Elizabeth Scalia

Building the Benedict Option

Christian Living

“The brilliant Leah Libresco offers us an original and exciting Benedict-tinged 'option' full of joy—one that works wherever one is planted.”

Christ's Body, Christ's Wounds

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Dante, Mercy, and the Beauty of the Human Person

Arts & Literature

“This thoughtful collection of essays convincingly demonstrates that that the Divine Comedy has something to say to a society that is overly plugged-in yet increasingly disconnected, tribal, and short on that quality of mercy by which we come to recognize both beauty and God’s unimaginable, steadfast love. Dante, Mercy, and the Beauty of the Human Person is a gift of respite and reorientation to our roiling age.”

Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“With Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist Brant Pitre puts the Eucharistic Christ into thrilling context by examining the realities of Jewish life in the first century. Believers and non-believers alike will better-appreciate the rich cultural, traditional and scriptural wells from which Eucharistic understanding has been drawn and developed since Jesus of Nazareth first proclaimed, 'my flesh is real food, and my body real drink.'”

The Case for Jesus

Apologetics

“In The Case for Jesus, Pitre breaks his research down, in typically accessible prose, to bring us a readable and fascinating account of how questioning one accepted academic idea put him on a path of discovery that served to strengthen, not sever, his faith. Readers who loved Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist will come away from this book with a similar sense of gratitude for such a faith-affirming presentation, and also a bit of awestruck wonder at how faith and reason can complement each other so well, when allowed to. I loved this book!”