Father George Maloney in his introduction to this volume focuses directly on the special importance of St. Symeon and on how similar the religious situation of his era is to our own. "Concretely, the battle of two opposing views of theology centered around St. Symeon and his mystical apophatic approach of the experiencing of God immanently present to the individual, as opposed to the "head trip" scholastic theology as represented by Archbishop Stephen of Nicomedia, the official theologian at the court of Constantinople. Stephen represented the abstract, philosophical type of theologizing while Symeon strove to restore theology to its pristine mystical tendency as a wisdom infused by the Holy Spirit into the Christian after he had been thoroughly purified through a rigorous asceticism and a state of constant repentance." 
This great spiritual master of Eastern Christianity was an abbot, spiritual director of renown, theologian and important church reformer. These Discourses which form the central work of his life were preached by St. Symeon to his monks during their morning Matins ritual. They treat such basic spiritual themes as repentance, detachment, renunciation, the works of charity, impassiblity, remembrance of death, sorrow for sins, the practice of God's commandments, mystical union with the indwelling Trinity, faith and contemplation.

The discourses (The Classics of Western spirituality)

The New Theologian,Saint Symeon

Paulist Press International,U.

Originally published under the title "Bid Om Vrede" by Uitgerverij Ambo NV, Utrecht Netherlands 1966

Your Word Is Near

Huub Oosterhuis

Religion & Spirituality

human rights traditions in Catholicism....

Claims in Conflict: Retrieving and Renewing the Catholic Human Rights Tradition

Hollenbach, David

How should religions disagree with one another today? How might they properly engage in dialogue concerning their central beliefs when these radically contradict the faith of others? In this book for the first time in Jewish-Christian discussions, a Jewish theologian investigates contemporary Christian doctrines of the Christ and responds to them out of his faith in God's continuing covenant with the people of Israel.

Contemporary Christologies: A Jewish response

Eugene B. Borowitz

Religious Studies

Above every name: The lordship of Christ and social systems (Woodstock studies)

Thomas E. Clarke

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A Third Collection: Papers by Bernard J.F. Lonergan, S.J.

Bernard J. Lonergan

Christian Books & Bibles

Authority of the Bible: Theories of Inspiration, Revelation and the Canon of Scripture Paperback - December, 1985

The authority of the Bible: Theories of inspiration, revelation, and the canon of Scripture

Robert Gnuse

The sanctuary movement of the 1980's has become a confrontation pitting personal religious values against government policy. In defiance of federal law, ordinary American citizens have been opening their homes, churches and synagogues to illegal refugees who claim to be fleeing terror and turmoil in Central America. The Americans who shelter refugees assert they are obliged to do so by religious conviction. Thus far federal authorities have responded by charging them with criminal activity. Besides telling the story of the present confrontation, this book explores many of the questions behind it. Is there a historical basis for "church sanctuary"? Does the notion of sanctuary have any status in American law? Can religious people offer convincing arguments from their traditions? And how well does the U.S. treatment of persons requesting political asylum accord with international agreements protecting refugees?

This ground is holy: Church sanctuary and Central American refugees

Politics & Social Sciences

Ephatius Bau

Sociology

Christianity was born within Judaism. How it emerged from it and finally, and irrevocably, broke with it is a long and complex story. Terrance Callan sees the process as hinging on two crucial points viz. 'first, the church's decision that Gentile Christians need not keep the Jewish law; and second, the eventual decline of Jewish membership within the church'. This is a small book packed full of scholarly information and interpretation.

Forgetting the root: The emergence of Christianity from Judaism

Cellan, Terence

Grace on crutches: Homilies for fellow travelers

Walter J. Burghardt

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