Letters from the DesertThirtieth Anniversary Edition "A classic is a work that has a surplus of meaning: it speaks from its own age and now spills over to nourish those of later times. Letters from the Desert is that kind of work." Lawrence S. Cunningham At the age of 44, after a prominent career as a Catholic activist in Italy, Carlo Carretto was summoned by a voice that said: "Leave everything, come with me into the desert. I don't want your action any longer, I want your

the great economy of grace in which each person is of infinite value and worth

born in Algeria in 1938

two new chapters on Islam and the indigenous religion of the Maori

This selection of her writings highlights the essence of her spiritual message

Giuseppe Alberigo (1926-2007) taught church history and served as director of the Institute for Religious Studies in Bologna

and Christian Relations

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Cultural Studies and Contemporary Biblical Criticism

Highlighting both the vitality and tensions that characterize the present moment

All Is Grace: A Biography of Dorothy Day

is Professor of Biblical Hermeneutics at the University of Birmingham