Liturgical Press: 724 books
by Hilarion Alfeyev
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
From the Foreword by Kallistos Ware, Bishop of Diokleia—
Isaac the Syrian, also called Isaac of Nineveh, lived and wrote during "the golden age of Syriac Christian literature" in the seventh century. Cut off by language and politics from the Churches of the Roman Empire and branded...
Useful Servanthood
A Study of Spiritual Formation in the Writings of Abba Ammonas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Useful Servanthood introduces English-speaking readers to Abba Ammonas, disciple and successor of Saint Antony of the Desert and a prominent figure of fourth-century Egyptian monasticism. As a director of souls, Ammonas's approach to spiritual formation was a creative example of the spiritual gift...
by John Wortley, Palladius of Aspuna
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Born in Galatia in the 360s, Palladius enrolled as a monk on the Mount of Olives in his early twenties. As a monk, he traveled to Alexandria, the desert of Nitria, the Cells, Palestine, Rome, and the Thebaid. During his travels he encountered Rufinus of Aquileia, Melania the Elder, the hermit Dorotheos,...
The Sun at Midnight
Monastic Experience of the Christian Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Sun at Midnight offers a splendid, easily accessible summary of mystical theology in the Cistercian school. Bernardo Olivera, a master of both the theology and the practice of the spiritual life, analyzes this tradition first in its rich human, biblical, and doctrinal connotations, and then according...
by Graham R. Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
In Reformed Sacramentality, the late Graham Hughes discusses the role of physicality in worship. He contends that to counter the Reformed tradition’s vulnerability to a cultural colonization by secular modernity, Reformed theology needs to amplify its appreciation for God’s omnipresence in creation...
Quantum Shift
Theological and Pastoral Implications of Contemporary Developments in Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
While the field of science has made incredible advances in the past century, and more and more scientists have gone to great lengths to make these developments accessible to the public, we still rarely hear ministers and communities of faith discussing the implications of these developments for the...
Chasing Mystery
A Catholic Biblical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Why does God have to be so exasperatingly silent? Why can't we see him at least long enough to allay doubt? How does one grow deeper in love with God against the cultural currents of disdain and antagonism?
Chasing Mystery is an exploration into how the Bible negotiates the presence and absence...
God's Beauty
A Call to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
What if we began our study of Christian ethics not with an examination of our moral duties but with an exploration of the call of beauty? For like justice, beauty generates a call to a larger, more generous self. God's Beauty offers a fresh, positive approach to moral arguments calling us to work...
by Judith Ryan, Bonnie B. Thurston
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Although relatively brief, Philippians is one of the most interesting and beloved of Paul's undisputed epistles. In Philippians and Philemon, Bonnie Thurston makes a convincing case that canonical Philippians is as Paul wrote it, one letter. Although there is not enough specific evidence to "name...
Fundamentalism at Home and Abroad
Analysis and Pastoral Responses
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
For most people, fundamentalism in the modern world has become synonymous with a radical form of Islam, but fundamentalism in many shapes and forms is also very much present in Western societies. Yes, fundamentalist economic, political, nationalistic, and religious movements are aplenty in the West....
by John W. Martens
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
The writings of St. Paul have provided teaching, insight, and guidance to Christians from the church’s earliest days right up to our own. A missionary, theologian, and martyr, he was at all times a pastor to the early Christian communities scattered throughout the Roman Empire. By exploring three...
Dashed Hopes
When Our Best-Laid Plans Fall Apart
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Where do we turn when our hopes are dashed, when we look at best-laid plans and see only shattered dreams? With fresh perspectives on Jeremiah’s plans for “a future of hope,” Jesus’ agony in the garden, and Isaiah’s promise of “a way in the wilderness,” Laura Kelly Fanucci offers hope for those wondering what comes next when life feels broken.
50 Years On
Probing the Riches of Vatican II
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Pope John XXIII prayed that the Second Vatican Council would prove to be a new Pentecost. The articles gathered here appeared originally in a series solicited by and published in Theological Studies (September 2012 to March 2014). The purpose of the series was and remains threefold:
• To...
A Church with Open Doors
Catholic Ecclesiology for the Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Catholic ecclesiology stands at the threshold of a new moment in the reception of the Second Vatican Council. The election of Pope Francis—coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the council—has inspired a fresh consideration of its teaching in such diverse areas as ecumenism, inculturation,...