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by Mark Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
What is Anglicanism? How is it different from other forms of Christianity, and how did it come to have so many different versions throughout the world? Although originally united by location and a common belief, Anglicanism has gradually lost its pre-eminence as the English state church due to increasing...
by Mark Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
This book seeks to explain the ways in which Anglicans have sought to practise theology in their various contexts. It is a clear, insightful, and reliable guide which avoids technical jargon and roots its discussions in concrete examples. The book is primarily a work of historical theology, which...
Our Church
A Personal History of the Church of England
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church...
by Frank Sargeant
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Peter Green is a legend in the Diocese of Manchester, and a figure held up as an example, whose writing featured in my confirmation preparation long ago. His writings emphasise the need for the Anglo-Catholic faith and devotion to go hand in hand with evangelism, resulting in personal commitment to...
by St. John of the Cross, Wyatt North
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Dark Night of the Soul comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each section, and bonus religious images. Dark Night of the Soul is the title of a poem written by 16th-century Spanish poet and Roman Catholic mystic Saint John of the Cross, as well as of a treatise he wrote...
by Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Wyatt North
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
This book comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each Section. This edition has a linked Table of Contents and has been wonderfully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your eBook reader. Jean Pierre de Caussade was a French Jesuit priest and writer known for...
Eternal Chalice
The Enduring Legend of the Holy Grail
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
What is the secret of the Grail?' So intoned a heavenly voice to Sir Percival in John Boorman's stylish and influential film 'Excalibur' (1981). The sacred allure of the Holy Grail has fascinated writers and ensnared knights for over a thousand years. From Malory to Monty Python, the eternal chalice...
Turning Toward the World
The Pivotal Years; The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4: 1960-1963
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
"Inexorably life moves on towards crisis and mystery. Everyone must struggle to adjust himself to this, to face the situation for 'now is the judgment of the world.' In a way, each one judges himself merely by what he does. Does, not says. Yet let us not completely dismiss words. They do have...
by Anderson D. Araujo, Hazel Atkins, William Blissett
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
T. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St. Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying philosophy, mysticism, and anthropology at Harvard. During a year in Paris, he became involved with a group of Catholic writers and subsequently went through a gradual conversion...
Victorian Reformations
Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820-1904
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
In Victorian Reformations: Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820-1900, Miriam Elizabeth Burstein analyzes the ways in which Christian novelists across the denominational spectrum laid claim to popular genres—most importantly, the religious historical novel—to narrate the aftershocks...
Will Many Be Saved
What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The question of whether and how people who have not had the chance to hear the gospel can be saved goes back to the beginnings of Christian reflection. It has also become a much-debated topic in current theology. In Will Many Be Saved? Ralph Martin focuses primarily on the history of debate and the...
Only Love Can Save Us
Letters, Homilies, and Talks of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
"Only the commandment of love, in all its simplicity - steady, humble, unassuming but firm in conviction and in commitment to others - can save us." - Te Deum homily of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, May 25, 2012As Pope Francis speaks from a new and much larger pulpit, it is easy to forget not only...
by Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The Church’s Marian beliefs have constantly shed light on other teachings, and the Theology of the Body is no exception. In this compilation of essays, some of the world’s most foremost Mariologists and experts on the Theology of the Body share their insights on how Mary illuminates the message...
by William May
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003
Faith & Morals
Here - carefully documented, footnoted, and indexed - is not only what the Church teaches but also why it is obligated to do so. And, why its members are obligated to examine and to apply that teaching.
This updated and expanded edition of a text long trusted and widely...