Product Description: Performing the Word is a festschrift for Ronan Drury, Professor Emeritus of Homiletics at Maynooth and Editor of The Furrow. It contains 30 pieces of approx 2,500 words each in length. Each of the contributors has appeared in The Furrow at least once.

Product Description: The movement towards local theology, which is based on the place, the experience, and the culture of the people, and on the understanding that God is forever revealing himself to his people on their own terms, lies behind this work by one of Ireland's leading theologians...read more

Product Description: In his introduction, the author says: `These writings pick up themes from...the summer-time and summer dazzle of the modern church in the years of Vatican II. These themes must be reconsidered in the light of what Karl Rahner already some thirty years ago or so called the `Winter-time of the church' and which, in the present writer's view, has become a much more wintry time...read more

Product Description: Una O'Higgins O'Malley, was born in Dublin in 1927 and was less than six months old when her father, Kevin O'Higgins, was shot dead by fringe Republicans on his way to Mass. A committed political activist who campaigned to end the violence in Northern Ireland, Una resolved to help people from both sides of the breach in their efforts to forgive, as she had done those killers of her father...read more

Product Description: The search for the mystery of God as revealed in creation, in human beings and their relations, in the human processes of learning, artistic creation and political community has been a lifelong preoccupation of Enda McDonagh, one of the most eminent moral theologians of our time...read more

Product Description: These seventeen essays by many distinguished contributors-including Seamus Heaney and Mary Robinson-celebrate the unique contribution Enda McDonagh has made to the field of theological ethics. This collection mirrors his interdisciplinary approach and expands the scope of theological ethics well beyond its traditional scope, transcending the boundaries of the discipline in many different directions...read more

Product Description: Essays in Honour of Garret FitzGerald on the Occasion of His Seventy-fifth Birthday. Focuses on the relationship between Irish politics and the Church. Garret FitzGerald was the Prime Minister of Ireland between 1981 and 1987. He is widely credited with bringing a studied theological understanding of state affairs to Irish politics...read more

Product Description: The reasons for migration and refugee flows are often complex, but the main reasons are violations of human rights, military conflict, and the violence of poverty. This booklet, starting from the Judaeo-Christian tradition, offers a prophetic vision of refugees issues at the start of a new millenium...read more