Richard Rohr is one of the great Christian spiritual masters of our time. Of any time.--James Martin, SJ, author of Come Forth

How do we live compassionately in a time of violence and despair? What can we do with our private disappointments and the anger we feel in such an unjust world? In his most personal book yet, Richard Rohr turns to the writings of the Jewish prophets, revealing how some of the lesser-read books of the Bible offer us a crucial path forward today.

The prophets' writings reflect the full spectrum of human maturity. In almost every case, their initial rage and their accusatory words evolve into a profound pathos and lamentation about our shared human condition and the world's suffering. Through astute critiques of culture and institutions, and their journey from anger to sadness, and ultimately compassion, the prophets exemplify what Rohr calls sacred criticism--a distinct approach to confronting evil and injustice that acknowledges the wholeness of history, the interconnectedness of every living being, and the reality of a divine and universal love. In this, they set the stage for Jesus, who follows this identical pattern.

Drawing on a century of biblical scholarship and written in the warm, pastoral voice that has endeared Rohr to millions, The Tears of Things breathes new life into ancient wisdom. It paves a path of enlightenment for anyone seeking a compassionate way of living in a hurting world.

Powerful, trustworthy... beautiful?

Samuel G. Parkison makes a startling claim: Jesus is the most beautiful man to ever exist. His defence is theoretical and experiential: he knows him to be ultimate beauty and he has experienced him to be so.

Deconstructing cultural notions that beauty is subjective or sentimental, Parkison constructs an impressive picture of God's breathtaking beauty. On this firm foundation, the only building to rise is one that testifies to Jesus, the God-man, as the most beautiful man that ever lived.

There's beauty on every page of Jesus' story. From before time, the beautiful foreknowledge of the Father prepared for the beauty of the incarnation. From this beautiful birth came a ministry brimming with beauty, and a death that overflowed with it. This beautiful sunset is followed by a resurrection sunrise: the beautiful declaration that salvation is secure. Having ascended, with beauty unbound, he now reigns forever as our ceaseless intercessor.

Through the pages of this journey, the unvarnished Jesus radiates with a true beauty like nothing and no one else. His rivals, the lesser versions, knockoffs and dupes, are ugly in comparison to the beautiful Jesus of the Holy Scriptures. He is the only one through whom satisfaction and communion with God, the ultimate beauty we're wired to desire, is found.

This is a beauty that everyone needs to know and experience. With sidebars and a glossary to distil complex terms, readers are invited to delve deeper into the beauty of Jesus. There's beauty in the big words, and it's within the grasp of every reader.

So, put the proposition to the test. Read and revel in Jesus; he's beautiful.

You can tell a lot about a person by the way he dies.

In the last week of his life, Jesus deliberately sets his face toward Jerusalem--and certain death. This is no ordinary week. Even the angels are silent as they ponder the final days of Jesus Christ.

This is no ordinary walk. Jesus doesn't chatter. He doesn't pause. He is on his final journey.

He walks determinedly to the holy city, angrily into the temple, wearily into Gethsemane, painfully up the Via Dolorosa. And powerfully out of the vacated tomb.

Master storyteller and best-selling author Max Lucado invites you: Let's follow Jesus on his final journey. For by observing his, we may learn how to make ours. And discover what matters to God.

Anyone who strives to put their faith into action will find encouragement and inspiration in the pages of this book.--Melinda Gates

In his decades as a globally recognized teacher, Richard Rohr has helped millions realize what is at stake in matters of faith and spirituality. Yet Rohr has never written on the most perennially talked about topic in Christianity: Jesus. Most know who Jesus was, but who was Christ? Is the word simply Jesus's last name? Too often, Rohr writes, our understandings have been limited by culture, religious debate, and the human tendency to put ourselves at the center.

Drawing on scripture, history, and spiritual practice, Rohr articulates a transformative view of Jesus Christ as a portrait of God's constant, unfolding work in the world. God loves things by becoming them, he writes, and Jesus's life was meant to declare that humanity has never been separate from God--except by its own negative choice. When we recover this fundamental truth, faith becomes less about proving Jesus was God, and more about learning to recognize the Creator's presence all around us, and in everyone we meet.

Thought-provoking, practical, and full of deep hope and vision, The Universal Christ is a landmark book from one of our most beloved spiritual writers, and an invitation to contemplate how God liberates and loves all that is.

ESTE LIBRO, AHORA UNA GRAN PELÍCULA IMPACTANTE NO ES UNA NOVELA. ES UNA BÚSQUEDA SIN RESERVAS DE LA VERDAD ACERCA DE UNA DE LAS FIGURAS MÁS APASIONANTES DE LA HISTORIA AL FINAL. EL LECTOR DETERMINARÁ EL VEREDICTO EN EL CASO DE CRISTO.

Si usted fuera periodista, cómo enfuertaría las noticias de una historia tan grande que podría eclipsar por completo a todos los demás hechos del mundo? Cómo llevaría a cabo su investigación? Cuántas preguntas capciosas haría? Con cuánta cautela consultaría a los grandes expertos para obtener detalladas y veraces respuestas?

Un periodista experimentado va en busca del gran suceso de la historia.

El proyecto: Determinar si hay evidencia creíble de que Jesús de Nazaret es en verdad el Hijo de Dios.
El reportero: Lee Strobel, educado en la facultad de Leyes de la Universidad Yale, antiguo editor legal de periódico Chicago Tribune y ganador de varios reconocimientos, con antecedentes de ateísmo.
Los expertos: Doce eruditos, con doctorados de la universidades de Cambridge, Princeton, Brandeis y otras prominentes instituciones, a quienes se les reconoce como autoridades sobre la vida de Jesús.
La historia: Al volver sobre su trayectoria espiritual, Strobel interroga a los expertos con preguntas difíciles y bien directas: Qué tan confiable es el Nuevo Testamento? Existe evidencia extra bíblica acerca de Jesús? Hay alguna razón para creer que la resurrección fue en verdad un hecho histórico?...

Las preguntas difíciles y a quemarropa, hacen de este libro una lectura cautivadora y trepidante como una novela. Pero no es ficción. Es un fascinante búsqueda de la verdad acerca de la figura de la historia más convincente. Cuál será tu veredicto en el caso de Cristo?

If you were a journalist, how would you cover a news story so big it could completely overshadow all other world events? How would you carry out your investigation? How many tough questions would you ask? How cautiously would you consult the greatest experts to obtain detailed and accurate answers?

An Experienced Journalist
Goes In Search Of The Greatest Event Of History

THE PROJECT: To determine whether there is credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth is truly the Son of God.
THE REPORTER: Lee Strobel, educated by the faculty of law at Yale University, a former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune and winner of several awards, and well known as an atheist.
THE EXPERTS: Twelve scholars, all with doctorates from such universities as Cambridge, Princeton, Brandeis, and other prominent institutions, who are recognized scholars on the life of Jesus.
THE STORY: While reflecting on his personal spiritual journey, Strobel interviews the experts, posing questions that are difficult and very direct: How reliable is the New Testament? Is there extrabiblical evidence about Jesus? Is there any reason to believe that the resurrection was indeed a historical fact? ...

THIS ATTRACTIVE AND INFLUENTIAL BOOK IS NOT A NOVEL. IT IS AN UNFETTERED SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT ONE OF THE MOST PASSIONATE FIGURES IN HISTORY. AT THE END, THE READER WILL BE ASKED TO EVALUATE THE VERDICT IN THE CASE FOR CHRIST.

A unique look at Christian biblical interpretation and theology from the perspective of Native American tradition.
This book focuses on four specific experiences of Jesus as portrayed in the synoptic gospels. It examines each story as a vision quest, a universal spiritual phenomenon, but one of particular importance within North American indigenous communities.

Jesus' experience in the wilderness is the first quest. It speaks to a foundational Native American value: the need to enter into the we rather than the I. The Transfiguration is the second quest, describing the Native theology of transcendent spirituality that impacts reality and shapes mission. Gethsemane is the third quest. It embodies the Native tradition of the holy men or women, who find their freedom through discipline and concerns for justice, compassion, and human dignity. Golgotha is the final quest. It represents the Native sacrament of sacrifice (e.g., the Sun Dance). The chapter on Golgotha is a discussion of kinship, balance, and harmony: all primary to Native tradition and integral to Christian thought.

Since the beginning of the quest for the historical Jesus, scholars have dismissed the idea that Jesus could have identified himself as God. Such high Christology is frequently depicted as an invention of the councils of Nicaea and Chalcedon, centuries later. Yet recent research has shown that the earliest Jewish followers of Jesus already regarded him as divine.

Brant Pitre tackles this paradox in his bold new monograph. Pitre challenges this widespread assumption and makes a robust case that Jesus did consider himself divine. Carefully explicating the Gospels in the context of Second Temple Judaism, Pitre shows how Jesus used riddles, questions, and scriptural allusions to reveal the apocalyptic secret of his divinity. Moreover, Pitre explains how Jesus acts as if he is divine in both the Synoptics and the Gospel of John. Carefully weighing the historical evidence, Pitre argues that the origins of early high Christology can be traced to the historical Jesus's words and actions.

Jesus and Divine Christology sheds light on long-neglected yet key evidence that the historical Jesus saw himself as divine. Scholars and students of the New Testament--and anyone curious about the Jewish context of early Christianity--will find Pitre's argument a necessary and provocative corrective to a critically underexamined topic.

Union or Separation?

It is an important question. Many of us, maybe most of us, started with separation from God because the Western Church has preached separation for so long we didn't even realize there was an alternative way of looking at things. But, once you take off the glasses of separation and put on the glasses of Union, Oh My! How everything changes. Dr. C. Baxter Kruger has been making this point for over 30 years. His new book The Mediation of Jesus Christ is the result of a life-time of study, preaching, discussion and living life from the vantage point of union. Union of the Father, Son and Spirit, union of Jesus with all humanity, indeed, union with all creation.

We hope this book will help you to see things through a different set of lenses. The lenses through which the early Church Fathers viewed Jesus, His Father and the Spirit. Let the words of the book sink in deeply, but before you begin to read, ask the Spirit to open your eyes and ask the Spirit if this is true.

How often have you heard the Gospel at Sunday Mass and wondered, What happens next? Often, our only experience of the Gospels is of those isolated segments taken out of context, like unassembled pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, rather than the story of our Savior's life.

The Life of Jesus Christ: Understanding the Story of the Gospels aims to change that experience. Author Russell Shaw weaves together the events of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John's narratives in chronological order to capture a true and rounded picture of Jesus' life.

The Life of Jesus Christ is the scriptural companion you've been searching for. Together, the four Gospels reveal Jesus Christ, God Incarnate, as a man of complexity and depth -- compassionate but stern, who knew how to laugh and how to cry, a charismatic leader uninterested in worldly power, a subtle thinker who drew sublime messages from ordinary life. With Shaw guiding you, you'll truly get to know the Son of God in a new way.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Russell Shaw is an author and journalist who has written more than twenty books. For eighteen years, he was secretary for public affairs for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops/United States Catholic Conference. He later oversaw media relations for the Knights of Columbus for ten years.

In Anonymous, learn to recognize the riches in the uncelebrated seasons of your life. When your potential is unseen and your abilities are unappreciated, use those times as opportunities to develop an unshakable identity and to find rest in God's timing--just as Jesus did.

Unsettling spaces are actually the surprising birthplace of true spiritual strength.

Most of Jesus' first thirty years went unnoticed by the world, but that season of quiet anonymity prepared Him for true greatness...and made Him unshakable when His time had come. Using Jesus' hidden years as inspiration, Alicia Chole memorably demonstrates how to:

• Resist resentment when your accomplishments go unnoticed
• Repurpose your own hidden years and experience deep growth
• Resolutely live out God's dreams for you with integrity and confidence

We all experience times of hiddenness, when our potential is unseen and our abilities remain uncelebrated. This book will encourage you to not rush through those times by reminding you that these anonymous seasons of the soul hold enormous power to cultivate character traits that cannot be developed any other way!

For Christians, Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God, who died for the sins of the world, and who rose from the dead in triumph over sin and death. For non-Christians, he is almost anything else--a myth, a political revolutionary, a prophet whose teaching was misunderstood or distorted by his followers.

Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God, and no myth, revolutionary, or misunderstood prophet, insists Benedict XVI. He thinks that the best of historical scholarship, while it can't prove Jesus is the Son of God, certainly doesn't disprove it. Indeed, Benedict maintains that the evidence, fairly considered, brings us face-to-face with the challenge of Jesus--a real man who taught and acted in ways that were tantamount to claims of divine authority, claims not easily dismissed as lunacy or deception.

Benedict XVI presents this challenge in his new book, Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection, the sequel volume to Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration.

Why was Jesus rejected by the religious leaders of his day? Who was responsible for his death? Did he establish a Church to carry on his work? How did Jesus view his suffering and death? How should we? And, most importantly, did Jesus really rise from the dead and what does his resurrection mean? The story of Jesus raises many crucial questions.

Benedict brings to his study the vast learning of a brilliant scholar, the passionate searching of a great mind, and the deep compassion of a pastor's heart. In the end, he dares readers to grapple with the meaning of Jesus' life, teaching, death, and resurrection.

Only in this second volume do we encounter the decisive sayings and events of Jesus' life . . . I hope that I have been granted an insight into the figure of Our Lord that can be helpful to all readers who seek to encounter Jesus and to believe in Him.
-Pope Benedict XVI

In Isaiah 9:6, a divine utterance is given to us using four royal titles--Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace. Names for the Messiah ponders each title and how the people understood it then, how Jesus did or did not fulfill the title, and how Christians interpret Jesus as representative of that title.

Christians have claimed from the beginning that Jesus was the Messiah foretold in the Old Testament. In this study, best-selling author Walter Brueggemann tackles the questions: What were these expectations? and Did Jesus fulfill them?

In 2007, Joseph Ratzinger published his first book as Pope Benedict XVI in order to make known the figure and message of Jesus. Now, the Pope focuses exclusively on the Gospel accounts of Jesus' life as a child. The root of these stories is the experience of hope found in the birth of Jesus and the affirmations of surrender and service embodied in his parents, Joseph and Mary.

This is a story of longing and seeking, as demonstrated by the Magi searching for the redemption offered by the birth of a new king. It is a story of sacrifice and trusting completely in the wisdom of God as seen in the faith of Simeon, the just and devout man of Jerusalem, when he is in the presence of the Christ child. Ultimately, Jesus' life and message is a story for today, one that speaks to the restlessness of the human heart searching for the sole truth which alone leads to profound joy.

Experience the Kaleidoscopic Mystery of the Cross

Everything about the gospel message leads to the cross, and proceeds from the cross. In fact, within the narrative of Scripture, the crucifixion of Jesus is literally the crux of the story--the axis upon which the biblical story turns. But it would be a mistake to think we could sum up the significance of the crucifixion in a tidy sentence or two. That kind of thinking only insulates us from the magnificence of what God has done. In our ongoing quest to make meaning of the cross, we need to recognize that this conversation will never conclude--that there is always something more to be said.

Brian Zahnd reminds us that the meaning of the cross is multifaceted and should touch every aspect of our lives. Just as gazing through the eyepiece of a kaleidoscope reveals a new geometric image with every turn, Zahnd helps us see that there are infinite ways to behold the cross of Christ as the beautiful form that saves the world. In The Wood Between the Worlds, you'll find:

• A compelling theopoetics of the cross that will bring deeper curiosity, appreciation, and wonder for the cross of Christ,
• References to music, art, literature, and culture that bring new perspectives to our understanding of the cross, and
• Zahnd's keen insights that liberate readers from flawed atonement theories and open us to experience anew the mystery of the cross.

The Wood Between the Worlds is an invitation to encounter the cross of Christ anew.

Was Jesus born of a virgin? Did he know he was the Messiah? Was he bodily resurrected from the dead? Did he intentionally die to redeem humankind? Was Jesus God? Two leading Jesus scholars with widely divergent views go right to the heart of these questions and others, presenting the opposing visions of Jesus that shape our faith today.

Does life feel futile? Your failures fatal? And the grave the final stop? If so, there is a truth greater than all the losses and sorrows of life that can be discovered in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

This truth was all realized in the course of a single day. A single Friday. All accomplished during six hours, one Friday.

In Six Hours One Friday you will delve deeply into the meaning of Jesus' last hours on the cross. Through his death, your life has purpose and meaning. You are forgiven and loved by a Savior who died for you. And an empty tomb proclaims that death does not have the final word.

In this book, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado encourages us that Jesus bring us:

• Peace where there should be pain.
• Confidence in the midst of crisis.
• Hope that defies despair.

Does death have the last word? Jesus winks as he answers, Not on your life.

Nothing except the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is a greater miracle or wonder in human history. God becoming flesh in human history is the greatest marvel. Avatar is what this is called in Hindu religious tradition. Jesus of Nazareth was foretold in the Torah and the Prophets centuries before his appearance and he was proved to be real and not a pretender due to his death and Resurrection. The early church grappled with all of this intellectually. Many heresies were confronted, answered, and dismissed. Throughout the 2000 plus years of church history, many of the early church heresies have reappeared over and over again. Whether you are Catholic or Protestant the answers are from the Word of God.

On the Incarnation of the Word of God is a classic theological treatise written by Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, the early church father often called the Father of Orthodoxy. Athanasius defends the doctrine that Jesus Christ is both God and Man and shows the necessity of Christ's Incarnation, Death, and Resurrection.