Crown Publishing Group: 2547 books
by St. Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
"The reader who has never met Augus-tine before ought to go first of all to the Confessions," reflected the Trappist monk and scholar Thomas Merton. "Augustine lived the theology that he wrote. . . . He experienced the reality of Christ living in his own soul."
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Paul Among the People
The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
It is a common—and fundamental—misconception that Paul told people how to live. Apart from forbidding certain abusive practices, he never gives any precise instructions for living. It would have violated his two main social principles: human freedom and dignity, and the need for people to love...
Mary Magdalene
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
After 2,000 years of flawed history, here at last is a magnificent new biography of Mary Magdalene that draws her out of the shadows of history and restores her to her rightful place of importance in Christianity.
Throughout history, Mary Magdalene has been both revered and reviled, a woman...
Sexless in the City
A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Anna Broadway’s “Sexless in the City” blog has become a popular Internet destination, attracting readers with its amusing tales of romantic misadventures and candid, far-from-prissy reports on the difficulties of trying to reconcile Christian beliefs with the mores and temptations of the modern...
Called for Life
How Loving Our Neighbor Led Us into the Heart of the Ebola Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
“Kent, bud. We got your test result. And I’m really sorry to tell you that it is positive for Ebola.”
Dr. Kent and Amber Brantly moved with their children to war-torn Liberia in the fall of 2013 to provide medical care for people in great need—to help replace hopelessness with hope....
All the Way to Heaven
The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
“The publication of the letters of Dorothy Day is a significant event in the history of Christian spirituality.” —Jim Martin, SJ, author of My Life with the Saints
Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, has been called the most significant, interesting, and influential person...
Rabbi Paul
An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
A brilliant new biography of Saint Paul, whose interpretations of the life and teachings of Jesus transformed a loosely organized, grassroots peasant movement into the structured religion we know today
Without Paul, there would be no Christianity. His letters to various churches scattered throughout...
Wounded Prophet
A Portrait of Henri J.M. Nouwen
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Henri Nouwen, a Dutch Roman Catholic priest, was one of the most beloved and important spiritual writers of the twentieth century. Since his death in 1996, his stature has only increased; and his books, including The Inner Voice of Love, The Wounded Healer, and The Return of the Prodigal Son,have...
When We Were on Fire
A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In the strange, us-versus-them Christian subculture of the 1990s, a person’s faith was measured by how many WWJD bracelets she wore and whether he had kissed dating goodbye.
Evangelical poster child Addie Zierman wore three bracelets asking what Jesus would do. She also led two Bible studies...
Madre Angelica
La historia notable de una monja, de su nervio, y de una red de milagros
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 18, 2009
La historia extraordinaria de la Madre Angélica, fundadora de la multimillonaria Cadena de Televisión Eternal World y “la católica más influyente de Estados Unidos”, según la revista Time. En 1981, un año después de que Ted Turner creara CNN, una sencilla monja, sólo con sus instintos...
Live Like You're Blessed
Simple Steps for Making Balance, Love, Energy, Spirit, Success, Encouragement, a nd Devotion Part of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
One of today’s leading ministers, Suzan Johnson Cook epitomizes the positive attitudes and self-help spirit that make a profound difference in the way we live. Live Like You’re Blessed illuminates her winning formula in an engaging combination of autobiographical anecdotes and lessons drawn from...
American Priest
The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame's Father Ted Hesburgh
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
A provocative new biography probes deeply into the storied life of Father Ted Hesburgh, the well-loved but often controversial president of Notre Dame University.
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Considered for many decades to be the most influential priest in America, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, played what many consider pivotal...
Learning to Speak God from Scratch
Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing--and How We Can Revive Them
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
In a rapidly changing culture, many of us struggle to talk about faith. We can no longer assume our friends understand words such as *grace *or gospel. Others, like *lost *and sin, have become so negative they are nearly conversation-enders.
Jonathan Merritt knows this frustration...
by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
His Roman-Catholic faith has been an enduring part of the life and personality of William Buckley, Jr. Now, for the first time since his ground breaking God and the Man at Yale he has written a book about faith--his own.
Nearer, My God, An Autobiography of Faith is William Buckley's superbly...