Orbis Books
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The Book of Cain: On Adding a New Book to the Family Bible
$21.00 Add to cart“Bill Cain reminds you to remember that no part of your story is untouched by God’s yearning to be intimate. . . . The essence of revelation is to find the revealing as it still happens. It didn’t st
- Author: Cain S. J., Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1626985030
- Language: English
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All the Way In: A Story of Activism, Incarceration, and Organic Farming
$20.00 Add to cartThe inspiring story of one Dominican sister’s ongoing journey in religious life, moving from conventional ministries to a growing engagement with nonviolent witness, peace activism, and care for the e… [more below]
- Series: Ecology and Justice
- Author: Clark, Sr. Jeanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1626985057
- Language: English
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Christian Tradition in Global Perspective
$45.00 Add to cartSpanish colonizers with Indigenous peoples, which meant reckoning with a sort of religious difference that they had never experienced in Spain, despite centuries of negotiation among Christians, Jews,… [more below]
- Author: Schroeder Svd, Roger P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1626984344
- Language: English
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Trails of Hope and Terror: Testimonies on Immigration
$20.00 Add to cartHere, the author seeks to develop a constructive conversation on immigration by examining significant issues and by presenting first-person accounts of the experiences of immigration.
- Author: De La Torre, Miguel A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1570757984
- Language: English
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Binding the Strong Man
$35.00 Read moreSince its publication in 1988, Binding the Strong Man has been widely recognized as a landmark in contemporary biblical criticism. Applying a multidisciplinary approach called “socio-literary method,”… [more below]
- Author: Myers, Ched
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: October 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1570757976
- Language: English
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Reading the Bible from the Margins
$24.00 Add to cartA basic guide to reading the Bible from the perspective of the poor, oppressed, and marginalized. This readable and provocative introduction to hermeneutics emphasizes how issues of race, class, and g… [more below]
- Author: de la Torre, Miguel A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 20 2013
- ISBN10: 1570754101
- Language: English
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Divine Rage: Malcolm X’s Challenge to Twentieth Century Christians
$29.00 Add to cartMalcolm X asked: did Christianity have nothing more to offer Black Americans than spiritual “novocaine,” enabling them to suffer peacefully? He gave voice to the frustration many Black Americans felt
- Author: Corbman, Marjorie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1626985081
- Language: English
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Multiracial Cosmotheandrism: A Practical Theology of Multiracial Experiences
$28.00 Add to cartIn this book, Aizaiah G. Yong critically considers how the lives and spiritual experiences of mixed-race people can transform efforts for racial justice across the planet. Yong is inspired by the life… [more below]
- Author: Yong, Aizaiah G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1626985251
- Language: English
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Unlearning White Supremacy: A Spirituality for Racial Liberation
$27.00 Add to cartDrawing on the writings of James Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois, M. Shawn Copeland, and others, the author weaves together historical, theological, ethical, and sociological analysis to understand the origi… [more below]
- Author: Mikulich, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1626984662
- Language: English
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Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths
$31.00 Add to cartMelanie Harris argues that African American women make unique contributions to the environmental justice movement in the ways that they theologize, theorize, practice spiritual activism, and come into… [more below]
- Series: Ecology & Justice
- Author: Harris, Melanie L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1626982015
- Language: English
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Waking Up to This Day: Seeing the Beauty Right Before Us
$20.00 Read moreThis title provides inspiring insights on being awake and aware in good times and in bad. The purpose of the book is to help us stop feeling guilty about the past, angry over the present, or obsessed … [more below]
- Author: D’Arcy, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 129
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1570758492
- Language: English
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Rediscovering the Divine: New Ways to Understand, Experience, and Express God
$26.00 Add to cartIt appears that an island floats in the water, but actually every island is the tip of a mountain rooted deep in the ocean. Even more rooted in the fathomless are our names for God: they are merely th
- Author: Consiglio Osb, Cyprian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1626985073
- Language: English
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Christ Among the Classes: The Rich, the Poor, and the Mission of the Church
$35.00 Add to cartAddresses contemporary socioeconomic concerns from a biblical and mission-based perspective. Offers a tool (a social justice inventory) for evaluating ourselves in light of a biblical theology of weal… [more below]
- Series: ASM #64
- Author: Tizon, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1626985189
- Language: English
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Theology Without Deception: God, the Poor, and Reality in El Salvador
$28.00 Add to cartIn this theological memoir, drawn from conversations with journalist Charmo Mç–µmol, Jesuit Jon Sobrino relates the story of his journey from Spain to El Salvador, and how his confrontation with the p
- Author: Sobrino, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1626985219
- Language: English
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Church as Sanctuary: Reconstructing Refuge in an Age of Displacement
$40.00 Add to cartNo study has yet examined the tradition of sanctuary as the starting point for rethinking the church in an age of global displacement. Church as Sanctuary, argues that if church sanctuary is going to … [more below]
- Author: Guardado, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1626985405
- Language: English
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Enacting Integral Human Development
$30.00 Add to cart“Integral Human Development” (IHD) is a term coined by Louis-Joseph Lebret OP and then used by Paul VI in his encyclical Populorum Progressio in 1967. It is, in a way, the Catholic approach to human
- Author: Sedmak, Clemens
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1626985529
- Language: English
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Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi: Essential Teachings
$25.00 Add to cartRabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924-2014) was one of the most creative and influential Jewish spiritual teachers in the late twentieth-century. Reb Zalman (as he is known) made several distinctive an
- Author: Rose, Or N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1626983631
- Language: English
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For Everything a Season
$20.00 Add to cartThrough the famous verses of Ecclesiastes–“For everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven”–Joan Chittister reflects on timeless themes: the purpose and value of human lif… [more below]
- Author: Chittister, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1626980195
- Language: English
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What’s Faith Got to Do with It?: Black Bodies/Christian Souls
$27.00 Add to cartThis book was inspired by a challenge from one of Douglas’s students: “How could you, a black woman, possibly be a Christian?” Reflection on the historical sins of Christians, particularly the role of… [more below]
- Author: Douglas, Kelly Brown
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: September 30 2005
- ISBN10: 1570756090
- Language: English
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Introducing Feminist Theology
$28.00 Add to cartIntroducing Feminist Theology responds to the questions What is feminist theology? and Why is it important? by considering the perspectives of women from around the globe who have very diverse life ex… [more below]
- Author: Clifford, Anne M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: May 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1570752389
- Language: English
