0814658121 Sacra Pagina: 1, 2, and 3 John
The Johannine Epistles are today read as an important part of the Johannine literature. Yet the meaning of the text is often unclear...

0814658199 Sacra Pagina: Colossians and Ephesians
No two works in the Pauline Epistles resemble each other as closely as Colossians and Ephesians. Often recognized for their majestic tone and powerful theological statement, Colossians and Ephesians also present many challenges of interpretation...

0814658091 Sacra Pagina: First Corinthians
One of the most exciting of Paul’s letters, 1 Corinthians offers a vantage point from which modern readers can reflect on diverseness in Christian Churches today...

0814658105 Sacra Pagina: Second Corinthians
Regarded as the most personal of Paul’s “weighty and strong” (10:10) letters, the Second Letter to the Corinthians continues to contribute toward the “building up” (13:10) of its readers...

0814658067 Sacra Pagina: The Gospel of John
No other book of the New Testament has attracted as much attention from commentators as the Fourth Gospel. It has stirred minds, hearts, and imaginations from Christianity's earliest days...

081465813X Sacra Pagina: First and Second Thessalonians
The letters First and Second Thessalonians are traditionally associated with the Pauline foundation of the Macedonian Church at Thessalonica. The first is seen as representing Paul's earliest epistolary efforts and as providing two successive moments in..

0814658172 Sacra Pagina: First Peter, Jude and Second Peter
Crisis in the Church is not a new phenomenon. In fact, the Church has always been—and probably always will be—involved in some kind of crisis. Even in the apostolic period, which is regarded by many as the Church’s golden age, there were serious crises co

0814658040 Sacra Pagina: The Gospel of Mark
In The Gospel of Mark Fathers Donahue and Harrington use an approach that can be expressed by two terms currently used in literary criticism: intratextuality and intertextuality...

0814658164 Sacra Pagina: James
The Letter of James provides an important message that challenges us as Christians to put faith into action. In this commentary Patrick Hartin provides a new translation of James that serves as the basis for a detailed explanation of the text...

0814658083 Sacra Pagina: Romans
While widely acknowledged as the single most influential document in Christian history, Paul's Letter to the Romans has also attracted the most comment...

0814658075 Sacra Pagina: Acts of the Apostles
The Acts of the Apostles is really the second volume in the two-part writing scholars call Luke-Acts. It continues the story begun in the Gospel of Luke, showing how the Good News offered by Jesus to the outcast of the people was eventually extended "to..

0814658032 Sacra Pagina: The Gospel of Matthew
Matthew wrote his Gospel from his perspective as a Jew. It is with sensitivity to this perspective that Father Harrington undertakes this commentary on the Gospel of Matthew...

0814658113 Sacra Pagina: Galatians
Paul's Letter to the Galatians has played a major role in the history of theology, especially in the Church's teaching on grace, faith, and justification. This commentary argues that Paul's doctrine of justification by faith is essentially social in natur

0814658059 Sacra Pagina: The Gospel of Luke
What makes this commentary on Luke stand apart from others is that, from beginning to end, this is a literary analysis. Because it focuses solely on the gospel as it appears and not on its source or origin, this commentary richly and thoroughly explores..

0814658180 Sacra Pagina: Revelation
More than any other New Testament writing the Book of Revelation demands commentary. Its often bewildering text is easily open to less than scholarly interpretation...