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I'm currently trying to finish Fr Seraphim Rose- His Life and Works for the third time and despite my apparent inability to complete it, I really do enjoy it.
Two things that have really helped me in my dialogue with JWs are the first twenty questions of the Tertia Pars of the Summa. This is especially helpful for thinking about how we speak about the Son. What can be predicated of Christ qua man, qua God, etc? These are all answered by Thomas.
Secondly, the Church's wisdom is ever ancient and ever new and there really is nothing new under the sun, so I recommend reading St. Athanasius' On the Incarnation of the Word (or a free version here). The JWs utilize the very same arguments as the Arians. I only discovered this by accident. I was at home during the summer for about a week and some JWs had been visiting my house to speak with my brother, who has a chronic illness and thus is home most of the time (they tend to prey on people like this). However, this week I was there. I had also just been reading St. Athanasius' treatise for a paper I was working on. Lo and behold, they utilized the same verses that Athanasius' Arian interlocutors had. It was incredible.
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Go read The Holy Trinity.
Then, go read The Trinity Untangled.
Then, go read On the Incarnation and The Trinity. The can also be found on CCEL fairly easily, and for free.
You might be interested in St. Athanasius' On the Incarnation. It's not a long read, but works to answer your questions, I think.
The following works are pretty nerdy, I would say. They were assigned throughout the course of my undergraduate studies in theology and think that they serve as excellent primers to the intellectual side of Catholicism.
Joseph Ratzinger, The God of Jesus Christ. Highly recommended as a beautiful exposition of the Catholic concept of God.
Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity.
Ratzinger, In the Beginning...: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall.
Ratzinger, God and the World. A fantastic survey of essential Catholic doctrines and beliefs.
Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation. A genius work that reminds us that God is on the side of the poor, that he casts down the mighty from their thrones and lifts up the lowly.
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Life Out of Death. A short but beautiful meditation on what it means to die and rise with Christ.
And then, of course, there are the classics. Augustine's Confessions, Aqunas' Summa, Athanasius' On the Incarnation, Benedict's Rule, Anselm's Proslogion, Bonaventure's Mind's Road to God, etc.
Rediscovering the Church Fathers: Who They Were and How They Shaped the Church by Michael Haykin
The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God by Robert Louis Wilken
The Early Church (The Penguin History of the Church) by Henry Chadwick
Early Christian Doctrines by J.N.D. Kelly
And of course, works such as On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius, and The Confessions by St. Augustine
If you want a print copy, get the one printed by St. Vlad's. It's kind of expensive for the size of the book, but I really don't feel comfortable with recommending anyone else's translation without some research. Like Fr. Andrew said though, it is on CCEL.
I'd reccomend that you ask that question over at r/Orthodoxchristianity.
I'm a pretty recent convert to Orthodoxy and Christanity so you'd get better responses from more well read people than myself.
On the Incarnation by st. Athanasius is one I would reccomend to think about the incarnated Christ, but that isn't necessarily focused on that specific part of his work and ministry.
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The best thing that comes to my mind specifically with regards to your question is the Divine Liturgy of st. Basil the Great written for Great and Holy Saturday (The Lord's Sabbath). Here is a portion of it.
https://imgur.com/a/O1RnMnB
https://imgur.com/a/iAGOarn
https://imgur.com/a/YVw7rVz
https://svspress.com/great-and-holy-saturday/
Saint Vladimir Seminary Press has produced some nice little paperback volumes with patristic writings, that go for about $10-$15 each, so it's a pretty affordable way to get them, if you like hard copies rather than reading online. I would particularly recommend their edition of Saint Athanasius ["On the Incarnation"](On the Incarnation: Saint Athanasius (Popular Patristics) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0881414271/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_tt6uzbQTQAW7W), both because it's a classic of the patristic age, and because their edition features a preface by C.S. Lewis which is also really excellent.
Popular Patristics has a version of it with the CS Lewis preface. They have a lot of other modern translations of the Fathers as well :)
I know you said a physical book, but many have Kindle versions as well if anyone is interested in those.