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Some years ago I considered writing a long book of conversion stories--starting with John Henry Newman and ending with some contemporary converts. The project never got off the ground, but [...]

According to the standard argument of Protestant historiography, the sixteenth-century struggle to provide a vernacular Bible, with the corresponding doctrine that each person can come to a knowledge of faith [...]

Immediately after the death of John Paul II and the election of Benedict XVI, a spate of books on the two men and the conclave were published, none of any [...]

In the forty years since the Second Vatican Council, many devotional practices, most of them developed in the early modern period, have fallen into decline. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, [...]

Published shortly before Pope John Paul II's death, Universal Father is one of a raft of biographies of Karol Wojtyla. The most notable of the bunch is George Weigel's Witness [...]

by Susanne M. Batzdorff Templegate, $14.95, 237 pp. Lawrence S. Cunningham Last year's canonization of Edith Stem has only intensified the discussion around the meaning of her martyrdom. Obviously she [...]

by Thomas Groome Thomas More, $29.95, 472 pp. Lawrence S. Cunningham Thomas Groome is one of the premier religious educators writing in English today. His current book lays out a [...]

by Henri de Lubac translated by Mark Sebanc Eerdmans, $45, 466 pp. Lawrence S. Cunningham I well remember how Juan Alfaro, S.J., held up the first volume of de Lubac's [...]

By Doris Grumbach Beacon, $18, 126 pp. The Flowering of Mysticism is the third volume of Bernard McGinn's monumental history of Christian mysticism. The generic title of McGinn's enterprise is [...]

By Johann Christoph Arnold Plough, $20, 248 pp. The Flowering of Mysticism is the third volume of Bernard McGinn's monumental history of Christian mysticism. The generic title of McGinn's enterprise [...]

Lawrence S. Cunningham The Flowering of Mysticism is the third volume of Bernard McGinn's monumental history of Christian mysticism. The generic title of McGinn's enterprise is The Presence of God: [...]

By Kathryn Joy McKnight University of Massachusetts Press, $45, 284 pp. The Flowering of Mysticism is the third volume of Bernard McGinn's monumental history of Christian mysticism. The generic title [...]

By Bernard McGinn Crossroad Herder, $24.95, 526 pp. The Flowering of Mysticism is the third volume of Bernard McGinn's monumental history of Christian mysticism. The generic title of McGinn's enterprise [...]

A generation ago a group of theologians from the Roman universities and the regional seminaries of Italy met to discuss urgent tasks facing theology in the post-Vatican II period. There [...]

A generation ago a group of theologians from the Roman universities and the regional seminaries of Italy met to discuss urgent tasks facing theology in the post-Vatican II period. There [...]

A generation ago a group of theologians from the Roman universities and the regional seminaries of Italy met to discuss urgent tasks facing theology in the post-Vatican II period. There [...]

A generation ago a group of theologians from the Roman universities and the regional seminaries of Italy met to discuss urgent tasks facing theology in the post-Vatican II period. There [...]

A generation ago a group of theologians from the Roman universities and the regional seminaries of Italy met to discuss urgent tasks facing theology in the post-Vatican II period. There [...]

edited by Donald Mitchell and James Wiseman, O.S.B. Continuum, $27.50, 320 pp. When, Karl Rahner assumed Romano Guardini's chair at the University of Munich in 1963, he praised the octogenarian [...]

by Eilish Ryan Sheed & Ward, $15.95, 221 pp. When, Karl Rahner assumed Romano Guardini's chair at the University of Munich in 1963, he praised the octogenarian writer and thinker [...]

by Dana Greene The University of Notre Dame, $25, 255 pp. When, Karl Rahner assumed Romano Guardini's chair at the University of Munich in 1963, he praised the octogenarian writer [...]

by Robert A. Krieg, C.S.C. University of Notre Dame, $18, 270 pp. When, Karl Rahner assumed Romano Guardini's chair at the University of Munich in 1963, he praised the octogenarian [...]

Veritatis splendor, John Paul II's long-rumored encyclical on morality, was issued in Rome on October 5 (Origins, October 14, 1993). The 179page document has apparently gone through several drafts in [...]

In the church, considered as a social organism, mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. The Catechism of the Catholic Church has its origins in an intervention made by Cardinal Bernard Law [...]

One could sink a ship with the books that have been written about the Vatican. There are the appallingly melodramatic novels peopled with cliche-ridden characters and implausible plots, which are [...]

John J. Delaney's Dictionary of Saints has served the public well for over two decades, but was in need of some updating. Arthur Jones has done the job nicely, adding [...]

By Rosemary Luling Haughton Paulist, $19.95, 197 pp. Rosemary Haughton is one of my favorite writers on theology so it pleased me a few columns ago to note with favor [...]

By Mark Tully Ulysses Press, $15, 237 pp. Mark Tully's text derives from a four-part series he did for BBC television on the search for the authentic meaning of Jesus. [...]

By Sallie McFague Fortress, $16, 207 pp. Sallie McFague states the thesis of her book as follows: 'Christian practice, loving God and neighbor as subjects, as worthy of our love [...]

Jane Kopas has written an engaging book with an arresting angle: that a deep sense of what it means to be linked to a divine creator provides some thick metaphors [...]

Sacred Silence: Denial and the Crisis in the Church Donald Cozzens Liturgical Press, $19.95, 208 pp. Donald Cozzens's deservedly well-received The Changing Face of the Priesthood (2000) appeared just as […]

By Michael Paul Gallagher, S.J. Paulist, $6.95., 84 pp. Michael Paul Gallagher works with the Pontifical Council for Culture in the Vatican. An Irish theologian whose writings on prayer I [...]

By Alistair McGrath InterVarsity Press, $16.95, 209 pp. McGrath is a much-published Evangelical theologian who teaches at Wycliffe College (Oxford). In this book, formed from a series of lectures he [...]

Edited by J. D. Douglas Baker, $24.95, 439 pp. Readers of these notes know of the soft spot I have for reference books, both for the offbeat bits of information [...]

By Helmut Thielicke Paragon, $29.95,422 pp. Helmut Thielicke (1908-86) was a well-known German Lutheran theologian and preacher. His mature life spanned the tumultuous days of the Weimar Republic, the period [...]

By Philip Sheldrake Cowley, $9.95, 114 pp. Philip Sheldrake is one of the more sophisticated writers in the area of Christian spirituality. His Spirituality and History (Crossroad, 1992), already praised [...]

There is not, as Joann Wolski Conn has reminded us, a generic spirituality but only particular spiritualities nourished by past traditions, particular charisms, and cultural influences. Asi' Es, a slim [...]

The Laity in the Middle Ages, by Andre Vauchez, University of Notre Dame, $36.95, 350pp. There is an old saw that says 'every analogy limps' (omnis analogia claudicat). Be that [...]

The Springs of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22, 285pp. There is an old saw that says 'every analogy limps' (omnis analogia claudicat). Be that as it [...]

Fritz Eichenberg: Works of Mercy, edited by Robert Ellsberg, Orbis, $24.95, 109pp. There is an old saw that says 'every analogy limps' (omnis analogia claudicat). Be that as it may, [...]