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Worship and Work : Saint John's Abbey and University 1856-1992
Colman J. Barry OSB and David J. Klingeman OSB
A history of Saint John's Abbey and Saint John's University in Collegeville, MN.
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Protest and Possibility in the Writing of Tillie Olsen
Mara Faulkner OSB
Tillie Olsen's fiction and nonfiction portray, with all their harsh contours, the lives of people who cannot speak for themselves or whose words have been forgotten or ignored. Olsen's writing is neither serene nor despairing. In this sensitive thematic reading, Mara Faulkner shows that its most subversive function is the assertion that human life can be other than and more than it is. Olsen's promise of full creative life aims to make her readers forever dissatisfied with physical, emotional, and intellectual starvation.
In this comprehensive examination of a literature of social consciousness, Faulkner approaches Olsen's work within their historical, social, and political contexts without treating them as propaganda. In fact, she shows that it is Olsen's compressed, poetic style that gives her writing its revolutionary power.
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Toward a New Pentecost, for a New Evangelization
Kilian McDonnell OSB
A presentation of the theological basis of the charismatic renewal rooted in the rites of initiation and therefore at the heart of the church's life. The text came out of an international consultation of leaders in the charismatic renewal held in Malines, Belgium, in 1974 under the sponsorship of Cardinal Suenens.
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Study Guide to Accompany Child Psychology : A Contemporary Viewpoint, Fourth Edition, Hetherington/Parke
Rodger Narloch and Janis E. Jacobs
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Democracy and Socialism in Sandinista Nicaragua
Harry E. Vanden and Gary Prevost
Moving beyond Cold War rhetoric and stereotypical views of Third World Marxism, the authors convincingly argue that the democratic tradition and practice that was emerging in socialist Nicaragua could well serve as a model for other Third World states. They analyze concepts of democracy and the ideology of the FSLN and show that the Sandinista movement is not in any way stock Marxist-Leninism. Instead, this nationalist variant of Third World Marxism is—like most others—a function of indigenous realities.
Vanden and Prevost demonstrate that Nicaragua has seen the establishment of at least three different forms of democracy: popular, participatory democracy (manifested in mass organizations); Western-style representative democracy (as seen in the 1984 and 1990 elections and the resultant governmental structure); and Leninist vanguardism (shown in the functioning of the FSLN itself). After showing why participatory democracy did not triumph, they conclude with an assessment of the 1990 elections and their impact on the future of democracy in Nicaragua.
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Catholic Rites Today: Abridged Texts for Students
Allan Bouley OSB
Just as there can be no thorough study of a literary work without first a careful reading of it, so there cannot be an adequate study of the major liturgical rites of the Catholic Church without a knowledge of the texts of the rites.
The purpose of this volume is to provide students with a one-volume abridged yet sufficiently comprehensive edition of the major contemporary rites of the Roman Catholic Church. It is not a commentary but rather a convenient source for the texts of these rites.
The volume includes large excerpts from the Roman Missal: The General Instruction, the complete Order of Mass, prayers from the Sacramentary, and other texts allowing for an adequate study of the Catholic Eucharist. For the other Catholic sacraments - Initiation (for adults and children, including Confirmation), Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Marriage, Orders - at least one complete version of each rite is presented along with its introduction or introductory sections. Texts from the Order of Christian Funerals are also included.
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The 1990 Elections in Nicaragua and Their Aftermath
Vanessa Castro and Gary Prevost
Four experts on the Nicaraguan political system examine the causes and consequences of the striking defeat of the Sandinista National Liberation Front in the 1990 Nicaraguan democratic election. Using extensive survey data, the contributors detail a variety of circumstances, beyond the strong influence of U.S. military and diplomatic interest, that led to the victory of counter-revolutionary forces in Nicaragua.
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Christian Initiation and Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Evidence from the First Eight Centuries
Kilian McDonnell OSB and George T. Montague
Up to now the teaching on baptism in the Holy Spirit has been based on a few scriptural texts, whose interpretation was disputed. This doubt cast its shadow on those who promote baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Now new evidence has been found in early post-biblical authors (Tertullian, Hilary of Poitiers, Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, Philoxenus, and the Syrians) which demonstrates that what is called baptism in the Holy Spirit was integral to Christian initiation (baptism, confirmation, Eucharist). Because it was part of initiation into the Church, it was not a matter of private piety, but of public worship. Therefore it was and remains normative.
This is an intriguing ground-breaking study of value to RCIA teams, pastors, theology teachers and students, and Church offices.
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Fanning the Flame : What Does Baptism in the Holy Spirit Have to Do with Christian Initiation?
Kilian McDonnell OSB and George T. Montague
"The Heart of the Church Consultation of theologians and pastoral leaders met May 6-11, 1990 in Techny, Illinois, to examine the pastoral implications of the evidence from the early post-biblical authors that baptism in the the Holy Spirit is integral to Christian initiation and is normative."
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"Working the Earth of the Heart" : the Messalian Controversy in History, Texts, and Language to A.D. 431
Columba Stewart OSB
This study provides a complete reassessment of the Messalian controversy of the fourth and fifth centuries AD. The Messalians were an ascetic group, their name (of Syriac derivation) meaning `praying people'. Their extraordinary claims and graphic spiritual vocabulary were considered heretical by the early Christian Church and were condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431. Dr. Stewart reconstructs the history of the controversy from its beginnings, carefully avoiding all previous suppositions and flawed methodologies. He considers in depth the spiritual vocabulary which lies at the root of the controversy and which can also be found in the Greek pseudo-Macarian writings. He proves that the pseudo-Macarian vocabulary can be traced to a Syriac milieu and demonstrates this by comparisons with such early Syriac texts as the writings of Ephrem, Aphrahat, and especially the anonymous Liber graduum. In this light, the claims of the Messalians are shown to result from the influence upon Greek Christian culture of an equally orthodox tradition, the Semitic Syriac culture of the Christian East. Christian writers of both cultures were determined to show others a way to 'work the earth of the heart', an image favoured by pseudo-Macarius for its evocation of the patient labour of asceticism. The controversy was thus not indeed a question of heresy, but of misperceived differences of culture and of spiritual idiom.
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A Sense of Place II: The Benedictines of Collegeville
Colman J. Barry OSB
A collection of 31 personal essays by alumni and friends of St. John's Abbey and University.
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Readings, Cases, Materials in Canon Law: A Textbook for Ministerial Students
Jordan F. Hite and Daniel J. Ward OSB
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The Holy Way: Sunday and Weekday Meditations on the Masses for Ordinary Time
Emeric Anthony Lawrence OSB
Church year meditations
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