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Este volumen recoge las conferencias, comunicaciones y homilías pronunciadas en las Jornadas celebradas en 2016 por el 25 aniversario de la muerte del venerable José Rivera.

This book calls for an expanded vision of holistic education that emphasizes togetherness and harmony through the discovery of oneself, others, and the larger society.

At once controversial and intriguing, Spiritualism has spread from the United States to become a global movement.

Spiritualism emerged in western New York in 1848 and soon achieved a wide following due to its claim that the living could commune with the dead.

This life is a gift from existence, to be lived and enjoyed.

Ministry is challenging, complex, and costly.

Christian womanhood.

This book takes you on a journey that unpacks and demystifies what spiritual growth is and how it unfolds.

This little book of wisdom is full of insights and advice from one of the twentieth century's great spiritual teachers.

For centuries, Christian denominations have fought over whose practices are most holy or sacred.

Christian faith is continually challenged by the tension between certainty and mystery.

No one likes to suffer.

Walking Together: A Congregational Reflection on Biblical Church Discipline is a study of the biblical concept of church discipline.

Many Christian men don't realize that they have access to the same power that raised Jesus from the dead inside of them.

Our culture is under attack.

This book explores the deep and abiding human need for contemplation, for coming to terms with and standing in awe of the nature and character of the God revealed in the Scriptures.

Story, Formation, and Culture brings together a myriad of scholars, researchers, and ministry leaders into conversation about how we can effectively nurture the spirituality of children.

Do you ever find yourself drowning in secularization and commercialization, being pulled under as Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas intermingle and fly by in a frantic blur?

Twenty-first-century Christians in the West crave comfort, affluence, freedom from pain, and even power.

Rosario Picardo was a recently divorced and slightly jaded ex-Marine when he heeded God's call to plant "e;a church for broken people.

Seventh-century Ireland is becoming a land of saints, scholars, and spiritual foster mothers as well as warriors.

Drawn from three decades of parish ministry experience, Steward of Stories opens the delightfully complex and nuanced world of the congregation to a wider audience beyond, but including, local parish pastors.

We live in an age of global capitalism and terror.

Humans are composed of poetic tissues as surely as physical ones.

Ken Fox writes, "e;Walking a path of emotional health is the most significant thing I can do if I want to nurture and promote a culture of change and growth across the tapestry of my life.

In life there are a few major questions.

Many believers struggle with assurance of salvation, tending to approach obedience to God out of either guilt or legalism.

The ministry of casting out demons is either entirely dismissed on one hand or misused and abused on the other.

Western culture no longer has a broad Christian understanding.

In As the Broken White Lines Become One, Michael Gehring recounts his spiritual journey through the landscape of late-twentieth-century southern American Christianity.

The Second Vatican Council (1962-65) called for the renewal of all religious institutes in the Catholic Church.

SOren Kierkegaard's Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing is an astute analysis of inner dividedness.

Much like the book of Revelation, Joel L.

-Do you seem to lack an adequate framework for interpreting life in today's world?

"e;Know thyself"e; is a leitmotiv throughout all great wisdom traditions.

All of our hearts, whether we know it or not, long to know the deep joy of possessing and experiencing the permanent and passionate favor of God.

The Virgin Mary has appeared to thousands and performed miracles from the early fifth century until now.

In the tumultuous spirit of the American South, A Carolina Psalter offers an outspoken conversation with King David's Psalms, great outcries to a personal God.

Twenty years ago, God led me to the writings of the church fathers and then on a journey that changed my life.

After more than twenty years since the fall of the USSR, the evangelical movement in post-Soviet society has entered a crucial phase in its historical development.

Do you struggle to get into the Christmas spirit?

Preparing for ministry involves more than the acquisition of certain skills.

In a cinematic culture where multiple visions of reality "e;play"e; at the same time, it is critical that Christian believers know how to confidently identify and "e;discern,"e; among other stories, the Jesus-story that defines their most important commitment in life.

There be dragons all over the Bible.

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Early evening, a young boy alone on his pony on the rim of the Nebraska Sandhills.

Once you come to know Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord, what is the next step?

Have you ever wondered how the Lord sustained Martin Luther through one of the most personally and spiritually intense times in the history of Christendom?

The content of the gospel never changes; however, communicating it constantly fluctuates.

This book is intended to encourage the use of comparative theology in contemporary Buddhist-Christian dialogue as a new approach that would truly respect each religious tradition's uniqueness and make dialogue beneficial for all participants interested in a real theological exchange.