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Who should lead us? Who should we, as a community, look to for guidance? These questions followed the Israelite community upon their return from the Exile: Should they return with Davidic kingship or without it? Their answer was King Saul. Reading Israel's first king as a riddle or the epitome of Israel's experience with kingship, King Saul's Asking explores the characterization of the figure Saul, the question of the apparent silence of God, the multiple complexities of responsibility for kingship, and the readers' opportunities for transformation. It is not only an in-depth character study but also an interesting, insightful read, and opportunity for transformation.

Reflections on a Dying Life is an eminently accessible and deeply pastoral book of Christian eschatology. Father Burt uses his masterful knowledge of St. Augustine's writings to create a classically Catholic spirituality of aging. Integrating a deep faith with his disciplined reason, he gently, lovingly sculpts an Augustinian spirituality of death and resurrection. Every page brims with the humor and pathos, with the irony and insight that distinguish all of Burt's writings as precious resources for contemporary believers and thinkers. --Joseph T. Kelley, Merrimack College

Risks, Challenges, and Opportunities

A Study of Vows in Religious Life

Biblical Stories of Israel's Beginning

The liturgy and art forms such as music, sacred space and dance are explored in "Liturgy and the Arts". Readers will experience a genuine joy in contemplating this Catholic bishop's convincing argument that the Church cannot do without the arts.

A Theology of Liturgical Music

The Worship of the Eucharist Outside Mass

Reflections on the Prayer of Augustine

Toward an Autobiographical Theology in American-Asian Perspective

Honoring the Gospel of God

Paul's Coworkers in Christ Jesus

Patron and Emissary

Paul's Cosmopolitan Hostess

Paul's Partner or Rival?

First-Generation Member of the Jesus Movement

Interpreting the Interrelationship between Sunday Eucharist and Practices of Everyday Worship

The passion is the climactic event in each of the gospels. This volume elucidates the passion in its historical background and explores its theological breadth and depth. With scholarly finesse and pastoral awareness, the author sets the vibrant message of the passion speaking to our lives and times.

Lay Ecclesial Minitry and the Church

A Christian Anthropology of Difference

A Primer in Liturgical Theology

A Companion to Julian of Norwich

Discerning a Life of Service in the Church

Travels in the Borderland Between East and West

"Is ritual a "forgotten way of doing things'?"That is the question posed famously by Romano Guardini in a letter written in 1964 to liturgists meeting in the German city of Mainz. Guardini believed that the future of liturgical renewal lay not in "improved texts," nor in the recovery of some mythic "golden age," nor in the "rearrangement of furniture," but in relearning ritual behavior.Christian ritual, Guardini believed, is not the contemplative act of an individual but the public deed of an assembly -- a community gathered in faith and prayer in obedience to Jesus' command. Can people and presiders today relearn this communal way of "doing"? Can they learn to "read" ritual acts simply by doing them, by performing them -- without being self-conscious, theatrical, and fussy?Over the past thirty-five years, Christian liturgists have sought to reinterpret ritual's multiple meanings by transplanting insights from the social sciences (sociology, anthropology). Have the transplants worked? This book tries to answer that question.