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Benedict Backwards: Reading the Rule in the Twenty-First CenturyIn Benedict Backwards, Terrence Kardong builds the case that the Rule of Benedict is best read "backwards," that is, with emphasis on the last chapters, not the first ones. Benedict starts out dependent on the Rule of the Master, but he ends on a...
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Illuminating Justice: The Ethical Imagination of the Saint John's BibleIlluminating Justice explores the call to social ethics in The Saint John's Bible, the first major handwritten and hand-illuminated Christian Bible since the invention of the printing press. Situating his close analysis of The Saint John's Bible's illuminations in the context of contemporary biblical...
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Thoughts Matter: Discovering the Spiritual JourneyCassian taught that real intimacy with God in prayer demands renouncing one's former way of life, the thoughts belonging to that former way of life, and one's very idea of God. In Thoughts Matter, Mary Margaret Funk focuses on the second of these: renouncing...
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Tools Matter: Beginning the Spiritual JourneyHow can we tend the garden of our souls? Meg Funk turns to the wisdom of the desert fathers for the means of removing obstacles to spiritual growth, which include thoughts of food, sex, possessions, anger, dejection, and pride, among other preoccupations. Redirecting thought...
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Discernment Matters: Listening with the Ear of the HeartAfter fifty years of monastic life, prayer, and spiritual direction, Meg Funk knows what it means to listen with the ear of one's heart to the Holy Spirit. In Discernment Matters, she shares what she has learned. This book is a resource for those...
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From Sacred Song to Ritual Music: Twentieth-Century Understandings of Roman Catholic Worship MusicFrom Sacred Song to Ritual Music is a guide to changes in Roman Catholic worship music theory and practice in the twentieth century. Nine papal, conciliar, curial, bishops' conference, and scholars' documents treat: 1) What is Roman Catholic worship music? 2) What is its...
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Costly Freedom: A Theological Reading of Mark's GospelWith this study of the Gospel of Mark, Brendan Byrne completes his trilogy of works on the Synoptic Gospels. Mark, the "Cinderella gospel," as Byrne says, languished for millennia in the shadow of Matthew ("the first gospel") and Luke. Beginning in the nineteenth century,...
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Ceremonial of BishopsThe reform of liturgical rites ordered by the Second Vatican Council necessitated a revision of the Caeremoniale Episcoporum, published in 1886. The objective of this ceremonial is to provide a liturgy for bishops that will stand as a model for all other celebrations.The eight...
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Treasure in Heaven: The Holy Poor in Early ChristianityThe "holy poor" have long maintained an elite status within Christianity. Differing from the "real" poor, these clergymen, teachers, and ascetics have historically been viewed by their fellow Christians as persons who should receive material support in exchange for offering immeasurable immaterial benefits--teaching, preaching,...
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Commentary on the ApocalypseThis is the first complete translation in English of Oecumenius's commentary, which is the first known Greek commentary on the book of Revelation. Written in the sixth century but discovered only at the beginning of the twentieth, it presents a fascinating view of a...
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A Thomas More SourcebookThis source book brings together classic texts by and about Thomas More--poet, scholar, statesman, family man, educational reformer, philosopher, historian, and saint. Thomas More is the first major figure of the English Renaissance, acclaimed in his own age but surprisingly unstudied in our own....
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Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early AmericaThe Moravians, a Protestant sect founded in 1727 by Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf and based in Germany, were key players in the rise of international evangelicalism. In 1741, after planting communities on the frontiers of empires throughout the Atlantic world, they settled the...
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Impressively Free: Henri Nouwen as Model for a Reformed PriesthoodExplores the genesis and evolution of Nouwen's multi-layered understanding of priestly ministry. +Author: Michael W. Higgins, Kevin BurnsPublisher: Paulist PressPublished: 06/04/2019Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.90dISBN: 9780809153923
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Liturgy: Sacrosanctum ConciliumLiturgy was the first and most significant subject taken up by the Second Vatican Council. The Council produced a document on the liturgy, The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, that would give shape to Catholic worship for years to come. By calling for the...
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Cambridge Platonist SpiritualityThis volume in the distinguished Classics of Western Spirituality series presents a collection of essays, poetry, and treatises by Cambridge Platonists, a movement in philosophical theology that flourished around Cambridge University in the 17th century and left a profound impact on the shape of...
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Pope Francis' Revolution of Tenderness and Love: Theological and Pastoral PerspectivesIn Pope Francis' Revolution of Tenderness and Love: Theological and Pastoral Perspectives, Cardinal Walter Kasper clarifies how Pope Francis brought fresh air into the church, the wind, the confidence, joy and freedom. This fresh air is not simply the result of a charismatic figure,...
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A Graceful Life: Lutheran Spirituality for TodayThe author understands spirituality to be the attitudes, convictions, and practices that give a definite shape to religious faith. Further, he asserts that spirituality is experiential and practical, for it concerns the specific forms by which faith is expressed and nurtured.The book describes the...
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Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Records and Minutes of the Thirty-Three Oldest Monthly Meetings, Which Belong, or Ever Belonged, to the NorThis volume, covering the oldest meetings in North Carolina, is complete in itself for the thirty-three monthly meetings of the Carolinas and Tennessee that were part of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting. The records consist of every item of genealogical value, including births, marriages,...
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A Life of Alexander CampbellThe first critical biography of Alexander Campbell, one of the founders of the Stone-Campbell Movement A Life of Alexander Campbell examines the core identity of a gifted and determined reformer to whom millions of Christians around the globe today owe much of their identity--whether...
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Moral Vision: Seeing the World with Love and JusticeIn this new textbook two Catholic ethicists with extensive teaching experience present a moral theology based on vision. David Matzko McCarthy and James M. Donohue draw widely from the Western philosophical tradition while integrating biblical and theological themes in order to explore such fundamental...
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