"This comprehensive book offers a concise overview of the development of missiology over the last century, an introduction to its characteristic methodologies, and insight into the kinds of questions
"When I first came across Nouwen's phase 'downward mobility, ' it struck me as radical, counterintuitive, and profoundly true. His reminder of Jesus' message goes against nearly everything in modern l
"Gerry Straub is a story-teller with a camera. In an era when news has become so atomized and fast-paced it is almost impossible to get a sense of the whole, Straub engages two great risks. He takes u
Leading theologians and ethicists reflect on the most serious crisis of our time, offering insights from theology, history, and ethics to aid in the transformation required to meet it.The magnitude o
Both working for Bartimaeus Ministries in California, Myers and Enns combine his interest in biblical literacy and faith-based witness for justice, and her interest in restorative justice and conflict
In A Troubling in My Soul, well-known womanist theologians explore the persistent question of evil and suffering in compelling new ways. Committed to an integrated analysis of race, gender, and class,
Offers brief profiles of a Salvadoran archbishop who had worked on behalf of the poor until his assassination, and shares his writings about the Church and its history and mission
In his new apostolic exhortation, Pope Francis issues an inspiring reminder of the universal call to holiness. All are called to holiness, each in our own way.
Hill-Fletcher shows that the Christian habit of seeing themselves as the “chosen ones” has often been translated into racial categories as well. In other words, Christian supremacy has historically le
Using a broad range of resources, the author examines how Pope Francis’s emphasis on the “Church of the poor” is calling us to a new “epistemic practice,” involving an understanding of orthodoxy as di
This volume explores the contributions to the field of social ethics by David Hollenbach, one of the most prominent voices in the promotion of the common good over the past half-century.
CPA AWARD WINNERIPPY AWARD WINNER"This may be the book to hook a new generation on the religious power of Teilhard's vision of divine presence in matter and the evolving universe." --Elizabeth A. John
Benigno Beltran is a Society of the Divine Word priest in the Philippines. He lived for decades on a mountain of trash in the center of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, known as Smokey Mountain
This collection of essays by Harding (religion and social transformation, Iliff School of Theology) explores the US Civil Rights Movement from the end of World War II to the election of President Bara
