Michael Glazier imprint: 170 books
Becoming Beholders
Cultivating Sacramental Imagination and Actions in College Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Catholic colleges and universities have long engaged in conversation about how to fulfill their mission in creative ways across the curriculum. The "sacramental vision" of Catholic higher education posits that God is made manifest in the study of all disciplines.
Becoming Beholders...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
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 the diaconate was restored as a permanent order in the church in the West. This volume contains twelve essays—five translated...
by Yves Congar OP
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Archbishop Angelo Roncali (later Pope John XXIII) read True and False Reform during his years as papal nuncio in France and asked, A reform of the church 'is such a thing really possible?" A decade later as pope, he opened the Second Vatican Council by describing its goals in terms that reflected...
The Second Vatican Council
Message and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Convened by Pope John XXIII, the Second Vatican Council (1962–65) profoundly changed the self-image and life of the Catholic Church. But understanding, interpreting, and implementing Vatican II still remain a task far from completed. Pope Francis has given fresh impetus toward practicing the Council’s...
The Trinity
Insights from the Mystics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Though trinitarian theology has enjoyed a resurgence of interest in the last few years, there is a lamentable lacuna in much of this study, a gap between intellectual rigor and concrete experience. While the contributions of Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas are important to any foundational study...
What is Lonergan Up to in "Insight"?
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Many consider Bernard Lonergan the outstanding Catholic philosopher of the twentieth century, and his Insight: A Study in Human Understanding (1957) is a brilliant but difficult work that has challenged innumerable readers.What Is Lonergan Up to in Insight? is an accessible introduction to the leading...
The Didache
Text, Translation, Analysis, and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Most Christians believe that everything about Jesus and the early church can be found in their New Testament. In recent years, however, the discovery of the Gospel of Thomas and the reconstruction of the Q-Gospel have led scholars to recognize that some very early materials were left out. Now, due...
A Vision of Justice
Engaging Catholic Social Teaching on the College Campus
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
A Vision of Justice: Engaging Catholic Social Teaching on the College Campus draws together the insights of social scientists, historians, and theologians in order to introduce readers to central topics in Catholic Social Teaching and to provide concrete examples of how it is being put into action...
No Irrelevant Jesus
On Jesus and the Church Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Is Jesus relevant for today? If you think not, don’t bother with this book. But if you think that Jesus might have something to say to today’s world, which Jesus comes to mind? Is he “gentle Jesus, meek and mild,” offering individual salvation but with no message for a suffering world? Is...
Does God Need the Church?
Toward a Theology of the People of God
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Are not all religions equally close to and equally far from God? Why, then, the Church? Gerhard Lohfink poses these questions with scholarly reliability and on the basis of his own experience of community in Does God Need the Church?
In 1982 Father Lohfink wrote Wie hat Jesus Gemeinde gewollt?...
by Patrick J. Hartin
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
In his commentary on the letter of James, Hartin offers a unique approach toward understanding a much-neglected writing. Refusing to read the letter of James through the lens of Paul, Hartin approaches the letter in its own right. He takes seriously the address to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion"...
by John Painter
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
The Johannine Epistles are today read as an important part of the Johannine literature. Yet the meaning of the text is often unclear. Part of the problem arises because, although 1 John is called an Epistle, it lacks the formal marks of an Epistle. In 1, 2, and 3 John, John Painter illuminates the...
No Longer Slaves
Galatians and African American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
No Longer Slaves brings the ancient New Testament message into conversation with African American culture. Twenty centuries after Paul penned Galatians, American culture in general and American Christianity in particular continue to struggle with the problem of race relations. Our challenges are not...
Through the Dark Field
The Incarnation through an Aesthetics of Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Theological discourse in the West has consistently valued the word over the image. Aesthetics, which discerns the criteria and value of the beautiful and what "pleases the senses," is the discipline that prioritizes sensual intelligence over the rational; this book advocates a reconsideration...