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Reclaiming Humility
Four Studies in the Monastic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Does humility have a place in contemporary life? Were Enlightenment thinkers wrong to reject humility as a “monkish virtue” (Hume) arising from a “slave morality” (Nietzsche)? Australian theologian Jane Foulcher recovers the counter-cultural reading of humility that marked early Christianity...
The Word Made Love
The Dialogical Theology of Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
From scholarly monographs to papal homilies, Joseph Ratzinger has insisted consistently over decades that Christianity is not a set of ideas to believe or, even less, moral laws to follow. Rather, Christianity is about a person and our encounter with that person.
In The Word Made Love, Christopher...
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Living Communion
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Drawing on the wisdom and teaching experience of highly respected theologians, the Engaging Theology series builds a firm foundation for graduate study and other ministry formation programs. Each of the six volumes 'Scripture, Jesus, God, Discipleship, Anthropology, and Church 'is concerned with retrieving,...
Water Shaping Stone
Faith, Relationships, and Conscience Formation
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
The Catholic Tradition requires the faithful to form and follow their conscience. This is the case even with the recognition that consciences can be malformed and one can make errors in practical judgments. Water Shaping Stone examines various aspects of this tradition regarding conscience by using,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
During the “Silver Age” of the Cistercians (the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries), pseudepigraphical compositions bearing the name Bernard flourished. Important for the history of monasticism and, more broadly, of Christian spiritual formation and practice, these little-studied writings interpret,...
The Other Hand of God
The Holy Spirit as the Universal Touch and Goal
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
If the Spirit is not equal to the Father and the Son, can the Trinity survive? Is the role of the Spirit in salvation as important as that of the Son? Why was the divinity of the Spirit problematic in the early Church? If the Son, Jesus Christ, is the way the truth and the life," what role does...
Saint Bernard's Three Course Banquet
Humility, Charity, and Contemplation in the De Gradibus
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Saint Bernard’s famous work, The Steps of Humility and Pride (in Latin, De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae), is a short book consisting of a mere fifty-seven paragraphs. In it, the Abbot of Clairvaux unpacks the doctrine of the very crucial chapter 7 of Saint Benedict’s sixth-century Rule for...
A Saint in the Sun
Praising Saint Bernard in the France of Louis XIV
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
This volume contains translations or summaries of the most important panegyrics in praise of Saint Bernard that were preached during the reign of Louis XIV. Some of the preachers were and are regarded as the greatest orators ever to grace the French pulpit. All the translations are extensively annotated,...
by David N. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
This is an annotated translation of the classic Description de l’abbaye de La Trappe, the most important eye-witness account of life at the abbey of La Trappe under Armand-Jean de Rancé. The work includes a map showing the physical layout of the abbey and detailed discussions of the monks’...
Partaking of God
Trinity, Evolution, and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
The natural world around us is in crisis. We know it has a dynamic, evolutionary character. How might we understand this world in relationship to God?
Partaking of God builds on the foundations of the dynamic trinitarian theology of Athanasius. It develops into a theology of the Word as the...
Humble Confidence
Spiritual and Pastoral Guidance from Karl Rahner
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The influential German Jesuit theologian, Karl Rahner (1904–84), famously claimed that the more scientific theology is the more spiritually and pastorally relevant it will be. This book attempts to demonstrate the truth of this claim by drawing together resources scattered throughout Rahner’s...
The Text of a Coptic Monastic Discourse On Love and Self-Control
Its Story from the Fourth Century to the Twenty-First
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book introduces a beautiful fourth-century Coptic discourse on love and self-control in its first English translation. The text’s heading attributes it to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, but this attribution is questionable. Exploring issues of authorship and context, this book locates the...
by William P. Loewe
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Why did some people want Jesus dead, while others came to honor him as the Christ? What does it mean to say that he was raised," and how did this belief get started? What about the classical expressions of Jesus' religious significance? Where did they come from and what do they mean? What does...
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The Elite Evangelist
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Human beings are embedded in a set of social relations. A social network is one way of conceiving that set of relations in terms of a number of persons connected to one another by varying degrees of relatedness. In the early Jesus group documents featuring Paul and coworkers, it takes little effort...