Paul D. Murray

52 Mentor Musings

Children & Youth

“Robin Cox’s life’s experiences, his strength in adversity from a life-threatening disease at an early age, and other cardinal factors in education, place him in a unique position to foster a greater knowledge for patience, perseverance, strength, and humility from educators. These and other topics—unlocking potential, celebrating strengths, providing practical strategies, engendering curiosity, and survival for challenging times—will surely equip all who journey alongside teenagers for their empowerment.”

Ecumenism Means You, Too

Theology

“. . . at once profound and straightforward, deeply reflected yet highly accessible, theologically rich yet directly practical . . . a source of wisdom to be absorbed into the life-blood of each of our widely differing communities for their mutual enrichment . . . a superbly inviting and practical manifestation of what has come to be referred to as Receptive Ecumenism.”

Evil, Suffering, and God

Theology

“Owen Cummings is a model ecclesial theologian, and this book is superb. It is real theology: personal, ecclesial, earthed, human, deeply spiritual, and deeply reflected; a work of immense maturity, wisdom, ease, and helpfulness. It was moving, stimulating, expanding, and very heartening to read.”

Night's Bright Darkness

History & Biography

“Sally Read's story is the best and liveliest account of a conversion for a generation. It is a story of divine grace as moving and unexpected as it is luminous and profound. There is not a wasted brush-stroke, not a blurred line. It is an absorbing story, a tale that will grip readers all the way through to the end.”

Theology and Prayer

Theology

“Gary Eaborn’s Theology and Prayer is a genuinely significant and distinctive contribution to the growing academic literature on the relationship between theology and prayer. At once learned, insightful, encouraging, and deeply experientially reflected, it deserves to be widely read by any who are interested in the practice of theology as vocation and in theological epistemology.”

Women’s Ordination in the Catholic Church

Theology

“Rooted in Vatican II’s conviction about the ‘pastorality of doctrine’ and a related understanding of the critical-constructive role of systematic theological analysis as being in service of the live questions of the church, John O’Brien provides us with an insightful contribution to one such pressing question. Key here is his calling for a revisiting of the relationship between the ordained as standing in persona Ecclesiae and in persona Christi with a fully representative understanding of ordained ministry. This book is an invaluable resource for any looking for an efficient and substantive treatment of this most contentious of issues within the twenty-first-century Catholic Church.”