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The Heythrop Library @ London Jesuit Centre (UK) is a specialist collection of philosophy & theology. Providing access to 200,000+ volumes, some since 1614. We are funded by @jesuitsbritain.bsky.social

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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This arrived today @heythroplib.bsky.social! Some of the books in this box had been borrowed over 26 years ago. A blip in the Library's 412 years of existence, I know, but we are still happy to make these available to other researchers.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library Library : Magnifica humanitas : on safeguarding the human person in the time of artifical intelligence : encyclical letter / of the Holy Father Leo XIV.. Our catalogue record : hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover shows Pope Leo XIV in profile with right hand raised in greeting. The blurred backdrop could be the sun setting.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Surprised by hope : further meditations on synodality / Timothy Radcliffe. Our catalogue record : hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Book cover with blue and white text and abstract image.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Domesticating saints in medieval and early modern Rome / Maya Maskarinec. Our catalogue record : hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Book cover with a fresco depicting saints.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil : unprecedented conversations / edited by Kathryn Lawson and Joshua Livingstone. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book: image of 'The Philosophy' ceiling fresco in Stanza della Segnatura (Vatican Palace, Rome) by Raphael.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : English madrigals on the Jesuit stage : musical theatre of martyrdom at the Venerable English College, Rome / Alana Mailes. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book: image of Baroque vault of the choir of the cathedral of Córdoba, Spain.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : An introduction to ethics / John Deigh. Our catalogue record : hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Book cover depicting modular castle or building.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : A dictionary of Irish saints / Pádraig Ó Riain. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book: illustration of the three patron saints of Ireland from 'Monasticon Hibernicum' (1873).
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library: The soul also keeps the score : a trauma-informed companion to the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius / Robert W. McChesney, SJ. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Book cover depicting stylized figure between two chairs.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Carthusian monasticism : history, life, world, texts / edited by Stephen J. Molvarec, SJ and Demetrio S. Yocum. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover includes a painting of a medieval monastic complex. At the forefront is a lake with two boats and people fishing in it. On the bank of the lake is a monk seated.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
#NewAcquisitions Heythrop Library : Debating papal history, c. 250-c. 1300 : responsive government and the medieval papacy / D.L. d'Avray, University College London and Jesus College, Oxford. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
The top of the cover shows a medieval pope. The right hand raised for the sign of a blessing, the left hand holding the shepherd's staff.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : The feminine and the sacred / Catherine Clément and Julia Kristeva ; translated by Jane Marie Todd. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book: Image of 'Cow's Skull with Calico Roses' by Georgia O'Keeffe.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
#NewAquisition Heythrop Library : Sin and the vulnerability of embodied life : towards a Catholic theology of social sin / Charlotte Bray. Our catalogue record : hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover is the T&T Clark series design for books in the Systematic Theology series: 3 letters in an older font against a grey backdrop.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : The Psalms : an emerging image of God / Thomas P. Rausch, SJ. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover includes an abstract, modern painting with obvious paint brushes of colour.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Towards intercultural pastoral care : pastoral accompaniment of migrant and intercultural couples in the Catholic Church in the Netherlands / Ward Josephus Adrianus Biemans. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book: photo of migrant family sculpture by Neil Hadlock.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : A handbook to second-century Christianity / Michael F. Bird and Scott Harrower, editors. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book: picture of fragment of John’s Gospel Papyrus 52; early second century (housed at John Rylands Library, Manchester).
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Platonic principles : essays in honor of Lloyd Gerson / edited by Carl Séan O'Brien and Sarah Klitenic Wear. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book: abstract art by Giuseppe Blasotta.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Converts : from Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, why so many became Catholic in the 20th century / Melanie McDonagh. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book: illustration of the front door of a church.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Engaging coloniality : the liberative story of Christianity in Latin America / edited by Raimundo C. Barreto Jr. and Mark A. Lamport. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book: title and author information with an outline of the Americas in purple in the background.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : God's influencer : a short biography of Carlo Acutis / Michael Collins. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Photo of young man with sunglasses, in the background is a hilly landscape with some trees.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Catholics in London 1800-1850 / Jean Olwen Maynard. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book: image of 'The Roman Catholic Chapel, Moorfields; Celebration of High Mass on Christmas Day, 1841' (drawn by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, engraved by H. Melville).
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Analytic Islamic epistemology : critical debates / edited by Safaruk Chowdhury and Ramon Harvey. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Photo of the inside of a modern library building
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Heythrop Institute Theology Seminars, 2025-26 @londonjesuit.bsky.social Thu (26/03/26), 4:00 to 5:30pm! Dr Ashley Cocksworth - 'The Pathos of Joy'. More: londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com/events/db8xi... 2 of the speaker's books hey.koha.openfifth.net/cgi-bin/koha... #BePrepared #Seminars #Talks
Girl on a beach in front of choppy waters.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Not a hope in hell / James Dominic Rooney. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Book cover, white stripe with black text against abstract red background.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : St. Edith Stein's aesthetic : beauty and sanctity: masterpiece of the divine artist / Elizabeth A. Mitchell. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Against the backdrop of an image from the sky onto a rocky, lower landscape, some birds fly through he photo. Four images are placed at the bottom of the book cover: the first and fourth image is of Edith Stein; first as a younger woman in a white dress, the fourth image of her as a nun. The two middle images are of a painting of Stein in style of a saint with a golden halo, and then a statute made of stone.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
#ExploringCollections Heythrop Library : featuring a selection of our holdings from the Mount Street Reading Room concerning #earlychristianity You can browse our specialist book collection and see what you can discover for yourself here: hey.koha.openfifth.net/
Major texts on early Christianity, including the role of women.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
#NewAcquisition @heythroplib.bsky.social : The Second World War through Jesuit archives : the case of Europe (1939-1945) / edited by Damien Burke, Rebecca Somerset and Christian Taoutel. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.net/cgi-bin/koha...
Book cover shows a room with a small house altar, and at the centre a framed painting of Ignatius of Loyola.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Maynooth College reflects on catechesis in the life of the church / edited by Jeremy Corley, Andrew Meszaros, John Paul Sheridan. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book: image of Orthodox icon of Jesus.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Sense and thought : a study in Mysticism / by Greta Hort, M.A., PhD., Sometime Pfeifer Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Book cover, white text against red abstract background
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
#NewAcqusition Heythrop Library: After Newman : a eulogy for Anglo-Catholics, 1845-1965 / Aidan Nichols, OP. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Photo shows inside of a church, a wooden screen with the depiction of the crucifixion scene: with Jesus on the cross in the middle a woman to his right, and a man to his right. At each end of this group is an angel.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Face to face : the theology of the icon / Aidan Hart. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book: image of Orthodox icon of Mary and Jesus.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : The spiritual director : Practising the charism of presence and attention / Julia Mourant. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
A photo of a human holding a map of a mountainous area, in the distance is a mountain.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World : The Catholic Church in the Age of Revolution and Democracy / Ambrogio A. Caiani Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
book cover, old painting of crowd
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The symbolism of marriage in early Christianity and the Latin middle ages : images, impact, cognition / edited by Line Cecilie Engh. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
The image on top of the book's cover is the inside of a church's cupola, showing a mosaic of four adults, two seated and two standing next to them.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Engaging Nicene Trinitarianism : historical analysis, theological exploration, and contemporary relevance / edited by Matthias Grebe, Nadine Hamilton and Christian Schlenker. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book: image of 'The Trinity' painting by Andrei Rublev.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Interpreting Jesus / Dale C. Allison Jr. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Book cover depicting Christ.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Women in Christianity in the age of Enlightenment, 1650-1800 / edited by Hugo Córdova Quero and Cristian Mor. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover has the bibliographic data as text, against a repeated pattern which could be interpreted as two eyes watching.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Black eco-theology through history : the African-American experience / Dianne D. Glave. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Political theology and the conflicts of democracy / Nicholas Norman-Krause, Belmont University. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Book cover : black and white photo with people sat on chairs gathered in a circle, facing inwards, title in pink across white banner at the top.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Method, meaning, mystery / Timothy Verdon. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Painting of bearded man holding an open book, which is facing the viewer. It shows a painting of Mary holding Jesus. The man holds a brush in his right hand.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The poster from @jrsuk.bsky.social is on our wall, and you can find their Lenten Appeal: www.jrsuk.net/lent/ ; we have many books to explore Lent, 3 found by via hey.koha.openfifth.net/cgi-bin/koha... are a start. 32 books in our reading room "cover" refugees: hey.koha.openfifth.net/cgi-bin/koha...
Poster shows 5 people walking towards the sun which is setting on the horizon. The text portion of the poster says : "The Easter message of the risen Christ invites us not to forget those women and men seeking a better future. Pope Francis" and underneath "Refugees welcome" and "www.jrsuk.net/lent"
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Jean-Luc Nancy and the deconstruction of Christianity / Ashok Collins. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book: close-up of stained glass mosaic.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Haunting Questions of Liberation Theology / Edited by Jione Havea. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Book cover, white texts against blue and red background.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
#ExploringCollections Heythrop Library: featuring a selection of our holdings from the Mount Street Reading Room concerning #theologyandliterature You can browse our specialist book collection and see what you can discover for yourself here: hey.koha.openfifth.net/
display of books about theology and literature
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : How to read Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics in one book : a sequential guide to his magnum opus / Daniel Chitrada. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Against the backdrop of some trees in a forest, with light coming through the trees, a block of a textbox is superimposed. In the text box is the title of the book of this post, plus the author.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : The textual transmission of the New Testament : manuscripts, variants, and authority / Juan Chapa ; translated by Juan Hernández, Jr. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book: cover art reproduction of miniature from 'Avis pour faire le passage d'outre-mer', 15th century.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : The phenomenology of the second-person plural / Sarah Pawlett Jackson. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Book cover, green pattern background. White banner across the middle with title in black.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : The science of life in Aristotle and the early Peripatos / edited by David Lefebvre. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book of the post. A red and burgundy-coloured background, with the text of the title, author and publisher.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Die zweite Generation : Transformationsprozesse in den Anfängen von Orden und religiösen Gemeinschaften in der Geschichte des Christentums / Marco Rainini, Andrea Riedl (Hgg.) Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Cover of the book: photo of marble detail from The Arca di San Domenico in the Basilica of San Domenico in Bologna, Italy.
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Heythrop Library @heythroplib.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Psychodynamics of the Ignatian Exercises / Carlos Domínguez Morano. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
Book cover depicting a maze. Title in white text against red banner at the top.
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