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  • Integral Ecology for a More Sustainable World

    Dialogues with Laudato Si'

    by Matthew Eaton, Anne Marie Dalton, Timothy Harvie, Christopher Hrynkow, Peter McGrail, Dennis O’Hara, Neil Ormerod, Michael Taylor Ross0, Stephen Scharper1, Nicholas Smith2, Laura Stivers3, Kate Ward4, Andrew Warmback5, Matthew Philipp Whelan6, Brianne Bell Jacobs7, Charles Camosy Charles Camosy, Fordham University8, Guy Consolmagno9, John F. Haught, Georgetown University0, Gerard Mannion1, Dawn M. Nothwehr2, Susan Rakoczy3, Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson4, Christopher P. Vogt5 ...
    Laudato Si’ insists on a revolutionary human response to the public challenges of our time concerning the ecological crisis. The volume takes up the revolutionary spirit of Pope Francis and speaks to the economic, technological, political, educational, and religious changes needed to overcome the fragile relationships between humans and Earth. This volume identifies various systemic factors that ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • The Rite of Christian Initiation

    Adult Rituals and Roman Catholic Ecclesiology

    by Peter McGrail ...
    Series series Liturgy, Worship and Society Series
    In the wake of recent papal legislation, the various liturgies of the Roman Rite may today be celebrated in either their post-Tridentine or post-Vatican II forms. Whilst much discussion of this new situation focuses on purely liturgical issues, this book breaks new ground by arguing that the coexistence of the two forms raises questions of a profoundly ecclesiological character. Peter McGrail ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • First Communion

    Ritual, Church and Popular Religious Identity

    by Peter McGrail ...
    Series series Liturgy, Worship and Society Series
    One of the most carefully prepared liturgies of any Roman Catholic parish's year is the celebration of 'First Communion'. This is the ritual by which seven- or eight -year-old children are admitted to the Eucharist for the first time. It attracts the largest congregations of any parish liturgy, and yet is frequently marked by tension and dissent within the parish community. The same ritual holds ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    How Christianity Can Reach the West . . .Again

    by George G. Hunter III ...
    Celtic Christianity–the form of Christian faith that flourished among the people of Ireland during the Middle Ages– has gained a great deal of attention lately. George G. Hunter III points out that while the attention paid to the Celtic Christians is well deserved, much of it fails to recognize the true genius of this ancient form of Christianity. What many contemporary Christians do not realize ... Read more

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  • The Dark Box

    A Secret History of Confession

    by John Cornwell ...
    A bestselling journalist exposes the connection between the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis and the practice of confession. ... Read more

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  • Wicca and the Christian Heritage

    Ritual, Sex and Magic

    by Joanne Pearson ...
    What is Wicca? Is it witchcraft, Paganism, occultism, esotericism, magic, spirituality, mysticism, nature religion, secrecy, gnosis, the exotic or 'other'? Wicca has been defined by and explored within all these contexts over the past thirty years by anthropologists, sociologists and historians, but there has been a tendency to sublimate and negate the role of Christianity in Wicca's historical ... Read more

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  • Why Study the Past?: The Quest for the Historical Church

    by Rowan Williams ...
    The old saying about being condemned to repeat the history we don’t know applies to Church history as much as to anything else. But we are often at a loss to know how to approach it. Much of what passed once for Church history was propagandist; and much of the best now written is brilliantly done but apparently detached from the Church’s present needs. We need a theological approach to Church ... Read more

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  • The Way of St Benedict

    by The Rt Hon Rowan Williams ...
    With typical eloquence and wisdom, in The Way of St Benedict Rowan Williams explores the appeal of St Benedict's sixth-century Rule, showing it to be a document of great relevance to present day Christians and non-believers at our particular moment in history.For over a millennium the Rule – a set of guidelines for monastic conduct – has been influential on the life of Benedictine monks, but has ... Read more

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  • Catholicism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Gerald O'Collins ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Despite a long history of external threats and internal strife, the Roman Catholic Church remains a vast and influential presence in our modern world. But what were its origins, and how has it changed and adapted over the centuries? After Pope Benedict XVI dramatically resigned in early 2013 (the first Pope to resign since the fifteenth century), and Pope Francis was elected, many wondered what ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Clerical Errors

    How Clericalism Betrays the Gospel and How to Heal the Church

    by Peter Murnane ...
    The Catholic church is in serious decline. This book claims that the corruption of the institution derives from various "clerical errors," especially clericalism, which assumes that clergy are superior and deserve privileges. Clericalism divides the church into two unequal classes, betraying the gospel, which teaches that all people are equal. Clerical privilege makes the sexual abuse of children ... Read more

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  • The Anglican Understanding of the Church

    An introduction

    by Paul Avis ...
    A short guide to the origins, structure and values of the Churches of the worldwide Anglican Communion.Paul Avis explains and clarifies the history and theology involved, and introduces concepts in a structured way, making the book clear to those who may be coming to these issues for the first time. It is also an invaluable aide-memoire and reference tool for the specialist, presenting a clear ... Read more

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  • An Unfinished Council

    Vatican II, Pope Francis, and the Renewal of Catholicism

    by Richard R. Gaillardetz ...
    The Second Vatican Council has become an indispensable reference point for understanding Roman Catholicism today. Yet in spite of its impact, Vatican II was in many ways an unfinished council. The council bishops were able to establish key pillars in the construction of a new vision for the church of our time, but, for various reasons, they were not able to draw those pillars together into a ... Read more

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