Liturgical Press Academic imprint: 19 books
Context and Text
A Method for Liturgical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
One of the most influential works in the debate over the concept and definitions of liturgical theology, Context and Text by Monsignor Kevin W. Irwin is now available in a completely rewritten, new edition.
In light of the historical, theological, and pastoral mandates of the Constitution on...
Liturgy and Secularism
Beyond the Divide
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Can Christian worship engage our secular culture? Should it? While engaging thinkers in philosophy, history, religious anthropology, and liturgical theology, liturgical theologian Joris Geldhof argues that such engagement is necessary—that our liturgy and faith should embrace our modern culture....
The Pilgrimage of Egeria
A New Translation of the Itinerarium Egeriae with Introduction and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This new version of the late fourth-century diary of journeys in and around the Holy Land known as the Itinerarium Egeriae provides a more literal translation of the Latin text than earlier English renderings, with the aim of revealing more of the female traveler’s personality. The substantial introduction...
Still Hungry at the Feast
Eucharistic Justice in the Midst of Affliction
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
In Still Hungry at the Feast, Episcopal priest and professor Samuel Torvend invites readers to expand their experience and understanding of the Mass, the Holy Eucharist, as more than a personal encounter with the risen Christ. Drawing on recent Jesus research, the long history of eucharistic reflection...
The Our Father
A New Reading
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Can Christians still pray the Our Father in the twenty-first century? We can, and we must.
Gerhard Lohfink breaks open its strange phrases like “hallowed be thy name,” its off-putting language like “Father” and “kingdom,” and its apparently harsh demands like forgive us as we have forgiven...
Faces of Easter
Meeting the Paschal Mystery in the People Around Us
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Using vignettes set in or near his monastery in downtown Newark, New Jersey, Benedictine monk Albert Holtz helps us to see that the Easter mystery, which can often seem abstract and distant, is in fact present all around us. As we accompany him through the fifty days of the Easter season, we listen...
by Anthony J. Godzieba
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
In a consumer-driven and technologized world, can we still experience the mystery of God? This book answers yes by exploring the rich resources of the Christian tradition of thinking and speaking about God. Focusing on God’s dialectical character—divine availability (“presence”) and divine...
Is This All There Is?
On Resurrection and Eternal Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Is the Christian hope for resurrection still alive or has it become tired? How can we talk about the Resurrection today? Gerhard Lohfink takes up the question of death and resurrection in this new book. He argues against the dazzling array of today's ideas and expectations and seeks his answers in...
Lost in Translation
The English Language and the Catholic Mass
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
In this book, Gerald O'Collins, SJ, takes a systematic look at the 2010 English translation of the Roman Missal and the ways it fails to achieve what the Second Vatican Council mandated: the full participation of priest and people. Critiquing the unsatisfactory principles prescribed by the Vatican...
By What Authority?
Primer on Scripture, the Magisterium, and the Sense of the Faithful
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Few topics are as important, and as controversial, as the proper role and exercise of authority in the Roman Catholic Church. Inspired by Pope Francis's bold rereading and determined implementation of the teaching of Vatican II, Richard Gaillardetz has completely revised and expanded his book By...
Good Intentions
A History of Catholic Voters’ Road from Roe to Trump
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
The 2016 presidential election was unlike any other in American history. Polls tell us that millions of American Catholics who care about moral issues and who descended from immigrants supported Donald Trump. Why didn’t Trump’s rhetoric on immigration and his promises to close the borders trouble...
A Course in Desert Spirituality
Fifteen Sessions with the Famous Trappist Monk
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Thomas Merton’s sessions with the young monks at the Abbey of Gethsemani showcase Merton’s brilliant ability to survey the key figures and synthesize their writings, inspiring his listeners and readers with what it means for the spiritual life. Like its companion volume, A Course in Christian...
From the Tools of Good Works to the Heart of Humility
A Commentary on Chapters 4-7 of Benedict's Rule
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In a new volume of her exegetical commentary, Sr. Aquinata Böckmann explores chapters 4–7 of the Rule of St. Benedict. They contain Benedict’s instruction of how to learn and live the spiritual art of monastic life that is focused on Christ. In her close reading of the text and its sources she...
World Christianity Encounters World Religions
A Summa of Interfaith Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Synthesizing the thinking of the most prominent scholars, Professor Edmund Chia discusses practically everything that should be known about Christianity’s encounter with other religions in this comprehensive book. Topics include:
the invention of the idea of World Religions and World Christianity
the...
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