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Systematic Theology
A Roman Catholic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Systematic theology seeks to understand and render more intelligible the central doctrines of faith and to show how they are related to each other. It tries to demonstrate how these doctrines are rooted in Scripture and develop in the history of the church; most important, it strives to more adequately...
Awakening Vocation
A Theology of Christian Call
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Does God have a specific plan for each of us, or is it more like general guidelines for all of us? How do my gifts and abilities, my personality and particular circumstances, impact my vocation? What is the role of the church in this process? What are the needs of the world that call us to respond?
Awakening...
Celebrating Divine Mystery
A Primer in Liturgical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Christians are identified by their participation in liturgy. In this primer, Catherine Vincie introduces readers to current liturgical theology by providing them with the foundational themes of the field. She explains that liturgy draws us into the paschal mystery of Jesus Christ, that it should create...
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...
Apostolicity Then and Now
An Ecumenical Church in a Postmodern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Apostolicity Then and Now explores apostolicity from its origin to today. Apostolicity is a fundamental mark of the church, referring to Jesus' faith given to, carried on, and taught—unaltered—by a continuous line of apostles. This book primarily focuses on how apostolicity pertains to the church...
Scripture in the Church
The Synod on the Word of God
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Who should read the Bible? What is the biblical word? How is Scripture to be interpreted? How is it to be prayed and lived? How does Scripture call forth the Church's entire life and mission? In October 2008 the Synod on the Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church took place in Rome. During...
Living Mission Interculturally
Faith, Culture, and the Renewal of Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Our globalized world increasingly brings together people of many different cultures, though not always harmoniously. In recent decades, multinational companies have sought more efficient strategies for authentic intercultural collaboration. But in today's multicultural world-church, faith communities...
by Francis J. Moloney SDB
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
No other book of the New Testament has attracted as much attention from commentators as the Fourth Gospel. It has stirred minds, hearts, and imaginations from Christianity's earliest days. In The Gospel of John, Francis Moloney unfolds the identifiable "point of view" of this unique Gospel...
by John R. Donahue SJ, Daniel J. Harrington SJ
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
In The Gospel of Mark Fathers Donahue and Harrington use an approach that can be expressed by two terms currently used in literary criticism: intratextuality and intertextuality. This intratextual and intertextual reading of Mark's Gospel helps us to appreciate the literary character, its setting...
Dwelling in the Household of God
Johannine Ecclesiology and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
In her remarkable first book, God Dwells With Us: Temple Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel, Mary L. Coloe, P.B.V.M., explored the profound insight of John's Gospel expressed in Jesus ' invitation to his disciples: Make your home in me, as I make mine in you (John 15:4). For the gospel's author and audience,...
by Craig E. Morrison OCarm
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
King David ranks among the most intriguing persons in the Hebrew Bible. The Second Book of Samuel tells the story of David's kingship-his public successes and his private foibles. The narrator's rehearsal of this story, as questioning as it is vivid, glimpses the secrets of David's heart. In this...
I Believe in God
A Reflection on the Apostles' Creed
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
In the spirit of nineteenth-century philosopher John Stuart Mill's admonition to fully, frequently, and fearlessly" discuss what we profess to be true in order that it remain a "living truth" rather than dead dogma, Thomas P. Rausch gives us I Believe in God: A Reflection on the Apostles'...
No Turning Back
The Future of Ecumenism
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Jesus' prayer on behalf of his of followers is "that all may be one. As you, Father are in me and I am in you, may they also be one in us" (John 17:21). No Turning Back illustrates significant developments in ecumenism during the thirty-plus years of ecumenical theologian Margaret O'Gara's...
An Unfinished Council
Vatican II, Pope Francis, and the Renewal of Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
The Second Vatican Council has become an indispensable reference point for understanding Roman Catholicism today. Yet in spite of its impact, Vatican II was in many ways an unfinished council. The council bishops were able to establish key pillars in the construction of a new vision for the church...