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Merton still matters, writes Paul R. Dekar about Cistercian monk Thomas Merton. Calling people to act justly, love kindness and walk humbly, Merton used his contemplative practice to see beyond what disrupts and divides us from one another to find the truth of our common humanity - unity in our creation in the image of God. In Thomas Merton and the New World, Dekar focuses primarily on two issues of concern to our current world. First, he studies Mertons warnings of the abuse that stems from unmindful and irresponsible use of technology, and its ecological devastation. Second, he examines Mertons thinking on racial injustice in the mid-1960s through his correspondence with his allies and contemporaries - James Baldwin, for example. Using Micah 6:8 to arrange Mertons focus on justice, lovingkindness, and humility, with input from Mertons dialogue with Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Rachel Carson and others, Dekar demonstrates just how prophetic and transferable Mertons teachings remain.

Las Cartas y las Charlas de sobremesa de Martín Lutero (1483-1546) son una fuente de información imprescindible para conocer en profundidad la personalidad y la trayectoria vital del reformador alemán. Tanto en unas como en otras encontramos al Lutero mas intimo y personal. Su relacion epistolar con personalidades de la epoca (Erasmo, Melanchton, el papa Leon X) aporta valiosos detalles de la intrahistoria de la Reforma. Las Charlas, por su parte, recogen las opiniones del lider carismatico que fue. Locuaz y persuasivo, Herr Doktor habla sin cortapisas de lo divino y de lo humano, incluso de temas que nunca trato en ninguno de los escritos de su vasta obra.

La persona de Lutero y cuanto representó supuso una convulsión en el panorama religioso, político, social, literario y artístico de la Europa de su tiempo. Este primer volumen de los tres previstos reune los textos en torno a los inicios de la Reforma. En ellos Lutero formula sus cuestionamientos radicales tanto de la practica como de la doctrina de la Iglesia, atento siempre a los problemas socio-politicos de la epoca.

La crisis medioambiental ha perturbado la vida del ser humano y todas sus actividades. La teología no se ha interesado en esta cuestión sino hasta hace poco, y ha respondido a los reproches por esa indiferencia con una renovada teologia de la creacion. Este libro es fruto de una investigacion sobre la propuesta de Raimon Panikkar llamada "ecosofia", una aproximacion al campo de la ecologia desde una nueva teologia trinitaria.En estas paginas se aborda lo que Panikkar llamo la "intuicion cosmoteandrica", que establece una relacion estrecha y constitutiva entre Dios, el Hombre y el Mundo. Esta intuicion implica prestar una particular atencion a la sabiduria, pues es solo a traves de una transformacion radical del ser humano, y no de la tecnologia, que se producira el cambio. Es urgente y necesario, entonces, que la ecologia camine de la mano de la ecosofia y en este contexto, el ser humano debe cultivar las virtudes que le permitan reencontrarse con las otras dimensiones de la realidad.Esta obra se desarrolla como prolongacion del pensamiento de Panikkar y ofrece una nueva aproximacion que contiene dos corolarios fundamentales: una etica y una teologia politica ecosoficas.

En un contexto cultural fragmentado y plural como el nuestro la presente obra ofrece un compendio sistemático de la fe cristiana, tratando de expresar de una forma fiel, actual y significativa el fundamento y el contenido de esa fe. El objetivo de la teologia dogmatica es articular y comprender la logica de la fe, preguntandose por el Cristianismo como un todo, para desde aqui tratar de mostrar cual es su realidad mas especifica y singular que la distingue y, a su vez, la pone en relacion con otras ciencias humanas y con otras tradiciones religiosas.La sintesis mas antigua y normativa para el Cristianismo ha sido el Simbolo de la fe. Desde su estructura trinitaria y bajo el entramado de la historia de la salvacion, se van exponiendo desde su logica interna y su referencia a la totalidad, los contenidos esenciales de los tratados de teologia: Creo en Dios Padre (Trinidad y Antropologia); Creo en Cristo (Cristologia, Soteriologia, Mariologia); Creo en el Espiritu Santo (Eclesiologia, Sacramentos, Escatologia y Existencia cristiana), precedidos por la reflexion en torno al acto de creer en la revelacion de Dios en la historia testimo-niada en la Escritura y la Tradicion (Teologia fundamental).Esta obra es el fruto del trabajo compartido de los profesores del departamento de Teologia Dogmatica y Fundamental de la Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid. Para su expo-sicion hemos seguido la formula clasica de las tesis que expresan de forma objetiva el contenido esencial que ha de saber un alumno de teologia y que debe conocer todo aquel que quiera acercarse a la comprension del misterio cristiano desde un rigor y una pro-fundidad a la altura de la conciencia historica y de la vida de la Iglesia.

Este libro hace un recorrido completo por las diferentes etapas del nuevo paradigma de la Teología de la Liberación, una de las corrientes más creativas en la historia del cristianismo. Y lo hace desde sus precursores origenes latinoamericanos a mediados de la decada de los sesenta del siglo pasado, en un clima de elevada temperatura utopica, hasta su implantacion en los diferentes continentes que conforman el llamado Tercer Mundo. En la actual situacion mundial caracterizada por la diversidad cultural, el pluriverso etnico y el pluriversq religioso se esta configurando como teologia intercultural e interreligiosa de la liberacion en los Foros Mundiales de Teologia y Liberacion (Porto Alegre, 2005; Nairobi, 2007; Belem de Para, 2009), donde se han puesto las bases para el desarrollo de una teologia, una espiritualidad y una ecologia en el horizonte de "Otro Mundo Posible" en sintonia con el Foro Social Mundial y sus proyectos alterglobalizadores. La obra presta especial atencion a las nuevas y mas importantes tendencias actuales de dicho paradigma: teologia feminista, ecologica, indigena, afroamericana, campesina, economica e interreligiosa, cuyas lineas fundamentales expone desde el mas profundo respeto a su propia metodologia. Es quizas la parte mas innovadora del libro junto con la detallada exposicion de las principales aportaciones de veinticinco representantes latinoamericanos de dicha teologia y de su precursor Bartolome de Las Casas. Cuarenta años despues de su nacimiento, la Teologia de la Liberacion sigue viva, se reconstruye como teologia contrahegemonica y critica del imperialismo teologico, incorpora nuevas categorias sociologicas y teologicas, se reformula en los actuales procesos historicos de liberacion y plantea desafios ¡rrenunciables a las iglesias, las teologias y los movimientos sociales del Primer Mundo.

Step into the extraordinary life of Dorothy Eady, better known as Om Seti, a woman whose story bridges the divide between history and mysticism. From her humble beginnings in early 20th-century London to her pivotal role in uncovering the mysteries of ancient Egypt, this compelling narrative delves into a life shaped by visions of a past existence as Bentreshyt, a priestess in the temple of Pharaoh Seti I.Through vivid recollections and unshakable conviction, Om Seti not only captivated archaeologists with her intimate knowledge of ancient rituals and monuments but also challenged the limits of scientific understanding. Her unparalleled insights into Abydos and her emotional connection to Seti I reveal a life intertwined with the spiritual and the historical.In Bentreshyt Reborn, author Sarah L. Warren unravels the enigmatic threads of Om Setis life, offering an in-depth exploration of her mystical experiences, her contributions to Egyptology, and the profound questions her story raises about reincarnation and the nature of the human soul.Journey through the sands of time and discover a tale that is as haunting as it is inspiringa testament to the enduring connection between the past and the present. Perfect for lovers of ancient history, spirituality, and unsolved mysteries, this book is a fascinating tribute to one of the most enigmatic figures of modern Egyptology.

As Palavras e as Obras de Jesus, do renomado autor John Dwight Pentecost, oferece uma perspectiva cativante e significativa sobre a vida do Messias. Nesta obra magistral, as palavras, os milagres e a mensagem abrangente de Jesus so apresentados em uma narrativa fluida e detalhada, contextualizando seu ministerio dentro do cenario cultural, politico e religioso da epoca.Dwight Pentecost conduz o leitor por uma jornada envolvente, proporcionando um novo entendimento sobre a razo pela qual Jesus veio ao mundo, como Ele agiu e quais foram as realizaçes que marcaram Seu ministerio. Ao explorar a vida de Jesus desde a manjedoura em Belem ate a cruz do Golgota e a vitoria triunfante da ressurreiço, o autor revela uma familiaridade profunda com o assunto, fruto de anos de ensino e pesquisa meticulosa.Esta obra vai alem de ser apenas academica; ela e impregnada de convicço, devoço e fe. O Dr. Pentecost escreve com a certeza de alguem que reconhece que Jesus deve ser adorado e aclamado como o grande Rei. Cada pagina exala a convicço de que nenhum livro pode realmente capturar completamente as maravilhas do ser e do amor de Jesus.Ao mergulhar nas paginas deste livro, os leitores encontraro uma viso mais profunda e rica do Salvador, compreendendo no apenas Suas palavras e obras, mas tambem o amor que guiou cada passo, desde o nascimento humilde ate a gloriosa ressurreiço.

A Enciclopédia está dividida em cinco seções para facilitar as consultas:• Fatos sobre a origem da Bíblia — cobrindo tudo desde arqueologia às profissões.• Fatos de toda a Bíblia — revendo os livros,

"A page in history was about to turn. Though Israels world was in the throes of upheaval, it was only a matter of time before the sun of righteousness would rise. These people needed rescue, but they werent waiting for the stars to align or for the political climate to change. They were waiting for God. They were on his timetable. He was sending his MessiahImmanuel, God with us."For centuries Gods people awaited the coming of a Savior. In the midst of a world of trouble, they hoped for one who would deliver them from evil and restore them to true life. Would God be faithful to his promises? Pastor Russ Ramsey narrates anew the greatest story ever toldthe true tale of the coming of the Christ. Its more than the story of a baby born in Bethlehem; the story encompasses the whole of the Old Testament and all of human history, unveiling Gods longsuffering, loving pursuit of his people. Rediscover how the purposes of God culminated in the coming of Jesus, in twenty-five readings ideal for Christmas or any season of meeting the Savior.Also including The Passion of the King of Glory and The Mission of the Body of Christ, the Retelling the Story series explores the narrative arc of the Bible from Genesis through Revelation in compelling language that is faithful to the text of Scripture. The stories are told afresh to help readers hide Gods word in their hearts by way of their imaginations.

Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year Award winnerGolden Canon Leadership Book Award winnerRelevant Magazine: Top 20 Best Overall Books winnerEnglewood Review of Books: Top 20 Best Overall Books winnerChristian Manifesto Lime Award winnerAndrew Marins life changed forever when his three best friends came out to him in three consecutive months. Suddenly he was confronted with the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community (GLBT) firsthand. And he was compelled to understand how he could reconcile his friends to his faith.In an attempt to answer that question, he and his wife relocated to Boystown, a predominantly GLBT community in Chicago. And from his experience and wrestling has come his book, Love Is an Orientation, a work which elevates the conversation between Christianity and the GLBT community, moving the focus from genetics to gospel, where it really belongs.Why are so many people who are gay wary of people who are Christians? Do GLBT people need to change who they are? Do Christians need to change what they believe? Love Is an Orientation is changing the conversation about sexuality and spirituality, and building bridges from the GLBT community to the Christian community and, more importantly, to the good news of Jesus Christ.

God can use your unique gifts, passions and personality to become a better leader. While personality inventories can help you understand your temperament, the model designed by leading church planter David Olson is designed to form fruitful Christian leadership.Olsons model reveals how three factorsspirituality, chemistry and strategywork together. The free online inventory that is a companion to this book takes just five minutes to complete, and the resulting report appears instantaneously.When you take the inventory, you will also discover your leadership style. The six styles that shape our ministry are The Sacred Leader The Relational Leader The Inspirational Leader The Building Leader The Mission Leader The Imaginative Leader The thirty short chapters of this book are ideal for individual reflection with questions for individual discovery and bonus online activities. The book also includes all the tools you need to take your ministry team through this assessment. They will lead you deeper into this robust model for Christian leadership.

Contemporary philosopher William Desmond has many companions in thought, and one of the most important of these is Augustine. In lucid prose that draws on the riches of a vibrant philosophical-theological tradition, Renee Kohler-Ryan explores Desmonds metaxological philosophy. She elaborates on how Desmonds philosophical work in discovering how humans are constantly "between" remains in conversation with a tradition of thinkers that includes Plato, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Shakespeare. This book concentrates especially on how Desmond both draws upon and develops some of the central insights in Augustine. At the same time, it brings together philosophy, theology, and literature into a rich engagement of ideas that impact the way humans think and live. Whether considering how our elemental wonder at creation brings us closer to God, or how our most intimate revelations about being human happen in the interior space of prayer, reading Desmond with Augustine illuminates a porous and interdisciplinary space of inquiry. Companions in the Between is a unique contribution to the growing body of scholarship on William Desmonds thought. It opens with a foreword from Desmond. Its pages will entice any reader who wants to know more about how contemporary philosophy can contest a space where philosophers are formulaically expected to shy away from divine transcendence.

The Catholic Church lives on two lungs-Word and Sacrament. They reach their clearest expression and celebration for the Churchs life in the Eucharist-the source and summit of the Churchs life as Vatican 2 puts it. Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, but Hong Kong and Cambodia as well. In that time he has come to deepen his understanding of the distinctiveness of the message and person of Jesus Christ even in circumstances and among people that Jesus could never have known or imagined. It is not enough to understand what the readings mean as those who composed them intended us to grasp. The critical thing is to find what that meaning might be in the context of our times and contexts. Speaking the Word in our time and for our places is the challenge of preaching and it is to that challenge that Fr Grimm devotes his learning, experience and imagination. Every week for the Churchs three year liturgical cycle, Fr Grimm gives visitors to www.ucanews.com-UCAN-the benefit of his learning, prayer, wisdom and experience. Each week, his homilies for Sundays and special feasts are seen by some 3,000 visitors to the main UCAN site and with subtitles on UCANs Vietnamese and Chinese sites. Now the text of those homilies is published not only to assist preachers in the preparation of their homilies but for anyone wanting to deepen their under- standing of the text and find material for fruitful prayer on the Sunday readings.

The Bonhoeffer Legacy: Australasian Journal of Bonhoeffer Studies is a fully refereed academic journal aimed principally at providing an outlet for an ever expanding Bonhoeffer scholarship in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific region, as well as being open to article submissions from Bonhoeffer scholars throughout the world. It also aims to elicit and encourage future and ongoing scholarship in the field. The focus of the journal, captured in the notion of Legacy, is on any aspect of Bonhoeffers life, theology and political action that is relevant to his immense contribution to twentieth century events and scholarship. Legacy can be understood as including those events and ideas that contributed to Bonhoeffers own development, those that constituted his own context or those that have developed since his time as a result of his work. The editors encourage and welcome any scholarship that contributes to the journals aims. The journal also has book reviews.

The Bonhoeffer Legacy: An International Journal is a fully refereed academic journal aimed principally at providing an outlet for an ever expanding Bonhoeffer scholarship in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific region, as well as being open to article submissions from Bonhoeffer scholars throughout the world. It also aims to elicit and encourage future and ongoing scholarship in the field. The focus of the journal, captured in the notion of Legacy, is on any aspect of Bonhoeffers life, theology and political action that is relevant to his immense contribution to twentieth century events and scholarship. Legacy can be understood as including those events and ideas that contributed to Bonhoeffers own development, those that constituted his own context or those that have developed since his time as a result of his work. The editors encourage and welcome any scholarship that contributes to the journals aims. The journal also has book reviews.

En esta obra, Camilo Alfonso López intenta comprender el misterio de la vida y de la muerte. Para ello, abre un diálogo fecundo entre las comprensiones teológicas e interreligiosas cristianas y buddhistas sobre la resurreccion y el renacimiento. Desde la plataforma solida de la hermeneutica diatopica y a la luz de la intuicion cosmoteandrica panikkariana, el autor redescubre la dimension eterna en lo temporal. En esa triada en la que se interrelacionan Dios-Hombre-Mundo radica nuestra autentica identidad. Si bien lo relacional en nosotros se descubre en el espacio-tiempo del itinerario vital, no termina con la muerte, sino que se amplifica. De ahi que el amor relacional no muere, sino mas bien, se despliega infinitamente.De este modo, el autor nos descubre que la ausencia de los seres queridos se hace presencia y el sufrimiento da lugar a una paz que sobrepasa todo entendimiento. Porque la muerte no es separacion definitiva, sino el comienzo de una nueva relacion en el aqui y ahora como momento de plenitud. Como bien decia Panikkar, la esperanza no es en el futuro, sino en lo invisible.

No está todo dicho sobre Pablo de Tarso a pesar de que desde san Agustín, y principalmente desde Martín Lutero y la Reforma, se hayan escrito centenares de libros sobre él. Ni siquiera queda claro, como se afirma con rotundidad, que Pablo fuera el "segundo fundador del cristianismo" ni tampoco un fariseo estricto como el mismo sostiene en apariencia.Desde 1970 ha surgido una potente y nueva corriente de interpretacion de la teologia de Pablo, a cuyo frente estan sobre todo teologos evangelicos independientes e historiadores judios del pensamiento israelita, que pone en cuestion opiniones aparentemente asentadas durante siglos: ¿Puede sostenerse hoy que todo o parte de Pablo ha sido malentendido durante mas de quince siglos? ¿Fue el pensamiento de Pablo exclusivamente judio a pesar del entorno de su nacimiento y formacion escolar en un mundo griego? ¿Abandono Pablo la ley judia? O bien ¿se comporto siempre, incluso externamente, como un judio practicante? ¿Es posible defender que paganos y judios se salvan no por creer en Jesucristo, sino por imitar sus actos de fidelidad? ¿Rompia la posible divinizacion de Jesus por parte de Pablo el monoteismo estricto de Israel?"Antonio Piñero puede aportar claridad y orden en este complejo mundo que es la interpretacion de las cartas de san Pablo, asi como intentar ofrecer una vision armonica, coherente, una propuesta verosimil de reconstruccion de un pensamiento religioso, teologico, que muchos creen imposible". (Revista de Libros)

Volumen dedicado al estudio de la literatura sapiencial (Proverbios, Job, Eclesiastés, Eclesiástico y Sabiduría) y a la lírica bíblica (Salmos, Cantar, Lamentaciones). Con un lenguaje claro y un estilo agil, Victor Morla presenta el estado de la investigacion sobre estos libros, centrandose en los aspectos donde existe un mayor consenso, pero sin desechar los planteamientos novedosos o controvertidos de mayor importancia, y manteniendo siempre la coherencia de conjunto y el equilibrio necesarios en una obra de caracter introductorio. Ademas, esta obra ofrece un rico aparato critico para proporcionar a las personas lectoras la oportunidad de ampliar sus estudios con los mas reconocidos estudios del ambito hispanohablante y de otras lenguas sobre estos libros biblicos.

"En la línea del horizonte, hijos míos -predicaba san Josemaría-, parecen unirse el cielo y la tierra. Pero no, donde de verdad se juntan es en vuestros corazones, cuando vivís santamente la vida ordinaria...".Esta obra en tres volumenes es el primer intento de exponer teologicamente y de modo sistematico el mensaje de san Josemaria acerca del trabajo y la vida corriente.Este tercer volumen aborda la santificacion de las tareas profesionales y familiares, la lucha por la santidad y los medios de santificacion y apostolado. Concluye con un epilogo sobre la "unidad de vida".