Antioch and Rome

Religion & Spirituality

Raymond E. Brown, John P. Meier

Christian Books & Bibles

Continuum International Publis

<p>The Gospel accounts of the birth of Jesus are among the most attractive and widely loved writings in the New Testament. The liturgical celebrations of the Christmas season present them afresh every year as an inspiration to Christian faith. Yet these infancy narratives are generally thought not to be part of the earliest Christian preaching and many details can be puzzling. How are these texts to be understood? Biblical scholars have done much to reveal meaning and the significance of the narratives and in this volume Fr. Hendrickx offers a synthesis of heir views. Writing clearly and without undue technicality he provides an over-view for a general reader, a starting-point for students and an invaluable aid for preachers. The needs of the latter are particularly borne by a concluding chapter on preaching Christmas homilies. A further feature is an extensive bibliography of recent writing.</p>

The Infancy Narratives: Studies in the Synoptic Gospels

HERMAN HENDRICKX

Understanding the Psalms (Mowbray's Popular Christian Paperbacks)

GEORGE APPLETON

Reconciliation: Preparing for Confession in the Episcopal Church (Mowbray's Christian Studies Series)

Smith, Martin L.

"For years I had been looking for a way to heal the split between the academic study of the Scriptures and the issues of life.  For it was the Bible's way of addressing me that had led me into biblical scholarship in the first place.  The sharing of those life-shaking truths was the very vocation to which I had felt so unmistakably called.  For a time my generation of scholars was able to light our lamps at the fading flames of what Barth and Bultmann had achieved.  When we were on our own, however, it was back to academic scholarship-as-usual.  Even our concern for 'biblical theology' was largely academic; we assumed that pastors and laity could make the connections to their own lives.  More disastrously, we assumed that the ideas were all that counted, all that had to be applied.  So we were a little hurt, and considerably mystified, when a growing chorus of voices outside academia insisted that what we were doing was not addressing human existence." "It was not until I became a parish minister in southeast Texas, however, that I recognized how profound this split had become.  There, faced with the need to speak meaningfully twice a week from the biblical tradition, I discovered how isolated scholars had become from the pressures of living, how little of what they found fit to say had any applicability to preaching, to counseling, to the human struggles of those who regarded the Bible as somehow the key to life." "This was the pattern: scholars to the one side--like musicians so enamored of technique that they only practice scales; clergy and laity to the other--like people who love music but are too busy to learn to play." (excerpts from Chapter 1: Transformed by the Renewal of Our Minds)  

Transforming Bible Study

WALTER WINK

Taize began in great solitude. Between 1940 and 1942, Brother Roger, on his own and still young, was hiding political refugees while preparing the creation of a monastic community. Fifty years later, the name of Taize is known across the world, and is a synonym for peace, reconciliation and prayer. Week in, week out, thousands of young people go to that small village in Burgundy on pilgrimage. This small book contains what is perhaps the secret of this extraordinary adventure of faith. Christ's love makes those who give their lives to him more human; he makes them welcoming towards everyone. These pages are  a kind of personal letter addressed to each reader. As he indicates the essential elements of a life rooted in trust in God. Taize's founder looks for the expression that goes right to the heart of the person he is speaking to. There is not a word in this book that he has not first tested in his own life. Yet he is constantly pursued by one question: 'Have I managed to express clearly enough that God is love alone, never punishes, does not wish anyone to suffer, and loves every single human being without exception?" The book is completely by the text of the address to the brothers by John Paul II during his visit to Taize in October 1986 and a short historical sketch of Taize.

No Greater Love: Sources of Taize (Taize)

Roger of Taizé

Practical Counselling and Helping Skills: How to Use the Lifeskills Helping Model (Applied Social Sc

Health, Fitness & Dieting

RICHARD NELSON-JONES

Psychology & Counseling

For 15 years in Victorian England, Oscar Wilde was able to carry on like the famous camp queen of our imaginings - effete, leisured, aesthetic, amoral, decadent, dandified. This work explores how Wilde was seen before the trials that ended his career and made him the most famous queer man since Socrates. In particular, it examines the concept of effeminacy and asks how Wilde's effeminacy was perceived. In examining these points, Sinfield ranges over issues of identity, subculture, race, style, masculinity, homophobia, genetics and gender-bending. He broaches the thesis that the Wilde trials bring into focus a particular image of the queer man which has extended into the 20th century, and that our stereotypical notion of male homosexuality derives from Wilde and our ideas about him. Sinfield assesses the strategic options for lesbian and gay subcultures today. This provocative book aspires to set the agenda for a gay cultural politics - a hundred years after the Wilde trials, on the threshold of the 21st century.

Wilde Century

SINFIELD, ALAN

Literature & Fiction

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF COUNSELLING

<p>COMPILED TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF THE GAY TRAVELER, THIS UNIQUE GUIDE GIVES YOU THE WORDS AND PHRASES YOU REQUIRE FOR BASIC CONVERSATION IN THE SIX MAIN GAY LANGUAGES. FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH, ITALIAN, AND DUTCH.</p>

Gay Phrase Book: French German Spanish Italian Dutch Portuguese

Politics & Social Sciences

Barry McKay

Social Sciences

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