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 Mark
Brumley is President of the Board of Directors of Guadalupe Associates
and Chief Executive Officer for Ignatius Press.
He is associate publisher of IgnatiusInsight.com. He also oversees magazines for Ignatius Press, is project coordinator
for the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible, and is editor of Ignatius Press's
Modern Apologetics Library.
Mark is also the author of How
Not To Share Your Faith, co-author of A Study Guide to Jesus of
Nazareth Holy Week, editor of A Study Guide to Jesus of Nazareth, and a contributor to The
Five Issues That Matter Most.
Here is a partial listing of Ignatius Insight articles written by Mark:
• What Is Catholic Social Teaching?
• Why Catholicism Makes Protestantism Tick Louis Bouyer on the Reformation
• The Eucharist: Source and Summit of Christian Spirituality
• The Blessings & Curses of the Beatitudes
• Can Catholics Be "Real Americans"?
• Are Catholics Born Again?
• The Relevance and Challenge of C. S. Lewis
• The Morning After: What If Cameron Discovered the Other Jesus?
• How Not To Share Your Faith With a Mormon
• Benedict Takes the Next Step with Islam
• Kinsey and What's Normal
• Aquinas Proves Atheists Are Closer to God Than They Think
• Can I Quote You On That? Talking to the Media About Homosexuality and the Priesthood
• The Mystery of Human Origins: Which theories are compatible with Catholic faith?
E-mail address: mark@ignatius.com.
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Dogma And Preaching: Applying Christian Doctrine to
Daily Life (2nd Ed)
by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
This volume is an unabridged edition of Dogma and Preaching, a work that appeared in a much-reduced form in English, in 1985. The new book contains twice as much material as first
English edition. "Dogma", for many people, is a bad word. For the well-informed believer, it shouldn't be. Dogmas are truths revealed by God, which should enlighten the minds,
guide the choices, and gladden the hearts of Jesus' disciples, including pastors, deacons, and lay teachers. But, as Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), notes in the foreword
to this book, "The path from dogma to proclamation or preaching has become very troublesome." Finding ways to relate the content of the Church's dogmas to everyday life can be
challenging for today's preachers and teachers. Some people find the task so daunting that they leave dogma out. As a result, they wind up presenting something other than the
Church's faith and speak in their own name, offering perhaps unwittingly merely their own, subjective ideas, rather than the Word of God. In Dogma and Preaching, the theologian
and priest Joseph Ratzinger provides (1) a theory of preaching for today; (2) application of this theory to some themes for preaching drawn from the Church's dogmas; (3) meditations
and sermons based on the liturgical year and the communion of saints; and (4) some thoughts regarding the decade after the Second Vatican and Christianity's seeming irrelevance.
Ratzinger insists that sound preaching should rest on three pillars... Read more!
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