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Genesis
Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In the ongoing debate over the when and how our universe began, Genesis chooses to answer the theological question, Who set in motion the beginning of the heavens and the earth?" Once that question is answered by vivid and memorable stories, the focus moves to ancestral stories that identify...
Word and Image
The Hermeneutics of The Saint John's Bible
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In Word and Image, Michael Patella explores the principles, intentions, and aims of The Saint John's Bible - the first handwritten and hand-illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine abbey since the invention of the printing press. Patella focuses not on how it was made but on how it can be read,...
Vatican Council II: Constitutions, Decrees, Declarations
The Basic Sixteen Documents
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1996
The sixteen official documents—constitutions, decrees, and declarations—of the Second Vatican Council are now available from Liturgical Press in the most popular and widely used inclusive-language edition translated by Irish Dominican Austin Flannery (+October 21, 2008).
As the worldwide...
The Dominican Tradition
Dominican Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
St. Dominic, who died in 1221, took to heart Jesus' charge to make disciples of all nations. He founded a religious community, the Order of Preachers, which differed from most orders of his day. Dominic trained preachers who traveled anywhere and everywhere to spread the Gospel.
The Dominicans...
by John R. Donahue SJ, Daniel J. Harrington SJ
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
In The Gospel of Mark Fathers Donahue and Harrington use an approach that can be expressed by two terms currently used in literary criticism: intratextuality and intertextuality. This intratextual and intertextual reading of Mark's Gospel helps us to appreciate the literary character, its setting...
Blessed Among Us
Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Since the early centuries, Christians have held up the saints as models of living the Gospel of Jesus Christ. While the church officially recognizes a relatively small number of saints, the actual roster is infinitely wider. Blessed Among Us explores this eclectic “cloud of witnesses”—lay...
Jesus Began to Preach
The Mystery of God's Word
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
In this volume, a thoroughly revised and expanded version of The Mystery of God's Word, Father Raniero Cantalamessa engages the profound idea of the Eternal Word that becomes Life. The main and constant focus of the book is to show how the word of God illuminates and engages our existence. Cantalamessa...
Preaching Romans
Proclaiming God's Saving Grace
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Although Paul's letter to the Romans is the most theologically charged writing of the New Testament, it is rarely preached from Catholic pulpits. Perhaps some of the Pauline themes? Redemption and sanctification, justification and reconciliation, resurrection and parousia? seem too daunting for homiletic...
Isaiah
Volume 13
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The book of Isaiah uses both prose and poetry to engage readers in a drama of great emotion and intensity. Although the circumstances under which this book took its present form remain in scholarly dispute, this commentary highlights its larger purpose-to provide the people of Judah and Jerusalem...
by Yves Congar OP
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Archbishop Angelo Roncali (later Pope John XXIII) read True and False Reform during his years as papal nuncio in France and asked, A reform of the church 'is such a thing really possible?" A decade later as pope, he opened the Second Vatican Council by describing its goals in terms that reflected...
by Irene Nowell OSB
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The women in the Old Testament, too long invisible, have rich stories that are vital to the on-going revelation of God's relationship with a covenant people. Women in the Old Testament introduces readers to some biblical women. Here, readers meet mothers and wives, queens and slaves, prophets and...
Dei Verbum
Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The sixteen official documents—constitutions, decrees, and declarations—of the Second Vatican Council are now available from Liturgical Press in the most popular and widely used inclusive-language edition translated by Irish Dominican Austin Flannery (+October 21, 2008).
As the worldwide...
Gaudium et Spes
Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The sixteen official documents—constitutions, decrees, and declarations—of the Second Vatican Council are now available from Liturgical Press in the most popular and widely used inclusive-language edition translated by Irish Dominican Austin Flannery (+October 21, 2008).
As the worldwide...
Christus Dominus
Decree on the Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The sixteen official documents—constitutions, decrees, and declarations—of the Second Vatican Council are now available from Liturgical Press in the most popular and widely used inclusive-language edition translated by Irish Dominican Austin Flannery (+October 21, 2008).
As the worldwide...