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Jesus of Nazareth
What He Wanted, Who He Was
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Who was Jesus? A prophet? There have been many of those. A miracle-worker? A radical revolutionary? A wise teacher? There have been many of these, too. In his latest book, renowned Scripture scholar Gerhard Lohfink asks, What is unique about Jesus of Nazareth, and what did he really want?
Lohfink...
by Elizabeth A. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Elizabeth Clark, a patristic scholar and founder of the Department of Religion at Mary Washington College, has drawn upon her depth of scholarship and linguistic ability to make available to an educated but nonspecialized readership an intriguing mosaic of opinions." - America
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Lazarus at the Table
Catholics and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Lazarus at the Tale is the fruit of more than two decades of instructing students in the social teachings of the Catholic Church. For most of these years Bernard Evans has taught graduate students. Lately he also teaches lay Catholics engaged in parish ministry and enrolled in diocesan ministry formation...
Rutilio Grande, SJ
Homilies and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Rutilio Grande, SJ, was the first Jesuit to be assassinated in El Salvador. He was killed on March 12, 1977, for having done the works that Jesus commands with regard to one's neighbor as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church. This volume of his writings and homilies illustrates how he applied the...
Jesus Risen in Our Midst
Essays on the Resurrection of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Jesus Risen in Our Midst mines the Resurrection Narrative of John's gospel as a rich resource for understanding and developing Christian spirituality. In this series of essays, which can be read independently of one another, Scripture scholar Sandra Schneiders draws out especially fascinating insights...
Educating for Faith and Justice
Catholic Higher Education Today
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Catholic colleges and universities play a crucial role in handing on a rich faith tradition to young adults today. As these institutions have become more professional and pluralistic, many are asking how effective they are at carrying out the religious mission which is central to their identity:
Are...
When the Magisterium Intervenes
The Magisterium and Theologians in Today's Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Catholicism has always recognized the need for a normative doctrinal teaching authority. Yet the character, scope, and exercise of that authority, what has come to be called the magisterium, has changed significantly over two millennia. This book gathers contributions from leading Catholic scholars...
A Council That Will Never End
Lumen Gentium and the Church Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Lumen Gentium, Vatican II's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, changed how the church thinks about the laity, holiness, baptism, and even the nature and purpose of the church itself. In A Council That Will Never End, the highly regarded ecclesiologist Paul Lakeland marks the fiftieth anniversary...
Philosophy and Catholic Theology
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This short book offers a survey of recent philosophy and how its different patterns of thought have influenced Catholic theologians. Rooted in the questions raised by Vatican I and the directions pointed by Vatican II, Philosophy and Catholic Theology shows how theology has developed over the past...
The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition
From the Book of Job to Modern Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
The question of evil presents a profound challenge to humanity - why do we do what we know to be wrong? This is especially a challenge to religious believers. Why doesn't an al-good and omnipotent God step in and put an end to evil? The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition examines how Western...
Vatican I and Vatican II
Councils in the Living Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Vatican I and Vatican II represent two of the three ecumenical councils in modern times, yet relatively few studies have sought to understand their relation to one another. In fact, the councils are often positioned as mutually exclusive so that one must choose either Vatican I’s or Vatican II’s...
by David W. Cotter OSB
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
The central thesis underlying this study of Genesis is that the God who is revealed as a character in Genesis is always a savior. In Genesis, David Cotter, OSB, helps readers discern a structure in the book whereby the least and the weakest are the object of God's saving help.
Genesis begins...
The First Seven Ecumenical Councils (325-787)
Their History and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This unique work - no other work yet available in English treats this subject - illustrates the contribution of these Councils in the development and formulation of Christian beliefs. It then shows how their legacies lingered throughout the centuries to inspire - or haunt - every generation.
Catholicism and Citizenship
Political Cultures of the Church in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
The beginning of the twenty-first century has provided abundant evidence of the necessity to reexamine the relationship between Catholicism and the modern, global world. This book tries to proceed on this path with a focus on the meaning, legacy, and reception in today’s world of the ecclesiology...