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A Second Appeal
A Consideration of Freedom and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
A Second Appeal: A Consideration of Freedom and Social Justice engages in an analysis of the ideals of freedom and social justice. It does so with an eye towards the development of universally applicable concepts of each. Rolle examines the work of David Walker, author of Appeal to the Colored Citizens...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The lively and engaging emblems within The Soul, Lover of God unite the 17th century poetry and art of two famous European authors, Madame Jeanne de la Mothe Guyon and Jesuit priest Herman Hugo. Guyon writes poetry describing the soul falling in love with the divine, while Hugo’s illustrations imagine...
Get Goodness
Virtue Is The Power To Do Good
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
From the preface: This book looks at virtue as "the power to do good" from the theological, philosophical, and poetic perspective. From a theological perspective: Long ago, Anselm defined theology as "faith seeking understanding," (f. 1) a definition which has endured to the present day. It would...
Transforming Boasting of Self into Boasting in the Lord
The Development of the Pauline Periautologia in 2 Cor 10–13
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
This book uses rhetorical analysis to illuminate one of the most fascinating and complicated speeches by Saint Paul: 2 Cor 10–13. The main problem of the speech regards Paul’s claim to be a true servant of Christ and to have the right to boast about it. Paul proves he is strong enough to be the...
by Roger David Aus
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
These five essays deal with the influence of Judaic haggadah or lore, especially in the form of “creative historiography” or “imaginative dramatization,” on four enigmatic passages in the Gospels, and one in Acts. They point to their deeper theological truths and negate the alternatives of true or false, historical or non-historical, usually applied to the narratives.
Simon Peter's Denial and Jesus' Commissioning Him as His Successor in John 21:15-19
Studies in Their Judaic Background
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
This study uses early Jewish sources to analyze the significance of Day of Atonement and High Priest imagery in the narrative of Simon Peter’s threefold denial of Jesus. It then describes the influence of other early Jewish sources on Jesus’ commissioning his main disciple Simon Peter as his own...
Secularizing the Sacred
The Demise of Liturgical Wholeness
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
This book explores one of the great paradoxes of our era. Western culture has almost imperceptibly come to secularize the sacred, while at the same time sacralizing the secular. The authors endeavor to show the debilitating effects that this paradox has had on the foundations of Christian worship...
Power of Sisterhood
Women Religious Tell the Story of the Apostolic Visitation
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
In 2008, the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life initiated an Apostolic Visitation to examine the quality of life of women religious in the United States. Power of Sisterhood: Women Religious Tell the Story of the Apostolic Visitation serves as an...
by Alex LaPerchia
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Food for the Soul is a work of theology that sheds light on the history of Catholicism while discussing important issues facing the Church and our society today. Through a series of biographical plays, author Alex LaPerchia tells the stories of a variety of influential Catholic figures: the twentieth...
Atheist Persona
Causes and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In the past, as in the present, science has explored the reasons for belief. In recent years, with the rise of categorical, practical, and militant atheism, the scientific and philosophical community has begun studying the worldview of atheism. The Atheist Persona: Causes and Consequences is a summary...
Salvation and Modernity
Intellectuals and Faith in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
Salvation and Modernity presents an interpretation of the phenomenon of intellectual Christians in contemporary Chinese society, with special focus paid to Liu Xiaofeng, by exploring the main issues of faith, salvation, and the quest for a modern China. Author Fredrik FSllman investigates similar...
Stories from Novice Teachers
This is Induction?
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2010
Why do new teachers change schools or leave the profession? Stories from Novice Teachers: This is Induction? attempts to address this question. In this book, we feature the stories of a dozen novice teachers and how they were, or were not, mentored or inducted by their schools. Using data collected...
Empowering Bernard Lonergan's Legacy
Toward Implementing an Ethos for Inquiry and a Global Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Empowering Bernard Lonergan’s Legacy offers an interdisciplinary approach to Lonergan’s work. It presents a series of five “feedback matrices” to situate his work within a historical context. The matrices also serve to establish foundations for an interdisciplinary ethics and a method for...
The Great CoMission
Making Sense of Making Disciples
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
This book presupposes that pastors and seminarians deeply desire to answer the question of all questions: how do I make disciples of Jesus Christ? The Great CoMission: Making Sense of Making Disciples is a helpful guide for pastors in the field, yet “meaty” enough for seminarians in the classroom....