Including over 260 brief biographies, and 33 entries, as well as a glossary of terms that help to explain the theology of the Roman Catholic Church, this title introduces the faithful to the day's feast or to the saint whose memorial is being celebrated.
Now in its third edition, Tim Dowley's masterful one-volume survey of church history has an updated design and new content, particularly in the section covering most recent Christian history. The inviting full-color format includes many new images and updated maps.
Tim Dowley's masterful one-volume survey of church history is now available in a new concise format designed with today's student in mind. Each section of Dowley's Introduction to the History of Christianity has been reviewed and content edited to create a more compact summary of Christian history.
Catherine McAuley (1778-1841), the founder of the Sisters of Mercy in 1831, frequently gave oral instructions to the first Mercy community. Though she sometimes spoke explicitly about their religious vows, her words were always focused on the life, example, teachings, and evangelic spirit of Jesus Christ, emphasizing "resemblance" to him and ......
In the spring of 1935 Dietrich Bonhoeffer returned from England to direct a small illegal seminary for the Confessing Church. The seminary existed for two years before the Gestapo ordered it closed in August 1937. The two years of Finkenwalde's existence produced some of Bonhoeffer's most significant theological work as he prepared these young ......
This is the book we have been waiting for . . . a permanent enrichment of our understanding of the Oxford Movement" proclaimed The Downside Review upon the publication of Christopher Dawson's masterwork in 1933, exactly 100 years after John Keble's sermon National Apostasy stirred a nation. Dawson himself regarded the book as one of his two ......
The History and Legends of the World's Most Famous Relic
Shrouds have long held a special place among the sacred relics of Christendom. In the Middle Ages, shrouds, like holy relics, were the prize possessions of churches and cities. Cloaked in mystery, these artifacts have long been objects of reverence and awe, as well as sources of debates, quarrels, thefts, and excommunications. Shrouds - so some ......
The Nature of Black Religion, 20th Anniversary Edition
What is the heart and soul of African American religious life? Anthony Pinn searches out the basic structure of Black religion, tracing the Black religious spirit in its many historical manifestations. In this new edition, Pinn reflects on the argument and invites a panel of five scholars to examine what it means for current and future ......
From Clement of Rome to today, the project of understanding the faith has engaged and impelled some of the Wests greatest minds. Here Pope Benedict XVI accessibly and sympathetically reflects on the lives and works of Christianitys chief theologians, teachers, ascetics and mystics up to the end of the Middle Ages.
