Leo D. Lefebure
The Catholic Church, by Hans Küng. Translated by John Bowden.
A growing number of works by Catholic authors such as Garry Wills, Eugene Kennedy and Donald Cozzens, as well as books by numerous feminist writers, call for greater honesty regarding the problems ...
Benedict’s Dharma, edited by Patrick Henry with an afterword by David Steindl-Rast and a translation of the rule by Patrick Barry
Monastics from diverse religious traditions the world over face similar opportunities, challenges and frustrations....
Essential Writings, by Thich Nhat Hanh
This is a helpful and elegant introduction to the teachings of one of today's best-known Buddhist leaders....
Long way home
Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of an Ancient Budhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment by Richard Bernstein
...The Rivers of Paradise, edited by David Noel Freedman and Michael J. McClymond
Max Weber's early 20th-century sociological analysis of the ideal types of religious leadership is still a useful benchmark for discussions of founders of religious traditions....
Postmodern Christians
Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion), edited by Merold Westphal
...The Changing Face of the Priesthood, by Donald B. Cozzens
In his apostolic letter Tertio Millennio Adveniente (1994), Pope John Paul II called upon Roman Catholics to prepare for the new millennium through an examination of conscience, an honest ...
The Catholic Imagination, by Andrew Greeley
Early in the 19th century Friedrich Schleiermacher remarked that Roman Catholics "are all immersed in the miraculous and may expect it at any moment." Without mentioning Schleiermacher explicitly, ...
Buddhism in America, by Richard Hughes Seager
Buddhism has entered North America in ways that are transforming both the Buddhist tradition and North American culture. Images of Buddhism have inundated advertising, sports, movies and politics....
Jesus scenarios
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity, by Paula Fredriksen
...Going Home, by Thich Nhat Hanh
Since the Vietnam War era, Thich Nhat Hanh has been known to North Americans as an activist for peace and justice and an interpreter of Vietnamese Buddhism and culture. Martin Luther King Jr....
Ethics for the New Millennium, by the Dalai Lama
St. Augustine told Christian pastors that their most eloquent instruction would lie not in their words but in their lives. The Dalai Lama's new book is an example of that principle still at work....
The Implied Spider, by Wendy Doniger
By Wendy Doniger, The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth. (Columbia University Press, 200 pp.)
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