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Books
Lawrence S. Cunningham
The story of an extraordinary encounter at the height of the Fifth Crusade
Books
Lawrence S. Cunningham
Aviad Kleinberg a professor of history at Tel Aviv University belongs to that not inconsiderable number of contemporary historians who have taken seriously the cult of the saints in the history of Christianity That interest in the saints has been especially energized by Peter Brown rsquo s The Cu
Arts & CultureCulture
Lawrence S. Cunningham
One could do worse than devote some time during Lent to 'lectio divina' and reading the Scriptures prayerfully.
Lawrence S. Cunningham
In his first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, Pope Benedict XVI remarked that the essential functions of the church are three, for which he gives the Greek terms: leitourgia (worship), marturia/kerygma (witness/proclamation), and diakonia (service). He uses the word marturia (witness) in the original s
Culture
Lawrence S. Cunningham
At the insistent urging of a motel clerk near the Minneapolis airport a few years ago, I took the motel shuttle to that temple of American consumerism, The Mall of America, even though, as I told the lady at the front desk, I am not a mall kind of a guy. After a few bewildering minutes of strolling
FaithFeatures
Lawrence S. Cunningham
There are so many mistaken notions about St. John of the Cross (1542-91) that we might do well to clarify some of them.
Arts & CultureBooks
Lawrence S. Cunningham
In 1918 the German religion scholar Friedrich Heiler published his great phenomenological study of prayer which for all its merits and sympathy for prayer was flawed by his rigid separation of prayer from ritual gesture folk custom and icon Heiler rsquo s restrictive methodology did not come
Books
Lawrence S. Cunningham
Invariably reviewers of writings by the Rev Andrew Greeley feel obliged to mention how much he writes which is a lot Few bother to note how certain basic themes run like threads through his work particularly when Greeley reflects on the mountain of data he has produced over a very long career a
Faith
Lawrence S. Cunningham
It always disappoints me a bit when the celebrant at Mass chooses Eucharistic Prayer 1 (the Roman Canon) and skips the invocation of the saints, that resonant list of early martyrs recited before and after the institution narrative. The omission is all the more disappointing since one of those lists
Arts & CultureBooks
Lawrence S. Cunningham
Garnished with stories of saintly figures and their teachings, Robert Ellsberg's book consists of eight chapters that are like interlocking facets of happiness and holiness.