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Anticimenon
On the Unity of the Faith and the Controversies with the Greeks
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The Anticimenon of Anselm of Havelberg is both the outstanding medieval work on ecumenical dialogue with the Orthodox and one of the period's most important explorations of the theology of history. This text's author was a bishop on Christianity's eastern frontier and companion to Norbert of Xanten,...
by David N. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
First published in 1989, A Cloud of Witnesses has been completely rewritten to incorporate a multitude of minor amendments and a considerable amount of additional information. Like the first edition, it is intended as an introduction to the formative first five hundred years of the Christian theological...
by Aelred of Rievaulx
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Spiritual Friendship is today the best known and perhaps most influential of the thirteen surviving works of Aelred, abbot of the great English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 '1167. During his abbacy he built Rievaulx into a place of spiritual welcome and physical prosperity, desiring to make...
Ordination of Women to the Diaconate in the Eastern Churches
Essays by Cipriano Vagaggini
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
The question of restoring women to the ordained diaconate surfaced during the Second Vatican Council and continued to resound in academic and pastoral circles well after Pope Paul VI restored the diaconate as a permanent state for the church in the West in 1967. Available for the first time in English,...
The Revelatory Text
Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
In this new edition of her major study of the New Testament, Sandra Schneiders proposes a comprehensive hermeneutical theory for New Testament interpretation, which takes full account of the Bible as both sacred Scripture and as a historical-literary classic. Designed to spur reflection on the role...
Unity of Spirit
Studies on William Of Saint-Thierry in Honor of E. Rozanne Elder
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
William of Saint-Thierry (ca. 1080–1148) became abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Thierry in about 1119, holding that office for about sixteen years and writing a large number of works, some for the guidance of the monks of his abbey and others as theological treatises. But during that same...
Can a Seamless Garment Be Truly Torn?
Questions Surrounding the Jewish-Catholic Löb Family, 1881–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The conversion of Lutz Löb and Jenny van Gelder from Judaism to Roman Catholicism dramatically changed the lives of the extended Löb family. This scientific-historical study traces the personal and spiritual journey of Lutz and Jenny from their baptisms in 1907 through the lives of their children....
Systematic Theology
A Roman Catholic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Systematic theology seeks to understand and render more intelligible the central doctrines of faith and to show how they are related to each other. It tries to demonstrate how these doctrines are rooted in Scripture and develop in the history of the church; most important, it strives to more adequately...
Awakening Vocation
A Theology of Christian Call
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Does God have a specific plan for each of us, or is it more like general guidelines for all of us? How do my gifts and abilities, my personality and particular circumstances, impact my vocation? What is the role of the church in this process? What are the needs of the world that call us to respond?
Awakening...
Apostolicity Then and Now
An Ecumenical Church in a Postmodern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Apostolicity Then and Now explores apostolicity from its origin to today. Apostolicity is a fundamental mark of the church, referring to Jesus' faith given to, carried on, and taught—unaltered—by a continuous line of apostles. This book primarily focuses on how apostolicity pertains to the church...
Scripture in the Church
The Synod on the Word of God
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Who should read the Bible? What is the biblical word? How is Scripture to be interpreted? How is it to be prayed and lived? How does Scripture call forth the Church's entire life and mission? In October 2008 the Synod on the Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church took place in Rome. During...
Living Mission Interculturally
Faith, Culture, and the Renewal of Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Our globalized world increasingly brings together people of many different cultures, though not always harmoniously. In recent decades, multinational companies have sought more efficient strategies for authentic intercultural collaboration. But in today's multicultural world-church, faith communities...
by Craig E. Morrison OCarm
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
King David ranks among the most intriguing persons in the Hebrew Bible. The Second Book of Samuel tells the story of David's kingship-his public successes and his private foibles. The narrator's rehearsal of this story, as questioning as it is vivid, glimpses the secrets of David's heart. In this...
Come and See
The Monastic Way for Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Come and See is look inside the mind of a monk. The Vision of monastic life proposed here is not new; it is a Vision going back to the Desert Fathers of the fourth century. And yet, it is new because it is rooted in a place in the soul that never grows old. Come and see where I live, Jesus said to...