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Introductory Theology
Continuum International Publishing 1982; US$ 100.00Nazi Germany produced an unusual group of Christian martyrs-among them, the nun philosopher Edith Stein, the mystical philosopher Simone Weil, and the peasant conscientious objector Hans JSgerstatter-but perhaps none so complex as the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Born into a large upper-middle-class, professional family that was not particularly... more...
Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group 2009; US$ 22.99Nearly a decade after Spain's conquest of Mexico, the future of Christianity on the American continent was very much in doubt. Confronted with a hostile colonial government and Native Americans wary of conversion, the newly-appointed bishop-elect of Mexico wrote to tell the King of Spain that, unless there was a miracle, the continent would be lost.... more...
The Mother of the Lord, Volume 1
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 130.00Are there Old Testament roots of the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary? Margaret Barker traces the roots of the devotion to Mary as Mother of the Lord back to the Old Testament and the first temple in Jerusalem. The evidence is consistent over more than a millennium: there had been a female deity in Israel, the Mother figure in the Royal cult,... more...
The Mother of the Lord: Volume 1
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 130.00Are there Old Testament roots of the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary? Margaret Barker traces the roots of the devotion to Mary as Mother of the Lord back to the Old Testament and the first temple in Jerusalem. The evidence is consistent over more than a millennium: there had been a female deity in Israel, the Mother figure in the Royal cult,... more...
Mary: The Complete Resource
Continuum International Publishing 2007; US$ 170.00To understand the cult of the Virgin Mary is to understand the Christian relgion. The Virgin Mary is a ubiquitous but enigmatic presence in Christian history and culture. The tradition about Mary forms a vast and multi-layered aspect of Western history, culture and spirituality. It is not just in the Catholic tradition that Mary has become a... more...
The Last Secret of Fatima
The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group 2008; US$ 21.95With an introduction by Pope Benedict XVI and including information previously suppressed, the Vatican?s Secretary of State, Cardinal Bertone, definitively reveals and explains one of the most controversial events in twentieth-century Catholicism?the 1917 apparition of the Virgin Mary at Fatima. During World War I, three Portuguese children received... more...
Mary
Continuum International Publishing 2004; US$ 110.00In recent years Mary has stepped out of the closet of piety and devotion and become the subject of serious theological study and work. For too long Mary was an icon for the repression of women by a male dominated Church, but now Mary is seen as a vital theological symbol, a symbol of true femininity and true humanity which the Church and the modern... more...
Miracles of the Virgin in Medieval England
Boydell & Brewer 2010; US$ 90.00First book-length study of hagiographical legends of the Virgin Mary in medieval England, with particular reference to her relationship with Jews, books, and the law. more...
The Two Marys
Penguin Group US 2007; US$ 15.00The #1 New York Times bestselling author addresses the controversial questions about the life of Jesus Christ and the women in his life. An extraordinary message from ?possibly the most famous psychic in the world,?( Mystic Living Today )Sylvia Browne: ?In writing this book, I was amazed to find out that I actually had visions of what was happening...a... more...
Living the Magnificat
Continuum International Publishing 2007; US$ 75.00This book offers a sustained reflection by leading Roman Catholic and Anglican writers on Mary’s great song of praise and transformation, the Magnificat, in the context of contemporary struggles across the world and global inequalities. The different contributors relate the story of Mary to issues of international justice, regarding this as one... more...









