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El aro y la trama: Episteme, modernidad y pueblo.
(The hoop and the plot. Episteme, modernity and people)
Alejandro Moreno Olmedo

Episteme, from the Greek, is the concept that gives shape to the way in which we think and perceive things. Moreno holds that people can best find meaning in community rather than in isolation. He believes that relationships among people within community are what shape their lives and ways of thinking. The author takes us on a journey through different periods of the history of philosophy and western society up to the present, in order to provide a clearer understanding of the values that emerge from relationships in contemporary life. For Moreno, these communal relationships can offer support to people as they confront the increasing difficulties that are prevalent in our post-modern world.

Series: Episteme
Subject: History of Philosophy, Sociology, History of the Western World, Contemporary Thinking, Anthropology.
Language: Spanish

467 pages/ Soft Cover/French Flap/Library Bound/Pub Date: June, 2008
ISBN 978-1-934996-00-3 // US$ 56.95

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El cristianismo como comunidad y las comunidades cristianas
(Christianity as Community and the Christian Communities)
Pedro Trigo

Trigo sees each individual as having significance in terms of relationships with others, that is, within community. He emphasizes the importance of Christians being part of communities of believers, whose faith is influenced by and strengthened within their own particular cultural contexts and their own unique values and social interactions. The author describes these Christian communities as taking various forms that express themselves in many different ways and social patterns. Although his views are based on traditional Christian beliefs, Trigo offers fresh ways of thinking about the church and the human community that can have meaning for our global contemporary society.

Series: Traditio
Subject: Theology, Anthropology, Religion, Liberation Theology, Popular Catholicism, Ecclesiology.
Language: Spanish

245 pages/ Soft Cover/French Flap/Library Bound/Pub Date: June, 2008
ISBN 978-1-934996-02-7 // US$ 25.95

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1 El Dios de la intemperie. 2 El Principio de incertidumbre: Qohelet y la moral provisional
(1 The God f the Elements. 2 The Uncertainty Principle)
Armando Rojas Guardia

In these two essays brought together for the first time in a single edition, the famous poet and essayist Armando Rojas offers us a stroll through the great questions about life, God and the religious experience in the modern world. He speaks to the spiritual dimension of life in light of literature and one's own inner journey. Rojas believes that the spiritual experience is within the reach of every human being. Through our own inner growth and struggle, enriched by the arts, we can be in touch with ultimate meaning in everyday life. The author provokes our thoughts and hearts through the use of rich poetic and mystical language.

Series: Sapientia
Subject: Literature, Poetry, Anthropology, Existentialism, God, Religious Experience, Religion.
Language: Spanish

140 pages/ Soft Cover/French Flap/Library Bound/Pub Date: June, 2008
ISBN 978-1-934996-01-0 // US$ 19.95

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Llamados a la libertad
(Called to Freedom)
Roland Meynet

Meynet makes available in English and Spanish his series on Biblical rhetoric, a unique method of textual interpretation applied to important themes in the Biblical and Semitic world. He posits that the concept of freedom in the Hebrew Bible is the guiding core of all the socio-political distinctions within Israel's religious experience and history. This original study leads us through the experience of the people of Israel in the Exodus. It guides us into a new reading of the Law in the two narrative sections of the Decalogue, seeing it as an expression of the search for the authentic meaning of human freedom. He also introduces Israel's Psalms as hymns of freedom. This work makes an important contribution to the field of Biblical studies, covering a topic that is especially relevant for modern society.

Series: Rhetorica Semitica
Subject: Sacred Scripture, Bible, Religion, Freedom, Anthropology, Rhetoric, Biblical Exegesis.
Language: Spanish

299 pages/ Soft Cover/French Flap/Library Bound/Pub Date: September, 2008
ISBN 978-1-934996-03-4 // US$ 35.95

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Jesus Christ Salvation of All
(Jesucristo Salvación de todos)
Luis F. Ladaria

Translated for the first time to the English language, in this Book the author addresses why it is necessary to maintain that Christ is the universal savior, even though this assertion may sound unintelligible, perhaps shocking, and even arrogant to some of our contemporaries. Ladaria, nevertheless, holds to the uniqueness of the person of Christ as being essential for the ultimate salvation of humankind, because salvation means to participate in the glory that Christ possesses in His humanity, offering us salvation as a free gift and revealing himself as paradigm of what humanity can fully be and become.

Series: Traditio
Subject: Christology, Anthropology, Salvation, Religion, Ecumenicism, Interreligious Dialogue.
Language: English

149 pages/ Soft Cover/French Flap/Library Bound/Pub Date: September, 2008
ISBN 978-1-934996-04-1 // US$ 30.95

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The Living and True God. The Mystery of the Trinity
(El Dios vivo y verdadero. El Misterio de la Trinidad)
Luis F. Ladaria

A book for students and professors in the field of Theology and Religious Studies

The Christian church affirms that the Trinity-one God in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit-is the central mystery of the Christian faith that enlightens all other mysteries of the faith. An understanding of the Trinity is essential for the protection and defense of The divine / human person of Jesus Christ and His saving work. This book documents the historical development of the doctrine of the Trinity and its significance for the Christian faith. In a broad and systematic way, Ladaria traces the debates within the early Christian church as the concept of the Trinity developed. He also reflects on the great masters of church tradition concerning their understanding of the Trinity, and is in dialogue with various contemporary theologians on this subject. This book has been written especially for students and professors in the field of Theology and Religious Studies, as an aid in grasping the Trinitarian formulation both historically and theologically and to assist them in deepening their faith and reflection in the mystery of God.

Series: Traditio
Subject: Religion, Revelation, God, Christianity, Trinitarian Theology, Divine Mystery.
Language: English

512 pages/ Soft Cover/French Flap/Library Bound/ Pub Date: March, 2009
ISBN 978-1-934996-06-5 // US$ 57.95

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The Banquet. A Reading of the fifth Sura of the Qur'an
(El Banquete. Una nueva lectura de la Sura Al-Mâ `ida del Corán)
Michel Cuypers

Cuypers ´work is a groundbreaking contribution to Islamic-Christian studies and is being warmly received by the Islamic academic community. He applies recent methods of rhetorical textual studies to the analysis of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, which previously has been seen by many as a fragmented text with little sense of order. He has achieved a systematic and organized reading of the Qur'an text that is in absolute accordance with the Islamic faith, a task that has never before been accomplished. Both Muslim and Christian theologians around the world recognize his achievement as one of the most important contributions to an understanding of Islam based on Christian scholarship.

Series: Rhetorica Semitica
Subject: Interreligious Dialogue, Christianity and Islamism, Quran, Rhetoric, Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Theology, Pluralism.
Language: English

568 pages/ Soft Cover/French Flap/Library Bound/ Pub Date: March, 2009
ISBN 978-1-934996-05-8 // US$ 54.95

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Jesus. An Historical Approximation
(Jesús, aproximación histórica)
José Antonio Pagola

In this Spanish bestseller, now available in English for the first time, the Biblical scholar José Antonio Pagola reconstructs the historical Jesus with a scholarly exegetical and theological approach. He addresses basic questions about who Jesus was; how he understood his life; what was the originality of his message; how the vision of the Kingdom of God centered his life; and why he was executed and who intervened in the process. The author presents a lively and passionate narrative of Jesus of Nazareth within the milieu of the first century, locating him in his social, economical, political and religious contexts based on current and accepted research. He also analyzes the perspectives and conclusions of the most important scholars in this research and presents a profound and extensive scholarly theological reflection about Jesus.

Series: Kyrios
Subject: Christology, Historical Jesus, Messiah, God, Resurrection, Kingdom of God.
Language: English

Soft Cover/French Flap/Library Bound/ Pub Date: April, 2009
ISBN 978-1-934996-09-6 // US$ 59.99

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