"Even as 'mere fragments' these essays are an imaginatively learned feast for virtually anyone interested in modern theologies." — Modern TheologyDavid Tracy is widely considered one of the most important religious thinkers in North America, known for his pluralistic vision and disciplinary breadth. His first book in more than twenty years reflects Tracy's range and erudition, collecting essays from the 1980s to 2018 into a two-volume work...

In Prohibition and the Priest David Tracy moves his characters from page to page like chess pieces. In the era of the Volstead Act he relates a well-researched true story of courage, intrigue, and betrayal that pits a righteous priest against a corrupt Catholic hierarchy, a scheming FBI, and a vicious Ku Klux Klan. Based on the life of Father Walter A. Grace, this page-turner weaves three family histories into a sobering yet entertaining work of fiction in the genre of Larry McMurtry and M...

Can mercy overcome vengeance, can forgiveness conquer retribution, can accountability stand in for judgment, can a misdiagnosed Alzheimer's patient solve the case? A Church divided like the two brothers in the parable of the Prodigal Son must return "home" - to the Gospel of Jesus. Four retired friends masquerade as residents in an Alzheimer's facility, all to get a free lunch - until the plan goes awry. One of them is admitted while the actual patient wanders away. Learn how the friends r...

In the summer of 1993, about 400,000 youth from around the world came to Denver, Colorado to attend World Youth Day. Like a Dead Head Concert, the main attraction for those young people was a 73-year-old spiritual rock star - Pope John Paul II.Years prior to World Youth Day, a number of cults - what the Catholic Church terms "Movements of the Spirit" - began their own magnetic draw on youth all over the world. Hardly known to the vast majority of Catholics, the founders of these cu...

This is the story of Sam Hughes, an All-American young man and aspiring lawyer at a prestigious St. Louis law firm. Like many new attorneys, he struggles with balance, which is compounded when his wife is tragically killed in a traffic accident. Despite his guilt and struggles over her passing, he quickly finds himself on the fast track at the firm. His business life is full of intrigue and action-packed drama, including his racy relationship with the beautiful and alluring Simone Free, th...

"[Collected] essays spanning five decades, imposing structure on a set of reflections from one of the most visionary and expansive living theologians." — Journal of the American Academy of ReligionIn the second volume of his two-volume collection of essays from the 1980s to 2018, renowned Catholic theologian David Tracy gathers profiles of significant theologians, philosophers, and religious thinkers. These essays, he suggests, can be thought of in terms of...

Jean-Luc Marion is one of the world’s foremost philosophers of religion as well as one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. In God Without Being, Marion challenges a fundamental premise of traditional philosophy, theology, and metaphysics: that God, before all else, must be. Taking a characteristically postmodern stance and engaging in passionate dialogue with Heidegger, he locates a “God without Being” in the realm of agape, or Christian charity and love. If...

In a series of conversations, Jean-Luc Marion reconstructs a career’s path in the history of philosophy, theology, and phenomenology. Discussing such concepts as the event, the gift, and the saturated phenomenon, Marion elaborates the rigor displayed by the things themselves. He discusses the major stages of his work and offers his views on the forces that have driven his thought.The conversation ranges from Marion’s engagement with Descartes, to phenomenology and theology, to Mari...

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to manage your time efficiently and effectively.Our concept of time cannot be manipulated. We cannot add another hour to the twenty-four hours we get every day. Our snooze button does not have the power to delay the sun from rising in the morning. Time simply does not wait for anyone.You'll discover powerful strategies and explosive (usually not literally, but be careful!) techniques that will enable you...

Method in Theology stands, with Insight, as Bernard Lonergan's most important work. It is Lonergan's answer to those who would argue that in this time of cultural change and dissolution the believer is afloat on a sea of multiplying theologies, without rudder or compass. Lonergan was resolute in his refusal to be defeatist on this point. While agreeing that theology must continually change to mediate between religion and culture, he worked out an integral method to guide and control this o...

Radical Orthodoxy is a new wave of theological thinking that aims to reclaim the world by situating its concerns and activities within a theological framework, re-injecting modernity with theology.This collection of papers is essential reading for anyone eager to understand religion, theology, and philosophy in a completely new light.

In his famous seminar on ethics, Jacques Lacan uses this question as his departure point for a re-examination of Freud's work and the experience of psychoanalysis in relation to ethics. Delving into the psychoanalyst's inevitable involvement with ethical questions, Lacan clarifies many of his key concepts. During the seminar he discusses the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, the essence of tragedy, and the tragic dimension of analytical experience. One of the most influent...