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Jesus Risen in Our Midst
Essays on the Resurrection of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Jesus Risen in Our Midst mines the Resurrection Narrative of John's gospel as a rich resource for understanding and developing Christian spirituality. In this series of essays, which can be read independently of one another, Scripture scholar Sandra Schneiders draws out especially fascinating insights...
When the Magisterium Intervenes
The Magisterium and Theologians in Today's Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Catholicism has always recognized the need for a normative doctrinal teaching authority. Yet the character, scope, and exercise of that authority, what has come to be called the magisterium, has changed significantly over two millennia. This book gathers contributions from leading Catholic scholars...
A Council That Will Never End
Lumen Gentium and the Church Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Lumen Gentium, Vatican II's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, changed how the church thinks about the laity, holiness, baptism, and even the nature and purpose of the church itself. In A Council That Will Never End, the highly regarded ecclesiologist Paul Lakeland marks the fiftieth anniversary...
The Great Beginning of Citeaux
A Narrative of the Beginning of the Cistercian Order
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In the closing decades of the twelfth century, the Cistercian Order had become an important ecclesiastical and economic power in Europe. Yet it had lost its influential spokesman, Bernard of Clairvaux, and as the century drew to a close, religious sensibilities were changing. The new mendicant orders,...
Philosophy and Catholic Theology
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This short book offers a survey of recent philosophy and how its different patterns of thought have influenced Catholic theologians. Rooted in the questions raised by Vatican I and the directions pointed by Vatican II, Philosophy and Catholic Theology shows how theology has developed over the past...
Vatican I and Vatican II
Councils in the Living Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Vatican I and Vatican II represent two of the three ecumenical councils in modern times, yet relatively few studies have sought to understand their relation to one another. In fact, the councils are often positioned as mutually exclusive so that one must choose either Vatican I’s or Vatican II’s...
by David W. Cotter OSB
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
The central thesis underlying this study of Genesis is that the God who is revealed as a character in Genesis is always a savior. In Genesis, David Cotter, OSB, helps readers discern a structure in the book whereby the least and the weakest are the object of God's saving help.
Genesis begins...
A Soul-Centered Life
Exploring an Animated Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
People today are searching for meaning and purpose. They know that something is missing in their lives and long to fill this void. Many books on spirituality attempt to fill this need, and the approaches are nearly as numerous as the searchers themselves. Such a widespread desire in the human heart...
A Not-So-Unexciting Life
Essays on Benedictine History and Spirituality in Honor of Michael Casey, OCSO
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This volume, written by eighteen monks, nuns, and lay scholars from seven countries and four continents, aims to recognize the contribution that Michael Casey has made to Cistercian and Benedictine life over the past forty years. Acclaimed as one of the most significant writers in the Benedictine...
The First Seven Ecumenical Councils (325-787)
Their History and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This unique work - no other work yet available in English treats this subject - illustrates the contribution of these Councils in the development and formulation of Christian beliefs. It then shows how their legacies lingered throughout the centuries to inspire - or haunt - every generation.
Finding The Treasure
Letters from a Global Monk
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Augustine Roberts is a New England Yankee, transplanted by circumstance first to Argentina and then to Rome, from where frequent travel took him to nearly every part of the globe. The historical era into which he was born, so fraught with personal and communal soul-searching, also made him wrestle...
The World of Medieval Monasticism
Its History and Forms of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This book surveys the full panorama of ten centuries of Christian monastic life. It moves from the deserts of Egypt and the Frankish monasteries of early medieval Europe to the religious ruptures of the eleventh and twelfth centuries and the reforms of the later Middle Ages. Throughout that story...
The Discourses of Philoxenos of Mabbug
A New Translation and Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
The thirteen Discourses of Philoxenos of Mabbug (445-523) were delivered to new monks at a monastery under his episcopal care. Written in elegant Syriac, the Discourses deal with the fundamentals of the monastic and ascetic life-faith, simplicity, fear of God, renunciation, and the struggle against...
The Gift of the Church
A Textbook on Ecclesiology
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
As the Church enters its third millennium, it must take stock of its identity and mission. These essays in The Gift of the Church address the fundamental issues confronting the Church in its immediate future. Their authors represent the most prominent ecclesiologists of our time.
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