"In this book, beloved theologian and teacher, Rev. James P.M. Walsh, S.J., shares with us the extraordinary resource of the imagination-how it animates our aspirations, our service, and a deeper connection to God and to one another." -John J. DeGioia, President of Georgetown University "This book is a pedagogical memoir enabling the reader to enter the late Jesuit Professor James Walsh's Georgetown University classroom in various moments. Rev. Walsh considered imagination central to lived religion in the broadest sense, namely the vision of the prophet, the exegesis of the theologian, the...

This book brings to life the lived experience of the disciples after Christ's death, the possibilities they faced and the choices they made. Nothing was inevitable: the earliest Church could have gone in this direction or in that. "In The Earliest Church, the late Rev. William P. Sampson, SJ, takes us on a journey of imagination, spirit, and theological contemplation. By helping us to explore the earliest days of the Church, he guides us into a deeper understanding of our Church in the present day. Just as Fr. Sampson guided so many on spiritual retreats, this book continues his legacy of...