Author: Monika K. Hellwig
Publisher: Paulist Pre
Keywords: catholicism, understanding
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0809140632
ISBN-13: 9780809140633

The Classic Work Simplified and Updated Written by one of the country’s most respected Catholic theologians, for twenty years this book has been the standard in explaining the major doctrines of the faith. Here now is a fully revised edition, updated throughout by Hellwig herself. The result offers solid, trustworthy answers to questions that trouble most thinking Catholics. This concise overview of the Catholic faith-- � uses inclusive language for God and gender. � streamlines the original’s expression of ideas into simpler terms. � clarifies the book’s more difficult mater

Author: Ellis Hanson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: catholicism, decadence
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1998-02-01
List price: $65.50
ISBN-10: 0674194446
ISBN-13: 9780674194441

Romantic writers had found in Christianity a poetic cult of the imagination, an assertion of the spiritual quality of beauty in an age of vulgar materialism. The decadents, a diverse movement of writers, were the climax and exhaustion of this romantic tradition. In their art, they enacted the romance of faith as a protest against the dreariness of modern life. Ellis Hanson teases out two strands--eroticism and aestheticism--that rendered the decadent interest in Catholicism extraordinary. More than any other literary movement, the decadents explored the powerful historical relationship betwe

Author: Hugh E. M. Stutfield
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: catholicism, mysticism
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-08-14
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 076618093X
ISBN-13: 9780766180932

Contents: preliminary consideration; what is mysticism; old basic principles; psychological aspect; ingredient of terror; nature mysticism; mysteries; some early syncretists; gnosticism; dry rot of asceticism; the logos; logos at Nicaea; demonology; dangers of ecstasy; twilights of mysticism; foregleams of Christianity; osculatory mysticism; quietism; sordid interlude; religion & social order; new mysticism.

Author: Robert Le Gall
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Keywords: catholicism, symbols
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2003
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0760742340
ISBN-13: 9780760742341

This book invites the reader either to discover or to increase the understanding of Catholocism, on of the cornerstones of Western culture. The symbols of the Catholic Church are at once human and divine, material and spiritual, for they are the very Incarnation of the Word of God. Here Dom Robert Le Gall examines the people at the heart of the church, its saints and Biblical figures, the sacraments, songs, gestures, as well as sacred objects and the church’s liturgical calendar.

Author: James Socia
Publisher: Midwest Theological Forum
Keywords: course, complete, catholicism, introduction
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 1890177288
ISBN-13: 9781890177287

Author: Dave Armstrong
Publisher: Sophia Institute Pre
Keywords: catholicism, defense, biblical
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1928832954
ISBN-13: 9781928832959

This exciting book shows that, far from straying from the Bible, Catholicism is eminently and thoroughly biblical. Indeed, Catholicism is the only Christian religion that is in full conformity with what the Bible clearly teaches. To demonstrate this, Catholic author Dave Armstrong ( a former Protestant campus missionary) focuses on those issues about which Catholics and Protestants disagree the most: the role of the Bible as a rule of faith, whether we are justified by faith alone, whether doctrine develops, what the Eucharist really is, veneration of Mary and prayer to the saints, the existen

Author: Richard P. Mcbrien
Publisher: HarperOne
Keywords: catholicism, evolution, church
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0061245216
ISBN-13: 9780061245213

From the struggles of the very first Christians to the challenges and scandals of today, the Catholic Church has wrestled with how to organize itself, express its beliefs, and nurture its members. The Church has grown from a handful of disciples in the first century to over one billion members in the twenty-first, resulting in profound changes that demand a theological response. In this sweeping history, renowned scholar Richard McBrien reveals the evolution of the Church’s relationship to the divine, its leadership of the faithful, and its role as a global religion. The Church answers t