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The First Jesuits by John W. O'Malley
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £25.12John W. O'Malley gives us the most comprehensive account ever written of the Society of Jesus in its founding years, one that heightens and transforms our understanding of the Jesuits in history and... -
Four Cultures of the West by John W. O'Malley 9780674021037
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28The workings of Western intelligence in our day--whether in politics or the arts, in the humanities or the church--are as troubling as they are mysterious, leading to the questions: Where are we... -
What Happened at Vatican II by John W. O'Malley 9780674047495
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £20.48During four years in session, Vatican Council II held television audiences rapt with its elegant, magnificently choreographed public ceremonies, while its debates generated front-page news on a... -
The Jesuits: A History from Ignatius to the Present by John W. O'Malley
Booksplease Price: £16.21As Pope Francis continues to make his mark on the church, there is increased interest in his Jesuit background-what is the Society of Jesus, how is it different from other religious orders, and how... -
Trent: What Happened at the Council by John W. O'Malley 9780674066977
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £20.95Winner of the John Gilmary Shea PrizeThe Council of Trent (1545-1563), the Catholic Church's attempt to put its house in order in response to the Protestant Reformation, has long been praised and... -
A History of the Popes: From Peter to the Present by John W. O'Malley 9781580512282
Booksplease Price: £16.51A History of the Popes tells the story of the oldest living institution in the Western world-the papacy. From its origins in Saint Peter, Jesus' chief disciple, through Pope Benedict XVI today, the... -
Vatican II: Did Anything Happen? by John W. O'Malley 9780826428905
Booksplease Price: £26.90For 40 years a battle has been waged over Vatican II between conservatives and liberals, between those who want to go "back to the sources" and those who champion "the spirit of the... -
Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era by John W. O'Malley
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £22.50Counter Reformation, Catholic Reformation, the Baroque Age, the Tridentine Age, the Confessional Age: why does Catholicism in the early modern era go by so many names? And what political situations,... -
The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773 by John W. O'Malley 9781487520397
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £33.66In recent years scholars in a range of disciplines have begun to re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. Approaching the subject with new questions and methods, they have reconsidered the... -
Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church by John W. O'Malley 9780674241404
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £15.74In 1869, some seven hundred Catholic bishops traveled to Rome to participate in the first church-wide council in three hundred years. The French Revolution had shaken the foundations of the church... -
The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773 by John W. O'Malley 9780802042873
RRP: £81.00Booksplease Price: £66.47In recent years scholars in a range of disciplines have begun to re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. Approaching the subject with new questions and methods, they have reconsidered the... -
The Jesuits II: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773 by John W. O'Malley 9781487520687
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.78Recent years have seen scholars in a wide range of disciplines re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. In 1997, a group of scholars convened a major international conference to discuss the... -
When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II by John W. O'Malley
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £20.95From one of our foremost church historians comes an overarching analysis of the three modern Catholic councils-an assessment of what Catholicism was and has become today.Catholic councils are... -
The Context of Casuistry by James F. Keenan 9780878405862
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.We are finally beginning to see that casuistry, once so despised, points a way out of the great dilemmas in moral reasoning... -
Liberal Arts of Management: A Toolkit for Today's Leaders by James Maroosis 9780815352884
Booksplease Price: £27.59This book analyzes and elucidates the view that the purpose of the liberal arts is to offer leadership training and guidelines for success. This professional or managerial tradition of the liberal... -
Liberal Arts of Management: A Toolkit for Today's Leaders by James Maroosis
Booksplease Price: £62.87This book analyzes and elucidates the view that the purpose of the liberal arts is to offer leadership training and guidelines for success. This professional or managerial tradition of the liberal... -
The Ark, the Covenant, and the Poor Men's Chest: Edmund Bonner and Nicholas Ridley on Church and Scripture in Sixteenth-Century England by Mark Newcomb
Booksplease Price: £21.99What role did Humanism play in the emergence of English Protestantism? This question has remained a live issue for Reformation scholarship over the past four centuries. In The Ark, the Covenant, and... -
The Betrayal of Faith: The Tragic Journey of a Colonial Native Convert by Emma Anderson
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £49.18Emma Anderson uses one man's compelling story to explore the collision of Christianity with traditional Native religion in colonial North America.Pierre-Anthoine Pastedechouan was born into a nomadic... -
The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy by Anthony F. D'Elia 9780674015524
RRP: £116.95Booksplease Price: £93.10Weddings in fifteenth-century Italian courts were grand, sumptuous affairs that often required guests to listen attentively to lengthy orations given in Latin. In this book, Anthony D'Elia shows how... -
Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500-1800 Allan Greer 9780415934961
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80From the cult of Saint Anne to the devotees of the Virgin of Guadalupe, from Saint Anthony who competed with Christ for popularity in Brazil, to Jesuits who mixed freely with shamans that talked with... -
The Jesuits and Globalization: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Challenges by Thomas Banchoff 9781626162860
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.51The Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, is the most successful and enduring global missionary enterprise in history. Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Jesuit order has preached the... -
The Jesuits and Globalization: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Challenges by Thomas Banchoff 9781626162877
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £75.08The Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, is the most successful and enduring global missionary enterprise in history. Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Jesuit order has preached the... -
Pope and Devil: The Vatican's Archives and the Third Reich by Hubert Wolf 9780674064263
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28The Vatican's dealings with the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich have long been swathed in myth and speculation. After almost seventy years, the crucial records for the years leading up to 1939... -
The Text and Contexts of Ignatius Loyola's "Autobiography" by John M. McManamon 9780823245055
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.44This refreshing re-evaluation of the so-called autobiography of Ignatius Loyola (c. 1491-1556) situates Ignatius's Acts against the backgrounds of the spiritual geography of Luke's New Testament... -
The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Doellinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age by Thomas Albert Howard
Booksplease Price: £22.52The Pope and the Professor tells the captivating story of the German Catholic theologian and historian Ignaz von Doellinger (1799-1890), who fiercely opposed the teaching of Papal Infallibility at... -
The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Doellinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age by Thomas Albert Howard 9780198729198
Booksplease Price: £83.12The Pope and the Professor tells the captivating story of the German Catholic theologian and historian Ignaz von Doellinger (1799-1890), who fiercely opposed the teaching of Papal Infallibility at... -
50 Years On: Probing the Riches of Vatican II by David Schultenover 9780814683019
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.87Pope John XXIII prayed that the Second Vatican Council would prove to be a new Pentecost. The articles gathered here appeared originally in a series solicited by and published in Theological Studies... -
Conciliation And Confession: The Struggle for Unity in the Age of Reform, 1415-1648 by Howard Louthan 9780268033637
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.75Religious conciliators have always faced resistance and critique as they mediate between groups devoted to ideological agendas that leave little room for maneuver and negotiation. From the conciliar...