Build with Living Stones: Formation of Franciscan Life and Work is based upon the internationally recognized Comprehensive Source on the Franciscan Charism. This updated edition is a valuable resource that gives users a Franciscan view of life and work.The new Build With Living Stones is unique, in that it is genuinely inter-Franciscan. It provides the Franciscan family a creative blend of the best in current theology, Franciscan research and pastoral practice. This new edition also brings...

Man is a meaning-seeking creature. We have an undeniable need to ask how and why. We look for answers to ‘how?’ in science and mathematics. For answers to ‘why?’ questions, we have to search in our experience of life and to explore the world of ideas, those of others and our own.That’s when words and ideas, suitably arranged, come together in a happy confluence of sound and meaning, signifying something worthwhile. The poems in this book are written in various forms and styles. Som...

Discover the profound wisdom and timeless teachings of Catholicism with The Catholicism Answer BookThis authoritative and accessible guide presents the answers to the 300 most commonly asked questions about the Catholic faith, making it the ultimate resource for both believers and seekers.Readers will discover:300 Thoughtfully Selected Questions: Delve into the heart of Catholicism as this book addresses a wide array ...

The Book of Revelation is God's message to all who are concerned about the future.No Bible guide makes Revelation more understandable than The Smart Guide to the Bible: The Book of Revelation. You'll grasp the meaning of each verse, you'll understand every important symbol, and you'll get the big picture of all that God has promised for those who believe in Him.The Smart Guide to the Bible is a series of simplified commentaries designed to...

In this cogent volume, renowned Christian historian Martin Marty delivers a brief yet sweeping account of Christianity and how it spread from a few believers two thousand years ago to become the world’s largest religion.Comprising nearly one third of the world’s population–more than two billion followers–Christianity is distinctive among major faiths in that it derives both its character and its authority from the divinity of its central figure, Jesus Christ. Examining this facet o...

This issue of the Rosicrucian Digest presents a compendium of materials that provide a solid introduction to the most important aspects of Martinism.

Following his remarkable exegesis on the first and second periods of Jesus' genealogy, the best-selling author, in the fifth installment of The History of Redemption series, covers the third and final period, which spans the fourteen generations from the Babylonian exile to Jesus Christ. The Promise of the Eternal Covenant sheds light upon the labyrinth-like history of the 600 years before Jesus' birth. Throughout the book, Rev. Abraham Park demonstrates that God is sove...

The places that trace Clare’s footsteps are sacred places, not just because they record her life-story, but because they hold the potential to be thresholds for our own transcendent experiences. A sacred place recalls past events of God’s revelation at that site. Pilgrims visit such places to recall the history and to experience the spirit of the Holy that is specific to the place. At the same time, a sacred place holds the promise of future encounters with the Holy. Visiting sacred places...

Cosmic ode, poetic masterpiece, spiritual summit, prayer for peace, call to fraternity: the Canticle of Brother Sun is known by all, or at least its title is, and it has been celebrated in many ways, set to music so many times. Yet, there is something in it that resists, which is why it will never completely be a classic. It continues to vibrate with its initial transgression which pushes it towards the universal while remaining in the assumed particularism of a vernacular dialect. The cal...

Including contributions from twenty-two leading moral theologians, this volume is the most thorough assessment of modern Roman Catholic social teaching available. In addition to interrogations of the major documents, it provides insight into the biblical and philosophical foundations of Catholic social teaching, addresses the doctrinal issues that arise in such a context, and explores the social thought leading up to the "modern" era, which is generally accepted as beginning in 1891 with t...

Jesus as the Logos and the Son of God: Examining the Doctrines of Eternal Sonship and Eternal Generation by Robert Alan King is a booklet of approximately 7,000 words. It discusses the doctrines of eternal sonship and eternal generation, examining the biblical text and very early external Christian sources such as the letters of Ignatius and The Epistle to Diognetus to conclude that eternal sonship and eternal generation are man-made doctrines that entered into church teaching in the middl...