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How is it possible that a chain-smoking socialist, a teenage video gamer, an opium addict, a satanic high priest, a disabled beggar, and a self-absorbed mean girl became saints? Popular itinerant missionary Meg Hunter-Kilmer will stretch your preconceived notions of holiness by exploring the lesser-known lives of seventy-five extraordinary people whose human struggles and limitations reveal the power of God's grace.

With no mission board to support or guide her, and less than 10 dollars in her pocket, Gladys Aylward left her home in England to answer God's call to take the message of the gospel to China. With the Sino-Japanese War waging around her, she struggled to bring the basics of life and the fullness of God to orphaned children. Time after time, God triumphed over impossible situations, and drew people to himself. Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman tells the story of one woman's determination to serve God at any cost.

Karl Rahner is known as the father of the Catholic Church in the 20th century. Join Rahner’s celebrated student, acclaimed theologian, author, and Boston College professor, Fr. Harvey Egan, SJ, in this exploration of Rahner’s wisdom. A Jesuit priest, Rahner was also a philosopher, theologian, commentator on church documents, devotional writer, preacher, and retreat director. His 4,000 written works reveal a powerful vision, and the questions he raised continue to inspire theology today.

"Everything about me is in my films," Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker, Molly Haskell explores the full range of Spielberg's works for the light they shine upon the man himself. Through such powerhouse hits as E.T., Jurassic Park, and Indiana Jones, to less-appreciated movies like the haunting Schindler's List, Haskell shows how Spielberg's uniquely evocative filmmaking and story-telling reveal the many ways in which his life, work, and times are entwined.

Perhaps no one had such a great influence on the Roman Catholic Church in the 20th century as Pope John XXIII, who was canonized by Pope Francis on April 27, 2014. Born Angelo Roncalli (1881-1963), he rose from humble beginnings to become a passionate advocate for social justice and world peace. His papacy was marked by compassion, charity, and love. In this course you will join ecclesial expert and Georgetown professor Gerard Mannion in encountering the enduring charisma of Saint John XXIII.

Wieder öffnet Schwester Ilse Roennpagel ihr Tagebuch und gewährt Einblicke in ungewöhnliche, bewegende und spannende Erlebnisse während ihrer Zeit als Urwaldhebamme und Missionarin in Brasilien. Ihre Geschichten über geheimnisvolle Kuchenverzierungen und nächtliches Treiben auf dem Dachboden laden zum Schmunzeln ein. Mitzuerleben, wie sie von Räubern überfallen und entführt wird, lässt einem hingegen das Blut in den Adern gefrieren. Der rote Faden, der sich durch all die unterschiedlichen Erzählungen von Schwester Ilse zieht, ist ihr großes Gottvertrauen.

This TAN Books edition of “Mary Magdalen in the Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich” by Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, features the complete original text, along with a supplemental section entitled “A Brief Life of Christ”.

John Henry Newman: A Mind Alive paints a vivid and nuanced portrait of Newman as a thinker, a friend, a priest, and shows us how he approached some of the controversial issues that still divide Christians. Those who want to come to know Newman better and to learn from him will be able to meet him in this concise and elegant new study.

This unique intellectual portrait explores the role of ideas in Lincoln’s life. Guelzo presents Lincoln as a serious thinker deeply involved in the problems of 19th-century thought, including those of classical liberalism, the Lockean Enlightenment, Victorian unbelief, and Calvinist spirituality.

This course will have a profound impact on your faith and thinking. Thomas Aquinas, OP (1225-1274), is one of world history's most influential thinkers. His works indelibly shaped Western thought and Christian belief, and his brilliant ideas continue to resonate in universities and churches everywhere. But his complex thought can often seem inaccessible to most of us. In this superb course, taught by an internationally known Aquinas expert, you will tour his towering thought while gaining powerful insights into your faith.

Explore the profound spirituality of Hans Urs von Balthasar. Born in Switzerland, Balthasar (1905-1988) was one of the most prolific and sophisticated Catholic thinkers of the 20th century. As you will discover, Balthasar's theology provides a powerful model for the Catholic Church in the modern world. In Hans Urs von Balthasar: Rediscovering Holistic Christianity, you will join Balthasar expert Dr. Kevin Mongrain (PhD, Yale University) in exploring this great theologian.

Ugo de Vita ripercorre la vita di San Francesco, il "poverello di Assisi", ad oggi, uno dei santi più conosciuti e venerati al mondo. Le origini da ricco figlio di commercianti, la conversione con la restituzione al padre di tutti gli averi, la consacrazione della vita a Cristo nel segno di un'esistenza votata alla povertà e agli ultimi, la fondazione dell'ordine.

Complementing his first book, Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment, John goes back to the roots of his mystical experience in farming where, seeking to do his best but humbled by experience, he came to realise that the only impediment to universal good is self-willed ego “me”. This, as we know, is not easy to control.

Discover how God used ordinary men, Jesus's twelve chosen disciples, to change the world, and how He can accomplish the same thing through you. You don't have to be perfect to do God's work. Look no further than the twelve disciples, whose many weaknesses are forever preserved throughout the...

Mutter Teresa, Nonne, Spendensammlerin und Friedensnobelpreisträgerin: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten.

كتاب رياض الصالحين من كلام سيد المرسلين مؤلفه الإمام يحيى بن شرف النووي الدمشقي، ويجمع في هذا الكتاب الأحاديث الصحيحة المروية عن الرسول محمد بن عبد الله صلى الله...

Chögyam Trungpa, né au Tibet en 1939 et mort au Canada en 1987, est l'un des tout premiers maîtres spirituels à avoir enseigné la sagesse du bouddhisme aux Occidentaux. Trungpa estimait que le bouddhisme transmis en Occident devait donner naissance à un bouddhisme occidental, ce qui impliquait une profonde réflexion sur la langue et la culture dans laquelle le dharma allait s'ancrer, ainsi qu'une immersion sans retenue dans le quotidien du monde moderne pour mieux en discerner à la fois la grandeur et la crispation.

The powerful, dramatic story of how a successful Hollywood set designer whose identity was deeply rooted in his homosexuality came to be suddenly and utterly transformed by the power of the gospel. When Becket Cook moved from Dallas to Los Angeles after college, he discovered a socially...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "A remarkable book. Weigel's biography is likely to remain the standard one-volume reference on John Paul II for many years to come." — Pittsburg Post-Gazette ?“Fascinating. . . sheds light on the history of the twentieth century for everyone.” —New York Times...

Theologian and reformer John Wycliffe never had the opportunity to take his doctrines outside of his native England, but he could never have imagined that his teachings would one day travel as far as 920 miles east to Bohemia. In fact, while his contentious convictions aroused much ado....