This book examines critically the sources for Christian liturgical practices in the first three centuries and discusses how these practices should be interpreted in order to avoid projecting modern…
This book contains stories and topics I have rarely seen in similar canned illustration books. Its sheer size makes it a great resource and something I use often. It's a treasure of parables. Dr. T…
This main work in preparing this new edition has been to bring the entries for the twentieth century up to date. Many new writes have become established since the author first wrote, and a few who …
For a book to be widely needed, its theme must be current. The increasing public discussion and questioning of Catholicism is well known. People in many areas are seeking information about recent C…
This book undertakes a social and psychological study of Christian love-an investigation of what it means, what t requires of us, and how we succeed or fail in fail in serving the cause of love. Fr…
Writing early in the seventeenth century, John Donne saw in the "New Philosophy" only a loss of coherence, further evidence that his age was "iron, and rusty, too." Modern historians, less concerne…
In The Emotions: Outline of a Theory, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre attempts to understand the role emotions play in the human psyche. Sartre analyzes fear, lust, anguish, and melancholy whil…
This book provides a great look at the existential limits and expectations of the future of Christianity in the world. Tillich takes issue both with Neo-Orthodoxy and the 'God is dead' theology and…