This is the cover of Catholics and Protestants: What Can We Learn from Each Other by Peter Kreeft. The book is reviewed by Eugene Fisher. (CNS)
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Peter Kreeft is professor of philosophy at Boston College. He has written numerous books on a popular level about Catholic theological issues and thinkers, including Augustine, Aquinas and Pascal. Here he looks into the important beliefs that Catholics and Protestants share, and how their differences can be reconciled as part of the ecumenical dialogue toward Christian unity.
This is the cover of Galileo Revisited: The Galileo Affair in Context by Dom Paschal Scottie. The book is reviewed by Brian Welter. (CNS)
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Author Father Paschal Scotti, a Benedictine priest, provides readers with a solid foundation to the cultural and intellectual background of famous mathematician, inventor and astronomer Galileo Galilei.
In addition to its humanism, which changed the whole culture with a new attitude toward research in general, Rome hosted a lively, even turbulent, intellectual scene. It featured stoicism, Aristotelianism, Platonism and glimpses of new science, particularly Copernicus idea that the earth revolved around the sun.
Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter Into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion and Sensitivity by Father James Martin, SJ. Harper Collins Publishers, (New York, revised edition, 2018). 190 pp., $14.99.
Avoiding the arcane, author takes on nearly impossible task in book on God On: 3/27/2020, By Kurt Jensen , In: Books
This is the cover of the book God: What Every Catholic Should Know by Elizabeth Klein. The book is reviewed by Kurt Jensen. (CNS)
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You wouldn t think it possible to get the Almighty compacted into 142 pages, yet this is what Elizabeth Klein has done, without presumption. God is the second book from the assistant professor of theology at the Augustine Institute in Denver her first was Augustine s Theology of Angels in 2018 and the third in the Ignatius Press series What Every Catholic Should Know. The first two covered salvation and literature.
This is the cover of Dorothy Day: An Introduction to Her Life and Thought by Terrence C. Wright. The book is reviewed by Rachelle Linner. (CNS)
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Terrence Wright, an associate professor of philosophy and director of the pre-theology program at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, has written a well-intentioned introduction to Dorothy Day, setting out to rebut the false idea that she was a dissenting Catholic.