Cpc emerging wisdom catalog 2016

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Dear Reader, Welcome to the 2016 Emerging Wisdom Catalog! Inside we share with you a collection of titles to support your own inner path as a spiritual director, as well as a way to deepen the work you do with spiritual seekers. From time-tested classics to bestselling contemporary authors, we strive to bring you books of relevance for those who want to live a spiritual life in the world today.

We invite you to discover the wellspring of emerging wisdom to be found within the pages of our books.

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INDEX

Index n Church at The Crossroads Series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 n New and Noteworthy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 n Richard Rohr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

New release: Friending God See page 5

n Ignatian Spirituality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 n Spiritual Direction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 n Spirituality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

For God and Profit See page 9

n World Spirituality Series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 n Global Spirituality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 n Contemporary Spirituality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 n Community & Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

World Spirituality See page 28

n Women’s Perspectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 n Pope Francis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 n Body & Soul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 n Coming soon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

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“Celebrate the greatness of Creation…”

—Leonardo Boff

Leonardo Boff

C H U R C H AT T H E C R O S S R O A D S E R I E S

Toward an Eco-Spirituality

CHURCH AT THE CROSSROAD SERIES An action plan, based on Christianity, to study and understand the challenges and ramifications of the global ecological crisis known as one of the major liberation theologians, Leonardo Boff has long seen the terrible cost of the ecological crisis to the poor. In this engaging brief, he outlines a new vision for human stewardship of the earth.

This is an ideal first step to take for individuals and groups to study ecology in a Christian context, and to understand that ecology is no longer a luxury for a few, but an imperative for everyone working for a more just world.

978-0-8245-2076-2 $12.95 pb / 80 pages

FROM THE BOOK:

"I have worked my whole life on behalf of the poor who cry out for justice and liberation, along with that of the Earth which we have been systematically destroying over a number of centuries only to now find ourselves coping with global warming as the result. The theme of my work here is hope: what will the next stage in the life of humanity look like?"

Leonardo Boff is a former Franciscan monk, a theologian and a poet known for his strong voice for the promotion of human rights and ecological responsibility. He is the Professor Emeritus of Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, and Ecology at Rio de Janeiro State University. He is the author of more than 60 books in the areas of theology, spirituality, philosophy, anthropology and mysticism.

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Who am I online? Are cyber-friendships real?

Friending God

Social Media, Spirituality and Community CHURCH AT THE CROSSROAD SERIES Understanding the new coordinates of cyberspace, community and faith The internet has become an existentially new reality of our lives. It stirs questions about who we are as people, and what we long for in the depths of our souls. Jesuit Antonio Spadaro is one of Pope Francis’ close advisors on social media and cybertheology. He offers here clear, and simple principles to understand the spirituality of the internet, its promise and peril.

978-0-8245-2214-8 $12.95 pb / 80 pages

Coming Coming Soon!

June Fall 2015 2016 FROM THE BOOK:

"We the people of the 21st century are creatures of the World Wide Web, always online, always connected, always communicating. And we—like all others throughout history—have created this technology in our own image, which gives this creation of ours a spiritual dimension as well."

Antonio Spadaro, S.J., is the editor in chief of the Jesuits’ biweekly review, La Civiltà Cattolica. Since entering the Society of Jesus in 1988, he has worked in a variety of capacities, including joining the review’s community in 1998. He has been a part of the review ever since. In late 2011, he became the review's editor in chief. Fr. Spadaro considers his work to be part of the new cybertheology – “thinking faith in the Internet age”.

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Antonio Spadaro, S.J.

The Church is very much alive Philip Jenkins

C H U R C H AT T H E C R O S S R O A D S E R I E S

The New Map of the Global Church

CHURCH AT THE CROSSROAD SERIES Offers an inviting way to understand the facts and implications of the major demographic shifts happening within Christianity. By 2025, 75 percent of Catholics in the world will be non-European; the new global church will have its center of gravity in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. This fascinating brief explores the metamorphosis taking place in the global community of believers: the church’s new life comes from what historically has been labeled the periphery. The book also looks into the radical ramifications for all churches.

978-0-8245-2078-6 $12.95 pb / 100 pages

FROM THE INTRODUCTION:

"Of its nature, Christianity must be a worldwide faith, which carries its message to all cultures, all peoples and races: it must be global."

Philip Jenkins is the distinguished professor of history at Baylor University and codirector for Baylor’s program on Historical Studies of Religion in the Institute for Studies of Religion. He is the author of The Jesus Wars, The Lost History of Christianity, and The Next Christendom. He is a contributing editor for the American Conservative, writes a monthly column for the Christian Century, and has written articles for the Atlantic, Christianity Today, and First Things. He lives in Waco, Texas.

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Study the issue of income inequality in a Christian context.

The Challenge of Inequality

CHURCH AT THE CROSSROAD SERIES A truly Christian perspective on global economic inequality from a prominent Cardinal and close ally of Pope Francis. In this treatise, author Cardinal Rodríquez Maradiaga, one of the most outspoken members of the Catholic hierarchy on this issue, offers a clear analysis of the expansion of economic inequality and its root causes, followed by a review of suggested solutions, and a hopeful outlook based on a new model of economic and human growth.

Maradiaga asserts that it is imperative for any Christian community to look at the dire state of social justice in the world, and to work for positive change, requiring a clear understanding of the issues at hand, and a comprehensive practice based on the laws of ethics. A perfect book for anyone who is ready to study the urgent issue of social disparity, and willing to work for a better world.

978-0-8245-2081-6 $12.95 pb / 76 pages

FROM TH E I N TRO DUC T IO N BY STEFAN O Z A MAGN I:

"If a prophet is a figure who with courage and compassion denounces what is wrong with the present and not just someone who predicts the future—after all, we have economists for that!— then Maradiaga belongs to the admittedly thin ranks of genuine prophets."

Óscar Andrés RodrÍguez Maradiaga, SDB, is a Honduran cardinal of the Catholic church. He is the archbishop of Tegucigalpa, the president of Caritas Internationalis, and the former president of the Latin American Episcopal Conference. He worked as the Vatican’s representative to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and has spoken out on social justice and inequality for many decades.

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C H U R C H AT T H E C R O S S R O A D S E R I E S

Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga

“What if God really depends on us to manifest God’s love?”

Barbara Fiand

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY

Come, Drink Deep of Living Waters

Faith Seeking Understanding in the 21st Century We live in a time of bridging that invites us to learn, then to accept with utmost respect, that what has provided us with a certain wisdom and security for several thousand years of movement around our star is today ebbing away and has, in fact, done so for at least a century. A time of bridging involves allowing for this realization and, with serenity, courage, and trust, seeking the footprints revealing who has walked among us unobserved all this time. Today this realization is lighting up with ever greater brilliance and being recognized and acknowledged with ever more urgency due to our scientific discoveries and spiritual insights. In this new book, with the wisdom of years, Barbara Fiand explores what time of bridging offers in new insights, and how we can understand our Christian faith in this new time.

978-0-8245-2196-7 $19.95 pb / 240 pages

“This book marks a paradigm shift between a faith of the past obsessed with certitude and finality and an organic evolutionary sense of faith beyond boundaries that isolate and paralyze us. In her attempt to bridge the divide, Barbara Fiand creates a bold, prophetic synthesis of Christian faith and a fresh articulation within the cosmic worldview of our day. For some it may be a bridge too far, but for a rapidly growing body of Christian seekers, it is a vision that will challenge and inspire, affirm and provoke. An invaluable resource for faith-filled discipleship in the 21st century.“ —Diarmuid O’Murchu, Priest, Psychologist, Author, and Specialist in Adult Faith Development

Barbara Fiand teaches spirituality at the Institute of Pastoral Studies of Loyola University Chicago and is the author of books that include From Religion Back to Faith: A Journey of the Heart, In the Stillness You Will Know: Exploring the Paths of Our Ancient Belonging, and On Becoming Who We Are. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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A formidable book at a pivotal time Samuel Gregg

For God and Profit

How Banking and Finance Can Serve the Common Good From Christianity’s very beginning, it has had a difficult relationship with the world of money. Christian theologians, philosophers, and financiers have exerted considerable influence upon the emergence and development of the international financial systems, helping unleash a revolution in the way the world thinks about and uses capital. In For God and Profit, Samuel Gregg underscores the different ways in which Christians have helped to develop the financial and banking systems that have helped millions escape poverty for hundreds of years. He also provides a critical lens through which to assess the workings— and failures—of modern finance and banking.

Gregg illustrates how Christian faith and reason can shape financial practices and banking institutions in ways that restore integrity to our troubled financial systems.

978-0-8245-2188-2 $29.95 hc / 300 pages

“For God and Profit is a formidable book, packed with interesting and regularly unacknowledged and unknown historical information, especially about the contribution of Christian thinking to the development of banking, the rise of the markets and Western prosperity. It is also closely argued with Christian and natural law categories of right and wrong being used to evaluate the economies and financial systems of today and yesterday.”

—Cardinal George Pell, Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, Vatican City

Samuel Gregg is an author, speaker, and research director at the Acton Institute. He lectures regularly on faith, morality, and economics. He is the author of several books including his prize-winning The Commercial Society. He publishes in journals such as The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy; Journal of Markets & Morality; Economic Affairs; Law and Investment Management; Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy; Evidence; Ave Maria Law Review; Oxford Analytica; Communio; Journal of Scottish Philosophy; University Bookman; Foreign Affairs; and Policy. His opinion-pieces have appeared the Wall Street Journal Europe; National Review; Public Discourse; American Spectator; Australian Financial Review; and Business Review Weekly. He holds an MA in political philosophy from the University of Melbourne, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in moral philosophy and political economy from the University of Oxford.

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With a forward by George Cardinal Pell

a Christian approach to near death experiences Patrick Theillier, MD

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY

Near Death Experiences Examined

Medical Findings and Testimonies from Lourdes Near death experiences are not new, but never has doctor, working in Lourdes, and enlightened by deep respect for science and a faithful understanding of the 2,000 year old Catholic approach to life, developed such coherent, hopeful explanations.

Near death experiences have been more talked about in secular and new age terms than in Christian circles. Dr. Theiller shows that they are not at all at odds with the teaching of the Church; on the contrary the Catholic Church, with its millennia of experiences of spiritual realities beyond what we see, has an important contribution to make to our deeper understanding of this widespread phenomenon.

978-0-8245-2217-9 $24.95 pb / 260 pages

“Patrick Theiller, MD, speaking about near death experiences: “They show that the soul is not an invention of the Church, it actually exists. We have within us the ability to be connected to heaven by our spiritual soul.””

—Interview by Raphaël Zbinden, 10/27/2015 (cath.ch apic-)

Dr. Patrick Theillier was for decades the head of medical research in Lourdes, France, and his main duty was to record and authenticate unexplained cures. A GP with 25 years’ experience and a deep respect for science, Theillier is also a practicing Catholic.

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What has astrophysics to do with our deepest questions?

Arnold O. Benz

Astrophysics and Creation Perceiving the Universe Through Science and Participation

978-0-8245-2213-1 $19.95 hc / 144 pages

“Benz, an eminent scientist, describes brilliantly the wonders revealed by modern astronomy about the origin and structure of galaxies, stars and planets. But he also demonstrates with great clarity how other levels of reality lying in a different plane or dimension are an equally important part of human experience and a search for meaning.”

—Eric R. Priest FRSE FRS, Prof. em. University of St Andrews, UK Renowned physicist and mathematician; Author of several research monographs on the physics of the solar atmosphere

Professor Benz’ frequent appearances on European radio and TV have made him known to a larger public interested in new developments in the area of astrophysics and its implications for the understanding of human life. The Faculty of Theology of the University of Zurich awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2011 for his interdisciplinary work in the dialogue between science and theology, which explores the relation between astrophysics and faith.

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NEW AND NOTEWORTHY

Arnold Benz, a renowned astrophysicist and Christian, insists that human perception reaches further than science and demonstrates this in various examples, personal, biblical and literary. Cosmic fine-tuning and other coincidences are no proof of God, but are amazing, astounding and will never be fully explained. Amazement is the appropriate emotional perception of reality. It implies that the objective world is not a matter of course and may well not exist at all; thus reality, at times, is experienced to be very special. In such an “aha moment”, essentials like our lifetime, the beauty of nature, the habitability of planet Earth or the universe are sensed to be like undeserved gifts. In the light of such a gift experience, the universe is metaphorically interpreted and existentially believed as a divine Creation, thus becomes trustable and meaningful. Science cannot create such faith but can foster it.

The life-changing story of the pre-Civil War South William Kelley

A Servant of Slaves NEW AND NOTEWORTHY

The Life of Henriette Delille

In this new novel, Oscar-winning writer William Kelley, tells the true story of a young, southern, female quadroon who overcame the racial prejudice of the pre-civil war era to create a religious order dedicated to caring for destitute and dying blacks.

Yearning to help the poorest of the poor in New Orleans, Henriette Delille tried to join charitable religious orders, but was turned away because of her “Negro blood.” Taking fate into her own hands she cofounded The Sisters of the Holy Family, an order that for over a century has led the fight to improving living conditions for African Americans in the southern United States.

Henriette’s astonishing and inspirational story, told through a masterful interweaving of the narratives of her personal life and Father Etienne Rousselon’s, is a testimony to one woman’s devotion and her resulting ability to change the world around her.

978-0-8245-2216-2 $19.95 pb / 224 pages FROM THE PROLOGUE:

“Miss Henriette Delille had for long years consecrated herself totally to God without reservation to the instruction of the ignorant and principally to the slave. To perpetuate this kind of apostolate, so different yet so necessary, she had founded with the help of certain pious persons the House of the Holy Family, a house poor and little known except by the poor and the young, and which for the past ten or twelve years has produced, quietly, a considerable good which will continue.

Having never heard of philanthropy, this poor maid has done more than the great philanthropists with their systems so brilliant yet so vain.”

—New Orleans Tribune William Kelley was the co-recipient of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the movie Witness. Born on Staten Island, N.Y., Kelley served in the Air Force in the late 1940s. He spent three years studying for the priesthood in the 1950s. Not surprisingly, his books and screenplays often deal with religious themes.

A screenwriter, novelist, and TV scriptwriter with more than 150 credits, Kelley considered himself a simple man. “I’d rather drink a beer with a farmer, dockhand or a cowboy, or sit and talk with a kid from the streets of Philadelphia, than to have dinner with any president, prince or pope.”

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“Find the shores of your life”

–Anthony de Mello Anthony de Mello

Walking on Water Simple Certainties to Live By

978-0-8245-2215-5 $19.95 hc / 176 pages

FR O M WA L K I N G O N WAT E R : “Prayer, love, spirituality, and religion are about ridding yourself of illusions. When religion brings that about, that’s wonderful, wonderful! When it deviates from that, it is an illness, a plague to be avoided. Once illusions have been abandoned, the heart is unobstructed, and love takes hold. That’s when happiness occurs. That’s when change takes place. And only then will you know who God is . . . ”

Until his sudden death in 1987, Anthony de Mello, S.J., was director of Sadhana Institute near Poona, India. Worldwide bestselling author, sought after retreat master and spiritual guide, Fr. Tony aimed simply to teach people how to PRAY, WAKE UP AND LIVE

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NEW AND NOTEWORTHY

In an uncertain world, quickly changing by the day, we need a few simple beliefs we can trust, and they better be dependable. Sourcing the ages and traditions of the globe de Mello offers just that, simple certainties that hold you up. de Mello’s storytelling makes the mystery of enlightenment more approachable and friendly. Pick up this book and find yourself in the midst of an entertaining revelation, a chat with a jovial, wise man. Filled with anecdotes and tales from around the world, this little volume will help you relinquish your ego, accept others as they are, and experience freedom from fear and anxiety. Discover the precious pearl, the joy of God inside you now and always.

New, beautifully illustrated book by Richard Rohr Richard Rohr

What the Mystics Know Seven Pathways to Your Deeper Self

RICHARD ROHR

Drawing from the best and most poetic of Richard Rohr’s writing from nearly a quarter of a century, each chapter in this new collection examines one of the seven core mystical truths. Organized according to the mystical path that every seeker must follow, Rohr identifies the pitfalls of everyday life, and shows us opportunities for change even in the face of pain, thereby transforming one’s deeper self into a beacon of light. Illuminating these insights with reflections on Christian and Jewish scriptures while citing the greatest religious writers throughout the ages, Rohr offers an unparalleled window into the wisdom of the mystics, within a succinct volume that represents the best treasury of his vast library of writing.

978-0-8245-2039-7 $19.95 pb / 176 pages E-book editions available

“Richard Rohr opened a new spiritual path for a lot of Americans.”

–Dr. Mehmet Oz

Fr. Rohr with Oprah on Super Soul Sunday FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR:

“I hope that this book can invite you into the seemingly simple yet always profound realm of those who have found their way close to God and all of creation, and it can place the path of the mystic within your reach.

Through each of the seven pathways outlined in the book, we can discover, in the context of a mature Christianity, or any religion, the God who is “closer to me than I am to myself” as St. Augustine puts it. Through the use of scriptures and both traditional and new metaphors, I want to give thoughtful guidance from classic sources, so you can know that your experience is not just your experience but the common domain of the perennial, or wisdom, traditions, which will always come to the surface in every age.

By applying what the mystics know to your momentary outlook, you will be able to bring open-heartedness into the life you lead and the work you do.

Then you might just be able to recognize that the ordinary path can also be the way of the mystic. It is all a matter of the eyes and the heart.”

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“Self-worth is not created, it is discovered.” –Richard Rohr

Simplicity

Richard Rohr’s spiritual classic— revised and with a new reading guide

The Freedom of Letting Go

Everything Belongs

St. Francis’s ancient call to the simple life of freedom and happiness, as seen by America’s foremost Franciscan. Richard Rohr shows you how to: recognize radical dependence on others; understand why less is more; break through to contemplation; embrace deeper spiritual freedom.

The one book every Rohr reader must own.

This bestselling guide goes to the heart of Christianity and teaches us how to let go of ego and open to the connecting and integrating power of contemplation.

978-0-8245-2115-8 $19.95 pb / 192 pages

The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

978-0-8245-1995-7 $17.95 pb / 192 pages

RICHARD ROHR

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Richard Rohr

The Naked Now

Learning to See as the Mystics See “The Naked Now is a deep breath of fresh air. Richard Rohr invites us, all of us, to slow down and to find God, or be found by God, in all the places we never thought to look.”

–Jim Wallis, President of Sojourners 978-0-8245-2543-9 $19.95 pb /192 pages

JOY IN IMPERFECTION “Christian maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.”

–From What the Mystics Know

Richard Rohr

Adam’s Return

The Five Promises of Male Initiation Richard Rohr, a leader in the men’s spirituality movement, shares the key concepts of traditional male initiation, and shepherds readers toward an awakening into a conscious, alert, and mature masculinity. A catalyst for a transforming revelation of true self—from a master.

978-0-8245-2280-3 $19.95 pb / 224 pages

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Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert

The Enneagram A Christian Perspective

Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert’s runaway bestseller unveils the dynamic, personal evolution that the Enneagram offers. This updated resource discusses the applications of the ancient tool for discernment and reveals the harmony between its principles and the core truths of Christian thought.

978-0-8245-1950-6 $19.95 pb / 320 pages 15

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“Only those who love rightly see rightly.” – Richard Rohr

Richard Rohr

Contemplation in Action Where else can you find spiritual inspiration from Richard Rohr, Edwina Gateley, Thomas Keating, Basil Pennington, Paula D’Arcy, and others in one accessible volume? This book, designed for bedside devotion, offers the best of Richard Rohr’s Radical Grace newsletter, published by Rohr’s Center for Action and Contemplation.

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Richard Rohr

Quest for the Grail Using the mythological investigations of Joseph Campbell and Robert Moore, Richard Rohr brings alive the ancient legends of knights and the search for King Arthur’s grail, and shows how they can serve as models for a journey of the psyche and spirit.

978-0-8245-1654-3 $19.95 pb / 192 pages

Grace in Action Inspired reflections by Richard Rohr and his colleagues at the Center for Action and Contemplation on how to be a healing presence in the world today, Grace in Action is a hopeful book that looks to the Church community as a positive change agent--a place where justice, healing, love and faith are ushered into a world hungry for meaning and direction.

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Spiritual Reflections

Richard Rohr plumbs the depths of the Job’s story to reveal its relevance for us today. This important book shows how the tension between suffering and faith can be a powerful means to an authentic connection with the divine.

978-0-8245-1734-2 $19.95 pb / 192 pages

978-0-8245-2388-6 $16.95 pb / 160 pages

Richard Rohr

Job and the Mystery of Suffering

Richard Rohr

The Good News According to Luke Spiritual Reflections

Richard Rohr shares his understanding of Luke’s message for today’s reader. Grounded in scholarship, but accessible to a general audience, this commentary sheds light on the main themes of Luke’s gospel.

RESURRECTION TAKES CARE OF ITSELF “It is not quick or easy, we find, to allow the true self or to allow the true God. The task of life is the gradual unveiling of both. . . Resurrection takes care of itself. It comes naturally once the false self is abandoned.

But what an abandoning!

Every movement toward union will feel like a loss of self-importance and self-control.”

—What the Mystics Know

978-0-8245-1966-7 $19.95 pb / 192 pages

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The “Heart” of the Christian Spiritual life Timothy M. Gallagher, O.M.V.

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Discernimiento de los espiritus

(Discernment of Spirits) An Ignatian Guide for Everyday Living

St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, is one of the most influential spiritual leaders of all time, yet many readers find his Rules for Discernment hard to understand. What can Ignatius teach us about the discernment of spirits that lies at the very heart of Christian life? In The Discernment of Spirits, Fr. Timothy Gallagher, a talented teacher, retreat leader, and scholar, helps us understand the Rules and how their insights are essential for our spiritual growth today. By integrating the Rules and the experience of contemporary people, Gallagher shows the precision, clarity, and insight of Ignatius’s Rules, as well as the relevance of his thought for spiritual life today.

When we learn to read Ignatius correctly, we discover in his remarkable words our own struggles, joys, and triumphs.

978-0-8245-2218-6 $24.95 pb / 232 pages

Spanish Translation COMING SOON

“It becomes clear in Gallagher’s work that a persevering practice of spiritual discernment helps us to gather the fragments of life into a pattern of greater freedom and hopeful living.”

—The Way

“By providing a sound understanding of Ignatian principles and applying them in a skillful way to daily life, Fr. Gallagher meets the pressing needs of retreat directors, students of spiritual theology, and others interested in deepening their spiritual lives. I know of no comparable volume that proves so helpful.”

—Harvey D. Egan, S.J., professor of systematic and mystical theology, Boston College (From the Foreword)

Father Timothy M. Gallagher, O.M.V., is a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, a religious community dedicated to retreats and spiritual formation according to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.

A sought after speaker and retreat master, Fr. Gallagher has dedicated many years to an extensive ministry of retreats, spiritual direction, and teaching about the spiritual life.

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A remarkable teacher of Ignatian spirituality “ A clear, concise resource for presenting the freedom inherent in the structure of Ignatian prayer.”

— Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction

We asked Father Gallagher to expound on Ignatian spirituality and its benefits for spiritual directors. Here’s what he had to say: Why are the teachings of St. Ignatius beneficial for spiritual directors?

Fr. Gallagher: “Many sensitive and sometimes complex issues arise in accompanying others in spiritual direction: issues of struggles, growth, and stages in prayer; experiences of consolation and desolation in the spiritual life; psychological wounds and relationship with God; discerning God’s will in significant life-choices; and so forth. Ignatius of Loyola, in a way all his own, provides clear teachings and tools to assist persons in these and many other situations. Generations of spiritual directors have turned to Ignatius and found in his teaching the clarity they needed in accompanying directees. Their experience explains why so many directors have turned and are turning to Ignatius today.”

How does a spiritual director develop the confidence to guide others through the exercises?

Fr. Gallagher: “The best of all ways is for the spiritual director to experience the spiritual exercises personally as a retreat or through application of its elements—reflective meditation, imaginative contemplation, the examen prayer, the discernment of spirits, and so forth—in their own daily spiritual lives (the “Exercises in daily life”). When more formal study through reading, group sharing, online resources, Ignatian programs of training for spiritual direction, mentoring, and supervision, is added to this experience, directors learn the spiritual exercises deeply and develop the confidence to guide others through them.”

How is it that these teachings from hundreds of years ago are relevant for the busy, modern person seeking spiritual direction?

Fr. Gallagher: “Ignatius was not a monk in a monastery but a man deeply immersed both in God and in the world of his day. He shaped a spirituality that assists persons, as his classic phrase says, to ‘find God in all things’: in the midst of intense activity, in the thousand occupations of daily living, or in the quiet of prayer. He was, in words used by a contemporary, “a contemplative in action,” as every disciple of Jesus in every walk of life can be and is called to be. His teaching is timeless since it rests upon a profound understanding of the human person, both spiritually and psychologically, and describes the spiritual experience common to all who love the Lord.

Ignatius’s teaching is eminently suited to all who live in the world and serve the Lord they love in its manifold activity.”

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The premier program to Ignatian Spirituality

The Discernment of Spirits: Reader’s Guide

When you’re ready to move more deeply into Ignatian thought, discover this great favorite of spiritual directors, directees, and others who want to understand Ignatius’ rules for discernment—their keen insight into the human soul and their ability to explain the real-life struggles of spiritual seekers today.

An Ignatian Guide for Everyday Living

The Discernment of Spirits

A companion to the bestselling Ignatian guide, this workbook provides a practical means of unlocking the wisdom of The Discernment of Spirits. Each chapter includes key concepts, additional case studies, and questions to consider in the personal application of the teachings.

This title is also availible as an audiobook, read by Fr. Daniel P. Barron, O.M.V. The book comes on 8 CDs and lasts 9 hours, covering the entire text of the printed book.

Read by Daniel P. Barron

An Ignatian Guide for Everyday Living Audio Book

978-0-8245-2291-9 $24.95 pb / 232 pages eBook Editions Available

978-0-8245-4985-5 $12.95 pb / 104 pages

978-0-8245-2004-5 $39.95 CD

Discerning the Will of God

Discerning the Will of God

Timothy M. Gallagher, O.M.V. Read by John Wykes, O.M.V.

The Ignatian Guide to Christian Decision Making Fr. Gallagher’s indispensable guide will help you make spiritual sense of major decisions and align with God’s true purpose for you. Real-life experiences bring home the benefit of Ignatius’ ageless teachings and offer tools for finding clarity in a challenging and complex world.

978-0-8245-2489-0 $19.95 pb / 172 pages E-book editions available

An Ignatian Guide for Spiritual Directors Ten Lectures on DVD with Study Guide Filmed in the beautiful St. Clement's Shrine in Boston, Father Gallagher, presents a video guide based on his bestselling title Discerning the Will of God. This DVD is also accompanied by a study guide, making it an ideal resource for all who want to discover where God is leading them, as well as for spiritual directors, retreat directors, and counselors.

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Discerning the Will of God An Ignatian Guide to Christian Decision Making

This title is also available as an audiobook, read by John Wykes, O.M.V. The book comes on 5 CDs and lasts 5 hours, covering the entire text of the printed book.

978-0-8245-2027-4 $39.99 CD

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An Ignatian Guide for Everyday Living

The Discernment of Spirits

I G N AT I A N S P I R I T UA L I T Y

Bring the power of the Spirit to the work of life “Father Gallagher meets the pressing needs of retreat directors, retreatant students of spiritual theology, and others interested in deepening their spiritual lives.”

—Harvey E. Egan, S.J., Professor of Systematic and Mystical Theology, Boston College

Begin Again

The Life and Spiritual Legacy of Bruno Lanteri Bestselling author Timothy M. Gallagher offers a remarkable biography of Father Bruno Lanteri, who overcame great odds to become the foremost spiritual leader of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, ultimately founding the Oblates of the Virgin Mary.

978-0-8245-2579-8 $24.95 pb / 358 pages E-book editions available

Which Ignatian title is right for you?

Learn more at: www.crossroadpublishing. com/crossroad/gallagher Titles are available in the following formats: • eBook • Paperback • Audio

Scriptural Reflections According to the Spiritual Exercises

When you need short, practical exercises for young and old, this volume provides forty short (2-page) Ignatian meditations, including scripture passages, meditative keys for entering into the scriptural story, and guided questions for reflection. For either beginning or experienced groups and individuals.

978-0-8245-2487-6 $16.95 pb / 96 pages

Meditation and Contemplation

Spiritual Consolation

An Ignatian Guide to Praying with Scripture

An Ignatian Guide for the Greater Discernment of Spirits

To understand the two practices essential to Igatian spirituality, Meditation and Contemplation, discover this volume. Fr. Gallagher explains what is unique to each practice, shows how you can profit from both at different times in your spiritual life, and reveals how their structure can be adapted to your particular spiritual needs.

Those with some familiarity with Ignatian spirituality will enjoy this book, which extends the approach of The Discernment of Spirits, interweaving stories and Ignatian principles for a more profound understanding of Ignatius’ second rule for discernment.

978-0-8245-2488-3 $14.95 pb / 112 pages E-book editions available

978-0-8245-2429-6 $19.95 pb / 192 pages E-book editions available

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An Ignatian Introduction to Prayer

The Examen Prayer

Ignatian Wisdom for Our Lives Today When you want classic spiritual discipline to apply every day, this highly practical book is an important resource. The Examen Prayer helps you discover the hand of God in your everyday life and learn to be receptive to God’s blessings.

978-0-8245-2367-1 $19.95 pb / 192 pages E-book editions available

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“You are like an artist when you pray.” —Ignatius of Loyola

The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola With Commentary

–J. Matthew Ashley, Notre Dame

This readable translation and step-by-step commentary unfolds the relevance of a spiritual classic to modern life for every reader, Christian or not. Stories, analogies, and approachable language make this an ideal companion for anyone seeking inspiration and personal growth.

978-0-8245-2539-2 $16.95 pb / 168 pages

Hugo Rahner, editor

St. Ignatius Loyola Letters to Women

Reprinted by popular demand, this major volume in Crossroad’s library of Jesuit Spirituality unveils Ignatius’ spiritual wisdom for women. Rahner’s research and insights offer a priceless glimpse into Loyola’s relations with women—as spiritual directees, supporters, and confidantes.

I G N AT I A N S P I R I T UA L I T Y

Joseph A. Tetlow

“The Call to Discernment in Troubled Times is challenging, yet infused with passion and hope, this book will provide valuable insight both to students of Ignation spirituality, and more generally, to those who wonder how Christian spirituality can continue to shape a creative and faith-filled response to our crucified world.”

Dean Brackley, S.J.

The Call to Discernment in Troubled Times

New Perspectives on the Transformative Wisdom of Ignatius of Loyola A compelling re-introduction to Christianity as a lived experience. In times of spreading violence, poverty, and environmental crisis, Fr. Brackley points us beyond dogmatic withdrawal and paralyzing fear to inner freedom, constructive response, and hope.

978-0-8245-2268-1 $19.95 pb / 320 pages

Willi Lambert

Anthony de Mello, S.J.

Discoveries with Ignatius Loyola

Each chapter offers an awareness exercise, a mental focus, and an imagining exercise using stories from the Bible, and concludes with a short parable or text from tradition. The texts draw from the clarity of the Ignation exercises and reflect an outstanding experience with prayer and meditation in today’s world.

Directions for Communication

Willi Lambert’s exploration of the life and writings of St. Ignatius Loyola yields a fruitful and fascinating model of communication for peopleof all walks of life.

978-0-8245-1853-0 $18.95 pb / 256 pages

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Praying Body and Soul

978-0-8245-1673-4 $16.95 pb / 144 pages

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Meditations for a changed life Michael Kennedy, S.J. is the founder and director of Jesuit Restorative Justice Initiative to create restorative practices and retreats for incarcerated people with an emphasis on youth tried as adults.

He speaks throughout the United States on his method of Ignatian meditation.

Michael Kennedy, S.J.

Fr. Kennedy’s proven techniques bring Jesus and the Gospel to life in a new way as the text –and the CD featuring Martin Sheen—open doors to a reinvigorated experience of prayer and contemplation.

The Jesus Meditations

A Guide for Contemplation With CD narrated by Martin Sheen Have you ever longed to walk beside Jesus on the dusty roads of Palestine? Entering into the world of these meditations will change forever your relationship with Jesus, yourself, and the world around you.

“Michael Kennedy certainly helps us find and experience God in the modern world.”

978-0-8245-1929-2 $19.95 pb / 192 pages

–Martin Sheen, actor

Michael Kennedy, S.J.

Los Ojos en la Cruz

Una guia para la contemplacion Ilustraciones por Bernardo Gantier Zelada, S.J. “Michael Kennedy verdaderamente nos ayuda a encontrar y experimentar a Dios en el mundo modern.” –Martin Sheen, actor 978-0-8245-2315-2 $29.95 pb / 256 pages

Michael Kennedy, S.J.

Michael Kennedy, S.J.

A Guide for Contemplation With illustrations by Bernardo Gantier Zelada, S.J.

Ten Mediations for a Changed Life With CD narrated by Martin Sheen and Janne Shirley

Eyes on the Cross

"Another extraordinary, and powerful work that brings forth the richness of the gospels through the stark reality of personal stories and the mediations that accompany them.” – Martin Sheen, actor 978-0-8245-1879-0 $19.95 pb / 224 pages

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Experiencing Jesus

In the midst of a changing world faced with challenge there was never a greater need for Christians to return to Jesus in prayer and contemplation. Let this book take you by the hand to find your own way to Christ.

978-0-8245-2146-2 $19.95 pb / 144 pages

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The call to Spiritual Direction is a sacred task

Walking Toward the Center With a foreword by Paula D’Arcy “These pages are a rich, wondrous blend of history, faith’s deep call, and the wisdom gleaned from the journey.”

–Paula D’Arcy 978-0-8245-2102-8 $16.95 pb/ 146 pages Including 40 b/w illustrations

Carole Ann Camp

Karen L. Kuchan, Ph. D.

M. Basil Pennington

A New Practice of Prayer for Healing and Growth Find God’s healing, forgiveness and unconditional love through Visio Divina.

This new practice combines meditative healing prayer with divinely revealed inner images, leading us to discover hidden wounds and desires. Dr. Kuchan weaves practical explanations with tales of overcoming shame to find divine acceptance and love.

978-0-8245-2317-6 $16.95 pb /192 pages

Renewing the Ancient Practice of Praying the Scriptures

Visio Divina

978-0-8245-1736-6 $16.95 pb / 184 pages

Joyce Rupp

The Path of Midlife Spirituality

Hope and Strength in Times of Suffering

Dear Heart,Come Home

Carole Ann Camp’s insightful book deepens our understanding of the transformative practice of walking the labyrinth.

Bible readings, prayers, and stories from the author’s many years of experience with this powerful ritual support us as we take a journey of faith.

Joyce Rupp shares her own midlife journey—its ups and downs—with honesty and insight that will support and inspire other seekers looking to deepen their spiritual lives.

978-0-8245-2387-9 $16.95 pb/ 176 pages

A popular introduction to the “way of friendship,” the ancient meditative practice of the West. No matter where you are on the spiritual journey, Lectio Divina can guide you to wisdom, guidance, and joy.

Joyce Rupp

Praying at Every Turn

Meditations for Walking the Labyrinth

Lectio Divina

978-0-8245-1556-0 $19.95 pb / 208 pages eBook editions available

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Your Sorrow Is My Sorrow A sensitive reflection on the seven sorrows of Mary, connecting the divine mother’s suffering and pain with the trials and afflictions that every human must bear. Let Mary’s patient wisdom guide you as you face life’s difficulties.

978-0-8245-1566-9 $16.95 pb / 192 pages eBook editions available

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SPIRITUAL DIRECTION

Gernot Candolini

Labyrinths

SPIRITUAL DIRECTION

“Your friend is the companion of your soul.” –Aelred of Rievaulx

Carolyn Gratton

Art of Spiritual Guidance A must for retreat leaders and spiritual directors. This eminently readable work, widely recognized as an essential reference for both guides and those seeking guidance, integrates into one coherent whole a wide variety of psychological and spiritual insights about spiritual formation.

Patricia O’Connell Killen and John de Beer

The Art of Theological Reflection

978-0-8245-1401-3 $17.95 pb / 168 pages

Judah Ronch, William Van Ornum and Nicholas Stillwell

True Self, False Self

The Counseling Sourcebook A Practical Reference on Contemporary Issues

A comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical reference book. The definitive helping book for everyone who counsels.

978-0-8245-1241-5 $29.95 pb / 552 pages

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One of today’s most eminent Christian leaders describes 10 principles of spiritual direction and 10 guidelines for prayer, discernment, and asceticism. Morneau shares a rich understanding of reverence, the primacy of joy, and gives a series of delightful spiritual exercises for “eclectic nomads”.

978-0-8245-1202-6 $11.95 pb / 144 pages

Carmen Renee Berry

M. Basil Pennington

When Helping You Is Hurting Me

Unmasking the Spirit Within

Integrating his own powerful spirituality with the humanism of Teilhard de Chardin and the contemplative wisdom of Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk deftly uncovers the direct route to happiness and peace our age so desperately seeks.

978-0-8245-1845-5 $12.95 pb / 128 pages

Spiritual Direction Principles and Practices

A practical book for those who want to make a vital connection between their faith and their lives. The authors describe theological reflection as “the artful discipline of putting our experience into conversation with the heritage of the Christian tradition.”

978-0-8245-1223-1 $29.95 pb / 264 pages

Robert F. Morneau

Escaping the Messiah Trap

Do you find yourself trapped in a relationship where you do all the giving and the other person does all the taking? If so, this wise and supportive book borne from experience is your ticket out.

978-0-8245-2108-0 $16.95 pb / 176 pages

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“The intelligence of our heart is our spiritual intelligence.”

—Robert Frager

Spiritual Passages

The Psychology of Spiritual Development This book is intended to relate some of the more sound insight of contemporary psychology to the classical outline of the spiritual journey contained in the immense and fascinating literature of spirituality.

978-0-8245-0628-5 $19.95 pb / 224 pages

Evelyn Eaton Whitehead and James D. Whitehead

Christian Life Patterns

The Psychological Challenges and Religious Invitations of Adult Life This classic of personal and spiritual development, co-authored by a prominent psychologist and a theologian, draws on the best in social sciences research, along with scriptural and theological resources, to illuminate the challenges and opportunities of each stage of life.

978-0-8245-2338-1 $24.95 pb / 216 pages

Robert Frager, editor

Edited by Suzanne Buckley

Current Approaches to Spiritual Direction and Guidance

Formation and Transformation in Spiritual Direction Programs

Sharing Sacred Stories

This outstanding resource for spiritual directors and teachers offers wisdom by the world’s premier authorities about the core components of spiritual direction and guidance across diverse religious and cultural traditions.

978-0-8245-2446-3 $19.95 pb / 184 pages

Dolores Leckey

7 Essentials for the Spiritual Journey Wisdom stories and practical guidance to the seven basics needed for our spiritual travels: Mentors and Guides, Silence and Solitude, Authentic Community, Discovering the Sacred in the Ordinary, Savoring, Lightness and Laughter, and Surrender.

978-0-8245-1783-0 $14.95 pb / 128 pages

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Sacred is the Call

Based on the authors’ collective wisdom of decades of experience in spiritual formation and training, this book explores the call to spiritual direction as a sacred task, and as a journey of faith.

978-0-8245-2338-1 $29.95 pb / 232 pages

Brother David Steindl-Rast

A Listening Heart

The Spirituality of Sacred Sensuousness “Brother David calls us to our holy senses, and shows how our senses are indeed gateways, and not obstacles to Spirit. I am grateful for this deep and profound book.”

–Matthew Fox 978-0-8245-1780-9 $15.95 pb / 144 pages

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Benedict J. Groeschel

SPIRITUALITY

“God loves infinitively and always.” —Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O.

Fr. Keating is a monk at St. Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado.

He is one of the principal architects and teachers of the Christian contemplative prayer movement for renewal of the contemplative dimension of Christianity.

Thomas Keating

Thomas Keating

An Introduction to Centering Prayer

An Introduction to Contemplative Christianity

Intimacy with God

A founder of the Centering Prayer movement, Cistercian monk and bestselling author Thomas Keating offers here an introduction filled with insight and practical advice. “This is perhaps Keating’s most readable and enlightening work.”

–Spiritual Book News

The Heart of the World The Christian heritage is rich in contemplative wisdom literature and practices. As fresh and vibrant today as when it was first published, this classic book is essential to a deeper understanding of this spiritual center of Christianity.

978-0-8245-2529-3 $16.95 pb / 232 pages

978-0-8245-2495-1 $14.95 pb / 100 pages

Thomas Keating

Thomas Keating

Thomas Keating

978-0-8245-1044-2 $16.95 pb / 136 pages

A Lenten Passage

Awakenings

Journey to the Center

Mediations on the Parables of Jesus

Thomas Keating

Reawakenings

The perfect companion for the 40 days of Lent, this book offers a bible reading, a commentary by Father Keating, and a prayer for contemplation for each of the days of Lent.

978-0-8245-1149-4 $18.95 pb / 132 pages

978-0-8245-1895-0 $9.95 pb/ 120 pages

Two wonderful collections of Fr. Keating’s best biblical reflections. Each volume contains 30 bible texts and Fr. Keating’s reflection.

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Gathering the strongest texts from The Kingdom of God Is Like, Awakenings, and Reawakenings, this book shows you how to apply meaning of the parables to your spiritual journey today.

978-0-8245-2607-8 $16.95 pb/ 144 pages

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Books by Ronald Rolheiser

Ronald Rolheiser

Ronald Rolheiser

Rediscovering a Felt Presence of God

The Finger of God in Our Everyday Lives

The Shattered Lantern

This evocative, readable book looks at how practical atheism and disbelief have crept into our world and how, in the face of it, we can restore the “shattered lantern” and bring back the light of God. 978-0-8245-2275-9 $14.95 pb / 192 pages

Against an Infinite Horizon Fr. Rolheiser speaks of the deepest human longing in words that have reached hundreds of thousands of readers. This book is an attempt to develop a vocabulary that can help decipher the accidents in every life everyday, that might aptly be called divine providence.

978-0-8245-1965-0 $16.95 pb / 240 pages

“Clear and readable. Rolheiser knows the spiritual terrain like few others. Read and be astonished.”

—Richard Rohr, author of Everything Belongs

“We need to become missionaries again within our own culture that, it would appear, the Church must address in terms of taking to heart Jesus’ parting challenge: “Go out to all nations and baptize ’them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.’”

—Ronald Rolheiser

Ronald Rolheiser

Secularity and the Gospel Being Missionaries to Our Children

Today, our own children might know little about the Gospel. In this important contribution Fr. Rolheiser offers original chapters on the topic, then introduces leading voices in Catholic thought to show how Christian faith can thrive in a secular world.

978-0-8245-2412-8 $24.95 pb / 240 pages

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Ronald Rolheiser, O.M.I. is one of the most wellknown authors of Catholic spiritual books. He is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas, and a specialist in the fields of spirituality and systematic theology.

WORLD SPIRITUALITY SERIES

The World Spirituality Series

A Multivolume series with more than 500 contributing scholars worldwide, presenting the spiritual wisdom of the human race in its historical unfolding, from prehistoric times, through the great religions to the meeting of traditions today.

Jewish Spirituality, Vol. I

Bernard McGinn, John Meyendorf & Jean Leclercq, editors

Jewish Spirituality, Vol. 2

Origins to the Twelfth Century 978-0-8245-0847-0 $49.95 pb / 528 pages

Arthur Green, editor

From the Bible Through the Middle Ages 978-0-8245-0891-3 $49.95 pb / 488 pages From the Sixteenth-Century Revival to the Present 978-0-8245-0965-1 $37.50 pb / 480 pages

Christian Spirituality, Vol. I

Jill Raitt, Bernard McGinn & John Meyendorf, editors

Christian Spirituality, Vol. II

High Middle Ages and Reformation 978-0-8245-0967-5 $49.95 pb / 504 pages Louis DuprĂŠ, Don E. Saliers, & John Meyendorf, editors

Christian Spirituality, Vol. III Past Reformation and Modern 978-0-8245-1144-9 $49.95 pb / 592 pages

Gary H. Gossen & Miguel Leon-Portilla, editors

South and Meso-American Native Spirituality From the Cult of the Feathered Serpent to the Theology of Liberation 978-0-8245-1662-8 $65.95 pb / 576 pages

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Spirituality and the Secular Quest 978-0-8245-0774-9 $49.95 pb / 576 pages

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Significant contributions to religious scholarship

Krishna Sivaraman, editor

Takeuchi Yoshinoori, editor

Hindu Spirituality, Vol. I

Buddhist Spirituality, Vol. I

Islamic Spirituality, Vol. II

Krishna Sivaraman, Bithika Mukerji, editors

Takeuchi Yoshinoori, editor

Foundations 978-0-8245-1131-9 $49.95 pb / 480 pages

Manifestations 978-0-8245-1724-3 $29.95 pb / 576 pages

Antoine Faivre & Jacob Needleman, editors

Modern Esoteric Spirituality 978-0-8245-1444-0 $45.00 pb / 448 pages

Vedas Through Vedanta 978-0-8245-1131-9 $49.50 hc / 496 pages

Hindu Spirituality, Vol. II Postclassical and Modern 978-0-8245-1671-0 $39.95 pb / 624 pages

Jacob K. Olupona, editor

African Spirituality

Forms, Meanings and Expressions 978-0-8245-0780-0 $45.00 pb / 512 pages

Indian, Southeast Asian, Tibetian, Early Chinese 978-0-8245-1452-5 $37.50 pb / 456 pages

Buddhist Spirituality, Vol. II

Later China, Korea, Japan, and the Modern World 978-0-8245-1596-6 $49.95 pb / 574 pages

Tu Weiming & Mary Evelyn Tucker, editors

Confucian Spirituality, Vol. I 978-0-8245-2111-0 $50.00 pb / 408 pages

Tu Weiming & Mary Evelyn Tucker, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, editors

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Islamic Spirituality, Vol. I

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A History of Western Christian Mysticism

Bernard McGinn

The Flowering of Mysticism

Men and Women in the New Mysticism: 1200-1350 “Bountiful, detailed, and exhaustive. Covers the rich terrain of Franciscan mysticism and introduces female mystics great and small. McGinn expands immensely an area previously including only the well-known, such as Hadewijch of Antwerp and Mechthild of Magdeburg. Literate, scholarly, and profound.”

–Library Journal 978-0-8245-1743-4 $49.95 pb / 542 pages

Bernard McGinn

Bernard McGinn

Origins to the Fifth Century

Gregory the Great Through the 12th Century

The Foundations of Mysticism

The Growth of Mysticism

McGinn explores mystical texts and their place in the tradition: early Judaica, preChristian Greek works, the New Testament, Greek and Latin patristic writings, and early monasticism. “An erudite, sober-minded, balanced work sure to become a standard resource for scholars and students.”

–Library Journal 978-0-8245-1404-4 $49.95 pb / 516 pages

“A seminal study from the leading authority on Christian mysticism.”–Publishers Weekly.

A spectacular tour of Christian mysticism as it evolves from 500 C.E. to 1200 C.E. The volume examines the unique contributions of such figures as Pope Gregory the Great, John Scotus Erigena, and Bernard of Clairvaux.

978-0-8245-1628-4 $49.95 pb / 648 pages

“ To say that McGinn tells his story well would do him an injustice. He has simply offered the best available account of the symbolic crucible from which Christian mysticism sprang.”

–Word & World

Bernard McGinn

The Harvest of Mysticism in Medieval Germany A tour-de-force study of medieval German mysticism from Thomas Aquinas and his master, Albert the Great, to Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, and including Jan van Ruusbroeck, Meister Eckhart, and John Tauler.

978-0-8245-2345-9 $49.95 pb / 768 pages

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Bernard McGinn

The Varieties of Vernacular Mysticism 1350–1550

More than 25 years in the making, this groundbreaking volume reveals the innate genius of the mystical teachers of the late medieval period in Europe. A wealth of information sheds new light on a seminal period of mysticism in Christian history.

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“ Good will cannot miss God.” –Meister Eckhart, The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart

“ This gem of a volume will doubtless become the classical presentation of a man most scholars believe to be the greatest medieval Western mystic.”

–Choice

Bernard McGinn and Patricia Ferris McGinn

Bernard McGinn

The Divine Vision of the Spiritual Masters

The Man From Whom God Hid Nothing

Early Christian Mystics

The McGinns are uniquely qualified to introduce us to the rich tradition of the mystics in this accessible book on the insights of the great early Christian mystics and how we can apply that wisdom to our lives today.

978-0-8245-2106-6 $18.95 pb / 256 pages

The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart

“Without doubt this will long stand as the best comprehensive introduction to Eckhart’s thought in any language.” –Oliver Davies, The Eckhart Review 978-0-8245-1996-4 $32.95 pb / 320 pages

“ This study will surely take its place as the best comprehensive introduction in English to this renowned mystical preacher and teacher.”

–America

“ An unparalleled resource for studying Eckhart.”

–Religious Studies Review

Mystical Classics

Friedrich von Hügel

The Mystical Element of Religion

As Studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her Friends This book remains the authoritative study of the spirituality of Catherine of Genoa.

First published in 1908, this seminal work develops the author’s major theory of the three basic elements of religion—institutional, intellectual and mystical.

Anselm Stolz

The Doctrine of Spiritual Perfection Stolz balances his approach to mysticism with both the psychological insights of his day and theological insights from the church fathers and medieval scholastics.

978-0-8245-1887-5 $24.95 pb / 272 pages

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Praise for The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart:

GLOBAL SPIRITUALITY

Africa & African-American Perspectives When you read the stories of those whose lives were blessed by this AMA effort, you will have a glimpse of the glory of God, the fruit of the missionaries’ hard labor and the joy of Victory in Christ Jesus in spite of the harshness of racism at the end of the 19th Century!

—Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., Trinity Cyprian Davis

The History of Black Catholics in the United States This book makes an extremely valuable contribution to our understanding of African-American religious life by presenting the first full-length treatment of the Black Catholic experience. It should be read by all interested in the history and culture of Black Americans.

978-0-8245-5008-0 $24.95 pb / 366 pages Revised Edition Coming Soon!

Joyce Hollyday

On the Heels of Freedom

The American Missionary Association’s Bold Campaign to Educate Minds, Open Hearts, and Heal the Soul of a Divided Nation “…provides a rare, well-researched, anecdotal history of the blossoming of education among former slaves in the post-Civil War South. I was riveted to and challenged by every page.” —Stephen A. Hayner, Peachtree Professor of Evangelism, Columbia Theological Seminary 978-0-8245-2348-0 $19.95 pb / 240 pages

Nwaka Chris Egbulem

Benezet Bujo

Inspirations from the Zairean Liturgy

Beyond the Universal Claims of Western Morality

The Power of Africentric Celebrations In 1988 the Vatican approved a special rite of the Catholic mass initiated in CongoZaire, and based on the African spiritual experience. This practical guide introduces readers to the practice of worship as celebrated in the African tradition.

978-0-8245-1489-1 $14.95 pb / 168 pages

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Foundations of an African Ethic In this groundbreaking book, Benezet Bujo, a leading voice in African Christian theology, offers an informed critique of Western ethics and lays the theoretical groundwork for a new African ethic.

978-0-8245-1905-6 $24.95 pb / 232 pages

Frederick Quinn

African Saints

Saints, Martyrs, and Holy People from the Continent of Africa Episcopal priest and former foreign service officer, Frederick Quinn, who spent many years in Africa, offers a much-needed retelling of lives, prayers, poetry and sacrifice that together form the rich story of African spirituality, nurtured by Africa’s people.

978-0-8245-1971-1 $22.95 pb / 248 pages

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“Contemplation is a long loving look at what is.” – Richard Rohr

I Asked for Wonder A Spiritual Anthology

One of the most influential Jewish theologians of the 20th century, Heschel captured the sense of mystical wonder in a way few writers can do. This anthology, edited by Rabbi Samuel H. Dresner, presents the finest meditations and insights from Heschel’s bountiful writing.

978-0-8245-0542-4 $18.95 pb / 160 pages

Jacques Jomier

How to Understand Islam Jacques Jomier presents the history of Islam—from Muhammad’s birth in Mecca to modern-day Muslim practice. This introduction to the faith highlights commonalities and differences between Islam and Christianity and lays the groundwork for productive dialogue between religions.

978-0-8245-0981-1 $19.95 pb / 176 pages

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Buddha Heart, Buddha Mind

Living the Four Noble Truths His Holiness the Dalai Lama shares the core precepts of Buddhism, elaborating on the Four Noble Truths. A compelling elucidation of the principles and practice of Tibetan Buddhism as well as a personal invitation to draw the teachings into our everyday life 978-0-8245-4987-9 $19.95 pb / 184 pages

His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Path of Wisdom, Path of Peace A Personal Conversation

In this precious hardcover gift volume, UN correspondent Felicitas von Schonborn offers a rare, intimate, and wide-ranging sit-down interview with the Dalai Lama along with a compelling introduction to his thought.

978-0-8245-2311-4 $16.95 hc / 224 pages

JAneela Khalid Arshed

B.K.S. Iyengar

Daily Reflections from the Qur’an and Islamic Tradition

The Yogic Art of Breathing

The Bounty of Allah

The first collection of its kind, this masterfully selected book offers on each page (one for every day of the year) two quotations: one from the Qur’an, and the second from the Hadith (sayings of Muhammad) or a Sufi saint.

GLOBAL SPIRITUALITY

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Light on Pranayama In this classic, a legendary yoga teacher describes the practice of breathing, together with a comprehensive background of yoga philosophy.

978-0-8245-0686-5 $19.95 pb / 320 pages

978-0-8245-2134-9 $19.95 pb / 408 pages

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Focus on Father Henri Nouwen Henri J. M. Nouwen

CONTEMPORARY SPIRITUALITY

In the Name of Jesus Reflections on Christian Leadership

In the Name of Jesus is Henri Nouwen’s bold, honest, and heartwarming message about Christian leadership. According to Nouwen, Christians must give up their desire to be powerful and embrace authority based on prayer and forgiveness. His emphasis on a vigorous Jesus-centered life will be helpful to every committed Christian and in particular to all leaders and teachers in the Christian faith.

978-0-8245-1259-0 $14.95 pb / 120 pages

Translated into 26 languages FROM IN THE NAME OF JESUS:

“Invited to Washington, D.C., to give a lecture on Christian Leadership of the Future, Nouwen demonstrated his own style of leadership by bringing with him a member of the community of the mentally handicapped he served at Daybreak, in Toronto. What is he to do when, standing at center stage and acknowledging the applause following his lecture, Bill walks up to him and asks if he, too, may address the audience? Here is a lesson in Christian leadership the reader will never forget: identifying the three temptations that everyone faces, Nouwen shows us how to make leadership truly Christian, by admitting our weaknesses and embracing Christ as the source of forgiveness and integrity.”

“Only Thomas Merton and C.S. Lewis have had a comparable impact on Christian spirituality in the United States.” –America Magazine ... Michael, a core member at L’Arche community near Toronto who cannot walk or speak ... Hillary Clinton, then First Lady in Washington D.C., one of the most listened-to people in the world ... The late Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, a beacon of forgiveness and charity to millions ... Whether it is a famous politician, a volunteer in Namibia, or a seminarian in England, people around the world share admiration and enthusiasm for the life and work of the internationally renowned priest and author, professor Henri Nouwen. Without doubt, Father Nouwen has shaped the spirituality of several generations.

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“Listen to a spiritual book as a voice that addresses you directly.”

–Henri Nouwen

Spiritual Living in a Secular World

This spiritual classic began as a simple request from one friend to another. Fred Bratman, a secular journalist and writer, asked Henri Nouwen to write a book explaining the spiritual life in terms that he and his friends could understand, avoiding theology and technical language. Nouwen’s answer has become one of the most cherished books of our era.

The Only Necessary Thing

Finding My Way Home

This meaningful collection of Henri Nouwen’s best writings on prayer and meditation was edited with love and care by one of his close friends, Wendy Greer.

Bringing together four core essays of Henri Nouwen’s work, The Path of Peace, The Path of Power, The Path of Waiting, The Path of Living and Dying, this book “allowed Henri Nouwen to speak about our collective sense of homelessness and the universal thirst for the experience of truly being at home.”

–Sue Mosteller C.S.J.

Living a Prayerful Life

978-0-8245-2493-7 $15.95 pb / 224 pages

Encounters with Merton

Our Second Birth

Encounters with Merton brings together two of the 20th century’s most important and articulate Christian voices.

Henri Nouwen explores themes of solitude, nonviolence, and the encounters between Eastern and Western spirituality as presented by Merton.

Taken from Henri Nouwen’s diary of his last year on earth, the inspirational readings of Our Second Birth throw light on the meaning of life, friendship, and the love of God, and are seen from the perspective of the life to come.

978-0-8245-2149-3 $14.95 pb / 144 pages

Readings for Each Day of Lent Share the forty-day Lenten path with Henri Nouwen, from the solemn beginning of Ash Wednesday to the joyous climax of Easter. Each daily section offers a paragraph from the Bible, a Lenten reflection by the author, and a prayer.

978-0-8245-1353-5 $19.95 pb / 192 pages

978-0-8245-2274-2 $15.95 pb / 160 pages

978-0-8245-1986-5 $16.95 pb / 160 pages

Spiritual Reflection

Pathways to Life and the Spirit

Show Me the Way

Christian Reflections on Death and New Life

978-0-8245-2365-7 $14.95 pb / 224 pages

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Here and Now Living in the Spirit

Henri Nouwen wrote this book to express what mattered to him most. He shares new insights, new stories, and new information not to be found elsewhere. Now with reflection guide.

978-0-8245-1967-4 $16.95 pb / 232 pages

Beyond the Mirror

Reflections on Life and Death Foreword by Robert Durback “With his brutal self scrutiny and honesty, Nouwen takes us through the interior meaning of his trip to ‘death’s portal,’ and gives us courage and hope for our own encounter some day.”–Church and Synagogue Library Association 978-0-8245-1961-2 $14.95 pb / 96 pages

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CONTEMPORARY SPIRITUALITY

Life of the Beloved

CONTEMPORARY SPIRITUALITY

Spirituality—a true sense of direction for our journey

David Steindl-Rast

Common Sense Spirituality

The Essential Wisdom of David Steindl-Rast “Brother Steindl-Rast has earned a reputa-tion as a bridge-builder between East and West in matters of religion and is considered by many to be the foremost bearer of standard Christian ecumenism laid down by Thomas Merton.”–Parabola Magazine. This authorized collection is introduced by Sr. Joan Chittister.

978-0-8245-2479-1 $16.95 pb / 192 pages

Barbara Fiand

Prayer and the Quest for Healing

Our Personal Transformation and Cosmic Responsibility With her usual courage and insight, Brabara Fiand explores the appointed time for everything, and delves into the relationship among prayer, personal healing, and cosmic redemption.

978-0-8245-1812-7 $22.95 pb / 192 pages

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Sidney Callahan

Stratford Caldecott

A Christian View of Suffering

Entering the Mysteries of God

Created for Joy

The Seven Sacraments

In the face of suffering, is it possible to believe in God? In this heartfelt and thoughtful new book, revered Catholic columnist Sidney Callahan answers yes, offering a reflection on suffering from a Christian perspective.

978-0-8245-2566-8 $19.95 pb / 256 pages

978-0-8245-2376-3 $19.95 pb / 160 pages

Raymund Schwager

Elizabeth Ficocelli

Seven From Heaven

“Only a handful of books disclose the Christian mysteries…, and also capture our minds and hearts with such bold brilliant clarity. There are no shortcuts to the mystical life, but this book is an overwhelming enticement…”

– Scott Hahn

How Your Family Can Find Healing, Strength and Protection in the Sacraments Award-winning author Elizabeth Ficocelli offers the seven sacraments as opportunities for powerful encounters with Christ as well as practical blueprints for joyous family living.

Touching accounts from Ficocelli’s own experience refresh and deepen our understanding of these important Christian rites in daily life.

978-0-8245-2707-5 $16.95 pb / 176 pages

Jesus in the Drama of Salvation Toward a Biblical Doctrine of Redemption

A convincing scholarly picture of Jesus in relation to his Jewish historical context and to the beginnings of the Christian community. Schwager presents Jesus as the coherent message of God’s salvation to humankind.

978-0-8245-1796-0 $29.95 pb / 256 pages

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A book for all ages, generations and people of faith Jesus’ Twin

A Dialogue with the Gospel of Thomas In Jesus’ Twin, a scholar shares his personal reflections into the Gospel of Thomas offering a learned, accessible introduction as well as inspiring insights into these ancient texts that have long stirred curiosity and inquiry.

James Heisig, who has read and studied the texts throughout his distinguished career as a scholar and teacher of religions, shows that the reasons for excluding the Gospel of Thomas from the Christian tradition are largely meaningless for us today. After more than half a century of concerted dialogue with other traditions, we are in a better position to recognize that not every alter Jesus is a Jesus alias. At the same time, attention to the spiritual demands being made on Christianity by our present age helps draw us more deeply into the text itself and control the tendency to immunize ourselves against its discomforts, whether through the distractions of scholarly disputation or the preoccupation with preserving orthodoxy.

978-0-8245-2031-1 $19.95 pb / 180 pages E-book editions available

“This is not just another book on the Gospel of Thomas. Heisig leads us in a meditation on this Gospel and invites us to discover that it is “a bridge to a multi-religious spirituality,” that it enables a ‘fully Buddhist reading of Jesus and his teachings,’ and that “our image of Jesus is …impoverished without the Jesus that we meet in the Gospel of Thomas.” He succeeds splendidly!”

—Paul F. Knitter, Paul Tillich Emeritus Professor of Theology, World Religions, and Culture, Union Theological Seminary

James W. Heisig is a professor of philosophy at Nanzan University and a permanent fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture. He is the author of several books, including Dialogues at One Inch Above the Ground, Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook, Nothingness and Desire: An East-West Philosophical Antiphony, and Philosophers of Nothingness.

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James W. Heisig

COMMUNITY & SOCIETY

Violence, Peace, and Redemption

Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton

William H. Shannon

Reflections on My Work

Reflections on War and Nonviolence

The Thomas Merton Story

Honorable Reader

Passion for Peace

Silent Lamp

“A wonderful biography of Thomas Merton. Essential for anyone interested in this fascinating man.”

—ALA Booklist “By far the most authentic Merton and Merton story we have to date.”

—The Catholic Historic Review

“Essential information in the mosaic which was not just Merton’s personal journey, but a quest made for thousands of readers in many foreign cultures.”

— Resources for American Literary Study

In times of violence we seek resources for peace. This essential book presents the core of Thomas Merton’s insights into the nature of violence, and terrorism, and the Christian call for active, non-violent engagement in the world.

978-0-8245-1125-8 $19.95 pb / 172 pages

978-0-8245-2415-9 $14.95 pb / 176 pages

Gil Bailie

Michael H. Crosby

Francis Cardinal Arinze

Humanity at the Crossroads Introduction by Rene Girard

From Control to Compassion

A Call for Solidarity to the Religions of the World

Everything regarding violence, nonviolence, and compassion begins with power. Power is the ability to influence.

Whether you are in a personal relationship, a corporate or political leadership role, this book offers new insights into understanding and dealing with power.

“This is a book that needs to be read, reflected on, and responded to by all who care for the future of mankind.” –Rabbi Sr. Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of Britain and the Commonwealth

Violence Unveiled

“Anyone concerned about the rise of violence and social disintegration in our culture, and who wants to understand what is really happening, must read this book.” –Sojourners 978-0-8245-1645-1 $29.95 pb / 312 pages

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978-0-8245-1281-1 $19.95 pb / 304 pages

Religions for Peace

The Paradox of Power

978-0-8245-2470-8 $19.95 pb / 192 pages

978-0-8245-4700-4 $16.95 pb / 165 pages

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“ A love for life, a desire for happiness, a passion for freedom.”

- Lorenzo Albecete

God at the Ritz Attraction to Infinity

What happens when a priest is challenged to defend his faith at a national media convention? That’s the dilemma faced by Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete when he appeared on “Frontline” and found himself addressing the “ultimate issues” of life.

978-0-8245-2472-2 $14.95 pb / 208 pages

John Polkinghorne

Quarks, Chaos & Christianity

Questions to Science and Religion

George Weigel

Against the Grain

Christianity and Democracy, War and Peace “A bracing collection of pieces worth reading—and remembering.”–Jon Meacham, Editor of Newsweek 978-0-8245-2448-7 $24.95 hc / 352 pages

George Coyne and Alessandro Omizzolo

Wayfarers in the Cosmos The Human Quest for Meaning

With the embarrassing Galileo condemnation far, far behind us, Coyne and Omizzolo take readers through the history of human understandings of heavens to arrive at a deep understanding of what many secular physicists are themselves saying about the cosmos: that a loving Creator stands behind it all.

978-0-8245-2537-8 $24.95 hc / 184 pages

Diarmuid O’Murchu

Stratford Caldecott

Spiritual Implications of the New Physics

The Spiritual Vision Behind The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit

Quantum Theology

Quarks, Chaos, & Christianity shows the ways that both science and religion point to something greater than ourselves.

Topics include: chaos theory; evolution; miracles; cosmology; guest for God; how God answers prayer; our human nature; religious fact and opinion; scientists and prayer.

Here, best-selling author Diarmuid O’Murchu presents a vision of the intersection of quantum physics and spirituality. It is now revised to reflect the most recent advances in physics. From black holes to holograms, from relativity theory to the discovery of quarks, this book is an original and rich exposition of quantum theory and the way it unravels profound theological questions.

978-0-8245-2406-7 $14.95 pb / 128 pages

978-0-8245-2263-6 $19.95 pb / 256 pages

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Power of the Ring

Stratford Caldecott reveals the spiritual undercurrents in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, elucidating themes in the popular stories and drawing on Tolkien’s unpublished writing to come to fascinating conclusions.

978-0-8245-4983-1 $16.95 pb / 256 pages

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COMMUNITY & SOCIETY

Lorenzo Albacete

Lady of the Light, Woman for the World Joan Ohanneson

Hildegard of Bingen WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVES

Lady of the Light, Woman for the World In breathtaking prose, Joan Ohanneson has crafted an unforgettable encounter with Hildegard, the astonishing visionary and prophet, artist and healer, whose music is sweeping the charts again today. Weaving into her text Hildegard’s own vivid accounts of “the Living Light,” the author brings to life the “feather on the breath of God” – Hildegard of Bingen, who shattered stereotypes of women, of saints, and of God for all time.

“This is a new edition of Scarlet Music” 978-0-8245-2018-2 $16.95 pb / 288 pages

Updated Edition “Ohanneson has dramatized the life of 12th-century Hildegard of Bingen in this fascinating novel. Highly recommended”. —Library Journal “In this fictional biography Ohanneson firmly anchors Hildegard of Bingen’s life and prophetic witness in the historical events both religious and secular of twelfth-century Europe, yet weaves for us a remarkable portrayal of a woman, deeply steeped through her visionary insights and mystic experience into the numinous feminine divine which expresses itself as Wisdom and Love.”

—Miriam Schmitt, co-editor of Medieval Women Monastics: Wisdom’s Wellsprings

“Hildegard of Bingen will rivet the modern reader with its masterly evocation of times and peoples past, of saints and sinners, abbots and popes, and the shadows of great monasteries spreading across the landscape. ... an episode of Masterpiece Theatre at its most arresting and enlightening.”

—Eugene Kennedy, author of Queen Bee and On Becoming a Counselor

The late Joan Ohanneson was an author, producer, teacher, and international speaker, lecturing extensively on Hildegard of Bingen. Ohanneson’s work brought insight and understanding to the areas of spirituality, sexuality, and women’s gifts to the church.

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“I laugh because it’s silly, and I cry because it’s true.” –Paula D’Arcy

retreat leader, and speaker travels widely in the United States, Canada and abroad. She is also President of Red Bird Foundation that supports the growth and spiritual development of those in need.

Paula D’Arcy

Paula D’Arcy

A Mother’s Journey Through Grief and Beyond With an Afterword by Beth Starr D’Arcy

The Story of a Divine Encounter

Song for Sarah

In this diary of tender, loving letters before and after her daughter Sarah’s death, D’Arcy transforms her sorrow into a gift of love that offers peace, comfort, and true hope.

978-0-8245-2523-1 $12.95 pb / 144 pages

Gift of the Red Bird

D’Arcy’s spiritual journey took a radical turn when she lost her husband and toddler daughter in a car accident. From that event, D’Arcy draws the hope and strength that have inspired so many readers. In this classic, she writes about venturing out into the wilderness on a vision quest to wait for God to speak. A red bird appeared and, without words, began to teach... .

978-0-8245-1956-8 $14.95 pb / 152 pages

Paula D’Arcy

Paula D’Arcy

Paula D’Arcy

Encountering the Hidden God

Encountering God’s Presence Today

Guidance for Grievers and the Friends Who Care

A New Set of Eyes

Join Paula in this book of comforting reflections, and receive her extraordinary wisdom of living, open your eyes to the knowledge, intuition and love that are like a wellspring already present in your deepest soul.

978-0-8245-2573-6 $14.95 pb / 144 pages

Seeking with All My Heart A series of parables and reflections designed to guide the reader on their path into greater awareness and openness to the presence of the divine in everyday life.

978-0-8245-2599-6 $16.95 pb / 160 pages

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When People Grieve

This classic manual is filled with practical advice on how to deal with profound grief, including, Loss, Shock, Depression, Anger, Moodiness, The Body’s Response, Things Not To Say, Ways to Help, Honest Conversation, Tips on Visiting and many more.

978-0-8245-2339-8 $12.95 pb / 144 pages

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WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVES

Paula D’Arcy, a writer,

“Life is a teacher of universal truths.” – From The Rule of Benedict Joan Chittister, O.S.B.

W O M E NT ’ HS E POELROSGPYE C T I V E S

The Rule of Benedict Joan Chittister is one of the most influential religious and spiritual leaders of our age. For over 30 years she has been a passionate and energetic speaker, counselor, and clear voice for the global community. A Benedictine Sister of Erie, PA, Sister Joan was prioress of her com¬munity for 12 year, and received many awards for her work on the renewal of spirituality, especially on women in the church.

The Rule of Benedict is a little guidebook that was written 1500 years ago by Benedict of Nursia. Ever since, its simple words have attracted people wanting to walk the spiritual path in community with others. Even today, tens of thousands of people follow The Rule of Benedict, both in monastic and in lay communities around the world.

This book includes the original text of The Rule of Benedict, each chapter followed by the visionary and inspiring commentary by one of the most influential Benedictines alive today.

Like no other, Sr. Joan is able to draw out the contemporary relevance and urgency of this short yet so influential book.

The book is accompanied by carefully chosen images, and via a download, prayers sung in the ancient Gregorian Chant cultivated through the centuries by Benedictine monasteries. Together the texts, images, and music invite you to a special experience of The Rule of Benedict.

978-0-8245-2594-1 $16.95 pb/ 328 pages Includes 84 two-color photos and illustrations

“By offering informed commentary that links St. Benedict’s Rule with contemporary questions (stewardship, relationships, authority, community, balance, work, simplicity, prayer, and spiritual and psychological development), Sr. Joan succeeds in her task of making an ancient document accessible to a modern reading public.”

—New Oxford Review “Chittister’s interpretation . . . arranged according to the three-cycle reading Benedictines accomplish each year, is one of the best I have seen. Her commentary is itself a modern reworking of the Rule for contemporary Christians.”

—The Episcopal New Yorker

Joan Chittister with Oprah on Super Soul Sunday

“Any religious or lay person will welcome and identify with her book’s universal themes and concrete examples. Its message is profound and yet accessible to those ‘beginners’ for whom Benedict intended his Rule in the first place.”

—Review for Religious

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Women’s Perspectives

Elizabeth A. Johnson

Phyllis Zagano

A Critical Feminist Ekklesia-logy of Liberation

An Argument for the Restoration of the Female Diaconate in the Catholic Church

978-0-8245-1244-6 $29.95 pb / 384 pages

The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse Winner of the Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion “The most substantial and sophisticated effort yet undertaken to connect ‘feminist and classical wisdom’ in a synthesis at once bold and discerning, critical and doxological, at once engaged with the classical sources of Christian theology.”

–Commonweal Magazine 978-0-8245-1925-4 $29.95 pb / 344 pages

Barbara Fiand

John Wijngaards

These essays represent key issues in feminist theology and the feminist religious movement—milestones in the attempts of Christian feminists to reclaim their spiritual authority, define biblical religion and the Christian church, and to articulate a feminist religious vision of justice and liberation

On Becoming Who We Are

Passionate Musings in the Winter of Life “In this time of turmoil and transition in the church, we need to listen to those who have deeply considered the life of faith and who give now voice to ‘ideas that have ruminated in the stillness.”

–Tom Roberts, National Catholic Reporter 978-0-8245-0024-5 $19.95 pb / 240 pages

She Who Is

Holy Saturday

The authoritative guide to understanding the case for a female diaconate. Clearly and reasonably argued with great knowledge of the relevant history, tradition, and theology.

978-0-8245-1832-5 $24.95 pb / 192 pages

Miriam Therese Winter

Women Deacons in the Early Church

Out of the Depths

“The contribution made by John Wijngaards to the ordination debate has been unparalleled by any other English-language writer.” –Margaret Hebblethwaite

The story and profound insight into priestly ministry by one of the few women ordained during communism with acceptance of the Vatican. And her obedient acceptance of the role of catechist once the Berlin wall fell. A must read for every minister.

Historical Texts and Contemporary Debates

978-0-8245-2393-0 $24.95 pb / 240 pages

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The Story of Ludmila Javarova, Ordained Roman Catholic Priest

978-0-8245-1889-9 $19.95 hc / 272 pages

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Elisabeth Schuessler-Fiorenza

Discipleship of Equals

WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVES

Women Saints “The diversity of women represented here is extraordinary. Ellsberg has identified holy women in various centuries practicing their faith amid cruel or ordinary circumstances.”

—America Magazine

Robert Ellsberg

Madonna Sophia Compton with Maria Compton-Hernandez and Patricia Campbell

Blessed Among All Women Women Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time

Women Saints

365 Daily Readings “This book is truly a book where women (and men) can find an honestly ecumenical, timeless, cross-cultural, and crossracial group of women of holiness. This book is meant to be a kind of abbreviated liturgical breviary, and accompanying a short biography of each saint are readings and prayers.” –Theandros.com 978-0-8245-2413-5 $19.95 pb / 544 pages

Siobhan Nash-Marshall

Joan of Arc

A Spiritual Biography A vivid image of the young country girl who accomplished unprecedented victories for her country shines forth in this moving biography. Witness the spirit and faith of the maid of Orleans in Siobhan Nash-Marshall’s carefully researched page-turner.

978-0-8245-9905-8 $19.95 pb / 192 pages

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The blessed, the prophets, the heroes of love and faith—these dynamic women come to life in this new collection of biographies from the bestselling author of All Saints. Be uplifted by the courage and spirit of this gathering of women.

978-0-8245-2439-5 $24.95 pb / 320 pages

Guy Gaucher, O.C.D.

The Passion of Therese of Lisieux With an introduction by Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R.

“Bishop Gaucher’s haunting account of Therese’s final eighteen months, when tuberculosis was consuming her young body and the ‘night of nothingness’ tortured her soul, reveals her at the summit of her journey, when she became the saint for the next millennium.”

–Bishop Patrick V. Ahern, D.D. 978-0-8245-0987-3 $24.95 pb / 272 pages

Christian Feldman

Mother Teresa Love Stays

The great spirit whose love embraced and uplifted the poor, sick, and orphaned shines from the pages of this accessible and comprehensive biography by Christian Feldman. The inspiring account includes eye-witness reports, photographs, and Mother Teresa’s own timeless words.

978-0-8245-1738-0 $15.95 hc / 144 pages

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Ways of Seeing

WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVES

“An exciting book reflecting the authentic growth of two women of faith, who balance church and Scripture with the deeply felt experience of their lives.”

– Fr. Don Piraro, Saint Charles Retreat Center

Lyn Holley Doucet and Robin Hebert

Lyn Holley Doucet and Robin Hebert

When Women Pray

When Wisdom Speaks

Our Personal Stories of Extraordinary Grace

Living Experiences of Biblical Women

“This lovely work prayerfully unfolds stories of fruitfulness, joy, pain, beauty, courage, doubt, angst, longing, confusion, and humor.

Robin and Lyn recognize the grace that holds these stories together. They know it is all prayer.” –Macrina Wiederkehr

Female voices of the Bible have been silenced throughout much of history.

What would it be like to get to know the women of the Bible as real, living figures whose lives can challenge our own? Two lively spiritual directors break open these Bible stories and connect them with contemporary women, all of them longing after God’s own heart.

978-0-8245-2279-7 $16.95 pb / 192 pages

978-0-8245-2570-5 $18.95 pb / 192 pages

Leslie Williams

When Women Build the Kingdom Who We Are, What We Do, and How We Relate

Women minister differently from men— this book shows how they use their relationships to build community, how they bring compassion to justice, peace to difficult and violent situations, and authentic spiritual experience to all that they do and are.

978-0-8245-2363-3 $19.95 pb / 208 pages

Jim McManus, C.Ss.R.

All Generations Will Call Me Blessed Mary at the Millennium

Ecumenical in tone, this book views Mary through scriptural, patristic, and contemporary spiritual lenses. Marian devotions and liturgical feasts are explained, and four doctrines of Mary, including the Immaculate Conception, are explored in depth.

978-0-8245-1787-8 $16.95 pb / 192 pages

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Maria Boulding

Gateway to Hope An Exploration of Failure

This little spiritual classic has helped thousands of readers over the decades. Failure or disappointment may be God’s chance to open us more effectively than we can ever open ourselves, and to stretch us beyond our small hopes and expectations.

978-0-8245-2698-6 $16.95 pb / 160 pages

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The foundational exclusive texts by Jorge Bergoglio Pope Francis Jorge Mario Bergoglio

Open Mind, Faithful Heart Reflections on Following Jesus

POPE FRANCIS

Introduction by Gustavo Larrazábal CFM Prologue by José María Arancedo Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz This book is not just for reading. It is a path for prayer and a guide for life.

Pope Francis connects with people, especially the young, the forgotten, and the forlorn.

The cameras show him in Rome, in Brazil, in Lampedusa reaching out to the crowds, holding infants, embracing the disabled.

What is the source of his energy and his spiritual vitality? This book is perhaps the best introduction to what makes the Pope the engaging pastor he is.

“The secret of Pope Francis is found in this book.”

—Bishop Martinez Camino

FROM THE INTRODUCTION “Among the large number of publications that have appeared in the months since the conclave, we do well to distinguish between books ‘about’ the Pope and books ‘of ’ the Pope…the Pope’s own books, of which this is one, come directly from his own hand…These are the books that show us all the depth and breadth of Francis…”

—Gustavo Larrazabal, CFM, The Editor of the Pope

During his years as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Bergoglio often spoke to those collaborating with him in pastoral ministry.

His constant theme was how to follow Jesus unreservedly, even in the hectic turmoil of our modern world. The texts of these talks, handpicked by the author for this volume, reveal the spiritual depths of Pope Francis as perhaps no other work does.The strong scriptural orientation of the Pope is evident in the countless references to both old and new testament. To help the reader, this edition has supplemented the original text with appropriate scriptural citations.

The language of these pages speaks to the heart as much as to the mind. These are meditations to be savored rather than just read quickly and filed away.

The Pope Francis Resource Library 978-0-8245-2085-4 $16.95 pb / 320 pages E-book editions available

F ro m t h e boo k “WE WILL NEVER be able to explain to our complete satisfaction the mysterious designs of God, who has wanted to reveal himself in the course of history. Over a long stretch of time we humans have been learning, like little children from their father, how to recognize and respond to the face of God. None of the Lord’s past revelations was partial; they all mysteriously contained the totality of the mystery of God in Christ; we perceived it only slowly, in bits and pieces. It is the same with our personal histories: the Lord reveals himself ‘historically’ in the unfathomable mystery of those who seek God and also in those who reject God and flee from him. That is to say, God reveals himself in the historical mystery of our movement through grace and sin.”

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A clear map to the Pope’s central thoughts and feelings Diego Fares, S.J.

The Heart of Pope Francis

How a New Culture of Encounter Is Changing the Church and the World

POPE FRANCIS

The culture of encounter is like a map to the thoughts and feelings of Pope Francis. At the heart of his vision lies a keen interest in people, a passion for understanding the life experience of the other. By reaching out, welcoming, and listening to others, especially those at the margins, Pope Francis has already changed the Church more than we might even understand.

This small book, written by a friend and fellow Jesuit who has worked for many years with Jorge Bergoglio, offers clear and encouraging insights to better understand and dare to follow the Pope.

The Pope Francis Resource Library 978-0-8245-2074-8 $14.95 hc / 112 pages

FROM TH E FO RE WO RD BY AN TO N IO SPADARO, S . J .

“I remember,” says Father Fares “the first conversation with Jorge took place at the headquarters of the Provincial Curia, an old, stately house in the neighborhood of Flores. I came from Mendoza, where I worked with the Jesuits in a poor neighborhood and the Office of the Provincial was striking me as quite wealthy, with old furniture and a good library. I think he understood because before leaving for the Novitiate, he wanted me to come along to get his coat. We climbed up to the terrace and he showed me where he lived: it was one of those little rooms that are usually found on the terrace of houses and are used as closets for brooms and junk. That day was cool and I noticed that the door did not keep out the cold. Since that day, my feelings and opinion of Jorge, especially on the coherence between what he says and what he lives, never changed. As says Peguy, friendship happens in a moment.”

Jorge and Diego have been friends for almost forty years. To read the pages of this book, therefore, is to enter into the veins of a friendship that has developed over time on a spiritual and intellectual level, within a pastoral and social context.

In a recent interview when I asked Diego Fares about the future of the Church he said: “The arrival of Francis is a time of consolation, not only of the Church but throughout the world. We live what St. Ignatius describes as consolation: an increase of hope, of faith and charity, inner joy that calls and leads the Gospel and all those things that are good for the soul…”

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The rich tradition of human fasting Hellmut Luetzner, M.D.

The New Life Fasting Guide

Seven Days to a Healthier, Happier You

BODY & SOUL

Fasting stimulates your own healing forces, detoxifies your body and regenerates your mind. Fasting creates overall wellbeing, rejuvenates your skin, restores your spiritual balance and positive outlook on life. Fasting can work miracles when done responsibly and wisely. The New Life Fasting Guige is the most successful fasting guide to self-directed fasting and has been used for over 30 years across Europe.

Fasting need not come with feeling hungry: Daily plans, recipes and detailed advice for body, mind and spirit guide you through one week of fasting.

978-0-8245-2660-3 $16.95 pb / 125 pages / fully illustrated

Niklaus Brantschen

Fasting

What • Why • How To begin the practice of fasting, you first need to clear your mind of misconceptions and learn the basics. This short, no-nonsense introduction from a longtime pioneer and Zen master presents thephysical, spiritual, and political dimensions of fasting.

978-0-8245-2540-8 $14.95 pb / 112 pages

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Robert J. Furey

Gerald May, M.D.

Margaret Benefiel

Overcoming Feelings of Inadequacy A book for people who have been made to feel inadequate, and who have found this Interferes with their personal growth, happiness, and level of achievement. Find out how to push back against the “script” that tells you to fail.

The Spirituality of Mental Health At an early time Gerald May sought to integrate spirituality and psychology, and years after his death he remains a trusted teacher. Simply Sane was by his own account his favorite book, and it continues to offer helpful guidance for a balanced, healthy lifestyle.

978-0-8245-1957-5 $16.95 pb / 144 pages

978-0-8245-1366-5 $19.95 pb / 216 pages

Finding Your Path to Success and Fulfillment Whether you are an executive manager, teacher, committee chair, pastor or parent, Margaret Benefiel gives you real-life stories and practical advice for navigating the path of soulful leadership and persevering through setbacks and successes. “Margaret Benefiel has gone right to the source-leaders who have chosen a deeper, more soulful path to building better organizations and a better society.”

–Lee G. Bolman, author of Leading with Soul

You Are Good Enough

Simply Sane

The Soul of a Leader

978-0-8245-2480-7 $16.95 pb / 192 pages

David Robinson

The Busy Family’s Guide to Spirituality

Practical Lessons for Modern Living from the Monastic Tradition “The most innovative book I have seen in the area of family spirituality.” –Spiritual Life. Drawing on the timeless principles of monastic communal living, this spiritual guide for families offers effective tools to meet many challenges and counteract the divisive forces that can splinter a healthy home.

978-0-8245-2524-8 $16.95 pb / 248 pages

Wesley Granberg-Michaelson

Anselm Gruen

Leadership From Inside Out

Building Self-Esteem

This book offers a series of 31 short and memorable reflections on Christian leadership by one of the premier churchman in the country. The author draws from his remarkable experience in government, private industry, and church life to show how Chrisitian values can inform the daily decisions everyone in business must make.

A Benedictine monk, author and speaker, Anselm Gruen draws on his rich experience as a spiritual counselor and psychologist to present constructive ways to build self-esteem, and deal with powerlessness in our lives.

Spirituality and Organizational Change

978-0-8245-2137-0 $19.95 pb / 192 pages

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The Christian Dimension

978-0-8245-1839-4 $16.95 pb / 144 pages

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BODY & SOUL

BODY & SOUL

“If people knew the real me…” –You Are Good Enough

A biblical and theological study of great relevance Paschal C. Mbagwu

Where God Meets Human

COMING SOON

The meeting between the Divine and humans is experienced in greatest measure in the liturgy of the Eucharist mediated through the role of the priest. Igbo religion and culture offer surprising aspects that invite ecclesiastical consideration for a profound worship.

Starting with the priesthood and sacrificial ritual in the Igbo tribe which is the seed-bed of Christianity in Nigeria, and suggesting areas in the Igbo culture and tradition that may be enculturated into the church’s worship, this book contributes to giving Christ and the Church a true home in Igboland.

978-0-8245-2219-3 $29.95 pb / 256 pages

“I realized again the significance of that liturgical gesture at every Mass in which the priest or deacon mingles, at the preparation of the gifts, a few drops of water with the wine and prays quietly: “By the mystery of this water and wine, may we come to share in the divinity of Christ Who humbled Himself to share in our humanity.” The water that represents our humanity is to be elevated to the divinity of Christ so that we become one in Him. At Mass and in Christ, you and I are to become an acceptable offering to the Father.”

—Edward J. Slattery, Bishop of Tulsa

“After his ordination, he served as a parochial vicar for a year. He also served as the Archdiocesan Master of Liturgical Ceremonies and taught in a minor seminary before proceeding for further studies.

Rev. Mbagwu obtained a Licentiate and Doctorate degrees in Liturgical/Sacramental theology from the University of St. Mary of the Lake Mundelein, Illinois.”

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978-0-8245-2214-8 $12.95 pb / 80 pages

Who am I online? Are cyber-friendships real?

The internet has become an existentially new reality of our lives. It stirs questions about who we are as people, and what we long for in the depths of our souls. Jesuit Antonio Spadaro is one of Pope Francis’ close advisors on social media and cybertheology.

He offers here clear, and simple principles to understand the spirituality of the internet, its promise and peril.

CHURCH AT THE CROSSROAD SERIES

Social Media, Spirituality and Community

Friending God

Antonio Spadaro, S.J.

Understanding the new coordinates of cyberspace, community and faith

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