Michael imprint: 765 books
A Thousand Little Lightbulbs
How to Kickstart a Culture of Innovation in Your Organisation
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Ever wanted to lead a truly innovative team but weren’t sure where to start? Ever thought that this creativity business was for all the slightly eccentric people who wear t-shirts and headphones to work and eat kale salads? Ever questioned your ability to think like an innovator? Ever rolled your eyes...
Power Up Your Tradie Business
A Blueprint for Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
As a tradie business owner do you feel the harder you work the less profit you make and less time you have? Do you want to build a business that can earn more and have you working less? Do you find it easier to do the job instead of working on the business? Finally, a book demystifying business to...
The Retail Experiment
Five Proven Strategies to Engage & Excite Customers Through in-Store Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Have you been spending more than ever on marketing, but feel like your customers are responding less? Have you been generous with your customers, giving them bigger discounts, loyalty programs, the best-trained staff and helpful emails, but it still doesn’t seem to be enough? Do you know the retail...
A Perfect God Created An Imperfect World Perfectly
30 Life Lessons from Kids Kicking Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Stress kills. The destructive chemical cocktails of anxiety, pain and anger rip apart our bodies. They also drown our relationships and wreck our lives. But don't worry about it because that's bad for you. The little teachers of Kids Kicking Cancer are as young as two years old. They have faced more...
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...
Reading Matthew with Monks
Liturgical Interpretation in Anglo-Saxon England
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
In Reading Matthew with Monks, Derek Olsen seeks to evaluate whether early medieval monastic biblical interpreters can serve as effective conversation partners for modern readers who are committed to broadening their reading of Scripture. Olsen puts the interpretations of four modern Scripture commentaries...
Quantum Shift
Theological and Pastoral Implications of Contemporary Developments in Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
While the field of science has made incredible advances in the past century, and more and more scientists have gone to great lengths to make these developments accessible to the public, we still rarely hear ministers and communities of faith discussing the implications of these developments for the...