Jon M. Sweeney is an independent scholar and one of religion’s most respected writers. His many books include James Martin, SJ: In the Company of Jesus, in the “People of God” series; The Pope Who Quit, which was optioned by HBO; and The Pope’s Cat, a popular fiction series for children. He edited A Course in Christian Mysticism by Thomas Merton, published by Liturgical Press. Sweeney writes regularly for America in the US, and The Tablet in the UK. He is the publisher at Paraclete Press in Massachusetts, and lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with his wife and daughters.
27 E-böcker av Jon M. Sweeney
Thomas Merton: A Course in Christian Mysticism
Thomas Merton’s lectures to the young monastics at the Abbey of Gethsemani provide a good look at Merton the scholar. A Course in Christian Mysticism gathers together, for the first time, the best …
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Thomas Merton: A Course in Desert Spirituality
2020 Association of Catholic Publishers first place award in spirituality Thomas Merton’s sessions with the young monks at the Abbey of Gethsemani showcase Merton’s brilliant ability to survey the …
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Jon M. Sweeney: Beauty Awakening Belief
What once drove men to construct enormous abbeys and cathedrals, with gargoyles, rounded arches, rose windows, dark recesses, and flying buttresses?
In the modern imagination, these structures are …
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Jon M. Sweeney: Phyllis Tickle
The definitive biography of one of the most beloved and respected figures in American religious life. In this comprehensive biography, Jon Sweeney, official biographer of Tickle’s literary estate, ex …
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April Love-Fordham: St. Francis and the Christian Life
How do we live the Christian life? April Love-Fordham and her husband contemplated this as they retraced the footsteps of Saint Francis across the Italian wilderness. Did they need to renounce …
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Jon M. Sweeney: Praying with Our Hands
A spiritual guidebook for bringing prayer into our bodies
The power of words is nowhere more evident than when we use them to pray, but prayer is also the place where we most often come up against …
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Jon M. Sweeney: God Within
Our Faith, In Our Words
What does it mean to be young and spiritual today—when the New Age isn’t exactly new, when female rabbis and ministers are no longer unusual, and when Eastern religion’s ide …
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Jon M. Sweeney: Enthusiast
Popular historian and award-winning author Jon M. Sweeney relates the untold story of St. Francis’s friendship with Elias of Cortona, the man who helped him build the Franciscan movement. Sweeney …
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Robert Ellsberg & Daniel P. Horan: What I Am Living For
If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully …
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Mark S. Burrows & Jon M. Sweeney: Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) was a priest, a mystic and nearly a heretic (he died before the Church court’s verdict). In recent centuries the Roman Catholic establishment has rehabilitated him and the …
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Jon M Sweeney: Cloister Talks
Come along as author Jon M. Sweeney sits in the warm October sun talking with Father Luke or enjoys a December afternoon in the monastery with Father Ambrose.In Cloister Talks, Sweeney offers a rare …
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Jon M Sweeney & Phyllis Tickle: Age of the Spirit
A thousand years ago, the church experienced a time of tremendous upheaval called the Great Schism. The one faith became two churches, East and West, and the course of world history was forever …
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Paul Sabatier & Jon M. Sweeney: Road to Assisi
Originally published in French in 1894, Sabatier’s was the first modern biography of Francis of Assisi. It was a worldwide bestseller, and in 2003 when this new edition was first published, it again …
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Edmund Gardner & Jon M. Sweeney: Road to Siena
Catherine of Siena’s influence was felt throughout the kingdoms of Europe. She enjoyed the confidence of popes, royalty, and most of all, the common people of Italy. A complicated woman, she was able …
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Jon M. Sweeney: James Martin, SJ
2021 Catholic Media Association Award first place award in best new religious book series 2021 Catholic Media Association Award third place award in biography Fr. James Martin, SJ, is one of the most …
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Jon M. Sweeney: Nicholas Black Elk
Servant of God Nicholas Black Elk (1863—1950) is popularly celebrated for his fascinating spiritual life. How could one man, one deeply spiritual man, serve as both a traditional Oglala Lakota medici …
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Lisa Deam: 3000 Miles to Jesus: Pilgrimage as a Way of Life for Spiritual Seekers
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Jon M. Sweeney: Feed the Wolf: Befriending Our Fears in the Way of Saint Francis
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Ed Cyzewski: Flee, Be Silent, Pray
What if prayer could be simple rather than strenuous?Anxious, results-driven Christians can never pray enough, serve enough, or study enough. But what if God is calling us not to frenzied activity …
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Rabindranath Tagore: The Religion of Man
Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s lectures on religion given at Oxford toward the end of his life, edited by Tagore himself.
This International Edition combines all existent English ed …
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Jon M. Sweeney: Umarme den Wolf
Ängste gibt es viele. Kaum etwas engt unser Leben so stark ein wie der Umgang mit ihnen. Doch so verschieden ihre Ursachen sind, so vielfältig sind auch Strategien dagegen. Einen neuen Zugang bietet …
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Jon M. Sweeney: Teresa of Calcutta
Most people living in the last quarter of the twentieth century knew Mother Teresa by name and appearance. They could also identify her as the saint of the gutters of Calcutta. Two years after h …
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Jon M. Sweeney: Sit in the Sun: And Other Lessons in the Spiritual Wisdom of Cats
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Jon M. Sweeney: When Saint Francis Saved the Church
When Saint Francis Saved the Churchoffers a surprising new look at the world’s most popular saint, showing how this beloved, but often-mythologized character created a spiritual vision for the ages …
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Jon M. Sweeney: My Life in Seventeen Books
A memoir for the bookish-inclined, using personal stories to demonstrate how books have a magical way to move a person from one stage of life to the next.
“This is a small gem of a book, tender, hu …
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Jon M. Sweeney: Samtpfotenmomente
Kaum zu glauben — die größten spirituellen Lehrer für ein gutes Leben sitzen oft bei uns zu Hause, sie liegen sogar zu unseren Füßen: Katzen. Sie wissen, wie man im Hier und Jetzt lebt, mit …
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