Books published by Liturgical Press

Solutions to Thirty-Eight Questions

Cultivating Sacramental Imagination and Actions in College Classrooms

Trinity, Evolution, and Ecology

Engaging Catholic Social Teaching on the College Campus

Critical Metaphysics and Contemporary Sacramental Theology

The Medicine of Mercy

Breaking Open the Conversation about Catholic Preaching

Love Must Win Out

Faithful Visionary

Exploring Dei Verbum

A Hermit's Love Affair with a Noisy, Crowded, and Complicated World

Reflections on the Prologue of Benedict's Rule

A Revised Critical Edition

Year II

Volume 2A source-book of theological and historical passages from the Christian writings of the Post-Nicene and Constantinopolitan eras through St. Jerome. Volume 2 concludes with Julian of Eclanum (d. 454).Volume 1: the Pre-Nicene and Nicene erasVolume 2: the Post-Nicene era through St. Jerome;Volume 3: St. Augustine to the end of the patristic period. The passages selected are keyed to the numerical order established in M. J. Rouët de Journel''s Enchiridion Patristicum. In no sense, however, are these volumes a translation of that standard work. The author has made his own investigation of theological textbooks in common use and has selected the patristic passages most frequently cited, including much that is in Rouët and much that is not. All passages have been freshly and accurately translated from the best critical editions. Preceding each selection is a brief introduction treating the authorship, date and place of composition, and the purpose of the work from which the selection is taken. The author''s scholarship and sprightly sense of humor are evident in these prefatory remarks. Of immense value to the reader is the Doctrinal Index provided for each volume. Here one can find the texts pertinent to particular doctrinal points, a method especially useful to homilists. In addition, each volume is enhanced by comprehensive Scriptural and General Indices. 

A Concise Commentary, Revised Fourth Edition

This work contends that an overly narrow view of the biblical teaching on conversion has effectively distorted the average Christian's understanding of this topic. It asserts that the New Testament contains a much broader and more diverse perspective on conversion than is usually recognized.

Toward an Integral Christian Spirituality

Without really raising his voice once the author proceeds to the heart of each of these matters and speaks home truths for which all sorts of people--priests and religious and laity--will be grateful.

Following Love into Mystery

Volume 5

By exploring the relationship between the Bible and the Qu'ran, John Kaltner challenges Bible readers to think about their sacred book in different ways.

The Syriac Liber Graduum

A Primer for Catholics

The Praktikos & Chapters On Prayer

The textbook and pulpit notion that all Christendom is divided between Greek East and Latin West overlooks an ancient and still continuing third stream of tradition: Syriac Christianity. Cut off from the rest of the Christian world by theological controversy in the fifth century, Arab conquest in the seventh, and Mongul invasions in the thirteenth, Syrian Christians continued to celebrate the christian mysteries, to meditate on Scripture, and to apply its teachings to their lives. Some of them, attempting to realize here on earth their baptismal potential to re-enter paradise, chose a life of asceticism and single-minded devotion to Christ. Their reflections created across the centuries a rich literature. Some passed into the byzantine tradition; some remained unknown to other Christians and have never until now been translated into a modern language. These Syriac fathers offer the modern heirs of both latin and greek Christendom new, yet ancient and enduring, insights on prayer and the spiritual life.

Conflicting Interpretations of the Liturgical Reform

A Theology of Hope

An introduction to the formative first five hundred years of the Christian theological tradition.

The Rite of Marriage