Canonical, and Theological Studies on the Roman Catholic Liturgy (CIEL UK, 2002)

‘“Totally Yours”: The Teaching of Pope John Paul II on Our Lady’
in The Wisdom of Pope John Paul II
(Catholic Truth Society, 2001)

‘“The Earthly Home of the Eternal Father”: Devotion to the Holy Family in the Spirituality of the French School’,
in J. Chorpenning OSFS (ed.), The Holy Family in Art and Devotion
(St Joseph’s University Press, 1997)

‘Salvation is of Christ the Lord: The Christ-centredness of the Catechism’,
in M. Hogan & T. J. Norris (edd.), Evangelizing for the Third Millennium: The Maynooth Conference on the New Catechism (Veritas, 1997)

‘La résurrection de la chair et la beauté finale de l’homme’,
in Y. & S. Hamant et al., Face à la création la responsibilité de l’homme:
Rencontre entre l’Est et l’Ouest, Novogorod-Saint-Pétersbourg 1995 Éditions Mame, 1996)

‘St. Louis de Montfort and the Oxford Movement’,
in Jesus Living in Mary:A Handbook of the Spirituality of St. Louis-Marie de Montfort (Montfort Publications, 1995)
‘St. Louis de Montfort and Ecumenism’ (as above)

‘Youthful unto Death: Balthasar and the Spirit of Childhood’,
in B. McGregor OP & T. Norris (edd.), The Beauty of Christ
(T. & T. Clark, 1994)

‘Le retour de l’Europe aux Pères de l’Église’
in J.-M. Varaut et al., Le Christianisme ferment d’unité:
Colloque de Cracovie, 1991 (Éditions universitaires, 1992)

‘Mary and Peter in the Christological Constellation: Balthasar’s Ecclesiology’
in J. Riches (ed.), The Analogy of Beauty: The Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar (T. & T. Clark, 1994)

‘Bérulle and the French School’
in C. Jones (ed.), The Study of Spirituality (S.P.C.K., London, 1986)

‘The Assumption’ in A. Stacpoole OSB (ed.), Mary’s Place in Christian Dialogue
(St. Paul’s Publications, 1982)

‘Theologen des verborgenen Lebens: Charles de Foucauld und Thomas von Aquin’
(Internationale katholische Zeitschrift, 2004; also in Slovenian)

‘From Camelot to Bethlehem’
(Saint Austin Review, 2003)

‘The Metaphysics of the Manger’
(Priests and People, 2001)

Hodie Christus natus est
(Saint Austin Review, 2001)

‘The Cosmic Liturgy and the Way of the Lamb’
(Second Spring, 2001)

‘The Mystery of Christian Wales’
(Chesterton Review, 2000)

‘The Catholic Shakespeare’
(Chesterton Review, 1999)

‘Chesterton and Balthasar: The Likeness is Greater’
(Chesterton Review, 1996)

‘Regaining Paradise: Paul Claudel and the Renewal of Exegesis’
(Downside Review, 1996)

‘Mary’s Month of May’
(Soul, 1996)

‘Musical Comedy, Divine Comedy’
(Catholic World Report, December 1995)

‘Advent: The Season of the Seed’
(The Sower, September 1995)

[with S. Caldecott] ‘St. Joseph: The Image of the Father’
(Catholic World Report, March 1994)

‘Paul Claudel and the New Exegesis’
(Catholic World Report, December 1993)

‘The Pedagogy of Péguy’
(The Chesterton Review 1993) ‘El regreso de Europa a los Padres’
(Ecclesia 1992)

‘The Flesh Flowers Again: St. Bonaventure and the Aesthetics of the Resurrection’
(The Downside Review 1992)

‘The Christocentricity of Pope John Paul II’
(Communio 1991)

‘The Grace That Writes The Poem: The Achievement of Elizabeth Jennings’
(Thirty Days June 1990)

‘Faithful to the Child I Used to Be: Georges Bernanos and the Spirit of Childhood’
(The Chesterton Review 1990)

‘Love’s Second Name: St. Thomas Aquinas on Mercy’
(Canadian Catholic Review 1990)

‘Christ, Our Lady, and the Church in the Teaching of the Second Council of Nicaea’
(Chrysostom 1988)

‘The Theotokos in the Theology of the Church’
(Chrysostom 1984)

‘Priesthood, Suffering, and Sacrifice’
(Christian 1977)

‘Towards an Apophatic Anthropology’
(Irish Theological Quarterly, 1974)

‘Georges Bernanos - Novelist of Grace’
(New Fire 1974

Translations from German, French, and Latin

Joseph Ratzinger, The Spirit of the Liturgy
(Ignatius Press, 2000)

Christoph Schönborn, Living the Catechism of the Catholic Church, vol. 2
(Ignatius Press, 2000)

Christoph Schönborn, Loving the Church
(Ignatius Press, 1998)

Reinhold Schneider, ‘Easter’ [verse translation], Communio 1994
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Our Task
(Ignatius Press, 1995)

Hans Urs von Balthasar, ‘Casta Meretrix’, in Explorations in Theology
(Ignatius Press, 1993)

(with I. Trethowan OSB) Henri de Lubac, The Christian Faith
(Geoffrey Chapman)

(with others) Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Glory of the Lord, vols. 3, 4, 5
(T. & T. Clark)

St. Irenaeus, The Scandal of the Incarnation

 

 

Rev. John N. Saward
Visiting Senior Professor of Dogmatic Theology

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