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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
By engaging in conversation with those whose experience, perspectives, and theological traditions vary from their own, the contributors to The Theology of Priesthood explore in detail the fundamental questions being asked about the ordained priesthood today. Priests, deacons, and students of theology...
Rekindling the Christic Imagination
Theological Meditations for the New Evangelization
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
The Second Vatican Council marked the beginning of the New Evangelization. It sought to communicate the Gospel's perennial newness to the contemporary world in a spirit of joy and hope. Yet despite the exhortations of Paul VI and John Paul II, a number of ecclesial and cultural factors deflected the...
Praise the Name of the Lord
Meditations on the Names of God in the Qur'an and the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Christians and Muslims both have an abundance of names for God. The Bible provides Christians with a rich array of names for God, and the ninety-nine Names that Islam gives traditionally to God are drawn from the Qur’an. Praise the Name of the Lord is an offering of texts, from the Qur’an and...
Who is Jesus?
An Introduction to Christology
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Who is Jesus? This is the fundamental question for christology. The earliest Christians used various titles, most of them drawn from the Old Testament or Hebrew Scriptures, to express their faith in Jesus. They called him prophet, teacher, Messiah, Son of David, Son of Man, Lord, Son of God, Word...
Wisdom
Volume 20
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In the book of Wisdom, we find the literary voice of Solomon, the model king and seeker of wisdom sharing his meditations. Concepts from Greek philosophy are integrated into Jewish tradition to present new insights into how wisdom can be both a quality of God and a human characteristic. Three affirmations...
Introduction to the Bible
Volume1
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
When we first pick it up and open it, the Bible can seem confusing and perhaps even frightening. Here is this bulky book, made up of seventy-three sections with unfamiliar titles such as Deuteronomy, Ecclesiastes, Colossians, and Corinthians, with numbers in front of almost every sentence, rarely...
Daniel Rudd
Calling a Church to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
In May of 1890, The Christian Solider, an African American newspaper, identified the Catholic journalist and activist Daniel Arthur Rudd as the “greatest negro Catholic in America.” Yet many Catholics today are unaware of Rudd's efforts to bring about positive social change during the early decades...
A Listening Community
A Commentary on the Prologue and Chapters 1-3 of Benedict's Rule
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
This new book by Sister Aquinata Böckmann discusses the Prologue and chapters 1, 2, and 3 of the Rule of St. Benedict. In a lectio regulae she plumbs the depths of Benedict’s vision. Listen, the first word of the Prologue, is a keyword that describes the main stance of the individual monastic,...
Blessings for Leaders
Leadership Wisdom from the Beatitudes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In Blessings for Leaders, Dan Ebener skillfully weaves an understanding of one of the most powerful and familiar Bible passages with insights drawn from his experience developing faith-filled leaders in churches, businesses, and not-for-profit organizations. Each chapter begins with Scripture, reflects...
Cave, Refectory, Road
Monastic Rhythms for Contemporary Living
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
A new mode of Christian living is springing to life as groups of individuals and families living in the same geographic area or connected virtually share a simple rule of life. Cave, Refectory, Road explores how traditional monastic life is helping to shape a new flowering of Christian community today....
Joseph Bernardin
Seeking Common Ground
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
As a priest, archbishop, and president of the US bishops’ conference, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin lived a ministry marked by thoughtfulness, compassion, and conviction. Relying on interviews with the cardinal’s assistants, friends, and family members, as well as on some previously unavailable archival...
Benedict's Rule
A Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Benedict's Rule: A Translation and Commentary is the first line-by-line exegesis of the entire Rule of Benedict written originally in English. This full commentary - predominately a literary and historical criticism - is based on and includes a new translation and is accompanied by essays on Benedict's...
The Sermon on the Mount
The Perfect Measure of the Christian Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Saint Augustine once described the Sermon on the Mount as "the perfect measure of the Christian life." Taking his cue from Augustine, Frank Matera provides an exposition of the sermon for contemporary readers who wish to use the sermon as the standard by which they live their lives every...
by Thomas P. Rausch SJ, Catherine Clifford
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
What is Catholicism? And where is the Catholic Church headed in the third millennium? These two questions provide the structure for Thomas Rausch's Catholicism in the Third Millennium. Here Rausch combines a faithful presentation of the tradition with a critical theological reflection and interpretation...