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Angelic Seeing
Passions of the Soul by rowan williams bloomsbury, 160 pages, $15 These reflections, gentle but piercing in their spiritual psychology, were originally given as an Easter retreat for the...
Spiritual Communion
During the Diocletian persecution, a group of North African Christians were brought to trial in Carthage for meeting illegally for worship. When asked why they had persisted in this...
Briefly Noted
God Visible: Patristic Christology Reconsideredby brian e. daley, s.j. oxford, 312 pages, $88 The great liberal Protestant theologian Adolf von Harnack argued that the simple, wholly ethical message of...
Thus Saith the Lord
One Sunday in high school, we went to the Anglo-Catholic parish where my headmaster served as an assistant priest. Catechized by evangelical Episcopalians and Presbyterians, I believed that the...
Briefly Noted
On the Road to Vatican II: German Catholic Enlightenment and Reform of the Churchby ulrich l. lehnerfortress, 414 pages, $49 On the Road to Vatican II focuses on German...
Briefly Noted
The Contemplative Hunger by father donald haggerty ignatius, 259 pages, $17.95 Fr. Donald Haggerty’s first book, Contemplative Provocations (reviewed here in December 2013), offered aphoristic counsel on prayer and...
Briefly Noted
Bach & God by michael marissen oxford, 288 pages, $35 Michael Marissen, emeritus professor of music at Swarthmore, argues that Johann Sebastian Bach’s music embodies the theology of its...
Briefly Noted
The Thriving Society: On the Social Conditions of Human Flourishingedited by james r. stoner jr. and harold jamesthe witherspoon institute, 230 pages, $25 W hat conditions are required for...
Winter Songs
Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession by ian bostridge knopf, 528 pages, $29 One hundred and fifty years ago, lieder—art songs, in English—held a place in society that...
Richard John Neuhaus, Father
I did not think I knew much about death. In high school, my headmaster reminded us constantly that young though we were, we were destined to die. Death was...
Sermons Anglican and Catholic, Parochial and Plain
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Francis in Dialogue with the World
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Prophet Pope
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Where’s the Sin?
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Pope Francis and the Primacy of Grace
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