In this book Meynet offers an entirely new perspective on the study of the Synoptic Gospels, adding further insights within the growing body of modern research into the meanings of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. Utilizing the rhetorical method of analysis, of which he is a leading proponent, Meynet studies the composition of the Gospels as they were written and makes it possible to understand them in systematic and until now unexpected ways. The author does not approach these Gospels on the basis of introductory questions, but instead combines critical analysis with ...

Over the centuries, the crisis in ordained ministry has not been exclusively about the problem of celibacy, even though that is important, and this book certainly includes a reflection about it.  The crisis is, above all, a crisis of identity due to the progressive disfiguring of the sense of the mission which Christ left to his apostles and which made of the early church as well as the later church an essentially missionary institution. For this reason, J.I. Gonzalez Faus insists in these pages that all ministry, and specifically the ordained ministry, must express this same missionar...

Part of a series of books on contemporary spirituality, the Meditatio Series help us to understand and establish  profound personal realities regarding our humanity and help us to rediscover a new way to assume others and God in our society. Through these guides to meditation we are able to know ourselves better and to deal with everyday problems such as the search for happiness, sense of life, depression, health and death.
 
In this Title, The Goal of Life, Laurence Freeman shares insights into understanding Jesus in order to better understand ourselves. He teaches ...

Part of a series of books on contemporary spirituality, the Meditatio Series help us to understand and establish profound personal realities regarding our humanity and help us to rediscover a new way to assume others and God in our society. Through these guides to meditation we are able to know ourselves better and to deal with everyday problems such as the search for happiness, sense of life, depression, health and death.

In this Book, Experiencing God in a time of Crisis, Sarah Bachelard explains that there are critical times in our lives, moments of profound loss, g...

Part of a series of books on contemporary spirituality, the Meditatio Series help us to understand and establish profound personal realities regarding our humanity and help us to rediscover a new way to assume others and God in our society. Through these guides to meditation we are able to know ourselves better and to deal with everyday problems such as the search for happiness, sense of life, depression, health and death.

In this Book, Why are we Here?, Laurence Freeman examines the radical question of our being in the world. We are here, he reflects, to come to conti...

In this book Vergote presents a psychological, anthropological, and religious analysis of contemporary humanity. He considers the human being to be a personal being in relationship, endowed with language and a profound yearning for happiness, capable of loving and offering himself to others; but at the same time, conscious of a divine mystery that transcends him and cannot be identified with precision. According to the writer, philosophical reason ignores the personal and personalizing God, but, in some way, prepares us for understanding him. Informed by some of the best studies on the subj...