Liturgical Press: 724 books
And You Visited Me
Sacramental Ministry to the Sick
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Priests, deacons, and students of liturgy will find this work a sourcebook for understanding the development of the rites and a guide in the ritual praxis, be it in the church, hospital, home, or emergency situations. Suggestions for ministerial implementation are made in the context of information...
The Community of the Beautiful
A Theological Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
2000 Catholic Press Association Award Winner!
The claim has been made that we are gripped today in an aesthetic crisis" with considerable theological ramifications. Aesthetics, which has existed since the first human heart was moved by the influence of the beautiful, has played a major...
Gethsemani Homilies
Revised and Enlarged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Matthew Kelty, a native of Boston, has been a monk of Gethsemani since 1960. Before that he served as an active priest in the Society of the Divine Word, both in the States, and in Papua New Guinea. His previous books include Flute Solo (Sheed, Andrews & McMeel), Sermons in the Monastery, Call...
Lives Of Monastic Reformers, 1
Robert of La Chaise-Dieu and Stephen of Obazine
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The period between 1025 and 1150 was a time of creativity and new beginnings in monastic life. Robert of La Chaise-Dieu and Stephen of Obazine established two very successful monastic families in the neighboring regions of the Auvergne and Limousin respectively. La Chaise-Dieu became the head of a...
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...
A Spirituality of Perfection
Faith in Action in the Letter of James
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
2000 Catholic Press Association Award Winner!
Throughout this century the Epistle of James has been viewed consistently as a disjointed set of instructions. In A Spirituality of Perfection Patrick Hartin differs from this approach by showing that the call for perfection" provides a unifying...
God in the World
A Guide to Karl Rahner's Theology
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
A century has passed since Karl Rahner's birth, and two decades have passed since his death. Yet this remarkable theologian has left a legacy of wisdom as relevant today as it was during Rahner's time. In God in the World: A Guide to Karl Rahner's Theology, Thomas O 'Meara looks anew at Rahner's insights...
From the Beginning to Baptism
Scientific and Sacred Stories of Water, Oil, and Fire
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
In From the Beginning to Baptism, Linda Gibler takes readers on a journey 'from the depths of space and the beginning of time through sacred Scripture and church history 'to discover the origins and creative power of water, oil, and fire. She traces the lives of those elemental entities through their...
Hear, O Heavens and Listen, O Earth
An Introduction to the Prophets
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
2007 Catholic Press Association Award Winner!
In Hear, O Heavens and Listen, O Earth, Joan E. Cook guides students of theology, Scripture, and ministry in reading the prophetic books according to the current methodologies for biblical study. She encourages readers to apply the messages of the...
When the Gospel Grows Feet
Rutilio Grande, SJ, and the Church of El Salvador; An Ecclesiology in Context
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Salvadoran priest Rutilio Grande, SJ, was killed in a hall of bullets on March 12, 1977, along with two passengers in the car he drove. The impact of this killing transformed his friend and archbishop, Oscar Romero, as well as the church in Latin America and throughout the world.
How could...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Open the Little Rock Catholic Study Bible and feel at home with the Word of God. Through accessibly written information and engaging visuals that highlight and clarify significant areas of Scripture, readers will easily gain an understanding of these ancient texts that can be carried into today's...
History and Heresy
How Historical Forces Can Create Doctrinal Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
God is beyond time, but every person is firmly planted in it. History impacts us endlessly, including the ways we understand the church and its teachings. This has been the case since the time of the earliest believers.
In History and Heresy, Joseph F. Kelly considers heresies and the historical...
Hope Sings, So Beautiful
Graced Encounters Across the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In Hope Sings, So Beautiful, award-winning author Christopher Pramuk offers a mosaic of images and sketches for thinking and praying through difficult questions about race. The reader will encounter the perspectives of artists, poets, and theologians from many different ethnic and racial communities.
This...
Speaking with Aquinas
A Conversation about Grace, Virtue, and the Eucharist
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
According to Thomas Aquinas, the Eucharist is meant to build up the unity of the church. This desired ecclesial unity is, however, not often given adequate treatment. In Speaking with Aquinas, David Farina Turnbloom seeks to describe the relationship between the celebration of the Eucharist and the...