Crown Publishing Group: 2547 books
The Handbook
A Guide to Faith, Hope, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Writing to a Roman layman and enquiring Christian named Lawrence in AD 421, Augustine intended The Handbook: A Guide on Faith, Hope, and Love as a guide for catechesis and spiritual development. In this strikingly concise book, he breaks down Christian life to its most basic elements–faith, hope,...
Why Catholicism Matters
How Catholic Virtues Can Reshape Society in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
In recent years the Catholic Church has gone through turbulent times with the uncovering of horrible abuse--abuse that persisted and which could have been prevented by many within the Church’s own ranks. As a result many positive aspects of what the Catholic Church teaches and practices are now...
by Jean-Pierre De Caussade
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
For more than 250 years, this simple classic of inspiration has guided readers of all faiths to the open-hearted acceptance of God's will that is the sure path to serenity, happiness, and spiritual peace.
"A spiritual classic of the first order... a book for all those who truly seek God." --Dom...
by Scott Hahn
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
Bestselling author, Scott Hahn illuminates a fresh and enlightening perspective on Mary, Mother of God, and her central importance in the Christian faith***.***
In The Lamb's Supper, Hahn explored the relationship between the Book of Revelation and the Roman Catholic Mass, deftly clarifying...
by Pope Benedict XVI
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
The New York Times bestselling final volume in the Pope’s Jesus of Nazareth series, detailing how the stories of Jesus’ infancy and childhood are as relevant today as they were two thousand years ago.
In 2007, Joseph Ratzinger published his first book as Pope Benedict XVI in order “to...
Walking on Water
Reflections on Faith and Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
In this classic book,Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship between faith and art? Through L'Engle's beautiful and insightful essay, readers will find themselves called to what the author views as the...
What Matters Most
How We Got the Point but Missed the Person
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
**Belief can exist in isolation, but faith requires a relationship **
Why wade in the shallows of belief when you can plunge into the depths of faith? Belief involves a different way of thinking, but faith brings about a new way of living. It grows through direct experience and a close relationship,...
Real Church in a Social Network World
From Facebook to Face-to-Face Faith
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
**We need more than status updates—we need relationships.
Learning about God’s Heart from the TGIF (Twitter, Google, iPhone, Facebook) Generation**
The explosion in social networking is perhaps the most visible expression of the human longing to know others and to be known. Is there...
The Three Hardest Words
In the World to Get Right
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Three simple words–“I love you”–capture the heart of Jesus’ life and ministry.
These three words form the bottom line and top drawer of all his teachings. And they remain the three hardest words in the world to get right. Two pronouns and a verb have never been so difficult to grasp, much...
God on Earth
The Church--a Hard Look at the Real Life of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
God still walks the earth, but these days he does it through his people. Far from an impersonal institution or a closed religious club, the church is really a life-giving spiritual community, the place where God touches humanity through those who follow him. It’s where God’s stories are told and...
by Luci Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
In honor of Madeleine L'Engle's 80th birthday, a host of prominent writers and academics gather to create this unique collection. Madeleine's circle of friends and peers (writers, poets, scholars, theologians) here provide an intimate portrait of L'Engle and respond to her writings and mentoring influence.
Ranging...
Turning the Tables on Gambling
Hope and Help for Addictive Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Don’t Gamble with Your Future.
Nearly two-thirds of the adult population in the United States gambled in the past year. For some, this represented a casual bet or a whimsical wager on winning the lottery. But for a significant and growing portion of the population, gambling isn’t recreation–it’s...
Whispers
Book 2 in the Glenbrooke Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Teri meets three incredible men in Maui...but which one is the man of her dreams?
Teri Moreno went to Maui hoping to start one special relationship. But romance takes a complicated twist when the Spanish teacher from Glenbrooke, Oregon, finds herself enjoying the attentions of three men: the...
A Short Walk to the Edge of Life
How My Simple Adventure Became a Dance with Death--and Taught Me What Really Matters
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Chronicling the failures and miracles of a remarkable physical and spiritual passage, A Short Walk to the Edge of Life is the gripping, true story of a man who had to come to the end of himself before he could find his way home.
How could he possibly make it out alive?
It was supposed...