Church as Dynamic Life-SystemWith the goal of sustaining the relevance and, paradoxically, the permanence of the church, Bracken proposes an open ended systems approach to ecclesiology. He synthesizes the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Alfred North Whitehead to produce his novel argument, which is grounded in the language of process theology and a continually evolving universe. This book will appeal to readers of Diarmuid OMurchu and Ilia Delio, and to followers of this

is assistant professor of religious studies at Manhattan College

Secular groups often see faith-based agencies as "irritating marginal players" in the global development scene

Drawing on Thomas Aquinas and Teilhard de Chardin he brings the Christian tradition into a cosmology of care for the whole of creation

”--Jayakumar Christian

your appreciation of the vocation of the moral theologian can only increase

A companion to Haight's Christian Spirituality for Seekers

De La Torre is professor of social ethics and Latino/a studies at Iliff School of Theology in Denver

and Incarnation: A New Evolutionary Threshold (all Orbis)

in good times and bad

It is a must-read for anyone expanding their faith

use in classrooms and book groups everywhere

The practices of the East meet those of the West in this intriguing book on the relationship between Zen meditation and the Spiritual Exercises of St