Books On The Cheap

[Gregorius]

You know who was just reminded of for a good read? Mgsr. Luigi Giussani. Among other books, get [u]The Religious Sense[/u], [u]At the Origin of the Christian Claim[/u], and [u]Why the Church?[/u]. I studied part of the second book this past year, so I decided to borrow my own copy. Giussani's approach is very unique.

[Lil Red]

[quote name='Gregorius' post='1897934' date='Jun 21 2009, 07:03 PM']You know who was just reminded of for a good read? Mgsr. Luigi Giussani. Among other books, get [u]The Religious Sense[/u], [u]At the Origin of the Christian Claim[/u], and [u]Why the Church?[/u]. I studied part of the second book this past year, so I decided to borrow my own copy. Giussani's approach is very unique.[/quote]
+J.M.J.+
i already have them.

have you read The Psalms? very powerful!

[Lil Red]

[quote name='Lil Red' post='1896033' date='Jun 19 2009, 01:03 PM']+J.M.J.+
i got "The Essential Pope Benedict XVI"[/quote]
+J.M.J.+
This book is going to be awesome!! here's how it's divided.
-Sermons and Addresses
[list]
[*]Homily at John Paul II's Funeral Mass
[*]Homily at the Mass for the Election of the Roman Pontiff
[*]First Homily of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI at the end of the Eucharistic Concelebration with the Cardinal Electors in the Sistine Chapel
[*]Homily of His Holiness Benedict XVI at the Mass of Inauguration of His Pontificate
[*]Message on the 25th Anniversary of the Pontificate of Pope John Paul II from the College of Cardinals
[*]Address of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to Pope John Paul II at a concert offered by the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk Orchestra on the 25th anniversary of his Pontificate
[*]The Assisi Day of Prayer
[*]The Feeling of Things, the Contemplation of Beauty
[*]Guardini on Christ in our Century
[*]Christ the Liberator
[/list]
-The Church
[list]
[*]At the Root of the Crisis
[*]Eucharist, Communion, and Solidarity
[*]The Ecclessiology of the Constitution on the Church: Lumen Gentium
[*]The Local Church and the Universal Church
[*]The Canon of Criticism
[*]The Basis of Christian Brotherhood: Faith
[/list]
-The Liturgy
[list]
[*]Theology of the Liturgy
[*]On the Theological Basis of Prayer and Liturgy
[*]The Regensburg Tradition and the Reform of the Liturgy
[*]Music and Liturgy
[*]Sacred Places
[*]The Beginning of the Council and the Transfer to Munster
[/list]
-Theology
[list]
[*]On the Meaning of Faith
[*]Liberation Theology
[*]Relativism: The Central Problem for Faith Today
[/list]
-Scripture
[list]
[*]Biblical Interpretation in Crisis
[*]Sin and Salvation
[*]Meditation on the Priesthood
[*]The Place of Mariology in the Bible
[/list]
-The Priesthood
[list]
[*]The Nature of the Priesthood
[*]The Ministry and Life of Priests
[*]The Sacrament of Reconciliation
[/list]
-Christian Morality
[list]
[*]Europe's Crisis of Culture
[*]Truth and Freedom
[*]The Church's Teaching
[*]Culture and Truth: Some Reflections on the encyclical letter Fides et Ratio
[*]Crises of Law
[*]The Problem of Threats to Human Life
[/list]
then the last section is the encyclical "God is Love".

i can't wait to dig in!

[BG45]

That looks like an awesome book. All I've read so far of Pope Benedict XVI is portions of the encyclicals and Introduction to Christianity.

[Lil Red]

[quote name='BG45' post='1913651' date='Jul 7 2009, 11:53 AM']That looks like an awesome book. All I've read so far of Pope Benedict XVI is portions of the encyclicals and Introduction to Christianity.[/quote]
+J.M.J.+
the sad thing is, i have a lot of his books (Ratzinger/Benedict). because i buy them on the cheap, and shelve them to 'read later'. later keeps getting farther and farther away!

[rhetoricfemme]

[url="http://alibris.com"]Alibris.com[/url] is another great place to get books for cheap. Borders uses them when searching for out of print titles for customers. They send out pretty awesome coupons, too, and not an annoying amount of them to boot!

[BG45]

[quote name='Lil Red' post='1913654' date='Jul 7 2009, 01:57 PM']+J.M.J.+
the sad thing is, i have a lot of his books (Ratzinger/Benedict). because i buy them on the cheap, and shelve them to 'read later'. later keeps getting farther and farther away! [/quote]

I know that feeling heh. I've got a few thousand pages worth of novels and nonfiction books to get to at some point.

[MissyP89]

Cheap books. When I was younger, if I misbehaved, my parents would take my books away.

Edited July 7, 2009 by MissyP89

[franciscanheart]

[quote name='philothea' post='1896325' date='Jun 19 2009, 10:20 PM']

From reviewing.

Amazon recruited me for something called the Vine Program, based on the quality of reviews I'd posted. Two to three times a month I get a newsletter with a bunch of stuff to pick from (mostly books, some other products too). I have to review at least 75% of what I get.

Also, because of the Vine reviews, and posting reviews on my blog, some other publishing folk have started sending me books, in the hope that I'll review them. They are finally starting to get frequent enough that I have a (very small) backlog!

[/quote]
that's awesome.