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Method In Ministry (Revised)
$20.95Add to cartThis book provides a portable method for pastoral reflection, supporting the essential Christian vocation of generous response to GodOs Word. In this new edition, the Whiteheads have revised and expanded their now-classic discussion of theological reflection in ministry.
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Daughters Of Anowa
$25.00Add to cartProviding an analysis of the lives of African women today from an African woman’s perspective, this is the study of the influence of culture and religion on African women’s lives. Oduyoye illustrates how myths, proverbs and folk tales operate in the socialization of young women, working to preserve the norms of the community.
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Mystery Of Creation
$29.95Add to cartMystery of Creation touches on many well-worn areas of interest in Christian faith and experience, including creation, the beginning of the world, man and woman, and original sin. It also covers topics of current concern like the world of spirits, the evolution of the universe and of life, the problem of evil, and the place of animals within creation.
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Origins Of The Eucharistic Prayer
$39.95Add to cartIn this critical analysis Enrico Mazza concentrates on structure as he traces the evolution of the Eucharistic Prayer (anaphora) from its origins in the ancient Jewish rites and its Christian beginnings in the Didache. He then examines the paleoanaphoras of the early centuries and moves through the origin and progressive development of the larger anaphoric families (Alexandrian, Roman, Antiochene), showing the influence of the Jewish rites on the formation of the Christian texts before arriving finally at the classical anaphoras of the fourth century. Enrico Mazza is professor of liturgical history at the Universit… Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. He is the author of Mystagogy: A Theology of Liturgy in the Patristic Ages and Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite.
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Cultural World Of Jesus Cycle A
$19.95Add to cartThe 56 essays in this book present cultural reflections on the gosple assigned for each Sunday in Cycle A of the Roman Lectionary. Each essay highlights aspects of the first-century, Eastern Mediterranean, cultural world in which Jesus lived and suggests a cross-cultural comparison with contemorary western culture. With this background information, readers can make more fitting applications of the Scripture to modern life.
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Spiritual Freedom : From An Experience Of The Ignatian Exercises To The Art (Rep
$12.95Add to cartThis new edition of Father John English’s classic 1973 text adds a preface, a more comprehensive bibliography, and three chapters on how Ignatian thought applies to the world today. Using his own vast experience as a spiritual guide, Father English leads the reader through the meditations of the Spiritual Exercises. A resource for both directors and directees.
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365 Saints : Your Daily Guide To The Wisdom And Wonder Of Their Lives
$19.99Add to cart365 SAINTS
Let the Saints’ lives guide and touch your life each day!The life of a saint is the life of an ordinary person lived well. And that’s the life readers will discover in this delightful and often surprising collection of words and wisdom from saints throughout the ages. A lovely and inspiring gift book, 365 Saints illuminates how the saints actually lived, detailing their hopes, fears, joys, and sorrows, as well as their lesser-known idiosyncrasies and sayings. Witty and wondrous, simple and sublime, 365 Saints offers a full year of meditations and practical suggestions for emulating the saints today.
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Liturgical Inculturation : Sacramentals Religiosity And Catechesis
$29.95Add to cartPerhaps nothing is as important to the future of the Church as continuing to make the liturgy meaningful to those who celebrate it. Inculturation, “the dynamic translation of the typical editions into the cultures of local Churches,” is the key.
Inculturation as a branch of liturgical study has a dauntingly wide scope. It covers the areas of history and theology, liturgical and cultural principles, process and methods, sacraments and sacramentals, Liturgy of the Hours, liturgical year, liturgical music, liturgical arts and furnishings, and such related topics as popular religiosity and catechesis. So where does the average pastor, liturgist, or student begin?
With this volume the reader is introduced to the different technical terms expressing the relationship between liturgy and culture (indigenization, incarnation, contextualization, adaptation, acculturation … ). The subsequent discussion on the question of sacramentals, popular religiosity, and liturgical catechesis explains how these disparate topics share the same basic concern of inculturation.
Throughout the book the focus is on method. Method encompasses both how one may remain true to the liturgy while also considering what culture offers the liturgy or requires of it. The question of how creativity relates to inculturation is also answered.
For the serious student of the liturgy, whether or not you serve a culturally diverse community, this work provides foundations, principles, and methods for creating a liturgy of the people and for the people.
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Catechism Of The Catholic Church (Revised)
$12.00Add to cartHere it is – the first new Catechism of the Catholic Church in more than 400 years, a complete summary of what Catholics throughout the world believe in common. The Catechism draws on the Bible, the Mass, the sacraments, Church tradition and teaching, and the lives of the saints. It comes with a complete index, footnotes and cross-references for a fuller understanding of every subject. Using the tradition of explaining what the Church believes, what she celebrates, what she lives and what she prays, the Catechism of the Catholic Chruch offers challenges for believers and answers for all those interested in learning about the mystery of the Catholic faith. Here is a positive, coherent and contemporary map for our spiritual journey toward transformation.
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On Being Human
$19.00Add to cartFor almost thirty years Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen adressed the problems and preoccupations of life in a weekly column called “Bishop Sheen Writes,” offering advice, solace, and the wisdom of experience. On Being Human is a collection of 117 of the best of these, culled from among more than a thousand which appeared in dozens of newspapers from 1949 to 1977.Here are Bishop Sheen’s thoughts on such subjects as the relationship between God and man, the quest for holiness, the pain of the human condition.
Here are the fruits of lifelong meditation jon love, reason, the family, charity, freedom, education — in short, upon the world as we live in it.
Here is practical advice on how to deal with sex, with egotism, even with the atomic bomb.
Here, above all, is the luminescence of belief in and commitment to humanity in all its many manifestations.
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Medjugorje The Mission
$22.99Add to cartMillions have thrilled to hear the adventures of Wayne Weible, as he investigated the greatest spiritual phenomenon of our time. His first account ended in 1988 and Medjugorje the Mission picks up from there. It chronicles the unique mission given to a lukewarm Protestant, at the time, that would take him all over the globe and deeply touch souls of every belief. It includes an update of the apparitions and the effects of the horrible war in Bosnia.
In his travels, Wayne witnessed miracle after miracle of healing and reconciliation in people of all faiths, while on the home front God was blessing his troubled family in ways he could not possibly imagine. In this intimate, heart warming narrative, he takes you with him each step of the way-and to the heart of God, a journey on which your heart is quickened to receive your own mission.
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Church A Spirited Communion
$24.95Add to cartThe Church: A Spirited Communion emanates from the ecclesiology of Vatican II as a systematic treatment of this vision of communion: graced, prophetic, sacramental, spiritual, and ministerial. It is about a Church in communion with the laity, the hierarchy, and with all the Churches. Since “Church” is God in communion with the faithful, this book is primarily theo-logical and only secondarily ecclesio-logical. It is primarily about the God who is Triune, who calls the Church into existence, and who seeks in every age a people who adhere to “God rather than men” (Acts 5:29).
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Tales Of Padre Pio
$15.00Add to cartInspiring stories of Padre Pio’s miracles, clairvoyance and bi-location.Capuchin monk and spiritual leader, Padre Pio (1887-1968), is known and venerated throughout the world. Drawn by his stigmata (bodily wounds similar to those of the crucified Christ) and by his extraordinary powers of spiritual and physical healing, literally millions of people have made their way to his little monastery in Italy from every corner of the globe.
Tales of Padre Pio is a collection of first-hand accounts of various meetings with this humble and holy friar. Driven by curiosity and a bit of skepticism, the author first sought out Padre Pio some forty years ago and soon became a fervent disciple. Convinced of the man’s saintliness, he remained a close confidant until Pio’s death. As fascinating and inspiring as these stories are, they represent just a small portion of the countless miracles attributed to Pio.
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Life Of Saint Dominic
$15.00Add to cartIn the Life of St. Dominic, Father Bede Jarrett, one of the truly eminent Dominicans of our century, presents a portrait of St. Dominic and his times with a brilliance and clarity that result from a perfect understanding of the beloved saint and his ideals. St. Dominic was plunged accidentally — and, as it turned out, providentially — from a quiet choir stall and scholarly life to the active and contentious life of a street-corner preacher. Called upon to dispute with heretics who threatened the very existence of the thirteenth-century Church, he found the vital inspiration of his life to lie in personal austerity, holiness, and ardent dedication of the intellect to Christ. He not only defended the truth of the faith, but through the Order he founded (the Dominicans) he spread the faith throughout existing Christendom.
Austere and joyous, physically hardy, affectionate, compassionate, and full of a lively gaiety of heart, St. Dominic was ideally suited to be a brilliant preacher. He was well-educated, trained expertly to argument, and had that flaming Spanish enthusiasm and radiant character that immediately attracted eager followers to his Order. Father Jarrett’s Life of St. Dominic is by far the best English biography of St. Dominic and brings him and his Order — one of the richest ornaments of the Church and of the entire intellectual world — to vibrant life for the modern reader.
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On Loving God
$24.95Add to cartPerhaps Bernard’s most delightful tract, On Loving God posits that everything good in human persons is an expression of God’s love and by love the person may participate in the being of the triune God. In a new analytic commentary, Stiegman examines Bernard’s language, logic, and theology, demonstrating the vital importance of reading medieval authors on their own terms, without superimposing categories developed by later generations.
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Marriage Is For Grownups
$19.00Add to cartAre you grown-up enough to handle it?
To many couples, marriage means little more than just living together. But others succeed in establishing a true union, a profound emotional fusion that involves not only sharing a home, but sharing an entire life as well. In Marriage Is for Grownups, Joseph and Lois Bird analyze the problem areas common to most marriages and offer sound guidelines toward solving them and attaining that true union and meaningful relationship.
The authors–who have years of experience in marriage counseling–offer no marital nostrums; instead, they encourage each partner to examine his own fears, demands, values, and defenses in order to decide where he wants his marriage relationship to go–and how to reach that goal. The Birds explore many aspects of married life maturely and positively, and at the same time suggest rational ways of confronting them. Whether they’re discussing communications problems, finances, sex, in-laws, children, they do so on a realistic level with the aim of helping married couples become motivated to improve their marital relationship. As Dr. Bird points out, “This is not a marriage ‘cook book,’ providing pat answers which would hopefully apply to all (but which never do). It raises questions by which the spouses can find their own answers.”
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Seeds Of Sensitivity
$14.95Add to cartSensitivity is an essential attitude for caring people in a harsh world. In this practical and hopeful book Robert Wicks carefully leads us on the pat of sensitivity, encouraging us not to withdraw from the darkness in our world and in our hearts, and at the same time warning us of the pitfalls of cycnicism and burnout. Drawing on the insights of contemporary psychologists and spiritual writers, as well as his own experience as a therapist and spiritual guide.
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Worldviews And Ecology
$28.00Add to cartAmidst the many voices clamoring to interpret the environmental crisis, some of the most important are the voices of religious traditions. Long before modernity’s industrialism began the rape of Earth, premodern religious and philosophical traditions mediated to untold generations the wisdom of living as a part of nature. These traditions can illuminate and empower wiser ways of postmodern living.
The original writings included in Worldviews and Ecology creatively present and interpret worldviews of major religious and philosophical traditions on how humans can live more sustainably on a fragile planet.
Insights from traditions as diverse as Jain, Jewish, ecofeminist, deep ecology, Christian, Hindu, Bahai, and Whiteheadian will interest all who seek an honest analysis of what religious and philosophical traditions have to say to a modernity whose consciousness and conscience seems tragically narrow, the source of attitudes that imperil the biosphere.
Contributors include Charlene Spretnak, Larry Rasmussen, Noel Brown, Jay McDaniel, Tu Wei-Ming, Thomas Berry, David Ray Griffin, J. Baird Callicott, Eric Katz, Roger E. Timm, Robert A. White, Christopher Key Chapple, Brian Swimme, Brian Brown, Michael Tobias, Ralph Metzner, George Sessions, and Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim. -
Mystery Of Gods Word
$14.95Add to cartThose who preach the Word, those who proclaim it from a lectern, and those who hear it will all find something to inspire them to greater appreciation of the mystery of God’s Word in this collection of reflections.
The reflections are developed around eight themes: “Jesus Began to Preach” addresses the mystery of the Word in salvation history. “Go and Proclaim the Gospel” makes the connection between the Word and the Church. “When I Found Your Words . . .” speaks to those who proclaim the Word. “We Preach Christ Jesus as Lord” reflects on the content of Christian preaching. “For Every Careless Word . . .” warns against confusing human words with the divine Word. “You Will Receive Power from the Holy Spirit” affirms the role of the Holy Spirit in the proclamation of the Word. “Welcome the Word” affirms the place of God’s Word in our everyday lives. “The Letter Brings Death But the Spirit Gives Life” attests to the role of the Spirit in the interpretation of the Bible and in the life of the Church.
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Eucharistic Celebration : The Source And Summit Of Faith
$19.95Add to cartThe Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy says “The Church earnestly desires that Christ’s faithful, when present at this mystery of faith, should not be there as strangers or silent spectators. On the contrary, through a good understanding of the rites and prayers they should take part in the sacred action, conscious of what they are doing, with devotion and full collaboration.”
What is needed and what the author offers here is that “good understanding” of the meaning and value of the Mass. After examining its historical development, Professor Adam explains each part of the Mass as it is currently celebrated. He uses understandable terminology and a form of presentation designed to increase appreciation of the Mass among the faithful and to provide the knowledge and impetus to achieve this in family and group discussions, in catechetical instruction, and in preaching.
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Letters From Lake Como
$17.99Add to cartWm B Eerdmans print on demand title
This volume contains a fascinating series of letters written by Catholic theologian-philosopher Romano Guardini in the mid-1920s in which he works out his sense of the challenges to humanity in a culture increasingly dominated by the machine. This title is part of a new series entitled: Ressourcement: Retrieval and Renewal in Catholic Thought.
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Reading Saint Benedict
$39.95Add to cartAfter living the Rule and studying it for many years, Adalbert de Vogue, a monk of La-Pierre-qui-Vire in France, introduces it to those encountering it for the first time. The relationship of Benedict’s Rule to other early monastic legislation is treated thoroughly, but the book is designed for those who are seeking a guide for living. Christians-in the cloister or in the world-who seek spiritual guidance in ‘this little Rule for beginners’ will find here an unforgettable introduction.
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Visits To The Most Blessed Sacrament And The Blessed Virgin Mary (Large Type)
$3.99Add to cartSince they were first written in 1745, Visits to the Most Blessed Sacrament and the Blessed Virgin Mary has been translated into many languages and read worldwide. This classic translation of St. Alphonsus Liguori’s Visits, a faithful rendition from the original Italian into the American idiom, has now been reprinted in a new larger edition. This new printing offers exactly the same text as the previous edition, but in a larger, more readable, more durable format. It includes St. Alphonsus Liguori’s introductory and concluding prayer, spiritual communion, and his reflection/meditation for each of 31 visits to the Most Blessed Sacrament and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Healing Ministry : A Practical Guide (Revised)
$16.95Add to cartDominican priest Leo Thomas applies the wisdom of pastoral care to the ministry of religious healing. He does so with practical, concrete, step-by-step explanations of how to offer healing to those who are hurting. The book’s goal is to show Christians lay and ordained, Catholic and Protestant how to minister together in a powerful way so that hurting people can experience the healing love of God who meets them in”
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Holy Spirit In The Life Of Jesus
$19.95Add to cartIn the New Testament, Jesus reassures the Apostles before he ascends to heaven by saying, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses . . . to the ends of the earth.” What of this Spirit? In what way was that Spirit manifested in Jesus’ ministry on earth? What does it offer us? And ask of us?
These reflections by the preacher to the papal household coalesce biblical and doctrinal thought on the gifts conferred by anointing in the Spirit-kingly, prophetic, and priestly-onto Christ and through Christ to the Church. As one well accustomed to illuminating the Word to his audience, Father Cantalamessa bestows on readers an understanding of the Holy Spirit that is both practical and profound.
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Return Of The Prodigal Son
$17.00Add to cartA chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt’s The Return of the Prodigal Son catapulted Henri Nouwen on a long spiritual adventure. Here he shares the deeply personal and resonant meditation that led him to discover the place within where God has chosen to dwell.
In seizing the inspiration that came to him through Rembrandt’s depiction of the powerful Gospel story, Henri Nouwen probes the several movements of the parable: the younger son’s return, the father’s restoration of sonship, the elder son’s vengefulness, and the father’s compassion. In his reflection on Rembrandt in light of his own life journey, the author evokes a powerful drama of the parable in a rich, capativating way that is sure to reverberate in the hearts of readers. The themes of homecoming, affirmation, and reconciliation will be newly discovered by all who have known loneliness, dejection, jealousy, or anger. The challenge to love as the father and be loved as the son will be seen as the ultimate revelation of the parable known to Christians throughout time, and here represented with a vigor and power fresh for our times.
For all who ask, “Where has my struggle led me?” or for those “on the road” who have had the courage to embark on the journey but seek the illumination of a known way and safe passage, this work will inspire and guide each time it is read.
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Targums Of Ruth And Chronicles
$99.95Add to cartOne approach to Chronicles would suggest that it was not considered an altogether vital component in the canon, but later it came to play a specific interpretative role. Others suggest that it came to be regarded as the authorized version of the history of Israel.
In the Jewish liturgical tradition the Book of Ruth is read at the festival of Shavuot, or Pentecost, and it may be conjectured that the Targum originated in conjunction with this practice. The Targum of Ruth exists in a large number of manuscripts; the eight used in the present work are of European provenance.
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Who Do You Say I Am
$28.00Add to cartWho Do You Say I Am? first reviews recent approaches to Christology, introducing a framework for discussions to follow. Next, the author addresses the question of what ought to be the point of departure of Christology: The New Testament? The historical Jesus? The interpretation of the disciples? Dupuis then traces the continuity between the functional Christology of the early church, and the onto logical Christology of later reflection. In the face of recent debates on the value of dogma, Dupuis shows what kind of logic is inherent in the elabor ation of christological dogma.
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Lenten Labyrinth
$13.95Add to cartThe journeys of Lent and of life are seldom straight roads, but are usually like complicated mazes or labyrinths. While we often can feel lost along the complex twisting patterns of the labyrinth path, to travel the maze of the Way is the greatest of all adventures. This guidebook of daily reflections for this journey of transformation has the power to change “to radically enrich” our way of thinking, loving and believing. Each day’s reflection–which takes but a few minutes to read–is followed by brief questions/exercises aimed at inspiring personal implications. Short of time? A few minutes daily with Father Hays can nourish a hungry soul for 24 hours. Both books of daily Lenten reflections–The Ascent of the Mountain of God and The Lenten Labyrinth–maximize our limited resources of time, making our journey through Lent into the heart of Holy Week a time of real renewal.
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Once And Coming Spirit At Pentecost
$16.95Add to cartFather Brown completes his look at the great seasons of the liturgical year, making the rich insights of modern biblical exegesis conveniently available to all, with this volume for the season from Easter to Pentecost.
During this season the Church reads consecutively from the Acts of the Apostles, recounting the external life of the Church after Pentecost. The accompanying readings from the Gospel according to John portray the internal life of Christian disciples and promise a coming Paraclete to be sent by the Father. Father Brown’s title A Once-and-Coming Spirit signifies these two great biblical sources that he reflects on. He shows how these readings speak to our time as we live out the external history of a visible Church while internally drawing life from Jesus as branches on the vine. His comments offer an opportunity to appreciate the intent of the season after Easter and to prepare ourselves for the intensified gift of the spirit at Pentecost.
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Mystery Of Easter
$21.95Add to cartWhat does the paschal mystery mean in the context of the rite-past and present-and in Christian life and death?
Students of the liturgy and preachers will find in these pages a thoughtful examination of the mystery of Easter. Father Cantalamessa, the preacher to the papal household, is in full command of both the scholarly and the pastoral implications of the Easter rite. From his words you will gain the insight to articulate this mystery within the liturgy and within life so that it will imbue with hope and awe all those who come to celebrate it.
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Sunday Dismissals For The RCIA
$34.95Add to cartIf your parish has been hesitant to dismiss the candidates and catechumens from the Sunday liturgy for fear that they might feel excluded or rejected, these weekly dismissals erase that tension. The dismissals are clearly presented for what they are: “sendings.” Candidates and catechumens are sent from the liturgy to be nourished by the Scripture readings of the day.
Since the text for the catechumenate is the Lectionary, each dismissal is based on the readings of that particular Sunday. Using this tool, the parish community will understand why they are dismissing these individuals and will also experience the call to listen to and reflect on the Scriptures.
A prayer of the faithful, which links the Sunday readings to the dismissal, is also included each week so that the parish family may offer prayerful support to their candidates and catechumens. The readings used as a basis for the dismissal are referenced.
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Way Of Silent Love
$21.95Add to cartA carthusian novice master reminds his charges, and his readers, that the call to live wholly and radically in Christ is the vocation of all Christians and all humanity. ‘The Christian is not a separate species of human being, but what each person is called to be. And the monk is not a separate species of Christian. He tries to be what each Christian ought to be. Conformity to Christ in faith, hope, and love: this is holiness, and each person is called to this holiness.’
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Protestants : The Birth Of A Revolution
$19.00Add to cartWho were the first men and women who abandoned the Church of Rome and became the world’s first Protestants? Harvard historian Steven Ozment does not present us with the remote, dusty figures of history, but rather with the shoemakers and housewives, students and politicians who were among the first followers of Martin Luther. Using pamphlets, diaries, letters, and other primary soruces, Ozment examines the origins of the Reformation and the nature of Protestantism. Rather than seeing the Reformation as the progenitor of German absolutism, as do many scholars of the period, Ozment sees in Protestantism the historic assertion of key Western values–social reform, individual religious conviction, hard work, and the rejection of corruption, hypocrisy, and empty ritual.
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Christianity For Modern Pagans
$19.95Add to cartPeter Kreeft believes that Blaise Pascal is the first post-medieval apologist. No writer in history, claims Kreeft, is a more effective Christian apologist and evangelist to today’s uprooted, confused, secularized pagans (inside and outside the Church) than Pascal. He was a brilliant man–a great scientist who did major work in physics and mathematics, as well as an inventor–whom Kreeft thinks was three centuries ahead of his time. His apologetics found in his Pensees are ideal for the modern, sophisticated skeptic.
Kreeft has selected the parts of Pascal’s Pensees which best respond to the needs of modern man, and offers his own comments on applying Pascal’s wisdom to today’s problems. Addressed to modern skeptics and unbelievers, as well as to modern Christians for apologetics and self-examination, Pascal and Kreeft combine to provide a powerful witness to Christian truth. -
Facilitating For Growth
$19.95Add to cartGreat small-group facilitators are not born with their abilities; they develop them. This book will help facilitators in their task of enabling members to participate fully in their group. The content and exercises of each chapter present practical information and methods to help facilitators deepen their knowledge of their role and hone their skills in group facilitation.
The first eight chapters cover various aspects of facilitation: the role of the facilitator; getting started; communication basics-expressive skills and listening skills; integrating our diversity; tuning into group life; and group transitions. Each chapter begins with “warm-up exercises” consisting of questions and assignments designed to help readers draw from their own experience as they work with the written material presented in each chapter.
The rest of the book outlines eight flexibly formatted, ninety-minute workshop (or individual) sessions corresponding to the eight topics introduced previously. Includes exercises for practicing and assessing skills acquired in each session.
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Spirituality Of The Medieval West
$29.95Add to cartDefining spirituality as ‘the dynamic unity between the content of a faith and the way in which it is lived by historically determined human beings’, Vauchez steps outside the clerical world usually studied to trace the religious mentality of the laity, the ordinary and often illiterate majority of Christians.
