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From the Publisher’s Desk

Publisher’s Letter For August 2008

By Robert Ellsberg - Publisher

August 15, 2008 - We were pleased to receive news that this year's Pax Christi Book Award has gone to Jon Sobrino, the Jesuit theologian from El Salvador, for his most recent book, No Salvation Outside the Poor. It elaborates many of his familiar themes, once again articulating the meaning of the gospel in a world that is "gravely ill," a world in which the fate of the poor provides an indispensable test for the authenticity of Christian faith and witness. His title, playing provocatively with the traditional phrase, extra ecclesia nulla salus, makes his point quite clear.

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Family Violence; reclaiming a theology of nonviolence
Gandhi and Jesus; the saving power of nonviolence
JFK and the Unspeakable; why he died and why it matters
The Other Game; lessons from how life is played in Mexican villages
Praying with Icons, rev. ed.
Simone Weil; a brief introduction, 2d ed.


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Fall 2008/Winter 2009 Catalog

American Indian Liberation
Ancestral Grace
Beyond Christendom
Binding the Strong Man
Charity
Child, Victim, Soldier
The Consistent Ethic of Life
The Dalai Lama
The Disciples' Jesus
Eucharist
The Gospel According to Mary
Held in the Light
Help My Unbelief
Jean Vanier
La Biblia de Nuestro Pueblo
Living with Wisdom
The Making of a Local Church
The Mission and Death of Jesus in Islam and Christianity
Modern Spiritual Masters
A New Heart
Original Prayer
A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation
Resist!
That They May Be One
Theology Brewed in an African Pot
This Little Light
Translating the Message
What is the Mission of the Church?
Witness to Dispossession

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