Abridged by Marion Soards, who worked with Brown on the original text of An Introduction to the New Testament, this new, concise version maintains the essence and centrist interpretation of the original without tampering with Brown’s perspective, insights, or conclusions.…
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Encountering Ancient Voices: A Guide to Reading the Old Testament, by Corrine Carvalho
The new second edition of Corrine Carvalho’s widely popular core text, Encountering Ancient Voices, maintains the features, pedagogy, and engaging style that made the first edition so effective and successful, while adding a new element that makes it accessible to…
Rites of Justice: The Sacraments and Liturgy as Ethical Imperatives, by Megan McKenna
Megan McKenna explores the connect between walking with God and participating in the rituals of the church. Using stories, reflection, Scripture and Church history, she leads us to a deeper understanding of Catholic sacraments and ritual. Her reflections show how…
Henri Nouwen: His Life and Spirit, by Kevin Burns
This innovative new biography by Kevin Burns will remind readers why they loved Henri Nouwen’s books years ago and provide a welcome guide to his spirituality, introducing one of the most important Catholics of the second half of the 20th…
The Sacraments: An Interdisciplinary and Interactive Study, by Joseph Martos
What are the sacraments, really? For centuries, the religious lives of Catholics and other Christians have revolved around church rituals with generally accepted individual and social effects. What, precisely, are those effects, and how are they produced? Traditional theology used…
The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis, by Jerome Miller
This book can best be described as an extended meditation on suffering, phenomenological in method and dialectical in point of view. The angle the author takes is that of moral self-examination rather that conventional scholarly inquiry, and his aim is…
Images of Hope: Imagination as Healer of the Hopeless, by William Lynch
Lynch says he bases the book on two assumptions. First, he believes whatever is ill with the mentally ill is human. Second, he says that the well can put off the impossible burden of trying to be as well as…
A Grief Observed, by C.S. Lewis
Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moment,” A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis’s honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains…
Where Is God?: Earthquake, Terrorism, Barbarity, And Hope, by Jon Sobrino
Jon Sobrino’s book takes its starting point from tragedy and violence: a devastating earthquake in El Salvador, the terrorist attacks of September 11, and the subsequent bombing of Afghanistan. The topic of suffering and death has traditionally raised questions about…
Jesús. Aproximación histórica, por José Antonio Pagola
¿Quién fue Jesús?, ¿cómo entendió su vida?, ¿dónde está la fuerza de su persona y la originalidad de su mensaje?, ¿por qué se le ejecutó?. Estas y otras muchas preguntas tienen su respuesta en este apasionante libro. Un relato vivo…
