The Oxford Handbook of Catholic Theology provides a one-volume introduction to all the major aspects of Catholic theology. Part One considers the nature of theological thinking, and the major topics of Catholic teaching, including the Triune God, the Creation, and the mission of the Incarnate Word. It also covers the character of the Christian sacramental life and the major themes of Catholic moral teaching. The treatments in the first part of the Handbook offer personal syntheses of Catholic teaching, but each offers an account in accord with Catholic theology as it is expressed in the Second Vatican Council and authoritative documentation. Part Two focuses on the historical development of Catholic Theology. An initial section offers essays on some of Catholic theology's most important sources between 200 and 1870, and the final section of the collection considers all the main movements and developments in Catholic theology across the world since 1870.

This comprehensive volume features fifty-six original contributions by some of the best-known names in current Catholic theology from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The chapters are written in an engaging and easily comprehensible style functioning both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the field. There are no comparable studies available in one volume and the book will be an indispensable reference for students of Catholic theology at all levels and in all contexts.

Lewis Ayres, Professore Invitato, Pontifical University of St Thomas in Rome (the Angelicum); Professor of Catholic and Historical Theology, Durham University,Medi Ann Volpe, Director of Research, Wesley House, Cambridge

Lewis Ayres is Professore Invitato at the Pontifical University of St Thomas in Rome (the Angelicum), Professor of Catholic and Historical Theology at Durham University, and Professional Fellow at the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia. His published works include Nicaea and Its Legacy (Oxford University Press, 2004) and Augustine and the Trinity (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Medi Ann Volpe has taught at Emory University in the USA and at Durham University in the UK. She is currently Director of Research at Wesley House, Cambridge. She is the author of Rethinking Christian Identity: Doctrine and Discipleship (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), as well as articles discussing theology and disability, and other topics in moral theology.

PART I: CATHOLIC TEACHING
The Enterprise of Catholic Theology
1. What is Catholic Theology?, Lewis Ayres
2. The Scriptures and their Interpretation, Matthew Levering
3. Faith and Reason, Balázs Mezei
4. Analogy and the Fate of Reason, William Desmond
God, the Creation, and the History of Salvation
5. Creation and Salvation, John McDade
6. The Trinity's Loving Act of Creation, Thomas Weinandy
7. Evil, Suffering, and Original Sin, Nicholas E. Lombardo OP
8. Nicholas E Lombardo OP, Emmanuel Durand OP
9. The Incarnation, Thomas Weinandy OFM Cap.
10. The Holy Spirit, Thomas Joseph White OP
11. The Church, Paul McPartlan
12. Our Lady and the Saints, Emery DeGaal
13. Eschatology, Paul O'Callaghan
The Sacramental Life
14. The Sacramental Life, David Fagerberg
15. The Liturgy, Pamela Jackson
16. Eucharist, Frederick Bauerschmidt
17. Holy Orders, Susan Wood, SCL
18. Marriage and Sexuality, David Cloutier
19. Mission and Evangelization, Daniel Keating
20. Prayer, Martin Laird OSA
Catholic Moral Theology
21. Catholic Moral Anthropology, Medi Ann Volpe
22. Virtue and Catholic Moral Theology, Livio Melina
23. The Natural Law in Catholic Ethics, Kevin Flannery, SJ
24. Grace and Justification, Joseph Wawrykow
25. Life and Death, Jana Bennett
26. Catholic Social Teaching, David Matzko McCarthy
27. Catholic Teaching on Politics and the State, Chad Pecknold
PART II: MODERN CATHOLIC THEOLOGY
Sources in Catholic Theology up to Vatican I
28. Origen and Augustine, Lewis Ayres
29. Denys and Later Platonic Traditions, Wayne Hankey
30. Monastic Theology, William Harmless
31. Thomas and Scholasticism to 1870, John Slotemaker and Ueli Zahnd
32. Bonaventure and the Franciscan Tradition, Aaron Canty
33. Early Modern Catholic Theology (1500-1700), Trent Pomplun
34. Catholic Piety from the Devotio Moderna to the Legacy of Pierre de Bérulle, Rik Van Nieuwenhove
35. Catholic Theology and the Enlightenment, Ulrich L. Lehner
36. The Development of Doctrine: The Tübingen School and John Henry Newman, Grant Kaplan and Holly Taylor Coolman
37. The Councils of Trent and Vatican I, Christian D. Washburn
Catholic Theology Since 1870
38. Thomism 870-1963, Francesca Aran Murphy
39. Thomism from 1962-2012, Serge-Thomas Bonino OP
40. Ressourcement and Theologies of Communion, Gabriel Flynn
41. Transcendental Thomisms, Declan Marmion
42. Hans Urs von Balthasar, Kevin Mongrain
43. Catholic Personalism up to John Paul II, David Schindler Jr.
44. Sacramental and Liturgical Theology 1900-2000, Kimberly Belcher
45. Biblical Interpretation since Divino afflante spiritu, Mary Healey
46. The Second Vatican Council, Gavin D 'Costa
47. Theologies of Liberation, Roberto Goizueta
48. New Ecclesial Movements and Communities, Ian Ker
49. Catholic Feminist Theology, Danielle Nussberger
50. Catholic Theology and Heidegger, Peter Fritz
51. The Theology of the Body, José Granados
52. Asian Theology, Vimal Tirimanna
53. Catholic Theology in Africa, Antony Akinwale OP
54. Roman Catholicism and Ecumenism, Paul D. Murray
55. Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, Jaroslav Skira
56. Catholic Theology and other Religions, Michael Barnes, SJ