Finding Beauty in the Other explores how beauty can be found in religions and cultures. It also views how the beauty of the Christian gospel should be communicated in different religious and cultural settings. This valuable collection of essays features a host of highly respected scholars, presenting a unique treatment of the concept of beauty as seen in a variety of religions and cultures. These include Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. In addition, beauty as seen in various Afr...

Philippe Bordeyne – Waldecir Gonzaga, Joie et fraternité: semences et premiers fruits du pontificat de François / Joy and Fraternity: the Seeds and First Fruits of Francis’ PontificateCard. Orani João Tempesta, O. Cist., Saluto I opening wordsmarIa clara lucchETTI BInGEmEr, alegría y fraternidad: ejes de una santidad humanizadora / Joy and Fraternity: axes of a humanising holinessPeter Casarella, alegría y fraternidad, factores de renovación para una iglesia mundi...

El individualismo del siglo XX ha desembocado en un mundo sin Dios. La crisis religiosa en innegable, pero el alma humana sigue hambrienta de trascendencia, tal y como demuestra la actual querencia por los movimientos religiosos o espirituales. Esta obra ofrece una reflexión lúcida e innovadora sobre la pasión por Dios en tiempos de increencia. Una puerta que se abre hacia la experiencia mística para poder dar un sentido pleno a nuestra vida.

During the past century, an enormous effervescence of events changed the sociopolitical configuration of the world. The interpretation of these facts helped further deepen the crisis in which modern thought already found itself--and it generated the uncertain and unstable environment in which we live today, the so-called postmodernity, late modernity, or hypermodernity. In this context, one of the most profound impacts is most certainly the one on religion. During the twentieth century, re...

Based on a careful reading of Pope Benedict's 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate ("Charity in Truth"), the essays in this substantial volume explore how an encounter with the person of Jesus Christ is the true basis for economic and social progress. The authors are experts in a wide range of disciplines -- theology, philosophy, biblical studies, political science, economics, finance, environmental science -- and represent a broad spectrum of Catholic thought, from liberal to cons...

Written throughout Louis Dupré’s life, Thinking the Unknowable explores the relationship between faith and metaphysics, charting the course for an innovative Christian philosophy of religion.Louis Dupré’s Thinking the Unknowable offers a sophisticated response to the subjectivist ills of modern philosophy. Drawing on a diverse host of philosophers, theologians, and phenomenologists, Dupré seeks to open up a space for faith in contemporary philosop...

This book advances an Abrahamic "asymmetric-mutual-substitutive" model of hospitality as a practical approach to establish peaceful coexistence between Muslims and Christians. The merits include its helpful survey of the four models of interfaith dialogue and its clear exposition of the dialogue of life; its constructive use of the philosophy of Levinas, particularly in supporting its vision of asymmetrical moral responsibility among Muslim and Christians; and its familiarity with an exten...

Based on a careful reading of Pope Benedict’s 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate (“Charity in Truth”), the essays in this substantial volume explore how an encounter with the person of Jesus Christ is the true basis for economic and social progress. The authors are experts in a wide range of disciplines -- theology, philosophy, biblical studies, political science, economics, finance, environmental science -- and represent a broad spectrum of Catholic thought, from liberal to cons...