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Just Church: Catholic Social Teaching, Synodality, and Women
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Just Church engages the reader in the synodal pathway to a “Just Church” that can and should reflect its social teaching. An important measure of justice is an ecclesiology open to participation by others beyond celibate clerics, especially in consideration of competing Catholic ecclesial bodies and methods of membership.
Just Sustainability: Technology, Ecology...
9781626981324
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This book is a study of the social, economic, and conceptual changes needed on a global level for all of life to flourish in the 21st century. It begins from the premise that any viable path to sustainability must also be just””whether as norms guiding policy decisions or in the...
Justice & Peace: A Christian Primer
9781626983281
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“A fantastic resource for teaching and research in social ethics. . . . A wealth of background information is presented in a readable format that accentuates the moral implications of the political and economic facts.”””Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College “Presents global issues in a way that matters to the college...
Justice and the Way of Jesus: Christian Ethics ...
9781626983663
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This skillfully edited volume presents a rich and broad engagement with Glen Stassen's concept of incarnational discipleship - a major contribution to the discipline of Christian ethics outlined in his last book, A Thicker Jesus. Glen believed that his approach could strengthen faithfulness to Jesus Christ in the church and...
Living Beyond War: A Citizen's Guide
9781570758270
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After thousands of years, the dream of a world without war may seem hopelessly unrealistic. But, as Winslow Myers shows in this concise, eloquent primer, what is truly unrealistic is the notion that war remains a reasonable solution to the conflicts on our planet. He begins by showing why war...
Loneliness: Insignts for Healing in a Fragmented World
9781626982895
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This timely book of practical theology sheds welcome light into a dark corner of the individual and collective psyche and is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand the pervasive loneliness of our times. Utilizing insights from anthropology, theology, psychology, and philosophy, Gerard Arbuckle explores the cultural causes of...
9781626983342
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“Even in my bleakest of days, I knew God has a particular fondness for showing up among lives in the ruins, for using us flawed and failed human beings for redemptive purposes. So I became a witness. I bore witness to the tragedy of lives stuck in the misery of...
Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction
9781626985506
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"Kate Rigby's book, ”˜Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction' explores the evolution of humanity's environmental impact on creation and the colonial lens and cultural biases destroying our world. The ecological crisis in Australia and around the globe is of critical concern to the First Nations people. We consider...
Ministry in the Church: 2nd Edition
9781626981539
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This comprehensive overview of the development of Christian ministry is revised to address historical developments and new questions in ministry in recent decades. Bernier's approach takes as its inspiration the notion that ministry is “the service God requires of all the baptized,” not just the task of ordained ministers or...
9780814632222
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The Long Journey takes us into the heart of Jerusalem, Mount Zion, the site of the Benedictine Dormition Monastery, a place where pilgrims, seekers, and peacemakers come for liturgies, prayer, and conversation. Our guide on this journey is James Paharik, who in nine closely woven essays, leads us through the...
My Theology: The Primacy of Love
9781506484372
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In an age of anxiety where reason is deified, what is the role of love? This short book centralizes love as the core reality of all cosmic life. From the cosmological to the theological dimensions of existence, love is shown to be the irresistible force of attraction that leads straight...
Nature Praising God: Towards a Theology of the Natural World
9781788125734
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This book was written during the lockdown caused by the Covid crisis: streets were emptied, churches closed down, and a relationship with nature developed in which new questions arose: is God present in nature? Is communion with God in nature possible? Is there a relationship between the God of creation,...
Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction..St. Thomas Aquinas
9781586179687
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From a lifetime of studying the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, popular author Peter Kreeft says that his amazement has continually increased not only at Aquinas' theoretical, philosophical brilliance and sanity, but also at his personal, practical wisdom, his “existential bite.” Yet this second dimension of St. Thomas has usually...
9781599826325
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An introductory text that shows that reason and Christian belief are compatible and mutually supportive, and that both can lead to the truth. The central aim of Reason, Faith, and Tradition is to show that reason and Christian belief are in fact not contradictory, but are simply two different orientations,...
Reconciliation: Mission & Ministry ... Social Order
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The Author asks whether the Christian community is equipped to work it's mission, bringing together the "scattered children of the God".
Religion and Alienation: 2nd Edition
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Religious Life for Our World: Creating Communities...
9781626983809
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This book brings together God's call, the cries of the world and of the earth today, and charisms in consecrated life in a way that dynamically engages the vows, prayer, community, and ministry for the particular time and contexts in which we live. Here is a valuable theological and pastoral...
Religious Pluralism & Interreligious Theology
9781626982307
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Interreligious dialogue has encouraged many theologians in all major religious traditions to consider whether other religions may offer a different but nevertheless genuine and valid path of salvation or liberation. Perry Schmidt-Leukel, in this extended version of his 2015 Gifford Lectures, argues that this position - often called "religious pluralism"...
Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter
9781626984455
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How do we really know that God cares when Black people are still getting killed? How long do we have to wait for the justice of God? I get it, that Christ is Black, but that doesn't seem to be helping us right now. These questions from her son prompted...
Reynold Hillenbrand: Reform of the Catholic Liturgy
9781595250308
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Reynold Hillenbrand: The Reform of the Catholic Liturgy and the Call to Social Action Rev. Robert Tuzik This study of Msgr. Reynold Hillenbrand is an extraordinary examination of the liturgical reform movement and its impact on the Second Vatican Council. Although a pioneer in the U.S. Liturgical Reform Movement, only...
Sacred Nature: How we can recover our bond with...
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An urgent manifesto and a practical guide on how to change our relationship with nature, by one of the world's leading writers on religion and spirituality. In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that if we want to avert environmental catastrophe, it is not enough to change our behaviour:...
Seeds of Justice: Organizing Your Church to Transform
9781626983656
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Why do the values of Gospel justice we hear preached on Sundays seem so different from the reality we see in our communities? How can our churches actually change policies and laws that deeply violate the teachings of Jesus? Drawing on long experience working in churches and faith-based communities around...
Sent Forth: African Missionary Work in the West
9781626981010
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An African Christian on evangelizing the West. Written by an African-born scholar and pastor serving in the United States, this book demonstrates that African Christianity has held a missionary impulse since the days of the early Church, one that continued throughout history in many contexts (including the United States). Today,...
Sex, Love, and Families: Catholic Perspectives
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Six years into the papacy of Pope Francis, Catholics are still figuring out how to respond to his image of the church as a field hospital - a church that goes into the streets rather than remaining locked up behind closed doors. Marriage and family are primary sites of the...
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In this practical book (which includes room for the reader to trace their own expenditure) the author offers advice on how to stem the flood of debt and get back onto an even keel.
Siblings All Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching...
9781626984820
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In the encyclical Fratelli Tutti (2020), Pope Francis has offered a synthesis of his Magisterium. From its pages there emerges a “new dream” for humanity: a call to walk together, to join forces in building a more just and united world, and thereby to generate a better future for all....
Start Talking to Your Kids About Sex: A Practical Guide for
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One of the most difficult challenges we may face as parents is to have that first "talk" with our kids. You know the one - discussing their changing bodies and sex for the first time. When do we begin? Where do we start? How do we do it in a...
Synodality and the Recovery of Vatican II: A New Way...
9781788126724
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In less than a decade the notion of ”˜synodality' has emerged as a central theme in Catholic life and thought, especially in Catholics' self-reflection on who they are as the People of God: Ecclesiology. The notion of the Church as ”˜synodal' has early roots in the many councils and synods...
The Afternoon of Christianity: The Courage to Change
9780268207472
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Tomas Halik provides a poignant reflection on Christianity's crisis of faith while offering a vision of the self-reflection, love, and growth necessary for the church to overcome and build a deeper and more mature faith. In a world transformed by secularization and globalization, torn by stark political and social distrust,...
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“Initially, my theological journey was compelled by doubt about my love for Jesus and Jesus' love for black children trapped in the vulgarities of inner-city life. . . . Twenty-five years later, my journey continues as I wonder what the blackness of Christ means to our children, whose lives are...
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A vocation is an extremely mysterious reality. The call of God is not something extrinsic; it penetrates to the most intimate centre of the heart. We are what we are on account of this call. The Call of Silent Love is a profound and eloquent examination of the twin themes...
The Catholic Ethicist in the Local Church
9781626982741
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The latest volume in this prestigious series brings together twenty-five international scholars who reflect on the role of Catholic ethicists in the context of their particular, local churches, and in light of the ecclesiological shifts following Vatican II. The first half of this work examines the connections between ecclesiology and...
The Corner of Fourth and Nondual
9781506484495
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In The Corner of Fourth and Nondual, a title inspired by Thomas Merton's moment of revelation 'at the corner of Fourth and Walnut' in his celebrated essay 'A Member of the Human Race', Cynthia Bourgeault - internationally renowned retreat leader, and a practitioner and teacher of centering prayer - describes...
The Cosmic Vision of Teilhard de Chardin
9781626984493
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An expert in Teilhardian thought brings together for the first time Teilhard in conversation with other significant religious thinkers, philosophers, and scientists, including Kant, Whitehead, Barbour, Moltmann and Tillich, on topics ranging from the problem of suffering to astrobiology. The Jesuit paleontologist and theologian, Teilhard de Chardin, has been much...
The Creed in Slow Motion: An Exploration of Faith, Phrase...
9781399801546
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I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth... The Creed is the bones of our faith. In all our different ways, it makes us who we are. But when we stand up and recite the Creed in unison, we have no time to contemplate what...
The Depth of God's Reach:A Spirituality of ...
9781626982611
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How often we recite the creedal statement "He descended into hell," without much thought! Calling on theology ancient and modern, poetry, creedal history, worship traditions, and personal stories of pain and loss, the author leads readers through deep and often surprising waters in search of the statement's implications for today's...
The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory
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The question of gender - who we are as men and women - has never been more pressing, or more misunderstood. Weaving personal experience with expert knowledge, Dr. Abigail Favale provides an in-depth yet accessible account of the gender paradigm: a framework for understanding reality and identity that has recently...
The Gift of Mission: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
9781626980129
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In 2011 the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers celebrated one hundred years of mission work in more than forty countries around the world in a symposium that brought together missioners, theologians, and scholars with a wide range of expertise and insights. These selected essays explore both the achievements and failures of...
9781626980242
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An inspiring portrait of a bishop renowned for his qualities as a pastor, a leader, and a human being. Walter F. Sullivan retired in 2003 after twenty-nine years as bishop of the Richmond, Virginia diocese. As one of the great generation of bishops appointed by Pope Paul VI, he was...
The Hours of the Universe: Reflections on God,Science ...
9781626984035
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In a traditional monastery the recitation of the Hours calls to mind the work of God in our lives, from the gift of creation to the sufferings we bear. According to scientist, theologian, and author Ilia Delio, the universe is the new monastery. In her latest work she offers reflections...