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Right Back Where We Started

By: Joseph F. Kelly,Joseph Kelly

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Bobby Darling has a lot of catching up to do. He missed his youth, most of his friends, and some great parties. In fact, he spent the last 20 years in a persistent vegetative state. But Bobby's problems are just getting started. It seems Bobby is on a list of terminally ill patients who have outlived their life expectancies. The insurers who own the policies on these patients hope to nudge the process along a bit. If that isn't enough, Bobby's roommate Anthony has made it clear he wants to be more than just friends. To free-spirited Bobby, that might be a fate worse than the hitman heading his way. Maybe Bobby should've stayed in that coma? Can two gay men share an apartment without driving each other horny? More than that...they must ask themselves: can we get Right Back Where We Started?

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0595289991

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The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition

From the Book of Job to Modern Genetics

By: Joseph F. Kelly

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The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition

From the Book of Job to Modern Genetics

By: Joseph F. Kelly

The question of evil presents a profound challenge to humanity—why do we do what we know to be wrong? This is especially a challenge to religious believers. Why doesn't an all-good and omnipotent God step in and put an end to evil? The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition examines how Western thinkers have dealt with the problem of evil, starting in ancient Israel and tracing the question through post-biblical Judaism, Early Christianity (especially in Africa), the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and to the twenty-first century when science has raised new and important issues. Joseph Kelly covers the book of Job, the book of Revelation, Augustine of Hippo, Aquinas, Luther, Marlow, Milton, Voltaire, Hume, Mary Shelley, Darwin, Jung, Flannery O'Connor, Karl Rahner, Teilhard de Chardin, and modern geneticists. Chapters are "Some Perspectives on Evil," "Israel and Evil," "The New Adam," "Out of Africa," "The Broken Cosmos," "The Middle Ages," "Decline and Reform of Humanism," "The Devil's Last Stand," "Rationalizing Evil," "The Attack on Christianity," "Dissident Voices," "Human Evil in the Nineteenth Century," "Science, Evil, and Original Sin," "Modern Literary Approaches to Evil," "Some Scientific Theories of Evil," and "Modern Religious Approaches to Evil." Joseph F. Kelly, Ph.D., is professor of religious studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of The World of the Early Christians, published by The Liturgical Press.

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0814683967

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9780814683965

The Birth of Jesus According to the Gospels

By: Joseph Francis Kelly

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The Birth of Jesus According to the Gospels

By: Joseph Francis Kelly

Kelly turns to the infancy narratives to see what the New Testament says about the Nativity. He also reveals that Christmas celebrations, cards, pageants, and crches are often combinations and embellishments of the gospel narratives.

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0814629482

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9780814629482

Brooklyn South

A Story of New York

By: Joseph F. Kelly

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Brooklyn South

A Story of New York

By: Joseph F. Kelly

This is the story of the conflict between a Brooklyn detective and the head of a New York organized crime family. The crime boss is helpful to the Organized Crime Task Force in eliminating his enemies. The detective is appalled by the duplicitous nature of the relationship between the crime boss and the police. Torn by the need for the cooperation from the crime boss and his sense of "sleeping with the devil" the detective struggles with the relationship. On a parallel track, the detective meets the son of the crime boss and is impressed by the youngster, who is conflicted by the way of his father as well as the expectations placed upon him. The detective subtly urges the son not to follow the ways of his father. He strongly encourages the son to follow a legitimate life style. The son comes to admire the integrity of the detective. A level of respect develops. The detective understands the pressure on the son of the crime boss. The son respects the fundamental decency of the detective. The detective, in his own research, learns of a business connection between the head of the crime family and senior politicians. His superiors do not want the connection pursued and strongly direct that the detective cease his investigation The detective's career is threatened. Deeply disturbed by the extent of the corruption, the detective continues to develop the case. Finally, the detective presents a pervasive and compelling overview. Then, faced with a potential revelation of the broad based corruption, the crime boss, with the acceptance of the politicians, decide to eliminate the detective through an unrelated ruse. The son of the crime boss learns of his father's plans and desperately tries to talk his father out of the planned hit, as unnecessary. The son is unsuccessful. The son of the crime boss, moved by the senseless killing, in turn, seeks out the son of the detective and quietly tries to

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1425976042

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9781425976040

Gospel (On the Road To) Emmaus

Volume One

By: Edward Joseph Clemmer

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Gospel (On the Road To) Emmaus

Volume One

By: Edward Joseph Clemmer

Born in Indiana, Dr. Edward J. Clemmer is a social psychologist by profession. He now lives with his Maltese wife, Jane Zammit, and enjoys dual citizenship with Malta. His four sons by a previous marriage continue to live in America. His personal journey with the Lord into this Gospel (on the Road to) Emmaus began in a moment of grace on 12th September 2003, as Ed was on his way to the priest. The context for this initiation was the Feast of Exultation of Holy Cross (14th September), as the source of every grace is derived from the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. The gospel is explained for us as the author and reader journey with the Lord as potential disciples. Our journey begins at Bethany near the Jordan with John the Baptist preaching and baptizing. Part 1 continues up to the Transfiguration of Jesus. Volume One reaches its climax before the Lords final journey to Jerusalem, when Jesus returns to Bethany where the Baptist had preached. Volume Two resumes with the Lords healing and preaching at Bethany near the Jordan. Part 2 concludes in Bethany near Jerusalem with the Lords dinner celebration with Lazarus, after Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead. This celebration anticipates the Lords death and resurrection, and ours in Christ. Part 3 takes up the Grand Liturgy of the Lords New Creation, with Holy Week. The book initially concludes with a retrospective of the incarnation, of Jesus as God-with-us, and with the parallel coming of the Spirit at Pentecost. Then, in the Part 4 conclusion of this gospel, our post-Emmaus journey with the risen Lord returns to our post-Pentecost life in the Holy Spirit. The authors seven-year personal journey through this Gospel Emmaus ends in 2010 with the Feast of Sukkot, just as when the Lord also had anticipated the Holy Spirit. But the Lord provides us with his own conclusion: although he had healed ten lepers as they were on their way to the priest, only one had returned to give thanks.

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1456773593

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History and Heresy

How Historical Forces Can Create Doctrinal Conflicts

By: Joseph Francis Kelly

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History and Heresy

How Historical Forces Can Create Doctrinal Conflicts

By: Joseph Francis Kelly

Heresies, like doctrinal formulations, are products of history. They must be understood historically as well as theologically. When doctrinal issues become intertwined with historical ones, advocates of a new understanding have often run afoul of religious authorities.

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0814656951

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Who is Satan?

According to the Scriptures

By: Joseph Francis Kelly

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Who is Satan?

According to the Scriptures

By: Joseph Francis Kelly

How does the Bible's teaching on the devil square with psychology and other modern scientific disciplines that seem to have driven Satan into the realm of myth? Why does 666 signify the devil? Is Satan the Antichrist or does that term refer to a human? Popular media has combined a number of diverse traditions, distorting Christian teaching and tradition about Satan and also occasionally distorting common sense. Kelly introduces the reader to what the Bible actually says about Satan and other evil biblical figures.

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0814635164

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Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics

By: Joseph A. Selling

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Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics

By: Joseph A. Selling

Traditionally, Catholic moral theology has been based upon an approach that over-emphasized the role of normative ethics and subsequently associated moral responsibility with following or disobeying moral rules. Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics offers an alternative ethical method which, without destroying any of the valuable insights of normative ethics, reorients the discipline to consider human motivation and intention before investigating behavioural options for realizing one's end. Evidence from the New Testament warrants the formation of a teleological method for theological ethics which is further elaborated in the approach taken by Thomas Aquinas. Unfortunately, the insights of the latter were misinterpreted at the time of the counter-reformation. Joseph A. Selling's analysis of moral theological textbooks demonstrates the entrenchment of a normative method aimed at identifying sins in service to the practice of sacramental confession. With a firm basis in the teaching of Vatican II, the 'human person integrally and adequately considered' provides the fundamental criterion for approaching ethical issues in the contemporary world. The perspective then turns to the crucial question of describing the ends or goals of ethical living by providing a fresh approach to the concept of virtue. Selling concludes with suggestions about how to combine normative ethics with this alternative method in theological ethics that begins with the actual, ethical orientation of the human person toward virtuous living.

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0191079863

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Other Worlds Than These

By: John Joseph Adams

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Other Worlds Than These

By: John Joseph Adams

What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world? We can all imagine such “other worlds”--be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder--but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volume--until now.

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1597804347

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The Cost of Catholic Parishes and Schools

By: Joseph Claude Harris

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The Cost of Catholic Parishes and Schools

By: Joseph Claude Harris

Proposes concrete suggestions for approaching the challenges of managing today's parishes and schools.

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Right Back Where We Started

Right Back Where We Started

The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition

The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition

The Birth of Jesus According to the Gospels

The Birth of Jesus According to the Gospels

Brooklyn South

Brooklyn South

Gospel (On the Road To) Emmaus

Gospel (On the Road To) Emmaus

History and Heresy

History and Heresy

Who is Satan?

Who is Satan?

Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics

Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics

Other Worlds Than These

Other Worlds Than These

The Cost of Catholic Parishes and Schools

The Cost of Catholic Parishes and Schools

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