Liturgical Press: 724 books
by Brendan Byrne SJ
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Of all the writings of Paul none have made so signal a contribution to Christian life and identity as the Letter to the Galatians and the Letter to the Romans. While written at quite separate stages of his apostolic career and very different in tone, the two letters unite in projecting above all a...
A Costly Freedom
A Theological Reading of Mark's Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
With this study of the Gospel of Mark, Brendan Byrne completes his trilogy of works on the Synoptic Gospels. Mark, the Cinderella gospel, as Byrne says, languished for millennia in the shadow of Matthew ("the first gospel") and Luke. Beginning in the nineteenth century, scholars uncovered...
24/7 Christian
The Secular Vocation of the Laity
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
How do we reconnect our faith and our life and move beyond being hour-a-week Christians? In 24/7 Christian, Christine Fletcher brings the riches of the Second Vatican Council with its teachings on the universal call to holiness, the freedom of conscience, and the role of the laity in the world together...
by Ernest Ranly CPPS
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Eucharistic adoration is part of Catholic tradition. In many parts of the world, perpetual adoration is flourishing as never before. Presented here for any who respect the Blessed Sacrament, the reflections found in Eucharistic Contemplation provide a distinct style for prayer and veneration.
Eucharistic...
Sacramentality Renewed
Contemporary Conversations in Saramental Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Tracing developments in sacramental theology over the past twenty-five years, this study explores a growing ecumenical dynamism in both the academic study of sacramentality and its centrality in pastoral applications. But how does ecumenical excitement in a renewed discovery of sacramental theology...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This book provides an introduction to the study of theology and its various methods of investigation. While most theological texts focus on one facet of study, The College Student's Introduction to Theology introduces the whole rich and complex area of theological studies. It is written from a Roman...
Standing Together in the Community of God
Liturgical Spirituality and the Presence of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
We are here on earth not to guard a museum but to cultivate a garden flourishing with life and promised to a glorious future, John XXIII exhorted the Church at the dawn of the Second Vatican Council. In an age when some skeptics suggest that the reformed liturgy has lost the wonder and spiritual depth...
by Gertrud the Great of Helfta
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Gertrud the Great (1256–1302) entered the monastery of Helfta in eastern Germany as a child oblate. At the age of twenty-five she underwent a conversion that led to a series of visionary experiences. These centered on “the divine loving-kindness,” which she perceived as expressed through and...
The Liturgy of Life
The Interrelationship of Sunday Eucharist and Everyday Worship Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Everyday worship practices—from praying the rosary to moments of recognizing the beauty of God's creation, from being moved by the power of music to praying Vespers on an iPad—not only take place at different locations and during different days of the week but also dynamically interact with one...
The Eucharistic Liturgies
Their Evolution and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In graduate theology programs across the United States and elsewhere, Maxwell Johnson's The Rites of Christian Initiation: Their Evolution and Interpretation has become a standard text. Now Johnson and Paul Bradshaw together offer a companion volume on the historical development of the liturgy and...
by Michael Downey, David N. Power OMI
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This groundbreaking book is distinctive for the explicit attention it gives to the communal, intersubjective, cultural, and linguistic embodiment of the workings of God in the world. It emphasizes not simply acting justly but living with, in, and from the justice of the triune God by which we are...
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...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
While admitting particular parameters and priorities for Roman Catholic preachers, this volume was intentionally envisioned as a handbook for "catholic" preaching in the broadest and most universal sense of that term. Cosponsored by the Catholic Academy of Liturgy, the Catholic Association...