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  Catholicity Of Reason

  $36.99

  An original argument for the recovery of a robust notion of reason and truth in response to modern rationalism and postmodern skepticism

  The Catholicity of Reason explains the “grandeur of reason,” the recollection of which Benedict XVI has presented as one of the primary tasks in Christian engagement with the contemporary world.

  While postmodern thinkers — religious and secular alike — have generally sought to respond to the hubris of Western thought by humbling our presumptuous claims to knowledge, D. C. Schindler shows in this book that only a robust confidence in reason can allow us to remain genuinely open both to God and to the deep mystery of things. Drawing from both contemporary and classical theologians and philosophers, Schindler explores the basic philosophical questions concerning truth, knowledge, and being — and proposes a new model for thinking about the relationship between faith and reason.

  The reflections brought together in this book bring forth a dramatic conception of human knowing that both strengthens our trust in reason and opens our mind in faith.

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  Almost Catholic : An Appreciation Of The History Practice And Mystery Of An

  $19.95

  In Almost Catholic, Sweeney offers an appreciation of Catholicism, weaving in the story of his own explorations with those of others who have also been attracted to this tradition. He finds himself drawn to the Church’s ancient and medieval traditions out of a desire to connect with the deepest and widest paths on the way. Two millennia of saints and practices and teachings and mystery form a connection for him to the very beginnings of Christianity.

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  Habit : A History Of The Clothing Of The Catholic Nuns

  $19.00

  Curiosity about nuns and their distinctive clothing is almost as old as Catholicism itself. The habit intrigues the religious and the nonreligious alike, from medieval maidens to contemporary schoolboys, to feminists and other social critics. The first book to explore the symbolism of this attire, The Habit presents a visual gallery of the diverse forms of religious clothing and explains the principles and traditions that inspired them. More than just an eye-opening study of the symbolic significance of starched wimples, dark dresses, and flowing veils, The Habit is an incisive, engaging portrait of the roles nuns have and do play in the Catholic Church and in ministering to the needs of society.

  From the clothing seen in an eleventh-century monastery to the garb worn by nuns on picket lines during the 1960s, habits have always been designed to convey a specific image or ideal. The habits of the Benedictines and the Dominicans, for example, were specifically created to distinguish women who consecrated their lives to God; other habits reflected the sisters’ desire to blend in among the people they served. The brown Carmelite habit was rarely seen outside the monastery wall, while the Flying Nun turned the white winged cornette of the Daughters of Charity into a universally recognized icon. And when many religious abandoned habits in the 1960s and ’70s, it stirred a debate that continues today.

  Drawing on archival research and personal interviews with nuns all over the United States, Elizabeth Kuhns examines some of the gender and identity issues behind the controversy and brings to light the paradoxes the habit represents. For some, it epitomizes oppression and obsolescence; for others, it embodies the ultimate beauty and dignity of the vocation.

  Complete with extraordinary photographs, including images of the nineteenth century nuns’ silk bonnets to the simple gray dresses of the Sisters of Social Service, this evocative narrative explores the timeless symbolism of the habit and traces its evolution as a visual reflection of the changes in society.

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  Religion And Politics In America

  $49.00

  Introduction

  Evangelicalism And American Life: A Conversation With Nathan Hatch, Grant Wacker, And Hanna Rosin

  New Century, New Story-Line: Catholics In America: A Conversation With George Weigel And Kenneth L. Woodward

  Can The Jews Survive America?: A Conversation With Jack Wertheimer And David Brooks

  Does God Belong On The Stump?: A Conversation With Stephen Carter, Charles Krauthammer, And Leo Ribuffo

  How The Faithful Voted: A Conversation With John C. Green And John DiIulio

  How Should We Talk? Religion And Public Discourse: A Conversation With Jean Bethke Elshtain And William McGurn

  The New Christian Right In Historical Context: A Conversation With Leo Ribuffo And David Shribman

  The Rights And Wrongs Of Religion In Politics: A Conversation With Stephen Carter And Jeffrey Rosen

  Discussion Participants

  Index

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  As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists’ ignorance about theological convictions has often worked to distort the public discourse on important policy issues. Pope John Paul II’s pronouncements on stem-cell research, the constitutional controversies regarding faith-based initiatives, the emerging participation of Muslims in American life-issues like these require political journalists in print and broadcast media to cover religious contexts that many admit they are ill-equipped to understand.

  Put differently, these news events reflect subtle theological nuances and deep faith commitments that shape the activities of religious believers in the public square. Inasmuch as a faith tradition is an active or significant participant in the public arena, journalists will need to better understand the theological sources and religious convictions that motivate this political activity.

  The current national discourse has brought faith and its relationship to public policy to the forefront of our daily news. Since 1999, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, through the generosity of the Pew Charitable Trusts, has hosted six conferences for

  national journalists to help raise the level of their reporting by increasing their understanding of religion, religious communities, and the religious convictions that inform the political activity of devout believers. This book contains the presentations and

  conversations that grew out of those conferences

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  Engaging The World With Merton

  $15.99

  In this engaging guide, M. Basil Pennington takes us on a retreat with Thomas Merton, in Merton’s own Kentucky hermitage, reading his writings on the spiritual life, praying the hours, caring for the birds on the front porch. This is the place where Merton found greater silence and solitude than was possible for him within the walls of the monastery. Pennington fills this eloquent introduction to Merton with photographs taken in and around the hermitage. Engaging the World with Merton enables each of us to have a retreat with Pennington’s friend and mentor as our companion, as we seek the kingdom of God within.

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  After The Passion Is Gone

  $50.00

  Introduction
  J. Shawn Landres And Michael Berenbaum
  Part One: The Context Of The Passion

  Introduction To Part One

  Almost A Culture War: The Making Of The Passion Controversy
  Mark Silk (Trinity College)
  Passionate Blogging: Interfaith Controversy And The Internet
  William J. Cork (Catholic Diocese Of Galveston-Houston)
  Living In The World, But Not Of The World: Understanding Evangelical Support For The Passion Of The Christ
  Leslie Smith (UCSB)
  The Passion Paradox: Signposts On The Road Toward Mormon Protestantization
  Eric Samuelsen (BYU)
  Is It Finished? The Passion Of The Christ And The Fault Lines In American Christianity
  Julie Ingersoll (University Of North Florida)
  Part Two: The Passion In Context

  Introduction To Part Two

  The Journey Of The Passion Play From Medieval Piety To Contemporary Spirituality
  Karen Jo Torjesen (Claremont Graduate University)
  The Gibson Code?
  Lorenzo Albacete (St. Joseph Seminary, Yonkers)
  “But Is It Art?”: A Prelude To Criticism Of Mel Gibson’s The Passion Of The Christ
  Robert A. Faggen (Claremont McKenna College)
  Antisemitism Without Erasure: Sacred Texts And Their Contemporary Interpretations
  Gary L. Gilbert (Claremont McKenna College)
  Theologizing The Death Of Jesus, Gibson’s The Passion, And Christian Identity
  Jeffrey S. Siker (Loyola Marymount University)
  Manly Pain And Motherly Love: Mel Gibson’s Big Picture
  David Morgan (Valparaiso University)
  Imago Christi: Aesthetic And Theological Issues In Jesus Films By Pasolini, Scorsese, And Gibson
  Lloyd Baugh, SJ (Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome)
  Part Three: Jews And Christians: Reframing The Dialogue

  Introduction To Part Three

  Theological Bulimia: Christianity And Its Dejudaization
  Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College)
  A March Of Passion, Or, How I Came To Terms With A Film I Wasn’t Supposed To Like
  Stephen R. Haynes (Rhodes College)
  The Exposed Fault Line
  Richard L. Rubenstein (University Of Bridgeport)
  Crucifying Jesus: Antisemitism And The Passion Story
  Stephen T. Davis (Claremont McKenna College)
  Five Introspective Challenges
  David M. Elcott (American Jewish Committee)
  No Crucifixion = No Holocaust: Post-Holocaust Reflections On The Passion Of The Christ
  John K. Roth (Claremont McKenna College)
  The Passionate Encounter: The Ethics Of Affirming Your Faith In A Multi-Religious World
  Elliot N. Dorff (University Of Judaism)
  Reframing Difference: Evangelicals, Scripture, An

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  Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ topped box office charts and changed the American religious conversation. The controversies it raised remain unsettled. In After The Passion Is Gone: American Religious Consequences, leading scholars of religion and theology ask what Gibson’s film and the resulting controversy reveal about Christians, Jews, and the possibilities of interreligious dialogue in the United States. Landres and Berenbaum’s collection moves beyond questions of whether or not the film was faithful to the gospels, too violent, or antisemitic and explores why the debate focused on these issues but not others. The public discussion of The Passion shed light on a wide range of American attitudes–evangelical Protestant, mainline Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish–about media and faith, politics and history, Jesus and Judaism, fundamentalism and victimhood. After The Passion Is Gone takes a unique view of vital points in Christian-Jewish relations and contemporary American religion

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  Augustine And Politics

  $54.99

  Dedicatory Preface
  Thomas F. Martin O.S.A.
  Introduction
  John Doody, Kevin L. Hughes, And Kim Paffenroth
  Human Nature And Virtue In Relation To Politics

  United Inwardly By Love: Augustine’s Social Ontology
  Phillip Cary
  Truthfulness As The Bond Of Society
  Robert P. Kennedy
  Friendship As Personal, Social, And Theological Virtue In Augustine
  Kim Paffenroth
  Freedom Beyond Our Choosing: Augustine On The Will And Its Objects
  David C. Schindler
  Augustine’s Theory And Critique Of Politics

  Between The Two Cities: Political Action In Augustine Of Hippo
  Robert Dodaro O.S.A.
  Democracy And Its Demons
  Michael Hanby
  Local Politics: The Political Place Of The Household In Augustine’s City Of God
  Kevin L. Hughes
  Augustine And The Politics Of Monasticism
  Thomas F. Martin O.S.A.
  The Glory And Tragedy Of Politics
  Thomas W. Smith
  Augustinian Influence And Perspectives

  Toward A Contemporary Augustinian Understanding Of Politics
  Todd Breyfogle
  Sexual Purity, “the Faithful,” And Religious Reform In Eleventh-Century Italy: Donatism Revisited
  Louis I. Hamilton
  The Enchanted City Of Man: The State And The Market In Augustinian Perspective
  Eugene McCarraher
  Machiavelli’s City Of God: Civic Humanism And Augustinian Terror
  Paul Wright

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  The study of Augustine’s political teachings has suffered from a history of misreadings, both ancient and modern. It is only in recent years that the traditional lines of “Augustinian pessimism” have been opened to question. Scholars have begun to explore the broader lines of Augustine’s political thought in his letters and sermons, and thus have been able to place his classic text, The City of God, in its proper context. The essays in this volume take stock of these recent developments and revisit old assumptions about the significance of Augustine of Hippo for political thought. They do so from many different perspectives, examining the anthropological and theological underpinnings of Augustine’s thought, his critique of politics, his development of his own political thought, and some of the later manifestations or uses of his thought in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and today. This new vision is at once more bracing, more hopeful, and more diverse than earlier readings could have allowed.

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  Augustine And Politics

  $140.00

  Dedicatory Preface
  Thomas F. Martin O.S.A.
  Introduction
  John Doody, Kevin L. Hughes, And Kim Paffenroth
  Human Nature And Virtue In Relation To Politics

  United Inwardly By Love: Augustine’s Social Ontology
  Phillip Cary
  Truthfulness As The Bond Of Society
  Robert P. Kennedy
  Friendship As Personal, Social, And Theological Virtue In Augustine
  Kim Paffenroth
  Freedom Beyond Our Choosing: Augustine On The Will And Its Objects
  David C. Schindler
  Augustine’s Theory And Critique Of Politics

  Between The Two Cities: Political Action In Augustine Of Hippo
  Robert Dodaro O.S.A.
  Democracy And Its Demons
  Michael Hanby
  Local Politics: The Political Place Of The Household In Augustine’s City Of God
  Kevin L. Hughes
  Augustine And The Politics Of Monasticism
  Thomas F. Martin O.S.A.
  The Glory And Tragedy Of Politics
  Thomas W. Smith
  Augustinian Influence And Perspectives

  Toward A Contemporary Augustinian Understanding Of Politics
  Todd Breyfogle
  Sexual Purity, “the Faithful,” And Religious Reform In Eleventh-Century Italy: Donatism Revisited
  Louis I. Hamilton
  The Enchanted City Of Man: The State And The Market In Augustinian Perspective
  Eugene McCarraher
  Machiavelli’s City Of God: Civic Humanism And Augustinian Terror
  Paul Wright

  Additional Info
  The study of Augustine’s political teachings has suffered from a history of misreadings, both ancient and modern. It is only in recent years that the traditional lines of “Augustinian pessimism” have been opened to question. Scholars have begun to explore the broader lines of Augustine’s political thought in his letters and sermons, and thus have been able to place his classic text, The City of God, in its proper context. The essays in this volume take stock of these recent developments and revisit old assumptions about the significance of Augustine of Hippo for political thought. They do so from many different perspectives, examining the anthropological and theological underpinnings of Augustine’s thought, his critique of politics, his development of his own political thought, and some of the later manifestations or uses of his thought in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and today. This new vision is at once more bracing, more hopeful, and more diverse than earlier readings could have allowed.

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  What You Will See Inside

  $24.99

  Visual and informative, What You Will See Inside a Catholic Church features full-page pictures and concise descriptions of what is happening, the objects used, the clergy and laypeople who have specific roles, and the spiritual intent of believers. Ideal for teachers, parents, librarians, clergy, and lay leaders who work with children ages 6 to 10.

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