Liturgical Press: 724 books
The Theology of Cardinal Walter Kasper
Speaking Truth in Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Cardinal Walter Kasper's contributions to theology, ecumenism, Jewish-Christian relations, and the pastoral life of the church have shaped Catholicism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Acknowledging this, Pope Francis has praised Kasper's “profound and serene” theology.
In The Theology...
Sophia
The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
While numerous studies have celebrated Thomas Merton's witness as an interfaith pioneer, poet, and peacemaker, there have been few systematic treatments of his Christology as such, and no sustained exploration to date of his relationship to the Russian Sophia" tradition. This book looks to Thomas...
Reflections on Renewal
Lay Ecclesial Minitry and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The United States bishops ' document Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord is a vital resource for the ongoing development of lay ecclesial ministry. Building upon Co-Workers and affirming the recent renewal of the laity and the flowering of lay ministries, Reflections on Renewal contributes to efforts...
In the Valley of Wormwood
Cistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Shortly after entering the monastic life in December 1941, a relatively unknown Trappist monk called Frater Louis-who would later be known to the world by his given name, Thomas Merton-began to pen biographical sketches of early Cistercian blessed and saints. These were initially collected, printed,...
The Song That I Am
On the Mystery of Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
The Song That I Am: On the Mystery of Music is a short but full-to-the-brim essay on the decisive role that great music (whether Bach, Tavener, or Gregorian chant) ought to play in the spiritual life. With admirable restraint Élisabeth-Paule Labat shares her interior experience of music and thus...
Culture, Inculturation, and Theologians
A Postmodern Critique
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The split between the Gospel and culture is without doubt the drama of our time," wrote Paul VI in 1975. Since that time there has been an increasingly urgent awareness that inculturation is an indispensable task of the church. But inculturation, the dialogue between church and cultures, demands...
Bernard of Clairvaux
Theologian of the Cross
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
This book offers a complete study of the doctrine of the cross in the writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Until now, this theologically rich topic has not received the attention it calls for. Anthony Lane analyzes and expounds the doctrine of the cross based on the nearly seven hundred references...
Thomas Merton
Early Essays, 1947-1952
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
This volume gathers together twelve essays that Thomas Merton wrote for various journals between 1947 and 1952, the years that saw the publication of his best-selling autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, his ordination to the priesthood, and his initial appointment as spiritual and intellectual...
by Joseph F. Kelly PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
There have been twenty-one universal gatherings 'ecumenical councils' of the Catholic Church. The first opened in 325, the last closed in 1965, and the names of many ring out in the history of the church: Nicea, Chalcedon, Trent, Vatican II. Though centuries separate the councils, each occurred when...
by Joseph F. Kelly PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Like every lost world, the world of the early Christians was a combination of the foreign and the familiar, the unique and the commonplace. In The World of the Early Christians, Joseph Kelly introduces and explains the world of the early Christians, and while he examines the differences between our...
In the School of Prophets
The Formation of Thomas Merton's Prophetic Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The distinctive prophetic quality of Thomas Merton's spirituality, shaped by figures ranging from the Hebrew prophets to Thich Nhat Hanh, emerges from this fresh examination of the works Merton read, responded to, and celebrated in his own writing.
In the School of Prophets examines the final...
The Book of the Elders
Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Systematic Collection
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In the early part of the fourth century, a few Christians, mostly men and some women, began to withdraw from "the world" to retreat into the desert, there to practice their new religion more seriously. The person who aspired to "renounce the world" first had to find an "elder,"...
The Lives of Monastic Reformers 2
Abbot Vitalis of Savigny, Abbot Godfrey of Savigny, Peter of Avranches, and Blessed Hamo
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This volume offers translations of the twelfth-century Latin vitae of four monks of the Monastery of Savigny: Abbot Vitalis, Abbot Godfrey, Peter of Avranches, and Blessed Hamo. Founded in 1113 by Vitalis of Mortain, an influential hermit-preacher, Savigny expanded to a congregation of thirty monasteries...
A Benedictine Reader
530-1530
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
A Benedictine Reader, 530–1530, has been more than twenty years in the making. A collaboration of a dozen scholars, this project gives as broad and deep a sense of the reality of the first one thousand years of Benedictine monasticism as can be done in one volume, using primary sources in English...