Religious Life in the 21st Century"A powerful resource for those founding refounding spiritual communities today. Its style and language exude the creative energy which it describes." Dr. Bernadette Flanagan, All Hallows College (Dublin City University) "An important book. . . . O'Murchu clearly lays out the path consecrated life has traveled and describes new fields emerging through shifting paradigms. Following Christ in an unfinished universe can be dark and daunting but O'Murchu

“Although he was broken physically

especially those of social justice

the ability to create joy and find meaning even in the midst of abject poverty

as in all Your creatures

Hopkins (theology

" while Gutierrez has recognized Farmer's work as a particularly compelling example of the option for the poor

College of the Holy Cross/University of Dayton"Presents Catholic Social Thought linked not only to its origins but to the alternative perspective it offers to key issues of the day

offering a reliable road map for a sometimes wandering

Amos Yong: (1) shows that the religious "other" is not a mere object for conversion in the Scriptures but a neighbor to whom hospitality must be extended and from whom Christians should be open to receiving hospitality

urgent issues of immigration

Among its features are a sense of historical consciousness

Schussler Fiorenza wants readers to limn quite a different Divinity than the generally received Christian God