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A Modern Guide to Indulgences: Rediscovering This Often Misinterpreted Teaching
Edward Peters
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The perfect companion to both the post-conciliar and revised editions of the Enchiridion, A Modern Guide to Indulgences is a practical and pastoral guide to the Church’s teaching on indulgences. Readers will appreciate Dr. Peter’s ability to expand upon this often misunderstood teaching while helpfully and pastorally linking indulgences to the Church’s teachings about sin, reconciliation, and sacramental confession. It begins with an explaination of the Church’s doctrine on indulgences, and offers a description and commentary on the major indulgences recognized by the Church.
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| 978-1-59525-024-7 |
Order Code: HMGI
Price: $13.95
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An Abundance of Graces: Reflections on Sacrosanctum Concilium
Pamela E. Jackson
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This thought-provoking, scholarly commentary takes a retrospective look at Sacrosanctum Concilium, and reflects on the Constitution in light of three questions:
• What is Sacrosanctum Concilium's vision of what is actually "going on" in the celebration of the liturgy—what is the purpose of the liturgy that was given to the Church?
• What is the nature of the liturgical changes called for by the Council Fathers?
• What aspects of Sacrosanctum Concilium still need to receive attention?
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| 978-1-59525-003-2 |
Order Code: HABUND
Price: $17.95
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Ars Liturgiae: Worship, Aesthetics and Praxis
edited by Clare V. Johnson
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Liturgy is the place where all the human arts combine to offer worship to God, their source and inspiration. In this thought-provoking collection, 11 of the finest contemporary scholars of liturgy explore the many facets of worship, from ritual theory to aesthetics to practice. Their gift of scholarship will enrich any student of the liturgy who spends time with this wide-ranging collection of essays.
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| 978-1-56854-488-5 |
Order Code: ARTLIT
Price: $25.00
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Cardinal Reflections: Active Participation and the Liturgy
Francis Cardinal Arinze, Jorge Cardinal Medina, Francis Cardinal George, George Cardinal Pell
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This thought-provoking collection presents four different examinations of the concepts of active participation and the liturgy by four leading contemporary figures in liturgical and sacramental theology today. A thoughtful introduction by Cardinal George Pell leads into the essays by Cardinal Francis Arinze, Cardinal Francis George, and Cardinal Jorge Médina. This book also contains the document "Sacrosanctum Concilium".
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| 978-1-59525-013-1 |
Order Code: HCREFL
Price: $12.00
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Catholic Music through the Ages: Balancing the Needs of a Worshipping Church
Edward Schaefer
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The Music of the Catholic Church traces the development of the Church’s music through the ages by placing the current liturgical musical landscape into proper historical context. By highlighting the common principles that the Church has used over time in addressing the expressive and formative dynamic of music, this work is able to present an informed discussion about the future so that the elements of spiritual solemnity, transcendance, and beauty will be maintained, along with the expressive nature of contemporary music.
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| 978-1-59525-020-9 |
Order Code: HCMA
Price: $28.00
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Catholic Thought Since the Enlightenment
Adrian Nichols OP
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Apart from its intrinsic interest, the theological history of Catholicism in the last two hundred years is essential reading for anyone who wishes to gain an understanding of the present state of the Catholic Church. In this book the author examines why the Catholicism of the twenty-first century will need not only to maintain its own coherence by setting forth the limits of possible pluralism, but to determine more clearly the central tasks for which it needs reflective thought and scholarship.
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| 978-0-85244-474-0 |
Order Code: CTENL
Price: $24.95
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Christian Eloquence: Contemporary Doctrinal Preaching
C. Colt Anderson
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Featuring detailed analysis of medieval homilies and sermons from St. Augustine, St. Gregory the Great, St. Bonaventure, John Colet, and Henry Suso, as well as original sermons available for the first time in English from Peter Damien and Stephen Langdon, this book is an ideal tool for pastors, deacons, retreat leaders, and homiletic students. It also serves to introduce readers into the theology and the history of the period.
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| 978-1-59525-005-6 |
Order Code: HCEDP
Price: $25.00
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Christian Initiation: Baptism in the Medieval West
J.D.C. Fisher, introduction by G. Austin
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This reissue of Fisher's classic work introduces the reader to primary sources that led the author to the theory of the disintegration of the primitive rite of initiation. His material is covered geographically according to liturgical areas. This work remains required reading for study of the history and theology of Christian initiation.
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| 978-1-59525-001-8 |
Order Code: HCIBMW
Price: $24.00
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Christian Initiation: Confirmation Then and Now
J.D.C. Fisher
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If you would like to know about Confirmation - where it comes from, what it means, and it's future - this book is for you. In this reissue of his classic study of the sacramental rite of Confirmation, Fisher examines what the early rite of Confirmation consisted of and what grace it was believed to confer in the period when there is undisputed evidence of the rite's existence. It follows the same pagination as the earlier edition for ease of reference in study.
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| 978-1-59525-010-0 |
Order Code: HCIC
Price: $24.00
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Christian Initiation: The Reformation Period: Early Reformed Rites of Baptism and Confirmation
J.D.C. Fisher, foreword by Maxwell E. Johnson
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This reissue of J.D.C. Fisher's classic work introduces the reader to primary sources and translations. The book contains an English version of the early reformed rites of Baptism and Confirmation used during the Reformation period, together with other documents revealing the circumstances in which these rites were compiled and used. Fisher provides a textual study of these rites that contributes to our understanding of sacramental and liturgical history.
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| 978-1-59525-017-9 |
Order Code: HCIRP
Price: $24.00
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