This collection of essays and thoughts covers such areas as basic Christian thought, which includes traditional family morality and a great concern for alleviating poverty and promoting social justice, political thought comparing the need for a system which includes both socialist and capitalist elements, and the need for values in our society, which has come to emphasize money, power, and greed as philosophical goals and values, though they are not.
Hospital Preaching as Informed by Bedside Listening states the great need to sit down face to face and attentively listen to stories, experiences, and feelings of patients.
In 1874 and 1875, Brazilian peasants in the Northeastern region of Brazil rose up in rebellion, destroying the weights and measures of the new metric system implemented by the government from Rio de Janeiro.
Political Islam, Citizenship, and Minorities discusses the relationship between religion and politics in the Middle East and the future of political Christianity.
Ecce Educatrix Tua discusses the Apostolic Letter Novo millennio ineunte (NMI), wherein John Paul II outlined the path the Church should adopt in the third millennium.
This book on black churches and urban politics uses case studies from various cities to examine the strategies and tactics of activist clergy and congregations.
This ebook 'boxed set' combines all seven of Rob Bell's influential books in one edition - including his sensational new title: What We Talk About When We Talk About God.
In this remarkable and candid memoir the former Archbishop of Canterbury recalls his life and his spiritual quest; this is the first time in history that an Archbishop of Canterbury has written his autobiography.
Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching: Contemporary Theory and Research contains essays by key scholars in the territory where Catholic social thought and secular sociology meet, and offers a much needed alternative to the relativism and individualism that so often characterize social scientific analysis today.
Drawing on a range of approaches developed by paediatric chaplaincy teams worldwide, this edited collection provides best principles, practices and skills of chaplaincy work with neonates, infants, children, young people and their families.
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled.
This book on black churches and urban politics uses case studies from various cities to examine the strategies and tactics of activist clergy and congregations.
A fresh eyewitness account of the Japanese invasion of mid-China in 1937-1938, these letters by an American missionary in Hangzhou provide a vividly detailed, first-hand account of the spread of war from Shanghai across the Yangzi valley and the subsequent ordeals of military occupation seen against the better-known backdrop of the Nanjing Massacre - one man's embedded experience in one major Chinese city of one chaotic year of war.
Vorgelegt werden in diesem dritten Band »Unterwegs in den Wirklichkeiten der Polizei« zwei empirische Studien zur Polizeiseelsorge: Die eine Studie befasst sich mit dem Verhältnis zwischen Polizeibeamt: innen und Polizeiseelsorgenden und die andere Studie geht dem Phänomen der Angst in der Polizei, um die Polizei und vor der Polizei nach.
Der Pfarrberuf steht angesichts gesellschaftlicher und kirchlicher Transformationsprozesse unter erheblichem Druck und befindet sich in einem grundlegenden Wandel.
Mathematik als ungewohnte Inspirationsquelle für Theologie: Das Buch entwickelt aus der Unterscheidungslogik der "Gesetze der Form" (George Spencer-Brown) und soziologischen Diagnosen zur "nächsten Gesellschaft" (u.
Mathematik als ungewohnte Inspirationsquelle für Theologie: Das Buch entwickelt aus der Unterscheidungslogik der "Gesetze der Form" (George Spencer-Brown) und soziologischen Diagnosen zur "nächsten Gesellschaft" (u.
Der Pfarrberuf steht angesichts gesellschaftlicher und kirchlicher Transformationsprozesse unter erheblichem Druck und befindet sich in einem grundlegenden Wandel.
En la serie Documentos sobre la historia del Movimiento de Schoenstatt se publican documentos, decretos, cartas y comunicados que revisten especial importancia para la historia del Movimiento y ejercieron fundamental influencia sobre su desarrollo.
El libro Espiritualidad Benedictina presenta los elementos esenciales de la espiritualidad benedictina a la luz del Concilio Vaticano II tal como aparecen en el documento de referencia "Proposiciones sobre la vida benedictina" elaborado en el Congreso de abades de 1967 a partir de las fuentes fundamentales del Evangelio y la Regla de san Benito.
In allen großen Weltreligionen ist das Lachen mehr als nur eine menschliche Regung – es ist ein Ausdruck tiefer spiritueller Einsichten und göttlicher Freude.
This book offers an in-depth study of Catholic sisters in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, covering the period 1968-2008 from the outbreak of conflict into the era of peace.
