Michael Glazier imprint: 170 books
Reading Matthew with Monks
Liturgical Interpretation in Anglo-Saxon England
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
In Reading Matthew with Monks, Derek Olsen seeks to evaluate whether early medieval monastic biblical interpreters can serve as effective conversation partners for modern readers who are committed to broadening their reading of Scripture. Olsen puts the interpretations of four modern Scripture commentaries...
Quantum Shift
Theological and Pastoral Implications of Contemporary Developments in Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
While the field of science has made incredible advances in the past century, and more and more scientists have gone to great lengths to make these developments accessible to the public, we still rarely hear ministers and communities of faith discussing the implications of these developments for the...
Worship and the New Cosmology
Liturgical and Theological Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
What is the Christian response to developments in the hard sciences? What do discoveries at the macro and micro levels have to say about Christian theology, about a theology of God, Christology, pneumatology, and creation? How do the developments in systematic theology that do take the advances in...
Chasing Mystery
A Catholic Biblical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Why does God have to be so exasperatingly silent? Why can't we see him at least long enough to allay doubt? How does one grow deeper in love with God against the cultural currents of disdain and antagonism?
Chasing Mystery is an exploration into how the Bible negotiates the presence and absence...
God's Beauty
A Call to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
What if we began our study of Christian ethics not with an examination of our moral duties but with an exploration of the call of beauty? For like justice, beauty generates a call to a larger, more generous self. God's Beauty offers a fresh, positive approach to moral arguments calling us to work...
by Judith Ryan, Bonnie B. Thurston
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Although relatively brief, Philippians is one of the most interesting and beloved of Paul's undisputed epistles. In Philippians and Philemon, Bonnie Thurston makes a convincing case that canonical Philippians is as Paul wrote it, one letter. Although there is not enough specific evidence to "name...
Fundamentalism at Home and Abroad
Analysis and Pastoral Responses
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
For most people, fundamentalism in the modern world has become synonymous with a radical form of Islam, but fundamentalism in many shapes and forms is also very much present in Western societies. Yes, fundamentalist economic, political, nationalistic, and religious movements are aplenty in the West....
Eucharist as Meaning
Critical Metaphysics and Contemporary Sacramental Theology
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This study moves beyond postmodern trends in Catholic eucharistic theology by exploring the works of Bernard Lonergan and Louis-Marie Chauvet: “Having learned from both Chauvet’s critique of metaphysics and Lonergan’s development of a critical metaphysics, we hope to offer a fruitful understanding...
50 Years On
Probing the Riches of Vatican II
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Pope John XXIII prayed that the Second Vatican Council would prove to be a new Pentecost. The articles gathered here appeared originally in a series solicited by and published in Theological Studies (September 2012 to March 2014). The purpose of the series was and remains threefold:
• To...
A Church with Open Doors
Catholic Ecclesiology for the Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Catholic ecclesiology stands at the threshold of a new moment in the reception of the Second Vatican Council. The election of Pope Francis—coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the council—has inspired a fresh consideration of its teaching in such diverse areas as ecumenism, inculturation,...
The Word Made Love
The Dialogical Theology of Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
From scholarly monographs to papal homilies, Joseph Ratzinger has insisted consistently over decades that Christianity is not a set of ideas to believe or, even less, moral laws to follow. Rather, Christianity is about a person and our encounter with that person.
In The Word Made Love, Christopher...
Church
Living Communion
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Drawing on the wisdom and teaching experience of highly respected theologians, the Engaging Theology series builds a firm foundation for graduate study and other ministry formation programs. Each of the six volumes 'Scripture, Jesus, God, Discipleship, Anthropology, and Church 'is concerned with retrieving,...
Water Shaping Stone
Faith, Relationships, and Conscience Formation
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
The Catholic Tradition requires the faithful to form and follow their conscience. This is the case even with the recognition that consciences can be malformed and one can make errors in practical judgments. Water Shaping Stone examines various aspects of this tradition regarding conscience by using,...
The Other Hand of God
The Holy Spirit as the Universal Touch and Goal
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
If the Spirit is not equal to the Father and the Son, can the Trinity survive? Is the role of the Spirit in salvation as important as that of the Son? Why was the divinity of the Spirit problematic in the early Church? If the Son, Jesus Christ, is the way the truth and the life," what role does...