Liturgical Press: 724 books
by John F. Craghan
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Our faith gives witness to a God who is worthy of our trust and invites us to model this confidence to those around us. Explore a few key Bible passages that teach us to surrender to the power of divine love and rely on the God who created and redeems us.
No Irrelevant Jesus
On Jesus and the Church Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Is Jesus relevant for today? If you think not, don’t bother with this book. But if you think that Jesus might have something to say to today’s world, which Jesus comes to mind? Is he “gentle Jesus, meek and mild,” offering individual salvation but with no message for a suffering world? Is...
Does God Need the Church?
Toward a Theology of the People of God
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Are not all religions equally close to and equally far from God? Why, then, the Church? Gerhard Lohfink poses these questions with scholarly reliability and on the basis of his own experience of community in Does God Need the Church?
In 1982 Father Lohfink wrote Wie hat Jesus Gemeinde gewollt?...
by Patrick J. Hartin
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
In his commentary on the letter of James, Hartin offers a unique approach toward understanding a much-neglected writing. Refusing to read the letter of James through the lens of Paul, Hartin approaches the letter in its own right. He takes seriously the address to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion"...
by John Painter
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
The Johannine Epistles are today read as an important part of the Johannine literature. Yet the meaning of the text is often unclear. Part of the problem arises because, although 1 John is called an Epistle, it lacks the formal marks of an Epistle. In 1, 2, and 3 John, John Painter illuminates the...
No Longer Slaves
Galatians and African American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
No Longer Slaves brings the ancient New Testament message into conversation with African American culture. Twenty centuries after Paul penned Galatians, American culture in general and American Christianity in particular continue to struggle with the problem of race relations. Our challenges are not...
Following The Footsteps Of The Invisible
The Complete Works of Diadochus of Photikë
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Fifth-century Christianity was a theological battlefield. With the Messalian heretics and their experientialist spirituality on the one side and the intellectualist school on the other, representatives of both extremes found themselves condemned by the Church. In this milieu of subjectivist notions...
Through the Dark Field
The Incarnation through an Aesthetics of Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Theological discourse in the West has consistently valued the word over the image. Aesthetics, which discerns the criteria and value of the beautiful and what "pleases the senses," is the discipline that prioritizes sensual intelligence over the rational; this book advocates a reconsideration...
Connected Toward Communion
The Church and Social Communication in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
We are living in a cultural shift: digital communication has reshaped the way we interact with one another, form and maintain relationships, and gain knowledge and understanding. How might we go about communicating the Good News of Jesus Christ in the midst of these changes to an emerging culture...
"Your Hearts Will Rejoice"
Easter Meditations from the Vita Christi
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
The Vita Christi, a spiritual classic of the fourteenth century by the Carthusian Ludolph of Saxony, was an early and extremely comprehensive book of meditations on the events recorded in the gospels. A popular and influential book for centuries, it was instrumental in the conversion of Ignatius Loyola,...
by E. C. Whitaker, Maxwell E. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Since its first appearance in 1960, Documents of the Baptismal Liturgy has been praised and used by scholars in understanding how the rite of baptism was celebrated through the centuries. This new edition retains the sources previously included and adds Eastern Christian texts from the great East...
The Study of Liturgy and Worship
An Alcuin Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
This introductory book for students and general readers sheds fresh light on the study of liturgy and worship, reflecting important new directions in contemporary research. The contributors, who are at the forefront of teaching and research in the United Kingdom, United States, and Ireland and who...
At Home With Saint Benedict
Monastery Talks
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
At Home with Saint Benedict is a selection of the author's conferences on Saint Benedict's Rule for Monasteries delivered to the monks of Assumption Abbey of Ava, Missouri, when he was abbot there. The author's intention was simply to share with his brother monks what Saint Benedict through his sixth-century...
Treasure in the Field
Salvation in the Bible and in Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
What does it mean to say that God offers salvation to humanity? What is this salvation, and how can we become more conscious of it in our lives? These are the questions that Robert Krieg faces in Treasure in the Field. While his intent is certainly to impart information and ideas found in Scripture,...