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Baker Publishing Group How to Find Hope When Life Hurts
Book SynopsisWell-known pastor and counselor provides hope and healing for anyone experiencing emotional pain, freeing you to live fully in the present and look with hope toward the future.
£6.99
Baker Publishing Group Miscarried Hope
Book SynopsisNo grief is quite like the grief that follows pregnancy loss. But true hope and redemption are available, even in the heartbreak of miscarriage and stillbirth.For any woman who feels alone, doubtful, and overwhelmed with sorrow, this book invites you on a guided journey to rediscover the transforming hope of the gospel after pregnancy or infant loss. Built on new research from interviews with more than 400 pregnancy loss moms, Miscarried Hope helps you move through the Five Stages of Hope, while addressing cultural stigmas and challenges to grieving your loss. Through profound parallels between pregnancy loss and Holy Week, Rachel invites you to follow in the footsteps of Jesus''s disciples as they grieved his death, waited in the silence, and rediscovered hope in his resurrection.With biblical truth and practical comforts for coping with the day-to-day pain of loss, Miscarried Hope leads you along a gentle road to finding hope again.
£12.59
Baker Publishing Group Prophetic Forecast Insights for Navigating the
Book SynopsisEverything we know is changing. New realities are arising as we prepare for the coming great awakening and harvest. Through biblical teaching and Spirit-inspired insights, rising prophetic leader Joshua Giles unveils God's plans and strategies to help you align with heaven's agenda to prepare you for what lies ahead.
£11.69
Baker Publishing Group Releasing Miracles How to Walk in the
Book SynopsisWhat if you were able to live a life of answered prayer marked by miracles and victory? In this eye-opening book, you will discover the biblical foundation for experiencing the miraculous power of God every day. You'll learn the power of hope and overcome a theology of unworthiness to break free from the shame and intimidation that sabotage your faith.
£11.39
Baker Publishing Group Seven Secrets of the SpiritFilled Life Daily
Book SynopsisRenowned theologian and acclaimed author Jack Levison delivers an energizing devotional packed with biblical insights and practical strategies. Each day will fuel you for spiritual growth as you uncover the secrets to a fuller, deeper, and more powerful relationship with the Holy Spirit--who fills you up, pours you out, and transforms the world through you.
£12.59
Baker Publishing Group Healing Rain Immersing Yourself in Christs Love
Book SynopsisPastor and popular podcast host Sue Detweiler empowers you to overcome every obstacle on your road to healing and freedom. Full of wisdom, incredible testimonies, and hands-on application, this biblical guide will help you tend to your heart and experience healing and wholeness in your body, mind, and emotions--and empower you to help others do the same.
£13.49
Baker Publishing Group The Spiritual Gifts Blueprint Gods Design for
Book SynopsisAre You Doing What God Created You to Do? Can you identify your spiritual gifting or understand God''s purpose for your life? If you can''t confidently answer yes, you''re not alone. Yet there is a simple, biblical framework to finding your God-given gifts and finding His purposes for your life--and it leads to a relationship with the Trinity you never imagined. Offering clear explanations and biblical depth, veteran ministry leader Andy Reese offers a fresh and practical blueprint to Paul''s teachings on spiritual gifts and God''s intended spiritual connection to the Trinity, including how to· simply discover your unique gifting and use it to impact others · see your God-intended purposes come to life in amazing ways · connect intimately with Jesus and the Father · experience the Holy Spirit and His working within and through you Your gifts are not defi
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Baker Publishing Group Pursuing Gods Presence A Practical Guide to
Book SynopsisOffering grounded, practical teaching, balanced with Scripture and Spirit, pastor and theologian Roger Helland shows you how to seek, experience, and host God's manifest presence. He helps you sort through common misunderstandings, pursue holiness in everyday life, and live a presence-centered life that will transform you--and the world around you.
£13.49
Baker Publishing Group Your Next Leap of Faith
Book SynopsisWith amazing testimonies and real-world application, social media missionary Shane Winnings offers the audacious encouragement and contagious courage you need to quiet your fears and anxiety, break free from the world's crushing expectations, and say yes to the life of incredible adventures, lifesaving protection, and improbable peace God's prepared for you.
£13.49
Baker Publishing Group Holy Habits 10 Small Decisions That Lead to a
Book SynopsisPastor and influencer Noah Herrin gives you ten simple, powerful choices you can make each day that will lead to life-changing purpose, freedom, and impact. When you shift your relationship with Jesus from duty to delight, you will rest where you once were striving, stand firm in faith, rise in influence, and make an impact that echoes into eternity.
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Baker Publishing Group Stay Here Uncovering Gods Plan to Restore Your
Book SynopsisWith tender passion and bold hope, founder of Stay Here and social media influencer Jacob Coyne shows it's okay not to be okay, but we don't have to stay that way. Infusing light and compassion into the dark corners of mental health, he reveals how Jesus brings life to the full--and can transform pain, trauma, suicidal thoughts, and addictions into purpose.
£13.49
Baker Publishing Group The Journey to Biblical Masculinity
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Baker Publishing Group Hope After Church Hurt
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Baker Publishing Group Spiritual Housecleaning Protect Your Home and
Book SynopsisNew Content and Look for This Perennially Bestselling Spiritual Warfare BookDemons are nesting in Christian homes--and even churches. Hard to believe? As Eddie and Alice Smith explain, a small opening is all it takes for evil spirits to gain access. Once in, they defile the spiritual atmosphere and damage our relationships, our ministries, our success, even our health.We can stop these evil infestations. In this newly revised and expanded edition, the Smiths offer amazing real-life stories showing the inroads that spiritual pollution makes--and how to get rid of it. Readers will learn to detect the presence of demons, follow the seven-step biblical process of purification, and close the door behind these intruders for good.
£999.99
Baker Publishing Group Seeing the Voice of God
Book SynopsisWith absorbing insight, Seeing the Voice of God demystifies nighttime dreams and daytime visions, revealing the science behind the supernatural and giving you a biblical foundation for making sense of what you see. Includes a comprehensive Dream Symbols Dictionary with over 1,000 biblical definitions.
£12.34
Baker Publishing Group Transformation
Book SynopsisGod loves us and has a unique blueprint for our life--but it''s up to us to find it and live it out. Mingling contemporary stories and biblical anecdotes with practical advice, Silvoso shows how God intervenes in human affairs today to transform people and nations. He also shares five critical paradigms for transformation that are pivotal for change: Discipling Nations, Reclaiming the Marketplace, Looking at Work as Worship, Becoming Salt and Light, and Eliminating Poverty. In these pages, readers will find extraordinary stories about the power of God working through those who discovered their specific purpose. Then they''ll be challenged to transform themselves and, by doing so, transform their families, schools, businesses, and nations. Silvoso encourages readers to aim high, knowing that God has entrusted them with great things. 'God sees you as a nation transformer,' says Silvoso. He has faith in you!
£15.99
Baker Publishing Group Beyond the Veil
Book SynopsisWhether you're new to intercession or a veteran prayer warrior, here you'll discover sound, biblical methods for binding the enemy and loosing the Holy Spirit. Includes prayer exercises, with corresponding devotionals to bring the principles to life.
£16.41
Baker Publishing Group A Womans Guide to Spiritual Warfare How to
Book SynopsisAre you in a battle that threatens to overwhelm you or those you love? Take heart. This revised and updated edition of a classic field manual for women gives you the biblical principles for effective spiritual warfare.
£10.44
Baker Publishing Group Finding Your Spiritual Gifts Questionnaire The
Book SynopsisLike every believer, you have gifts that God wants to release in you. But how can you know for certain what those are? Reliable, comprehensive, and easy-to-use, this bestselling assessment will help you identify and understand which gifts God has uniquely given you to carry out his plans for your life.
£7.44
Baker Publishing Group Live Like Jesus
Book SynopsisRising Vineyard Leader Unlocks the Supernatural Kingdom Promises of Romans 6-8Many believers live with a gnawing sense that there must be more to the Christian life than what they''re living. They stumble around with a deep sense of discontent or resignation, struggling to see how their faith is applicable, exciting, or even visible in their lives.What if the answer is that there is more to the gospel than we imagined?With bold honesty and fresh biblical insight, pastor and speaker Putty Putman reveals that the secret to a vibrant life of more is found not in what you do, but in who you are.Through the Holy Spirit, we are not just forgiven, but made new. This new identity makes possible a thrilling life of impact, adventure, blessing, and true freedom--a life, like Jesus'' own, that is connected to and empowered by a God who is, and does, more than we ever imagined.
£11.39
Baker Publishing Group Gift of Prophetic Encouragement
Book SynopsisFull of powerful testimonies and practical application, this book helps you break out of your comfort zone and embrace a lifestyle of encouraging others--just as Jesus did. Learn how to deepen your relationship with God, open a direct line of communication with him, share his words with others, and change the atmosphere and lives of others everywhere you go.
£15.29
Baker Publishing Group Encountering Our Wild God Ways to Experience His
Book SynopsisThe wild beauty of our God is calling, beckoning us to pursue Him beyond our circumstances, emotions and logic into the glorious mystery that is Him. Here are practical, everyday ways to pursue Him more passionately, to trust Him more fiercely, to see His face reflected in the miraculous and to experience His wild, limitless nature.
£16.31
Baker Publishing Group The Way of the Kingdom
Book SynopsisFight the Way Jesus FoughtFor many believers, times of unrest simply mean that darkness is on the rise. But what if the growing violence in the world today means something different? What if our 'signs of the times' mean that the Spirit of God is on the move?Author and trusted prophet Kim Maas reveals one of the mysteries of the Kingdom: When light breaks through the gates of darkness, the result is violence. This is spiritual warfare, and it signals a fresh awakening. It means that the Kingdom of God is advancing and that you are advancing!Engage in Kingdom violence the way Jesus taught--with violent love, violent forgiveness, violent healing, violent deliverance, violent peace. If answering violence with violence sounds like war, it is. You are already in position. Overturn the works of darkness in every area of your life, and watch for a great move of God!
£12.34
Baker Publishing Group What We Believe Understanding and Confessing the
Book SynopsisFounder of Ligonier Ministries and author of more than ninety books introduces readers to essential Christian beliefs in this timeless and valuable resource.
£17.29
Baker Publishing Group Good to Great in Gods Eyes
Book SynopsisNow poised to reach a new readership, Good to Great in God''s Eyes shows how Christians can honor God with lives of great faith and excellent work. Believers become great in God''s eyes by applying the ten common characteristics of great Christians:- think great thoughts - read great books - pursue great people - dream great dreams - pray great prayers - take great risks - make great sacrifices - enjoy great moments - empower great people - develop great habitsUsing Scripture, personal stories, and examples from Christians who left a lasting legacy, bestselling author Chip Ingram offers practical steps for becoming great in all areas of life, in spiritual growth, family, relationships, and career. Includes a foreword by Bob Buford and helpful discussion questions to facilitate group or individual study.
£15.11
Baker Publishing Group Christian Ethics and Moral Philosophy An
Book SynopsisThis introductory textbook presents Christian philosophical and theological approaches to ethics.Table of ContentsContents1. Varieties of Ethics and Moral ThoughtCase Study: Violence against Women and Children2. Ethics in the Hebrew ScripturesCase Study: Care for the Environment3. Ethics in the Christian ScripturesCase Study: The Nearest and the Neediest4. Divine Command TheoryCase Study: Intervention, Exemptions, and Conscience5. Natural Law EthicsCase Study: Human Sexuality6. Individualistic EthicsCase Study: Abortion7. Kantian EthicsCase Study: Capital Punishment8. UtilitarianismCase Study: War9. Continental EthicsCase Study: Euthanasia10. Virtue EthicsCase Study: LyingEpilogue: Love and Christian EthicsGlossaryFurther ReadingIndexes
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Baker Publishing Group Youth Ministry in the 21st Century Five Views
Book SynopsisThis five-view work brings together leading voices to present major views on youth ministry, giving readers resources to develop their own approach.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Why This Book?Introducing the AuthorsView One: Greg StierThe Gospel Advancing View of MinistryResponses to the Gospel Advancing View Brian Cosby Chap Clark Fernando Arzola Ron Hunter Greg Stier's ResponseView Two: Brian CosbyThe Reformed View of Youth MinistryResponses to the Reformed View Greg Stier Chap Clark Fernando Arzola Ron Hunter Brian Cosby's ResponseView Three: Chap ClarkThe Adoption View of Youth MinistryResponses to the Adoption View Greg Stier Brian Cosby Fernando Arzola Ron Hunter Chap Clark's ResponseView Four: Fernando ArzolaThe Ecclesial View of Youth MinistryResponses to the Ecclesial View Greg Stier Brian Cosby Chap Clark Ron Hunter Fernando Arzola's ResponseView Five: Ron HunterThe D6 View of Youth MinistryResponses to the D6 View Greg Stier Brian Cosby Chap Clark Fernando Arzola Ron Hunter's ResponseAfterword: Where from Here?
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Baker Publishing Group Hazards of Being a Man
Book SynopsisPastor Jeffrey E. Miller tackles 12 hazards all men face--from insensitivity to lust--and paints a compelling picture of how to live as a better man.
£16.89
Baker Publishing Group Reading People How Seeing the World through the
Book SynopsisPopular blogger takes readers on a journey to understand themselves and others by exploring popular personality frameworks, offering practical applications to improve all facets of life, including love, marriage, productivity, parenting, the workplace, and spiritual life.
£10.79
Baker Publishing Group Love Thy Body
Book SynopsisBestselling author and cultural commentator helps readers cut through the culture-war rhetoric and equips them to respond intelligently and compassionately to issues such as abortion, assisted suicide, homosexuality, transgenderism, and more.
£13.49
Baker Publishing Group The Cost of Control Why We Crave It the Anxiety
Book SynopsisDid you know that your daily habits are instilling in you a false sense of control over your life? This leads to anxiety and broken relationships when things appear to go off track. But God has a solution: trade that so-called control for influence.
£11.39
Duke University Press Cachitas Streets
Book SynopsisJalane D. Schmidt shows how the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, discovered in 1612 and known as Cachita, is a potent and contested symbol of Cuban national identity. She analyzes the five times over the last eighty years Cachita has been celebrated in Cuba's urban streets.Trade Review"[W]hat makes Cachita's Streets special is the attention the author gives to the many different contexts within which the Virgin has been venerated, supplicated, politicized, and racialized over the centuries—Cuba's tumultuous 20th century in particular. Providing a careful study of all the facets of the Virgin’s role in Cuban life, Schmidt documents the multidimensional and contested Cachita of the streets, not merely the Virgin of the shrine in El Cobre. The result is an exemplary socioreligious history." -- D. Jacobsen * Choice *"The book is carefully researched and is a special contribution to the study of religion, particularly in the Oriente (Eastern region of Cuba)....Schmidt’s work represents a unique approach to the study of religion in Cuba and uses rich archival research to follow worship of La Virgen de la Caridad throughout the island’s history." -- Danielle Pilar Clealand * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Cachita’s Streets is deeply researched and skillfully crafted." -- Reinaldo L. Román * New West Indian Guide *"Schmidt offers up a history of the Virgin and her devotees, but in the process, she engages the reader in a sweeping narrative of Cuban politics, identity, race and religion over the past four centuries. . . . Schmidt sheds light on the importance of the Cuban streets as a stage for political and religious leaders to influence their audience, the Cuban people." -- Caroline Barnett * AmeriQuests *"[Schmidt's] ethnographic research is unparalleled . . . . The book adds a much-needed piece to the study of historical and contemporary Cuban religion." -- Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado * Religious Studies Review *"Careful and captivating. . . . One of the best histories of Marian devotion that I have read, and one of the best books on Cuba overall." -- Linda B. Hall * Catholic Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. "Antes": Processions Past 1 Part I. Cuba Produnda, 1612–1927 1. From Foundling to Intercessor: Our Lady Help of Slaves 17 2. Mambisa Virgin: Patrona of the Patria 49 Part II. Regal Streets, 1931–1936 3. Royalty in Exile: Banishing Bembes 69 4. Crowning La Caridad: The Queen of Republican Cuba 94 Part III. Martial Streets, 1951–1958 5. The Virgin General on the March: Conquering Cuba? 131 6. Rebel Sierras and Lowlands: Petitioning the Mother of Cuba 164 Part IV. Revolutionary Streets, 1959–1998 7. "¡Todos a la Plaza!": Mobilizing in Revolutionary Time and Space 185 8. "The Streets Are for Revolutionaries!": Prohibiting Processions 207 9. Luchando in the Special Period: Papal Visit 235 Conclusion. Processions Present: Returning to the Streets, 1998–2012 273 Notes 299 Bibliography 323 Index 347
£80.10
Duke University Press Passionate and Pious Religious Media and Black
Book SynopsisMonique Moultrie explores the impact of faith-based sexual ministries on black women's sexual agency to trace how these women navigate sexuality, religious authority, and their spiritual walk with God.Trade Review(Starred Review) "A stunning and dynamic sociological read on womanist sexual ethics." -- Sandra Collins * Library Journal *"This engaging multidisciplinary thought-provoking text will be of interest to academics, educators and researchers. . . . It brings new critical insights/analyses to a topic often considered taboo in these fields." -- Uvanney Maylor * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"[Moultrie's] approach is bold, delving into the experiences of real women in an attempt to bring sexuality out of the shadows of church teachings, yet indicating that the parachurch ministries themselves have not gone far enough." -- Tola Olu Pearce * Journal of African American History *"Moultrie's Passionate and Pious … goes beyond filling a gap in the literature as her work provides an intimate portrayal of the messages transmitted in black Christian media and the way these messages are received." -- Apryl Williams * Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture *"Reaching beyond typical questions, like the morality of homosexuality, Passionate and Pious is a more robust exploration of Christian sexual ethics.… An excellent resource for theological graduate students looking for more insight into the sexual ethics of the Black church and Black women. It is also an excellent read for Black women and those of other backgrounds who grapple with the high price of purity culture and pleasing God through their sexual choices." -- Courtney Bryant * Journal of Religion *"Charts new ground…. Passionate and Pious is an important text for helping religious leaders, laypersons, and activists do the work of constructing viable alternatives. It is a valuable text to guide scholars, teachers, and students in examining the complex tensions between Black women's sexuality, moral codes, and religious beliefs and practices." -- Elise M. Edwards * International Journal of Africana Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. For All the Single Ladies: Black Women's Stories of Faith and Sexuality 1 1. Sexual Purity as PR: Tracing the Impact of Religious Media 21 2. Reading "Our" Bynum as Text: For a Black Woman by a Black Woman 29 3. Beyond Bynum: Analyzing Contemporary Faith-Based Sexuality Ministries 50 4. "Why I Gotta be Gay?": Approaches to Womanist Sexual Hospitality 81 5. "The Lord Still has Work for Me to Do": Analyzing Senior Sexuality and Faith-Based Sexuality Ministries 96 6. Horny and Holy: Saved Women Seeking Sexual Pleasure 116 Conclusion. Living Sexually Before God: A Contemporary Womanist Sexual Ethics 142 Notes 153 Bibliography 173 Index 183
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Duke University Press Passionate and Pious
Book SynopsisMonique Moultrie explores the impact of faith-based sexual ministries on black women's sexual agency to trace how these women navigate sexuality, religious authority, and their spiritual walk with God.Trade Review(Starred Review) "A stunning and dynamic sociological read on womanist sexual ethics." -- Sandra Collins * Library Journal *"This engaging multidisciplinary thought-provoking text will be of interest to academics, educators and researchers. . . . It brings new critical insights/analyses to a topic often considered taboo in these fields." -- Uvanney Maylor * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"[Moultrie's] approach is bold, delving into the experiences of real women in an attempt to bring sexuality out of the shadows of church teachings, yet indicating that the parachurch ministries themselves have not gone far enough." -- Tola Olu Pearce * Journal of African American History *"Moultrie's Passionate and Pious … goes beyond filling a gap in the literature as her work provides an intimate portrayal of the messages transmitted in black Christian media and the way these messages are received." -- Apryl Williams * Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture *"Reaching beyond typical questions, like the morality of homosexuality, Passionate and Pious is a more robust exploration of Christian sexual ethics.… An excellent resource for theological graduate students looking for more insight into the sexual ethics of the Black church and Black women. It is also an excellent read for Black women and those of other backgrounds who grapple with the high price of purity culture and pleasing God through their sexual choices." -- Courtney Bryant * Journal of Religion *"Charts new ground…. Passionate and Pious is an important text for helping religious leaders, laypersons, and activists do the work of constructing viable alternatives. It is a valuable text to guide scholars, teachers, and students in examining the complex tensions between Black women's sexuality, moral codes, and religious beliefs and practices." -- Elise M. Edwards * International Journal of Africana Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. For All the Single Ladies: Black Women's Stories of Faith and Sexuality 1 1. Sexual Purity as PR: Tracing the Impact of Religious Media 21 2. Reading "Our" Bynum as Text: For a Black Woman by a Black Woman 29 3. Beyond Bynum: Analyzing Contemporary Faith-Based Sexuality Ministries 50 4. "Why I Gotta be Gay?": Approaches to Womanist Sexual Hospitality 81 5. "The Lord Still has Work for Me to Do": Analyzing Senior Sexuality and Faith-Based Sexuality Ministries 96 6. Horny and Holy: Saved Women Seeking Sexual Pleasure 116 Conclusion. Living Sexually Before God: A Contemporary Womanist Sexual Ethics 142 Notes 153 Bibliography 173 Index 183
£19.99
Fordham University Press Empowering the People of God
Book SynopsisA collection of essays tracing the development of selected Catholic lay apostolates in the decades before and after the Second Vatican Council. Contributors demonstrate how Catholic Action that functioned as an auxiliary of the American bishops gave way to groups more inclined to challenge episcopal authority during the 1960s and 1970s.Trade Review"Empowering the People of God is a major contribution to the "lived history" of Vatican II for the American Catholics. Catholics changed and the changes made a difference for the country as well as the Church. These thoroughly researched essays demonstrate that lay empowerment was taking place before the Council. The Council persuaded lay leaders that "the shaping of the Church's future was in their hands". How they handled those rising expectations is then the theme of six well chosen case studies. Anyone who wants to understand American Catholics must consider the history provided by this excellent book." -- -David O'Brien Professor Emeritus, College of the Holy Cross, and Distingusihged Visiting Professor at Large, University of Dayton "I think a broad audience will enjoy this book about the practice of Catholic Action in America. It deals with Pope Pius Xl's call for the laity to engage in "Catholic Action" by assisting the clergy in carrying out the Vatican's definition of the Church's worldly mission, including its commitment to social justice. Millions of the faithful responded to this call, dutifully in he 1930s and 1940s and zealously after mid-century. The introduction to the book deftly contextualizes both periods of Catholic Action, and the essays explore the diversity of the activists reactions to this opportunity. Briefly put, the activists before mid-century conformed to the Pope's charge without challenging the Vatican's authority to define their options. But after 1950, in the new age of cultural individualism in American society and its institutions, the activists opted for the maximum feasible participation of the laity in the definition and implementation of the mission of the Church, a phenomenon that yielded todays' tripartite struggle, laic and clerical , among conservatives, liberals, and moderates for ascendancy in America's largest and perhaps its most quintessentially urban branch of Christianity." -- -Zane Miller Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History Emeritus, University of Cincinnati, and co-editor, The Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy Series "Empowering the People of God gives a nuanced, complicated, insightful portrait of Catholic Action as a spectrum rather than a monolith. The volume is timely, not just for historians of American Catholicism, but also for those seeing to understand the deeper backstory to the contesting definitions of authority in the Church in the present moment." -- -Amy L. Koehlinger Oregon State UniversityTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: Jeffrey Burns Part One: Catholic Action 1. Catholic Action in the Archdiocese of New York: The Case of the Catholic Club of New York City (Patrick J. Hayes) 2. The Liturgical Movement and Catholic Action: Women Living the Liturgical Life in the Lay Apostolate (Katharine E. Harmon) 3. "The Priesthood of the Layman": Catholic Action in the Archdiocese of San Francisco (William Issel) 4. From Participation to Community: John Courtney Murray's American Justification for Catholic Action (Christopher Denny) 5. Azzione Cattolica in an American Setting: The Society of Saint Charles-Scalabrinians and Catholic Action (Mary Elizabeth Brown) Part Two: The People of God 6. Relevant Transformations: The Young Women of the Extension Lay Volunteers, 1961-1971 (Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello) 7. Reaching Out to the People of God: The Implications of Renewal for the Sisters of Mercy in Parish Schools (Mary Beth Fraser Connolly) 8. "This is Our Challenge! We will Pursue It": The National Council of Catholic Women, the Feminist Movement, and the Second Vatican Council, 1960-1975 (Mary Henold) 9. Who Will Guard the Guardians? Church Government and the Ecclesiology of the People of God, 1965-1969 (Jeremy Bonner) 10. Empowering the People of God: John Cardinal Dearden's Church of Tomorrow (Samuel J. Thomas) 11. Christian Unity, Lay Authority, and the People of God: The Community of Christ Our Brother in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, 1967-1969 (Andrew Moore)
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Fordham University Press The Bread of the Strong
Book SynopsisThe Bread of the Strong investigates the origins, development, and migration of a Roman Catholic retreat movement founded by Onésime Lacouture, SJ. Although suppressed in its original host region of Québec, it migrated to the United States, thanks largely to John Hugo’s advocacy, and critically influenced Dorothy Day’s spiritual development.Trade Review"The Bread of the Strong is a thrilling spiritual adventure story. Jack Downey brilliantly tracks the origins and flourishing of the controversial, mysterious, and extremely influential retreat movement most prominently associated with Dorothy Day and the Catholic Workers. 'The retreat' blended passionately mystical Quebecois spirituality with the hard-nosed militancy of Catholic labor movement advocacy of Industrial Era Pittsburgh. The result was a paradoxical-and most potent-form of Catholic spiritual radicalism that fulfilled Dorothy Day's lifelong search for authentic communion with Jesus and her fellows." -- -Jim Fisher author of On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York "To my knowledge, no other work pulls together so much transnational, bilingual,cultural and historical background on the three main figures, Onesime Lacouture, John Hugo, and Dorothy Day, in the context of the controversial retreat with which they were all involved. The book is impressive in its transnational focus and bilingual sources" -- -Una Cadegan University of Dayton "Downey has written a very good book of historical and cultural analysis based on extensive archival research. It offers the first critical examination of a profound theological and spiritual resource for a figure who - as Pope Francis reminded us in his speech to Congress - remains one of the most significant Catholics in U.S. history. It is an important book for anyone who not only wants to understand Day better, but also to appreciate the often forgotten or ignored theological diversity that existed in early twentieth-century American Catholicism." -- -Benjamin Peters American Catholic Studies "The Bread of the Strong is a remarkable contribution to the literature on the history of American Catholicism and will long be an indispensable resource for gaining a deeper understanding of the Catholic Worker movement as a notable spiritual phenomenon that emerged within an American context." -- -James McCartin Director, Fordham Center on Religion and Culture "... The Bread of the Strong offers a rich and often provocative interpretation of the entire world of French Canadian (Quebecois) Catholicism from which Lacouturism emerged." -Journal of Jesuit Studies "This contribution to American Catholic scholarship rightfully deserves a place in every university library and on the shelves of all those who wish to more deeply understand Dorothy Day's life and the movement she launched, which continues its works of mercy throughout the country today." -Catholic Library WorldTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Conversion and Catholic Pacifism 1 1 Canadien Identity, Nationalism, and Muscular Catholicism 20 2 Onesime Lacouture and Conversion in the White Desert 53 3 Onesime Lacouture and the "Return to the Gospel" 80 4 Mackerel Snappers in the US Industrial Era 117 5 John Hugo and the Retreat's Southward Migration 139 6 Dorothy Day, Anti- triumphalism, and a Personalist Approach to Voluntary Poverty 169 Epilogue: To Afflict the Comfortable and Comfort the Afflicted: Catholic Worker Pacifism as a Form- of- Life 201 Notes 211 Bibliography 247 Index 263
£20.89
Crossroad Publishing Company Discernment of Spirits
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Kregel Publications,U.S. Living the New Testament Daily Readings from
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Kregel Publications,U.S. The Story Begins The Authority of the Bible the
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Kregel Publications,U.S. Answers to Common Questions About Heaven
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Kregel Publications,U.S. Keep Your Dream Alive Lessons from the Life of
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Kregel Publications,U.S. Letters from My Fathers Murderer A Journey of
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Kregel Publications,U.S. Proof A Novel
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Kregel Publications,U.S. Common Man Extraordinary Call
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Kregel Publications,U.S. When Anxiety Strikes Help and Hope for Managing
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Kregel Publications,U.S. Discipled Leader Inspiration from a Fortune 500
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Vida Publishers Aquí Estamos
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Thomas Nelson Publishers He Did This Just for You
Book SynopsisBuilding on stories and illustrations from He Chose the Nails by bestselling author Max Lucado, He Did This Just for You is a booklet designed to lead you through God''s plan of sacrifice and salvation. When you think of the cross, what thoughts come to mind? Steeples? Gold necklaces? Churches? Or do your thoughts go deeper? Do words like these come to mind: Jesus. Nails. Blood. Pain. Death. Tomb. Empty. Joy. Promise. Life. Savior!The words of the cross are so full of pain. So full of passion. So full of promise--God''s promise to each and every one of us. His promise to do whatever it takes to save your soul. He did this just for you.He Did This Just for You shares the story of salvation in a new light, taking you through three distinct pieces of the puzzle: The Parable--God''s longing for us The Promise--God''s gi
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