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Does God Like Being God? And Other Tricky Questions about God

A Guide for Teachers, Catechists, and Parents

By: Honner, John

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Does God Like Being God? And Other Tricky Questions about God

A Guide for Teachers, Catechists, and Parents

By: Honner, John

A book that helps teachers answer the tricky questions that students ask about God, using a fresh and accessible account of Scripture, church teaching, theology, and contemporary learning.

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1587688328

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What's Church All About? And Other Tricky Questions about the Church

A Guide for Teachers, Catechists, and Parents

By: Honner, John

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What's Church All About? And Other Tricky Questions about the Church

A Guide for Teachers, Catechists, and Parents

By: Honner, John

What’s Church All About? explores the real questions that young people ask, including their negative and sometimes irreverent questions. It also provides four supplementary chapters based on advanced questions for adults and a vision for the Church of the future. It uses real stories to flesh out the intentions of Scripture and Church teaching, drawing also on contemporary culture and learning and avoiding Church-talk that means nothing to young people, to make the Church’s hidden treasures accessible. “Good questions provoke good answers. That’s precisely what John Honner does in this insightful and honest book of twenty questions aimed at teachers, catechists, parents, and all who care deeply about communicating the faith to the next generation.” —Msgr. Liam Bergin, Theology Department, Boston College “What’s Church All About? responds to the tricky questions that children, young people, and even adults ask about the Church. The practical theological answers John Honner presents will enlighten our faith in a changing world.” —Sr. Clare Condon, Sister of the Good Samaritan of the Order of St Benedict “What’s Church All About? is an authentic exploration of real questions young people are asking today. The book provides the tools to ‘do theology’ and explore pastoral possibilities for people on their journey of faith.” —Peter Bierer, assistant director, Pastoral Life and Mission, Archdiocese of Adelaide, Australia “John Honner listens closely to young people’s questions about the church and responds from the depths and richness of the Christian tradition. A lively, engaging, insightful, and loving book.” —James McEvoy, Theology Department, Australian Catholic University

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0809187930

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Did Jesus Have a Girlfriend?

And Other Tricky Questions about Jesus; A Guide for Teachers, Catechists, and Parents

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Did Jesus Have a Girlfriend?

And Other Tricky Questions about Jesus; A Guide for Teachers, Catechists, and Parents

By: Honner, John

Tricky Questions about God is a response to many requests made by Catholic teachers, catechists, and parents for help in answering the tricky and often highly intelligent questions that children and young people ask about their faith. The book begins with four foundational chapters: “Can theology be made simple?,” “Why is the Bible important?,” “Is faith reasonable?," and “Can expressions of faith change?” It then explores a series of questions like “Who made God?,” “If God is almighty, why is there so much suffering?,” and “Does God have a plan for me?”. Each chapter draws on engaging stories and examples to illustrate points, as well as summarizing relevant elements of Scripture, Church teaching, and contemporary philosophy and science. While primarily designed as a resource for teachers, the work could also be helpful in RCIA programs, faith formation programs for adults, and identity development programs for lay leaders in Catholic ministries.

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1587689979

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Does God Like Being God? And Other Tricky Questions about God

A Guide for Teachers, Catechists, and Parents

By: Honner, John

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Does God Like Being God? And Other Tricky Questions about God

A Guide for Teachers, Catechists, and Parents

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A book that helps teachers answer the tricky questions that students ask about God, using a fresh and accessible account of Scripture, church teaching, theology, and contemporary learning.

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Love and Politics

The Revolutionary Frederic Ozanam

By: John Honner,Teresa Wilson

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Love and Politics

The Revolutionary Frederic Ozanam

By: John Honner,Teresa Wilson

Frederic Ozanam is best known for founding the St Vincent de Paul Society when he was a student at the University of Paris. This book explores his later life and in particular his involvement in the revolutionary politics of 1850, when Karl Marx released his Communist Manifesto and Victor Hugo was completing Les Miserables. Ozanam emerges as a prophet for our own times, particularly with reference to debates about religion and politics, and about welfare and charity. Ozanam saw first-hand the disastrous effects of the rise of free-market economic policies on the workers of Paris. As professor of commercial law and then European literature, he reflected on tax, welfare, democracy, republicanism, socialism, church and state, civilisation, the secular and the religious, and the timeless ideals of truth, beauty and the good. He was also a journalist and a political activist, standing for election to the French Assembly. Above all, he was a husband and father, committed to love as the highest of all ideals. In Ozanam's view, while there is a clear distinction between the realms of church and state, lay Christians have a key role to play in progressing democracy. If the secular state should be expected to provide justice, it cannot of itself provide the healing power of love. Thus free markets must be tempered by ensuring justice for all, and welfare reform must be complemented by charity.

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Morehouse Publishing

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1863551212

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Holy Humanity

The Legacy of Louise de Marillac

By: John Honner

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Holy Humanity

The Legacy of Louise de Marillac

By: John Honner

Love of the holy humanity of Jesus Christ ¿ is their spirit.' On the 350th anniversary of the deaths of Louise de Marillac and St Vincent de Paul, this work marks their collaboration and celebrates Louise's legacy as co-founder of the Daughters of Charity. This book traces Louise's life, the development of her spirituality and her passionate concern and work for the poor. All this is placed in the social and religious upheaval of her day, seventeenth century France. The book highlights Louise's humble mysticism, her sense of the holiness of humanity in Jesus Christ, her loving care for the abandoned ones of her time, and her role as a pioneer of social services. She was an untiring administrator and an inspired leader. Louise not only challenged and shaped structures inside the Catholic Church, but also contributed to the ethos and organisation of civil society. Her legacy reaches into our own times. Though Louise's times were very different from ours, the pressing political and religious questions remain the same: Should the state be responsible for welfare? Should hospitals be the responsibility of local boards or the central government? Should politicians act from principle or from pragmatism? Should the reformed church be a place only for the virtuous or should it also include the sinner? Following the suppression of the order after the French Revolution and its reinstatement in 1800, a new significant figure, Rosalie Rendu, entered the Sisters of Charity. In the tradition of Louise, she expanded the order's works for the poor, and led Frederick Ozanam to begin the Society of St Vincent de Paul. For the followers of Louise and Rosalie and Frederic today - and for all who follow Jesus Christ in caring for the sick poor in society - the same challenges remain: to see the needs of the poor, to see the presence of God with the eyes of a mystic, and to work with the imagination of an entrepreneur, the skills of a manager and the heart of a saint.

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Understanding Catholicism

A Question and Answer Approach to the Catholic Faith

By: John Honner

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Understanding Catholicism

A Question and Answer Approach to the Catholic Faith

By: John Honner

Inspired by the French "Little Catechism, " Understanding Catholicism loosely follows the general catechetical format of questions and answers. The book supplies the Catholic viewpoint on the sacraments, the Church, the Mass, Christian morality, the future of humanity, and many other subjects likely to concern a convert to Catholicism.

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Does God Like Being God? And Other Tricky Questions about God

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