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Catechism of the Catholic Church

Author : U.S. Catholic Church

Publisher : Image

Page : 849 pages

File Size : 25,85 MB

Release : 2012-11-28

Category : Religion

ISBN : 030795370X

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Over 3 million copies sold! Essential reading for Catholics of all walks of life. Here it is - the first new Catechism of the Catholic Church in more than 400 years, a complete summary of what Catholics around the world commonly believe. The Catechism draws on the Bible, the Mass, the Sacraments, Church tradition and teaching, and the lives of saints. It comes with a complete index, footnotes and cross-references for a fuller understanding of every subject. The word catechism means "instruction" - this book will serve as the standard for all future catechisms. Using the tradition of explaining what the Church believes (the Creed), what she celebrates (the Sacraments), what she lives (the Commandments), and what she prays (the Lord's Prayer), the Catechism of the Catholic Church offers challenges for believers and answers for all those interested in learning about the mystery of the Catholic faith. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is a positive, coherent and contemporary map for our spiritual journey toward transformation.



The Church and the Human Quest for Truth

Author : Charles Morerod

Publisher : Sapientia Press Ave Maria Univ

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 42,78 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9781932589436

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Introduction to Catholic Doctrine Series Do we need the Church? Does the Church, with her teaching, preaching, and sacramental life, get in the way of human happiness? What is the Church's relationship to Christ and to the grace of the holy Trinity? These are among the questions that Fr. Charles Morerod addresses in his richly pastoral and learned book. This book invites Christians to learn anew why the Church, the Body of Christ, is God's chosen mode of sharing Christ's life with us. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Charles Morerod, O.P., is Dean of Philosophy and Professor of Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome (Angelicum). He belongs to the Anglican Roman-Catholic International Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. He is the Director of the French edition of Nova et Vetera and author of Ecumenism & Philosophy, Philosophical Questions for a Renewal of Dialogue.



The African Church and COVID-19

Author : Martin Munyao

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 225 pages

File Size : 14,4 MB

Release : 2022-01-21

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1793650993

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The African Church and COVID-19: Human Security, the Church, and Society in Kenya is a bold and incisive look at the African Church in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the book, contributors explore how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the fragilities of African society as well as the weaknesses in the Church’s role in helping and serving African communities. The African Church and COVID-19 analyzes the question of how the Church in Kenya should move forward in a post-COVID-19 era to address the vulnerabilities of socio-economic and political structures in Africa.



The Human Church

Author : Paul O. Bischoff

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers

Page : 101 pages

File Size : 14,90 MB

Release : 2018-05-29

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1532642350

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The church doesn't need to be more spiritual. It needs to become more human. Since God decided becoming human was right, so must the church. Jesus' language was consistently understood by nonreligious people. Elitist in-house church language may never reach the growing number of Americans without a religious background who have given up on God. This book views the church as a unique people-group and the reader as an anthropologist. Employing basic ethnographic methods, the reader looks at the church again for the first time without a religious lens. Based upon the premise that all good theology emerges from good anthropology, the book first considers the rituals celebrated around the symbols of a manger, cross, bread, wine, and tomb. Such symbols then become the basis for theological interpretation. Dietrich Bonhoeffer is the reader's conversation partner to help make the theological journey from human community to church, manger to incarnation, cross to redemption, and tomb to resurrection. The church will flourish in the twenty-first century to the degree that it proclaims the Gospel using nonreligious language with a human accent.



Why the Church?

Author : Luigi Giussani

Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 42,1 MB

Release : 2001-03-02

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0773566775

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From its beginnings, the Church has presented itself as a human phenomenon that carries the divine within it. As a social fact, its reality given form by men and women, the Church has always affirmed that its existence surpasses the human reality of its components and that it stands as the continuation of the event of Christ's entry into human history. Why the Church?, the final volume in McGill-Queen's University Press's trilogy of Luigi Giussani's writings, explores the Church's definition of itself as both human and divine and evaluates the truth of this claim.



The Human Face of Church

Author : Sara Savage

Publisher : Canterbury Press

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 48,59 MB

Release : 2007-10-30

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1786223791

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Until now, Fresh Expressions has been about starting and sustaining mission initiatives among people with little or no church contact. As these projects mature, pastoral problems easily arise - how do you integrate the old with the new? How do you get an established congregation to change it views and practices? How do you cope with conflict? What if newcomers challenge set patterns of church behaviour rather than conform with them? The publication is structured for use for training in local churches, theological colleges and as a research tool in postgraduate study.



Being Human

Author : Church of England. Doctrine Commission

Publisher : Church House Publishing

Page : 164 pages

File Size : 13,75 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9780715138663

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A Doctrine Commission publication, this volume addresses what it means to be human from the perspective of the four key elements of power, money, sex and time. It combines classical Church teaching and biblical material with ideas from contemporary debates and sources.



Models of the Church

Author : Avery Dulles

Publisher : Image

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 22,6 MB

Release : 2002-05-14

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0385505450

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There is today a dramatic reexamination of structure, authority, dogma -- indeed, every aspect of the life of the Church is held up to scrutiny. Welcoming this as a sign of vitality, Avery Dulles has carefully studied the writings of contemporary Protestant and Catholic ecclesiologists and sifted out six major approaches, or "models," through which the Church's character can be understood: as Institution, Mystical Communion, Sacrament, Herald, Servant, and, in a recent addition to the book, as Community of Disciples. A balanced theology, he concludes, must incorporate the major affirmations of each. "The method of models or types," observes Cardinal Dulles, "can have great value in helping people to get beyond the limitations of their own particular outlook and to enter into fruitful conversation with others... Such conversation is obviously essential if ecumenism is to get beyond its present impasses." This new edition includes a new Appendix and Preface by the author.





Church of the Wild

Author : Victoria Loorz

Publisher : Broadleaf Books

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 50,60 MB

Release : 2021-10-05

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1506469655

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2024 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner in "Religion / Spirituality of Western Thought" CategoryWinner of the Living Now Book Award, Church of the Wild reminds us that once upon a time, humans lived in an intimate relationship with nature. Whether disillusioned by the dominant church or unfulfilled by traditional expressions of faith, many of us long for a deeper spirituality. Victoria Loorz certainly did. Coping with an unraveling vocation, identity, and planet, Loorz turned to the wanderings of spiritual leaders and the sanctuary of the natural world, eventually cofounding the Wild Church Network and Seminary of the Wild. With an ecospiritual lens on biblical narratives and a fresh look at a community larger than our own species, Church of the Wild uncovers the wild roots of faith and helps us deepen our commitment to a suffering earth by falling in love with it--and calling it church. Through mystical encounters with wild deer, whispers from a scrubby oak tree, wordless conversation with a cougar, and more, Loorz helps us connect to a love that literally holds the world together--a love that calls us into communion with all creatures.