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  • The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California

    A Personal History

    by James L. Heft SM ...
    I asked a distinguished international group of Catholic scholars what would most help Catholic universities stay Catholic and break new intellectual ground. Their reply was unanimous: found an independent research institute, locate it in the United States at a major secular research university, and form a lay board of trustees capable of funding, guiding, and defending it. This book explains why ... Read more

    $16.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After Vatican II

    Trajectories and Hermeneutics

    Edited by James L. Heft, John O'Malley ...
    Since the closing of Vatican II (1962-1965) nearly fifty years ago, several multivolume studies have detailed how the bishops at the council debated successive drafts and finally approved the sixteen documents published as the proceedings of the council. However, opinions vary, sometimes sharply, about the implications of Vatican II. This volume explores the major flashpoints.Contributors:John ... Read more

    $40.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After Vatican II

    Trajectories and Hermeneutics

    Edited by James L. Heft, John O'Malley ...
    Since the closing of Vatican II (1962-1965) nearly fifty years ago, several multivolume studies have detailed how the bishops at the council debated successive drafts and finally approved the sixteen documents published as the proceedings of the council. However, opinions vary, sometimes sharply, about the implications of Vatican II. This volume explores the major flashpoints.Contributors:John ... Read more

    $40.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Catholic High Schools

    Facing the New Realities

    by James L. Heft, S. M. ...
    Catholic high schools in the United States have been undergoing three major changes: the shift to primarily lay leadership and teachers; the transition to a more consumerist and pluralist culture; and the increasing diversity of students attending Catholic high schools. James Heft argues that to navigate these changes successfully, leaders of Catholic education need to inform lay teachers more ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Future of Catholic Higher Education

    by James L. Heft ...
    The Catholic Church has gone through more change in the last sixty years than in the previous six hundred. These changes have caused a significant shift in the future outlook of Catholic higher education as the United States has developed a culture that has grown less receptive to religious traditions and practices. Drawing upon his extensive experience, James Heft lays out the current state of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Empty Churches

    Non-Affiliation in America

    Edited by James L. Heft, S.M., Jan E. Stets ...
    Based in the idea that social phenomena are best studied through the lens of different disciplinary perspectives, Empty Churches studies the growing number of individuals who no longer affiliate with a religious tradition. Co-editors Jan Stets, a social psychologist, and James Heft, a historian of theology, bring together leading scholars in the fields of sociology, developmental psychology, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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  • Passing on the Faith

    Transforming Traditions for the Next Generation of Jews, Christians, and Muslims

    Edited by James L. Heft S.M. ...
    Series series Abrahamic Dialogues
    From the beginning, the Abrahamic faiths—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—have stressed the importance of transmitting religious identity from one generation to the next. Today, that sustaining mission has never been more challenged. Will young people have a faith to guide them? How can faith traditions anchor religious attachments in this secular, skeptical culture?The fruit of a historic ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Beyond Violence

    Religious Sources of Social Transformation in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

    Edited by James L. Heft S.M. ...
    Series series Abrahamic Dialogues
    In an age of terrorism and other forms of violence committed in the name of religion, how can religion become a vehicle for peace, justice, and reconciliation? And in a world of bitter conflicts-many rooted in religious difference-how can communities of faith understand one another?The essays in this important book take bold steps forward to answering these questions. The fruit of a historic ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • A Catholic Modernity?

    Charles Taylor's Marianist Award Lecture, with responses by William M. Shea, Rosemary Luling Haughton, George Marsden, and Jean Bethke Elshtain

    Edited by James L. Heft ...
    This book offers a series of reflections on the state of Christianity, and especially Catholicism, in the world today. The centerpiece of the volume is a lecture by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor, from which the title of the book is taken. The lecture, delivered at Dayton University in January of 1996, offered Taylor the opportunity to speak about the religious dimensions of his ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • Believing Scholars

    Ten Catholic Intellectuals

    Edited by James L. Heft S.M. ...
    How do Catholic intellectuals draw on faith in their work? And how does their work as scholars influence their lives as people of faith?For more than a generation, the University of Dayton has invited a prominent Catholic intellectual to present the annual Marianist Award Lecture on the general theme of the encounter of faith and profession. Over the years, the lectures have become central to the ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • In the Lógos of Love

    Promise and Predicament in Catholic Intellectual Life

    Edited by Una M. Cadegan, Fr. James L. Heft, SM ...
    So much has changed about Catholic intellectual life in the half century since the end of the Second Vatican Council that it has become difficult to locate the core concepts that make up the tradition. In the Lógos of Love is a collection of essays that grew out of a 2013 conference on Catholic intellectual life co-sponsored by the University of Dayton and the Institute for Advanced Catholic ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Catholic High Schools

    Facing the New Realities

    by James L. Heft, S. M. ...
    Catholic high schools in the United States have been undergoing three major changes: the shift to primarily lay leadership and teachers; the transition to a more consumerist and pluralist culture; and the increasing diversity of students attending Catholic high schools. James Heft argues that to navigate these changes successfully, leaders of Catholic education need to inform lay teachers more ... Read more

    $44.99 USD