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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...
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”...