Sj: 449 books
by SJ Harper
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Join FBI Agents Emma Monroe and Zack Armstrong.
She’s a Siren. He’s a Werewolf.
Their mission is redemption.
Emma Monroe is a Fallen Siren, cursed by the gods and banished to Earth for her failure to prevent the kidnapping of Persephone. She’s had many names and many lives, but only one...
What Are We Hoping For?
Reflections on Lent and Easter
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Refreshing stories and reflections that will assist the reader in understanding the seasons of Lent and Easter.
by William Lawson, SJ
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Understanding the capacity we all have to worry and fret, Fr Lawson shows that within our anxieties may often lie a doubt, a reluctance even, to believe that we have a Father in heaven who loves us and provides for us. As St Paul had to learn, a father, 'whose grace is sufficient for me'. This inspired...
Maintaining a Convinced and Pondered Trust
The 2015 Gasson lecturers
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
In these Gasson Lectures, Frank Brennan addresses various contested contemporary issues such as church-state relations, physician assisted suicide and national border protection. He writes, 'I hope that these lectures can help persons of all faiths and none maintain what Pope John Paul II, when addressing...
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A Spiritual Guide to Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Drawing on examples from literature, film and, popular culture, the author explores fresh ways to bring Christianity into the secular world.
Letting God Come Close
An Approach to the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
An approach to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
As more and more people begin to reclaim their spiritual heritage, longoverlooked traditions resurface, offering seekers new ways to rekindle their spiritual selves. The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola is such a...
by SJ Rye
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Stacey checks herself in to a youth homeless shelter. The seventeen-year-old has just fled an abusive home environment and is unable to see a bright future. She spends her days drinking vodka and getting high as an escape from reality. A worker at the shelter begins telling Stacey about his beliefs...
by William J. O'Malley, SJ
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2002
Each entry begins with an invocation to God called Presence, followed by Father O'Malley's poetic rendering of a familiar psalm that speaks profoundly to our modern situation. This is followed by a hymn, excerpted from a great spiritual or literary master. A Scripture reading and closing prayer complete the section.Paperback
The First European Description of Japan, 1585
A Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S.J.
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
In 1585, at the height of Jesuit missionary activity in Japan, which was begun by Francis Xavier in 1549, Luis Frois, a long-time missionary in Japan, drafted the earliest systematic comparison of Western and Japanese cultures. This book constitutes the first critical English-language edition of the...
Nothing Sacred
Nazi Espionage Against the Vatican, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Nazi Germany considered the Catholic Church to be a serious threat to its domestic security and its international ambitions. In Germany, informants provided intelligence, but in Rome, German attempts to penetrate the Papacy were less successful - except for the codebreaking work.
Divine Worship and Human Healing
Liturgical Theology at the Margins of Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Would many believers consider a wake or funeral an act of worship? What does it mean to say that in anointing the sick or administering Viaticum to the dying humans are healed? Such questions plumb the biblical and traditional depths of the paschal mystery. Just as Jesus' ministry at the social-religious...
by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö, Håkan Nesser
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Una rapina con il morto in pieno centro. Un poveraccio trovato cadavere dentro un monolocale chiuso dall’interno. Un procuratore entusiasta che immagina complotti e non vede indizi. Martin Beck, uscito da una convalescenza e da un matrimonio fallito, ricollega i fili.
by Gerald O'Collins, SJ
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Many observers greeted the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) as the most important religious event in the twentieth century. Its implementation and impact are still being felt in the Catholic Church, the wider Christian world, and beyond. One sea change that Vatican II brought concerned Roman Catholic...
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...