Author: Sister Joan Chittister OSB
Publisher: The Crossroad Publishing Company
Keywords: spiritual, legacy, series, crossroad, ages, benedict, insights, rule
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1992-12-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0824525035
ISBN-13: 9780824525033

Benedict of Nursia and his famous "Rule" remain the guiding principles for many religious communities today.

Authors:John Zmirak,  Carla Millar,
Publisher: The Crossroad Publishing Company
Keywords: book, crossroad, inquisitor, grand
Number of Pages: 76
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0824524357
ISBN-13: 9780824524357

This updating of Dostoevsky’s fable will challenge believers of every hue, and fascinate students of religion, philosophy and literature. The first graphic novel written in Miltonic blank verse, is exquisitely illustrated and promises to change the genre forever. The pope is dead. The Church is split. A rump conclave elects the first Black African pope in history, a hero who saved his people from persecution in Sudan. But a hostile cardinal kidnaps the new pope at the airport and holds him in secret at a mental hospital. To the captive, uncrowned pope "the Grand Inquisitor" lays out a dark c

Author: Stratford Caldecott
Publisher: The Crossroad Publishing Company
Keywords: god, mysteries, entering, sacraments, seven
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0824523768
ISBN-13: 9780824523763

A bold new elegant invitation to enter into the mysteries of the Christian faith. This graceful book explains to Catholics and non-Catholics alike the mystical heart of the Catholic faith: the Seven Sacraments.

Author: Krishna Sivarama
Publisher: The Crossroad Publishing Company
Keywords: spirituality, world, vedanta, vedas, hindu
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1989-11-01
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 082450755X
ISBN-13: 9780824507558

A broad-ranging, lightly-illustrated, scholarly treatment of core topics in Hindu spirituality during its formative earlier periods. It brings together the complex skein of thoughts, beliefs, and practices that developed from the archaic period of the Vedas and received their early crystallization as Vedanta. It presents the eternal, timeles dimension of Hinduism.

Author: Michel Quoist
Publisher: The Crossroad Publishing Company
Keywords: prayers, new
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 1990-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0824509838
ISBN-13: 9780824509835

Prayers has been translated into 24 languages and has sold more than 2,500,000 copies worldwide. New Prayers is a fresh collection of prayers and meditations written by a man who is passionately in love with God and life and truth. Each prayer penetrates to the heart of human experience. Whether celebrating the small victories of each day, or encouraging and supporting the struggle of a lifetime, through Michel Quoist comes the call to embrace all of human existence, its mystery, variety, pleasure, and sorrow.

Author: Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Publisher: The Crossroad Publishing Company
Keywords: spirituality, world, foundations, islamic
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1991-12-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 082451131X
ISBN-13: 9780824511319

Sufi authors have written some of the most moving spiritual literature in the world, but getting a handle on it all can be a chore. Where were they coming from? What were their issues? What was their impact? Seventeen scholars have come together to answer these and other questions in Islamic Spirituality: Foundations. Of course, the seeds of Sufism are to be found in the core of Islam--the Quran, the Hadith, pilgrimage, prayer, and such. In Islamic Spirituality: Foundations, the development of these as aspects of an inner tradition are explored in depth as a jumping-off point for talking about

Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen
Publisher: The Crossroad Publishing Company
Keywords: readings, lenten, daily, way, show
Number of Pages: 187
Published: 1992
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0824513533
ISBN-13: 9780824513535

Nouwen invites readers to join him on a 40-day Lenten path as fellow pilgrims, from the solemn beginning of Ash Wednesday to the joyous climax of Easter. This inspirational "search for the way" speaks directly to the heart during this time of reflection and prayer.