Tag: brief book review
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Brief Book Review: Religion, Race, and COVID-19
JULIA A. UPTON, RSM — This collection of eleven important interdisciplinary essays should be read by anyone in active ministry who is concerned about the intersection of religion and race and disturbed by the health inequities and racism laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Brief Book Review: Preaching in the Light of the Word
KATHARINE E. HARMON — “In this collection of papers, experienced preacher and homiletics teacher, Rev. Michael Connors, CSC, assembles a diverse group of preachers, practitioners, and theologians to explore the ministry of preaching.”
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Brief Book Review: Church of Our Granddaughters
TEVA REGULE — “This work speaks to the need for discernment when encountering tradition and its ongoing reception for today.”
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Brief Book Review: Just Church
AMANDA C. OSHEIM — “Zagano asks the important question of how Catholic social teaching (CST) applies not only ‘beyond’ the church, but also within the church. ”
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Brief Book Review: Passions of the Soul
MICHAEL PLEKON — “What follows is not at all a “how to do it” course, the sharing of particular practices for moving toward freedom. Rather Williams takes us to the traditional list of the passions that enslave us and from which we need to detach, literally become apathetic–letting go of the pathos in each.”
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Brief Book Review: Mary and the Liturgical Year
NEIL XAVIER O’DONOGHUE — “Harmon provides readers with a survey of Mary’s role in the Church’s liturgical prayer from the earliest evidence through to our own day.”
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Brief Book Review: Tilling the Church
DAVID STOSUR — “On the heels of the devastating clergy sexual abuse crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic in the Catholic Church, Lennan provides a hopeful but also realistic image of “tilling” the church, as one would till the earth to promote ongoing growth and renewed life.”
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Brief Book Review: Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe
RHODA SCHULER — “…the editor claims that “scholarship on the Protestant reformations have come to a watershed moment,” arguing “that the lives and works of women have a place in the shaping of the field” (xxiv), and the majority of scholars writing about women reformers in this volume are women.”