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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
From 1962 to 1965, in perhaps the most important religious event of the twentieth century, the Second Vatican Council met to plot a course for the future of the Roman Catholic Church. After thousands of speeches, resolutions, and votes, the Council issued sixteen official documents on topics ranging...
by William P. Loewe
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Why did some people want Jesus dead, while others came to honor him as the Christ? What does it mean to say that he was raised," and how did this belief get started? What about the classical expressions of Jesus' religious significance? Where did they come from and what do they mean? What does...
The Ethical Being
A Catholic Guide to Contemporary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Recognizing the tension between Catholicism’s rich tradition of moral thought in a society that has largely rejected the foundations from which it came, Kline seeks to provide Catholics with the tools to critically consider difficult issues in ethics. It is his belief that “Catholics have something...
Religion and the Common Good
Catholic Contributions to Building Community in a Liberal Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1999
The term “common good” has often been ill-defined or undefined in political, philosophical, and theological discourses. Brian Stiltner seeks to repair this deficit in his study Religion and the Common Good. He explores the meaning of the common good and the prospects for pursuing it in a liberal...
Ecclesiology and Postmodernity
Questions for the Church in Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
What in the world is postmodernity? Is it the dominant reality today? If it is, what does it mean to be a church in a postmodern world? It seems that the church had a difficult time coming to terms with a modern world, an era ruled by the claims of scientific certainty. Having done so, more or less,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The Blessed Virgin Mary is uniquely associated with Catholicism, and the century preceding the Second Vatican Council was arguably the most fertile era for Catholic Marian studies. In 1964, Pope John Paul VI published the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, or Lumen Gentium (LG), the eighth chapter...
The Classics Made Simple
The Spiritual Combat
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
We are proud to introduce The TAN Classics Made Simple - a brand-new companion series to our bestselling TAN Classics collection.TAN Classics Made Simple booklets are designed to give you an orientation course before you embark on an exploration of the great works of Catholic literature found in our...
American Catholics
Gender, Generation, and Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2001
How much do American Catholics still identify with the Catholic Church? Do they agree with the Church's teachings, and how often do they participate in its sacraments? What do they think it takes to be a good Catholic? What do they consider to be the Church's core teachings? How do they believe issues...
Questioning the Human
Toward a Theological Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Theological anthropology is being put to the test: in the face of contemporary developments in the spheres of culture, politics, and science, traditional perspectives on the human person are no longer adequate. Yet can theological anthropology move beyond its previously established categories and...
by Fr. John F. Harvey, O.S.F.S.
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
As the founder and director of the Courage and Encourage support groups, Fr. John Harvey is aware of the sensitive nature of homosexuality. With his extensive experience ministering to those with same-sex attraction, Fr. Harvey presents the Church’s teaching in an objective and pastorally-sensitive...
Parish Boundaries
The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Parish Boundaries chronicles the history of Catholic parishes in major cities such as Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia, melding their unique place in the urban landscape to the course of twentieth century American race relations. In vivid portraits of parish life, John McGreevy...
by William V. D'Antonio, Michele Dillon, Mary L. Gautier
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
American Catholics in Transition reports on five surveys carried out at six year intervals over a period of 25 years, from 1987 to 2011. The surveys are national probability samples of American Catholics, age 18 and older, now including four generations of Catholics. Over these twenty five years,...
Jesus Christ
The New Face of Social Progress
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Based on a careful reading of Pope Benedict’s 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate (“Charity in Truth”), the essays in this substantial volume explore how an encounter with the person of Jesus Christ is the true basis for economic and social progress. The authors are experts in a wide range of...
Paul Hanly Furfey
Priest, Scientist, Social Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Nicholas Rademacher’s book is meticulously researched and clearly written, shedding new light on Monsignor Paul Hanly Furfey’s life by drawing on Furfey’s copious published material and substantial archival deposit. Paul Hanly Furfey (1896–1992) is one of U.S. Catholicism’s greatest champions...