Michael Glazier imprint: 170 books
The Gift of the Church
A Textbook on Ecclesiology
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
As the Church enters its third millennium, it must take stock of its identity and mission. These essays in The Gift of the Church address the fundamental issues confronting the Church in its immediate future. Their authors represent the most prominent ecclesiologists of our time.
Written in...
A Soul-Centered Life
Exploring an Animated Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
People today are searching for meaning and purpose. They know that something is missing in their lives and long to fill this void. Many books on spirituality attempt to fill this need, and the approaches are nearly as numerous as the searchers themselves. Such a widespread desire in the human heart...
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...
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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...
The Church in the Modern World
Gaudium et Spes Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Gaudium et Spes, Vatican II’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, marked fundamental shifts in ethical methodology, in how we do ethics in the Catholic tradition, and in how we think about ethical and ecclesial issues in the Catholic Church in the modern world.
On the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
When the basic conceptions of the world held by whole generations in the West are formed by popular culture, and in particular by the music that serves as its soundtrack, can theology remain unchanged? The authors of the essays in this important volume insist that the answer is no.
These gifted...
When the Gospel Grows Feet
Rutilio Grande, SJ, and the Church of El Salvador; An Ecclesiology in Context
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Salvadoran priest Rutilio Grande, SJ, was killed in a hall of bullets on March 12, 1977, along with two passengers in the car he drove. The impact of this killing transformed his friend and archbishop, Oscar Romero, as well as the church in Latin America and throughout the world.
How could...
History and Heresy
How Historical Forces Can Create Doctrinal Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
God is beyond time, but every person is firmly planted in it. History impacts us endlessly, including the ways we understand the church and its teachings. This has been the case since the time of the earliest believers.
In History and Heresy, Joseph F. Kelly considers heresies and the historical...
Hope Sings, So Beautiful
Graced Encounters Across the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In Hope Sings, So Beautiful, award-winning author Christopher Pramuk offers a mosaic of images and sketches for thinking and praying through difficult questions about race. The reader will encounter the perspectives of artists, poets, and theologians from many different ethnic and racial communities.
This...
Speaking with Aquinas
A Conversation about Grace, Virtue, and the Eucharist
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
According to Thomas Aquinas, the Eucharist is meant to build up the unity of the church. This desired ecclesial unity is, however, not often given adequate treatment. In Speaking with Aquinas, David Farina Turnbloom seeks to describe the relationship between the celebration of the Eucharist and the...
Ordination of Women to the Diaconate in the Eastern Churches
Essays by Cipriano Vagaggini
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
The question of restoring women to the ordained diaconate surfaced during the Second Vatican Council and continued to resound in academic and pastoral circles well after Pope Paul VI restored the diaconate as a permanent state for the church in the West in 1967. Available for the first time in English,...
A Wounded Innocence
Sketches for a Theology of Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
What is the theological significance of art? Why has the Church always encouraged the arts? What is so profoundly human about the arts? In A Wounded Innocence Alejandro R. Garcia-Rivera answers these questions in a series of sketches" that are mixed spiritual and theological reflections on various...
The Community of the Beautiful
A Theological Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
2000 Catholic Press Association Award Winner!
The claim has been made that we are gripped today in an aesthetic crisis" with considerable theological ramifications. Aesthetics, which has existed since the first human heart was moved by the influence of the beautiful, has played a major...
The Revelatory Text
Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
In this new edition of her major study of the New Testament, Sandra Schneiders proposes a comprehensive hermeneutical theory for New Testament interpretation, which takes full account of the Bible as both sacred Scripture and as a historical-literary classic. Designed to spur reflection on the role...