Michael Glazier imprint: 170 books
Connected Toward Communion
The Church and Social Communication in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
We are living in a cultural shift: digital communication has reshaped the way we interact with one another, form and maintain relationships, and gain knowledge and understanding. How might we go about communicating the Good News of Jesus Christ in the midst of these changes to an emerging culture...
Treasure in the Field
Salvation in the Bible and in Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
What does it mean to say that God offers salvation to humanity? What is this salvation, and how can we become more conscious of it in our lives? These are the questions that Robert Krieg faces in Treasure in the Field. While his intent is certainly to impart information and ideas found in Scripture,...
Receiving the Council
Theological and Canonical Insights and Debates
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Vatican II was a seminal council, both an end and a beginning. It left behind intuitive perceptions in need of precise articulation and pointed to theological values in need of structural support. Bearing in mind that Vatican II was the conclusion of one era and the opening of another, Ladislas Orsy...
Christian Marriage
The New Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
2008 Catholic Press Association Award Winner!
Couples who marry today enter into a relationship that is in many ways more challenging than it was a generation or two ago. The social institution of marriage has experienced almost cataclysmic change. The very foundations of marriage are often...
by Stephen C. Doyle OFM
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
More than an updated second edition, this book combines the best information from the popular first edition with new insights to help you turn your travels into pilgrimages. In this edition of The Pilgrim's New Guide to the Holy Land, Stephen Doyle adds the words to familiar hymns, and maps and photos,...
by Denise Dombkowski Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Many readers are convinced that the Psalms are hopelessly “masculine,” especially given that seventy-three of the 150 psalms begin with headings linking them to King David. In this volume, Denise Dombkowski Hopkins sets stories about women in the Hebrew Bible alongside Psalms 42–89 as “intertexts”...
The Theology of Cardinal Walter Kasper
Speaking Truth in Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Cardinal Walter Kasper's contributions to theology, ecumenism, Jewish-Christian relations, and the pastoral life of the church have shaped Catholicism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Acknowledging this, Pope Francis has praised Kasper's “profound and serene” theology.
In The Theology...
Praying and Believing in Early Christianity
The Interplay between Christian Worship and Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
What was the impact of liturgy on the development of orthodox doctrine in the early Christian church? With renowned liturgical historian Maxwell E. Johnson as a guide, readers of Praying and Believing in Early Christianity will discover the important and sometimes surprising ways that worship helped...
Sophia
The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
While numerous studies have celebrated Thomas Merton's witness as an interfaith pioneer, poet, and peacemaker, there have been few systematic treatments of his Christology as such, and no sustained exploration to date of his relationship to the Russian Sophia" tradition. This book looks to Thomas...
Reflections on Renewal
Lay Ecclesial Minitry and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The United States bishops ' document Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord is a vital resource for the ongoing development of lay ecclesial ministry. Building upon Co-Workers and affirming the recent renewal of the laity and the flowering of lay ministries, Reflections on Renewal contributes to efforts...
Culture, Inculturation, and Theologians
A Postmodern Critique
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The split between the Gospel and culture is without doubt the drama of our time," wrote Paul VI in 1975. Since that time there has been an increasingly urgent awareness that inculturation is an indispensable task of the church. But inculturation, the dialogue between church and cultures, demands...
by Joseph F. Kelly PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
There have been twenty-one universal gatherings 'ecumenical councils' of the Catholic Church. The first opened in 325, the last closed in 1965, and the names of many ring out in the history of the church: Nicea, Chalcedon, Trent, Vatican II. Though centuries separate the councils, each occurred when...
by Joseph F. Kelly PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Like every lost world, the world of the early Christians was a combination of the foreign and the familiar, the unique and the commonplace. In The World of the Early Christians, Joseph Kelly introduces and explains the world of the early Christians, and while he examines the differences between our...
by Joseph F. Kelly PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The title of this book may be a bit puzzling 'a Catholic introduction to the New Testament? The New Testament belongs to all Christians, and the modern study of the New Testament has benefited from the contributions by scholars of all Christian denominations. But there are questions and issues in...