from Crossroad Publications
An
American Emmaus
Faith and Sacrament in the American Culture
Duffy portrays the American Emmaus as an ongoing conversion walk of 20th century Christians who attempt to recognize the crucified and risen Christ within the complex and pluralistic cultures of the United States.
An
Anthology of Sacred Texts By and About Women
An essential text for the teaching of world religions. The author's massive undertaking begins to restore gender balance to the study of religion. An interesting and valuable collection that will provoke questions and inspire research and study.
L'Arche communities welcome all persons, no matter what their weaknesses or handicaps. In this book, L'Arche's founder, Jean Vanier, tells the story of the community's first thirty years: its foundations and growth, its joys and sorrows. Rather than list dates and places, Vanier chronicles the transformation that occurs when the poorest and weakest among us find a haven of love and safety to carry them through the storms of life: an ark for the poor.
Building
a Better World:
Developing
Communities of Hope in Troubled Times
On the surface the world we know seems to work pretty well. But scratch the surface and we bleed. Building A Better World is an account filled with clarity, a vision filled with love, an action agenda filled with realism.
Because
of Her Testimony
The Word in Female Experience
Fresh and challenging insights on how the Word is made flesh in women's experiences.
Drawing from the Christian tradition and rooted in female experience, Anne Thurston describes how the female expression of sexuality, of giving birth, and of nurturing reveal the sacred. Her powerful chapter on "Breaking Bread" considers the implications of sharing bread as sharing life, insisting that justice and hunger must shape the celebration of the Eucharist. Instead of advocating women's ordination, she argues forcefully for a restructuring of church and ministry so that gender is no longer an issue. Throughout she offers new and challenging perspectives on central themes of theology.
The
Bishop's Voice: Selected
Essays, 1979 ….1999
Acerbic and humorous, Bishop's Spong's essays are forthright, spiritual and humane, reflecting the mind and heart of their author.
For twenty years, John Spong, Episcopal Bishop of Newark New Jersey, wrote a monthly column in his diocesan newspaper, The Voice.
Throughout the years, he used the paper as a pulpit for his progressive views about faith, dogma, tradition, and human rights. Compiled and edited by his daughter, Christine, this collection serves as an excellent introduction to Spong's breathtaking scope of interest and capability as one of the century's leading voices for religious and human inclusivity.
"Rarely comforting but always fascinating and compulsively readable, these writings reflect the most urgent issues of our day - racism, homophobia, fundamentalism, and others - speculate on the future of Christianity and human race." - Library Journal
Catholic
Common Ground Initiative:
Foundational Documents
All the basic documents describing the Catholic Common Ground Initiative are here gathered together in one volume, from the original statement "Called To Be Catholics: Church in a Time of Peril" to Archbp. Lipscomb's address at the first Catholic Common Ground Initiative conference in March, 1997
Catholic
Funeral:
The Church's Ministry of Hope
An important guide for understanding and creating meaningful funeral arrangements.
Contains the practical checklist for funeral arrangements, guide to planning a meaningful liturgy, sample readings and reflections, introduction to the grieving process and Church teaching on life after death.
A bestselling author entertains and inspires with true stories of contemporary Catholics who live "on the fringe" but refuse to leave.
Christianity
in a Secularized World
Rather than seeing secularization as primarily a development in the history of ideas, the author argues that it began directly out of social and political reaction to the ways of religion and their devastating results.
Coming in
Glory: Christ's
Presence in the World Today
The author sheds light on the saving grace of Jesus Christ that is present not only in the past but in each gracious moment.
Community
and Spiritual Transformation:
Religion and Politics in a Communal Age
This book reveals a growing sense
of community in the midst of environmental, economicm political and international
dislocation.
A
Church At Risk:
The Challenge of Spiritually Hungry Adults
A leading religious educator examines the new spiritual awakening, and suggests ways for churches of all denominations to respond to the demand for an adult spirituality.
Covenant
for Renewal:
A
Pastoral Vision for Ministry in the 21st Century
Covenant for Renewal captures the intense spirit and penetrating vision of 500 leaders who challenge the Church to renew its sense of ministry and mission. Through their honest and soul-searching consultations, they pinpointed with laser-sharp accuracy what is working in the Church, what is not working, what obstacles stand in the way, what needs to be done now, and how to implement it. Inspiring and encompassing all their deliberations and action plans is a "Compelling Vision" of collaborative ministry and shared leadership. This realistic model for ministry can move forward the work begun at Vatican II. Ultimately, the Covenant for Renewal calls Catholics out of their comfort zones into the public arena of critical thinking and doing. It is an urgent invitation for all the faithful, lay, religious, and clergy, to enable their faith community, as the Church crosses the threshold into the 21st century.
Directions
for Communication:
Discoveries with Ignatius Loyola
Willi Lambert's
exploration of the life and writings of St. Ignatius Loyola yields a fruitful
and fascinating model of communication for people of all walks of life.
Ethical
Economics and the Faith Community:
How We Can Have Work and Ownership for All
The author has evolved ten practical principles to evaluate and discern our economic activities. They will help us to make our actions in this field truly according to God's will.
This work comprises the proceedings of the 1997 American Academy of Religion panel on Abp. John Quinn's stunning Oxford Lecture on Papal primacy and reprints the lecture and the responses of five American scholars: R. Scott Appleby, John Kane, Elizabeth A. Johnson, Thomas Rausch, Wendy M. Wright, with Introduction and After word by the editors: Phyllis Zagano and Terrence W. Tilley.
Faith
of Qumran
Theology of the Dead Sea Scrolls
In the only book that comprehensively treats the thelogical ideas in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ringgren focuses on the major themes of Doctrine, Organization, and Cult, and Place Within the History of Religion. Includes a new Foreword by James H. Charlesworth, which portrays the importance of this book in light of recent controversy and research.
Fulfilling
the Vision
Collaborative Ministry in the Parish
The parish community is the center of the church's life. Offering both encouragement and insight, this book shows that real opportunities exist for developing creative and future-oriented approaches to parish life.
A century and a half before the time of Jesus, a movement of educated Jewish laity initiated a profound transformation of Judaism. Bernard Lee uses this as a metaphor for a hidden revolution in the U.S. Catholic Church today: the development of a lay interpretation of Catholic Christian identity. He proposes an ecclesiology that believes that the Spirit is God's gift to the entire people of God without privilege or prejudice. Accordingly, some form of dialogic community is ecclesiologically appropriate to give the lay experience of faith a legitimated voice in the telling of the Catholic story, i.e., a place in the interpretive structure of Catholic community.
The
Future is Mestizo
Life Where Cultures Meet
This book captures the heart and soul of a simple and brilliant priest who has dedicated his life to generating among the people of the world unity rather than division, hope rather than despair, and love rather than fear. It is vintage Virgil - once you start to read it, you can't put it down.
This book is the culmination of that long dialogue which has taken place on philosophical, theological, political, and esthetic grounds.
The third in a series of four volumes, on the Son, the Spirit, the Father, and the Eucharist, to be published one per year to assist adults in their preparation for the Holy Year 2000. This book offers a general overview of the mystery of the Father.
A Grammar of Responsibility is an interesting, provocative, and careful study of the way to speak about responsibility, presenting a consistent and comprehensive pattern for understanding what responsibility really means.
Guests
in their Own House
The Women of Vatican II
The historical record does not show (until now) that there were Vatican Council Mothers as well as Fathers. Carmel McEnroy has interviewed most of the living women who were officially invited as auditors, plus bishops and theologians. They share their experiences and their perceptions of the church today in relationship to the promise of Vatican II.