Despite heightened attention to virtue, contemporary philosophical and theological literature has failed to offer detailed analysis of how people attain and grow in the good habits we know as the virtues. Though popular literature provides instruction on attaining and growing in virtue, it lacks careful scholarly analysis of what exactly these ......
In The Jesuits, acclaimed historian John W. O'Malley, SJ, provides essential historical background from Ignatius of Loyola through Pope Francis. Concise and compelling, this book is an accessible introduction for anyone interested in world or church history. The paperback features a new Preface that examines the global work of the Jesuits today.
A Generous Symphony offers an appraisal of Balthasar's literary achievement and explicates his literary criticism as a distinctive theology of revelation. This book examines the important question of how students of literature, like Balthasar, can be transformed into theologians by attending to the implicit presence of Christ in all things.
How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy
Inequality is skyrocketing. In this world of vast riches, millions of people live in extreme poverty, barely surviving from day to day. All over the world, the wealthys increasing political power is biasing policy away from the public interest and toward the financial interests of the rich.
This book explains the development, sources, and methods of Catholic social teaching and describes its major themes and applications. It brings the tradition up to date, with the inclusion of the major social teaching of Pope Francis.
Persons with disability make up at least 15 percent of the global population, yet disability is widely unacknowledged and unexplored in theology. Moreover, many people join this minority community in their lifetimes through compromises to their health due to aging or accident. However, too few people without immediate experience of persons with ......
A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil Rights and Vatican II
Uncovers how the Civil Rights Movement and Vatican II affected African American Catholics in Atlanta The history and practices of African American Catholics has been vastly understudied, and Black Catholics are often written off as a fringe sector of the religious population. Yet, Catholics of African descent have been a part of Catholicism ......
A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil Rights and Vatican II
Uncovers how the Civil Rights Movement and Vatican II affected African American Catholics in Atlanta The history and practices of African American Catholics has been vastly understudied, and Black Catholics are often written off as a fringe sector of the religious population. Yet, Catholics of African descent have been a part of Catholicism ......
A study of Catholic perceptions of Jews, Judaism, and Israel, offering an exploration of biographical narratives and reflections on Holocaust trauma, conversion, Zionism, and religious identity.