Subject Area: Religion-Ministry
Johnston, Paul I.1995 0-7734-9061-2 436 pages
The Anthology of the Sermons of J. Michael Reu is the only resource exhaustively to collect and present all of Reu's English-language sermon outlines, sketches, and fully-developed sermons for the first time to enable scholars of American church history, Luther historians, Reformation scholars and church professionals to examine Reu's theological presuppositions and historical insights as he applied these to preaching. This definitive two-volume collection includes sermons for every Sunday of the church year and also for festival and special occasions, as well as major convention addresses translated for the first time from the German. The volumes are meticulously edited and standardized as to style, spelling, and format of the text, and are easy to use, with helpful lists and an index of published and manuscript sermon sources to identify quickly on sermon by Scripture text, date of origin, or location. Parish clergy will find here a wealth of ideas for opening the text of Scripture to a full and persuasive exegetical development from a theologian who was an acknowledged master of the homiletical art in the Lutheran Church. The sermons contain rich insights, and furnish the busy pastor with examples of how to make textual preaching vivid and applicable to everyday life. Still fresh and powerful in their examination of the human condition and Gospel comfort, these sermons by one of this century's best-known and most admired preachers in the confessional Lutheran tradition encourage and inspire by their directness, their scholarship, and by their deep pastoral concern. Historians will find the books of interest in identifying major themes in Reu's anthropology and sociology, while theologians will profit from the many clues Reu provides in these sermons as to the content and style the proclamation of the Word should assume, especially as it relates to the Small Catechism of Martin Luther. A number of sermons featured in the Anthology are from the Johann Michael Reu Collection, Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, IA, and have never before been published; others were published previously in the periodical Kirkliche Zeitschrift, which Reu edited from 1904-1943.
Price: $259.95
Rogal, Samuel J.
2026 1-4955-1369-6 540 pages
This book follows biographical sketches of Roman Catholic clergymen. This who is who of Roman Catholic clery beginning in the colonial period and ending in the 1950s.
The development and growth of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States and Canada anchor themselves to lengthy discussions of national and international political and ecclesiastical events—wars, post-war treaties, colonial settlements, European immigrations, violent clashes in city streets between native-born American Protestants and immigrant Roman Catholics, Papal decisions and decrees, plenary councils. Circumventing the specifics of those events, the details of which can easily be uncovered in a score of history books, one can simply allow numbers to serve, with expedience, as reasonable substitutes. The Roman Catholic communion, in the United States, by 1785, numbered twenty-four priests and approximately 25,000 members—the majority of those having settled in Maryland and Philadelphia.
In Canada, however, the discussion of the growth and development oc Catholicism cannot conveniently be reduced to numbers. French explorers of Canada in the sixteenth century, as wells as the earliest there, proved devout French Catholics, and their fellows continued to arrive over the next two centuries. Problems arose with the arrival of Catholics from England, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Ukraine, Poland, and even the Philippines—Catholics comprising the largest single religious group in that nation. Nonetheless, that fact alone did not lead to or even come close to national, cultural, or ecclesiastical unity.
Throughout those social and political rises and falls emerged a Catholic clergy far different in mind, spirit, and duty from their clerical ancestors and predecessors of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. They no longer limited their functions to those of mere missionaries spun forth from the universities and seminaries of Europe upon the islands and lands of Spanish, French and British colonies. From 1900 to the present, the vast numbers of priests stood firmly as American and Canadian clergy, born within the borders of their native nations and educated in their native Catholic schools, universities, and seminaries. They shared (and still do) but a single quality with every one of their clerical ancestors and predecessors—their manhood (a controversial issue in itself). Thus, for the sake of biographical unity and clarity, the biographies of Catholic clergy from 1950 to the present must be gathered into their own separate volume, to voice their own roles in the successes and failures of contemporary Church and national histories.
Price: $299.95
Rogal, Samuel J.
2026 978-1-4955-1370-X 540 pages
This book follows biographical sketches of Roman Catholic clergymen. This who is who of Roman Catholic clery beginning in the colonial period and ending in the 1950s.
The development and growth of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States and Canada anchor themselves to lengthy discussions of national and international political and ecclesiastical events—wars, post-war treaties, colonial settlements, European immigrations, violent clashes in city streets between native-born American Protestants and immigrant Roman Catholics, Papal decisions and decrees, plenary councils. Circumventing the specifics of those events, the details of which can easily be uncovered in a score of history books, one can simply allow numbers to serve, with expedience, as reasonable substitutes. The Roman Catholic communion, in the United States, by 1785, numbered twenty-four priests and approximately 25,000 members—the majority of those having settled in Maryland and Philadelphia.
In Canada, however, the discussion of the growth and development oc Catholicism cannot conveniently be reduced to numbers. French explorers of Canada in the sixteenth century, as wells as the earliest there, proved devout French Catholics, and their fellows continued to arrive over the next two centuries. Problems arose with the arrival of Catholics from England, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Ukraine, Poland, and even the Philippines—Catholics comprising the largest single religious group in that nation. Nonetheless, that fact alone did not lead to or even come close to national, cultural, or ecclesiastical unity.
Throughout those social and political rises and falls emerged a Catholic clergy far different in mind, spirit, and duty from their clerical ancestors and predecessors of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. They no longer limited their functions to those of mere missionaries spun forth from the universities and seminaries of Europe upon the islands and lands of Spanish, French and British colonies. From 1900 to the present, the vast numbers of priests stood firmly as American and Canadian clergy, born within the borders of their native nations and educated in their native Catholic schools, universities, and seminaries. They shared (and still do) but a single quality with every one of their clerical ancestors and predecessors—their manhood (a controversial issue in itself). Thus, for the sake of biographical unity and clarity, the biographies of Catholic clergy from 1950 to the present must be gathered into their own separate volume, to voice their own roles in the successes and failures of contemporary Church and national histories.
Price: $239.95
Bartelt, Guillermo
2026 1-4955-1355-6 168 pages
One of the first clerics to sound the alarm of a looming demographic cataclysm was the fifth mission president, Fray Mariano Payeras. In his reports to the head of the Apostolic College of San Fernando in Mexico City, he advocated for increased evangelization in the San Joaquin Valley. Fray Mariano Payeras’s letters in this biographical study of the native California resistance leader Pacomio Poqui, who had been a tutee of the friar (Bartelt 2026). Not as well-known as the friars Junípero Serra or Fermín de Lasuén, Mariano Payeras nonetheless as a protagonist who might shed further light on the mission period.
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Heidt, Edward R.
1995 0-7734-9084-1 172 pages
Examines, through a close reading of wide-range texts, how the image of the religious minister and religion is mirrored. Authors include Chaucer, Shakespeare, George Eliot, James Joyce, Trollope, Morris West, Graham Greene, Bernanos, and others. The book also distinguishes itself in terms of genres considered and non-canonical texts studied: Fitzgerald's short story "Absolution"; Chapter 7 of John Henry Newman's only semi-autobiographical novel; Edmund Gosse's unique text; and Ralph Waldo Emerson's text from the essay genre combined with his various journal entries and letters. An interdisciplinary effort, this volume is well-documented and researched, yet still accessible to non-academic readership.
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Krettek, Tom
2023 1-4955-1109-X 278 pages
"Pope Francis Encounters an opposition entirely different from his predecessors. This resistance is particularly striking in the United States. ...A simple somewhat unacknowledged factor that triggers conflicts with Pope Francis is that he is a Pope who thinks like a Jesuit." Fr. Tom Krettek ("Introduction")
Price: $199.95
McKinley, E. H.
1986 0-88946-665-3 275 pages
Covers the first century of the Men's Social Service Department's existence. Includes a useful bibliography of materials in the Salvation Army archives.
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Yake, John C.
2022 1-4955-1005-0 480 pages
From the author's preface: "The experimentation that has characterized youth ministry since multitudes of teens have quit the Church in the last few decades has failed. Parish or high school-based youth group efforts that have continuously sprung up only to fold up soon thereafter have not been able to address the religious needs of teenagers in satisfactory or comprehensive ways. ...This book delineating Youth Ministry Theory (YMT) attempts to supply what has been missing from youth ministry...." (softcover: This book is a reprint of *Theory of Religious Ministry to Youth: Faith Development and the Christ in Others Retreat* (2005) with a new introductory section.
Price: $59.95
Turner, Michael J.
2026 1-4955-1341-6 136 pages
The Church Congress had modest beginnings. It was the project of a small group of activists who were looking for ways to defend the status, influence, teachings, and property of the Church, to win for it more self-government, to boost clerical-lay cooperation, and to manage the consequences of unwelcome state policies, social and cultural changes, and intellectual trends. They wanted to give the Church a representative voice, or at least something that in the right circumstances could be exerted as such, and to prove that the Church was still relevant. The first Congress was held in 1861.
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Yake, John C.
2005 0-7734-6066-7 476 pages
This book builds upon doctoral research into the pastoral dynamics of the “Christ in Others” Retreat (COR), designed for late adolescents and which utilizes the faith development theory and research instrument of Dr. James W. Fowler. That study demonstrated that COR has potential to transform and support adolescent faith development. Insights were gained into youth ministry (YM) and the distinctive features of adolescent evangelization. This book synthesizes further reflection upon this dissertation, YM experience, and reading into a foundational method that can promise an effective ministry with youth. The book delineates five essential principles that need to come together to form a comprehensive program of YM. It is written for pastors, youth ministers, high school chaplains, campus ministers, teachers, parents and Christians who want to understand the unique dynamics of youth ministry: how to succeed, what to do, who should do what?
Price: $279.95