This straightforward book provides simple and reliable explanations of what the Catholic Church teaches and why. The book provides quick answers to questions on moral issues, explains why the Church has a fixed opinion on certain matters, and helps put…
Christianity: A Global History, by David Chidester
David Chidester, one of the world’s foremost scholars of religion, traces Christianity’s growth and development from the time of Jesus to the dawn of the third millennium, revealing its rich diversity through the deeds and beliefs of heretics and saints,…
In the Absence of God: Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred, by Sam Keen
In the Absence of God sets out to recover the elemental experience of the sacred in everyday life. By appreciating emotions like wonder, gratitude, anxiety, joy, grief, reverence, compassion, outrage, hope and humility we may once again find ourselves in…
The Future of an Illusion, by Sigmund Freud
In the manner of the eighteenth-century philosophe, Freud argued that religion and science were mortal enemies. Early in the century, he began to think about religion psychoanalytically and to discuss it in his writings. The Future of an Illusion (1927),…
Becoming Adult, Becoming Christian : Adult Development and Christian Faith, by James S. Fowler
In this updated reissue of his 1984 classic, James Fowler applies his groundbreaking research on the development of faith to Christianity. In his revised first chapter Fowler locates his approach to the study of human and faith development in relation…
Teilhard’s Mass: Approaches to “The Mass on the World”, by Thomas M. King, S.J.
“The Mass on the World” is a fifteen-page prayer written by the theologian, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In Teilhard’s Mass, Thomas King explores the careful thought behind Teilhard’s powerful images and reveals the heart and mind of the man. Available…