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Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics

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ISBN13: 9780060626457 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionAstonishingly relevant portraits of the lives of seven women mystics Known to more than a million readers as the coauthor of the classic vegetarian cookbook Laurel's Kitchen, Carol Lee Flinders looks to the hunger of the spirit in Enduring Grace. In these [...]

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Signs and Mysteries: Revealing Ancient Christian Symbols

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ISBN13: 9781592764501 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionImagine the dangerous life of a First Century Christian. You've embraced your newfound faith in Christ but fear the risk of persecution or death at the hands of the pagans living around you. Then a trusted friend tells you about some of [...]

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The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice

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Product DescriptionAnti-Catholicism has a long history in America. And as Philip Jenkins argues in The New Anti-Catholicism, this virulent strain of hatred--once thought dead--is alive and well in our nation, but few people seem to notice, or care. A statement that is seen as racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, or homophobic can haunt a speaker for years, [...]

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Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes; Third Edition

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ISBN13: 9780300115970 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThis engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings nearly two thousand years ago to the present day. In this new edition, the final chapter has been expanded to cover the last years of John Paul II and [...]

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Parish Priest: Father Michael Mcgivney and American Catholicism

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Product DescriptionA New York Times Bestselling Author Nearly every day, in towns and cities across the world, groups of Catholic laymen known as the Knights of Columbus gather together. In the mid-19th century Father Michael J. McGivney dedicated his life to the spiritual and physical welfare of others, creating the K of C to provide [...]

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Prove It!: Church

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ISBN13: 9780879739812 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionAmy Welborn By Amy Welborn What do you say when someone tries to tells you: You're not a Christian because your church isn't Bible-based? You're not a Christian because what your church teaches isn't in the Bible? You're not a Christian because [...]

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Sense of the Faithful: How American Catholics Live Their Faith

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Product DescriptionThe image of the "cafeteria Catholic" -- one who blithely picks and chooses those doctrines that suit him -- is a staple of American culture. But are American Catholics really so nonchalant about how they integrate the ancient devotional practices of Catholicism with the everyday struggles of the modern world? For Sense of the [...]

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The Crucified Rabbi: Judaism and the Origins of Catholic Christianity

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Product DescriptionHow does Jesus fulfill over three hundred Old Testament Prophecies? (each listed inside this book) Is Catholicism inherently Anti-Semitic? Do the Hebrew Scriptures accurately predict Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah? How does Jewish thinking presuppose devotion to Mary? Is the Catholic Church a fulfillment of historic Israel? How do Jewish water rituals relate [...]

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World Religions Today

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Product DescriptionThe twenty-first century is witnessing a resurgence and globalization of religion. Around the world, religion has become an increasingly more important and pervasive force in personal and public life, and faith and politics now play a powerful role in international affairs. Revealing the significance of religion in contemporary life, the second edition of World [...]

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The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580

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Product DescriptionThis book offers a fundamental challenge to much that has been written about the pre-Reformation church. Eamon Duffy recreates 15th-century English laypeople's experience of religion, revealing the richness and complexity of the Catholicism by which men and women structured their experience of the world and their hopes within and beyond it. He then tells [...]

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The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism

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ISBN13: 9780812974218 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThis clear and comprehensive anthology, culled from the vast corpus of Christian mystical literature by the renowned theologian and historian Bernard McGinn, presents nearly one hundred selections, from the writings of Origen of Alexandria in the third century to the work of [...]

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Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible

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Product DescriptionTranslated from the Latin Vulgatediligenntly compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and other editions in divers languages The Old Testament first published by the English College at Douay, A.D. 1609andThe New Testament first published by the English College at Rheims, A.D. 1582 Features of this version of the Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible: – Direct Verse Jump, [...]

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Spiritual Direction and Meditation

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Product DescriptionWithout really raising his voice once the author proceeds to the heart of each of these matters and speaks home truths for which all sorts of people--priests and religious and laity--will be grateful. Spiritual Direction and Meditation Tags: spiritual, author proceeds, Direction, Voice, Meditation

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Did Adam & Eve Have Belly Buttons?

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Product DescriptionRead by the author, this new audio version of his popular work offers today's Catholic, young and old alike, a collection of clear and concise answers to questions about the Catholic Faith. Best of all, the 200 questions addressed by Mr. Pinto came from real Catholic teenagers from all over the United States. A [...]

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Called to Love: Approaching John Paul II's Theology of the Body

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ISBN13: 9780385527712 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description A thoughtful, accessible work on the beauty of love and the splendor of the body, inspired by Pope John Paul II. Christianity has long been regarded as viewing the body as a threat to a person's spiritual nature and of denying [...]

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Apologia Pro Vita Sua

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Product DescriptionFew autobiographies are as moving and eloquent as Newman's "Apologia Pro Vita Sua." John Henry Newman's conversion to Roman Catholicism rocked the Church of England and escalated the spread of anti-Catholicism in Victorian England. This book is Newman's defense of that choice-a rigorous examination of his own religious development, enlivened by touches of satire [...]

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Saint Joseph Baltimore Catechism: The Truths of Our Catholic Faith Clearly Explained and Illustrated : With Bible Readings, Study Helps and Mass Prayers

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Product DescriptionThis Catechism retains the text of the Revised Baltimore Catechism, Number 2, but adds abundant explanations to help children understand the difficult parts of each lesson along with pictures to aid in understanding. Intended for grades 6-8. Saint Joseph Baltimore Catechism: The Truths of Our Catholic Faith Clearly Explained and Illustrated : With Bible [...]

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A Concise Guide to Catholic Social Teaching

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Product DescriptionA Timely Resource for Understanding, Teaching, and Implementing Catholic Social Teaching As parishes and schools intensify efforts to promote Catholic social teaching, here is a welcome distillations of scoial principles presented in both papal encylicals and pastoral letters developed by American bishops. Following the structure of the U.S. bishops document Sharing Catholic Social Teaching, [...]

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Sophia House

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ISBN13: 9781586170394 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionSophia House is set in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Pawel Tarnowski, a bookseller, gives refuge to David Schäfer, a Jewish youth who has escaped from the ghetto, and hides him in the attic of the book shop. Throughout the winter of [...]

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Too Deep for Words: Rediscovering Lectio Divina

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ISBN13: 9780809129591 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionRetrieves from obscurity the lost art of contemplative prayer as practiced for sixteen centuries in monastic tradition, and provides 500 thematically arranged scripture texts as rich resources for this intimate prayer. Too Deep for Words: Rediscovering Lectio Divina Tags: Words, Deep, scripture [...]

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