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...

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.

John Paul II was aware of the muddled thinking about the nature of reason that developed during the Enlightenment. In seeking to re-establish a more substantial application of reason, he proposed that Catholic universities return to the much more expansive concept of the use of reason within the context of faith. This book is a commentary on his constitution Ex corde ecclesiae and its application of the analysis of faith and reason that appeared later in Fides et ratio.