John R Mabry: 112 books

Mystics are not popular amongst the orthodox of any religion. In fact, almost every one of the religious leaders who founded world religions began their careers as mystics who spoke about what they had seen, and were promptly declared heretics. Just think of the Buddha, of Jesus, or of Muhammad. All...

Every time the church has encountered crises, its understanding and performance of the Eucharist has shifted to help it meet that crisis. This book documents those shifts and asks the important question: what crisis is the church facting today, and how must the Eucharist change again to meet the challenge?

More than ever before, people of different faith traditions are recognizing their common ground and common mission goals. They are beginning to recognize each other as fellow "people of faith." People of Faith provides a handy resource to help foster this very sense of kinship between Christians and...

The Berkeley Blackfriars are not your standard-brand priests--they swear like longshoremen and aren't above the occasional spliff or one-night stand--but if you've got a nasty demon on your ass, they're exactly the guys you want in your corner. In this, their first adventure, a magician destroys the...

Why be interested in Latin if you're not a kid trying to get into a good college or a person of any age who wants to develop Harry Potter-type spells? Latinitas Memorabilis can help you: • Laugh and learn from the wisdom and foolishness of our ancestors and ourselves • Love and laugh more deeply...

Priests in the independent sacramental movement all too often have to rely on ministerial resources from other traditions. In LIVING MYSTERIES, John Plummer provides guidance arising directly from long experience in the independent movement. He offers clear instructions for the celebration of the sacraments, as well as advice and meditations for cultivating an ever-deepening spiritual life.

What might the story of Jesus of Nazareth and Mary Magdalene look like if Jesus and Mary are given the places in the gospel story that they occupy in such recently discovered texts as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, and the Gospel of Philip? Butcher's answer to this question is provided...

For centuries, readers have puzzled over John's Revelation, the hardest and strangest book of the New Testament. Today, many avoid the Apocalypse as a hopeless maze of rabbit trails, pitfalls, and dead ends. Others are driven to frenzy by its visions of cataclysmic destruction and unimaginable suffering....

Will King Arthur ever return to England? He already has.In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings. Learn how J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield brought hope to their times and our own in their Arthurian literature.Although...

BISHOP SERGE A. THERIAULT is General Superintendent for Canada, International Council of Community Churches (I.C.C.C.). He is also Ordinary of the I.C.C.C. Christian Catholic Rite and rector of the Parish of St. Bernard and St. Gregory in the Capital area (Ottawa-Gatineau). He has authored 10 books...

Independent Catholics are the fastest-growing variety of Catholic in the West. They are found in every city of every state in the U.S. and Mexico, every Province of Canada, and throughout Australia, Europe, and South America. This book arises out of a need in the Independent Catholic community for...

March 2014 marked the 95th birthday of G.E.M. Anscombe (1919-2001), one of the twentieth century's most provocative and highly regarded philosophers. Anscombe is known for challenging received philosophical views, and some commentators have regarded her as the greatest woman philosopher of all time....

G.E.M. ANSCOMBE (1919-2001) is one of the twentieth century's most provocative and highly regarded philosophers. Anscombe is known for challenging received philosophical views, and some commentators have regarded her as the greatest woman philosopher of all time. The papers in this volume explore...

In all the dark pages of the supernatural there is no more terrible tradition than that of the Vampire, a pariah even among demons. Foul are his ravages; gruesome and seemingly barbaric are the ancient and approved methods by which folk rid themselves of this hideous pest. The tradition is world-wide...