Books from Paulist Press

  • The Cloud of Unknowing
    By James Walsh

    Debongnie , Pierre , 42 . Déchanet , Jean - Marie , 47 , 48 , 49 . De Guibert , 229 . Deification , 93 . De Lubac , Henri , 55 , 68 . Denis de Ryckel , 23 . Deuteronomy , 6 : 5 , 169 . Devil , 55 , 85 , 86 , 88 . Easton , Adam , 6 .

  • FIRE OF LOVE
    By OP, Donald J. Goergen

    William Johnston, “Arise, My Love...”: Mysticism fora New Era (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2000), 103–4. 10. In the RomanCatholic tradition, “doctrine” isused morewidely torefer tothe ordinaryteachings of the Catholic Church, ...

  • Living Simply in an Anxious World
    By Robert J. Wicks

    As William Johnston notes : " When one enters the desert ( whether real or metaphorical ) without books and magazines , without radio and T.V. , when one's senses are no longer bombarded by all the junk to which we are ordinarily ...

  • Handbook of Spirituality for Ministers Vol. 2: Perspectives for the 21st Century
    By Robert J. Wicks

    William Johnston, that astute student of contemplative prayer has observed envelops the whole universe.10 Johnston is taking note of the. the number of modern people who are practising meditation and find themselves drawn into the ...

  • Mystical Prayer Is for (Almost) Everyone
    By Lawrence S. Cunningham, Ernest J. Fiedler

    You will begin to notice a different kind of presencein-depth based on faith alone. Have I thought the dark night is a prolonged event or experience? 3. The Cloud of Unknowing, ed. William Johnston (New York: Doubleday, 1973), 48–49.

  • A Bridge to Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
    By Seiichi Yagi, Leonard J. Swidler

    With this new Copernican turn Western Catholic theologians living and working in Japan , e.g. , Enomiya Lasalle , Heinrich Dumoulin and William Johnston , and Japanese Catholic theologians , such as Kakichi Kadowaki , Shigeto Oshida and ...

  • Listening at Prayer
    By Benedict J. Groeschel

    It is not necessary to go into what this means in detail, but if you are interested the subject is well summarized by Fr. William Johnston in his valuable book on the psychology of meditation, Silent Music.1 It is important if you wish ...

  • Apparitions, Healings, and Weeping Madonnas: Christianity and the Paranormal
    By Lisa J. Schwebel

    William Johnston, author of The Inner Eye of Love: Mysticism and Religion, writes that “mysticism is a passage to the ordinary.” Turning to the parapsychological examination of mystical phenomena, the principal ...

  • Contemplative Ethics
    By Dennis J. Billy, CSsR

    SeeDennisJ. Billy, “Models and Multivalence: On the Interaction between Spiritualityand Moral Theology,”Studia moralia 38(2000): 49–52. 9. William Johnston, Mystical Theology: TheScience of Love (London:HarperCollins, 1995),9.

  • The English Writings
    By Richard Rolle

    I keep degrees ( properly steps or stages ) of love because Rolle's " three degrees of love " are so famous that any other ... but use “ Jesus ( Christ ) , " even where Rolle uses J ( h ) esu , in the third - person references .

  • What are They Saying about Scripture and Ethics?
    By William C. Spohn

    William C. Spohn. Garrett Green, ed., Scriptural Authority and Narrative Interpretation (Philadelphia: ... William Wimsatt, The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry (Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Press, 1954), p. 71.

  • God Questions: Meeting the Living God
    By William J. O'Malley, SJ

    God Questions is a simple guide for adults on some of the important questions of faith.

  • Faith-Based Reflections on American Life
    By William J. Byron, SJ

    William J. Byron, SJ. One year earlier on that same evening in Scranton, Pennsylvania, I heard then mayor of Baltimore, now governor of Maryland, Martin O'Malley, address the allmale, eleven hundred strong, Lackawanna County chapter of ...

  • Disciplines for Christian Living: Interfaith Perspectives
    By Thomas P. Ryan

    The apostolic constitution of Pope Paul VI , Poenitemini , brought a total reorganization of ecclesiastical discipline with regard to fasting and abstinence . Abstinence from meat and meat products , it said , was to be observed on ...

  • Isaiah of Jerusalem: An Introduction
    By William J. Doorly

    John L. McKenzie begins his Anchor Bible Series commentary Second Isaiah ( New York : Doubleday , 1983 ) by translating and commenting on chapters 34 and 35. He includes chapter 35 because of the sameness of spirit and style ...

  • The Religion of Israel: A Short History
    By William J. Doorly

    571 . 5. Damascus had invaded Galilee and had gained control of the major trade route as it passed through northern Transjordan . See Ahlstrom , Ancient Palestine , pp . 570–71 . 6. See McKenzie's The Trouble with Kings ...

  • Bartolomé de Las Casas: Great Prophet of the Americas
    By Paul S. Vickery

    Translated by Robert R. Barr. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993. —. Teologi'a de la liberacion de la liberacién. 7th ed. ... Harris, R. Laird, ed. Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament. Vol. 2. Chicago: Moody Press, 1980.

  • An Introduction to Bioethics
    By Thomas Anthony Shannon

    W. French Anderson , " Human Gene Therapy , " Science 256 : 808 . 6. Nelson A. Wivel and LeRoy Walters , " Germ - Line Gene Modification and Disease Prevention : Some Medical and Ethical Perspectives , " Science 262 : 533 . 7. Ibid . 8.

  • The Parish in Catholic Tradition: History, Theology, and Canon Law
    By James A. Coriden

    "This volume," says James Coriden in his introduction, "... allows the reader to reach an accurate understanding of the authentic nature and function of parishes within the Catholic tradition.

  • Healing Life's Hurts: Healing Memories Through Five Stages of Forgiveness
    By Matthew Linn, Dennis Linn

    "Explores the concept of emotional and physical healing as well as exploring the five stages of acceptance of death and dying in light of prayer and religious experience"--Amazon.com.