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This work is a commentary on Benedict XVI's remarkable exhortation Verbum domini -The Word of God. He explained: "In the word of God proclaimed and heard, and in the sacraments, Jesus says today, here and now, to each person: 'I am yours.'" This commentary unpacks the meaning of the scriptures for the community of faith so that everyone can indeed meet the Divine Word. Benedict also shows the possible uses of the modern tools of exegesis but also their limitations when dealing with the word given by God to his Church.

The World of the Sacraments is an undergraduate level textbook designed to offer both the basic philosophical and theological principles to explain the sacraments as well as an extensive historical survey of the writings about each sacrament and its rites. It indicates the high degree of consistency in the thought about the sacraments through the ages.

In a time when Catholic Laity are being particularly challenged to develop as Laity, the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar's work, drawing on Scripture and Tradition, offers a rich source of understanding of what it means to be a lay person; what it means to be a Catholic man or a Catholic woman; what it means to participate in liturgy. Most of all however his work offers a profound understanding of what it means to be in the world as a follower of Christ in his Church. Bevil Bramwell OMI offers an extensive survey of the theology of von Balthasar comparing it with other luminaries of...