Category: Recently Published Books
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How to Go to Mass and Not Lose Your Faith
From the CNS story: “Cardinal Cañizares said that while the book’s title is provocative, it demonstrates a belief he shares: ‘Participating in the Eucharist can make us weaken or lose our faith if we do not enter into it properly’ and if the liturgy is not celebrated according to the church’s norms. This is true…
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American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
Book Review by Jack Rakosky
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Essential theology books of the past 25 years
The Christian Century asked eight theologians to name five essential theology books of the past 25 years.
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Summer “What We’ve Been Reading” Wednesday
One upshot to studying in Europe is that the academic year does not begin until about mid-October and so my time for summer reading is vastly extended – so much so that it is also fall reading. Here are some titles on my list.
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Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday
My summer reading is rather eclectic for 2010. I am finishing three non fiction books: Eamon Duffy’s re-reading of the historical record of the reign of “Bloody Mary: Fires of Faith Catholic England under Mary Tudor. I have also begun James P. McCartin’s Prayers of the Faithful: The Shifting Spiritual Life of American Catholics.
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Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday
The largest pile of books has to do with my current (almost completed) research project. Tentatively entitled Lifting a Veil on Liturgy’s Past: Gender, History, and the Making of Liturgical Tradition, the book is an inquiry into the writing of liturgical history: what we think we know, what we can know, and what, at this…
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Reveling in the Book of Kells
A couple of months ago, on the recommendation of a catechumen with whom I am blessed to work, I watched The Secret of Kells, an animated Irish film.
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Perspectives on Catholic architecture: a response to Dennis McNamara
The unmistakable thread running through Dr. McNamara’s book is that there is one true faith, one true liturgy, and one truly sacred style of architecture: the classical tradition. It is surprising that he touts one architectural tradition as the one true expression of his principles.
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Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday I
Near the top of my list is Paul Mariani’s new biography, Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life (Viking 2008).