Foreign Rights Catal 2005

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RELIGIOUS ISSUES
Crista Kramer von Reisswitz
The Popemakers: Inside the Papal
Conclave
302 pages, 3-629- 01626-X
December 2003
Translation rights sold to the Netherlands,
France, Poland, Hungary and
Lithuania
When a pope dies, Rome and the Vatican
spring into action. The Cardinals who form
the Papal Conclave elect one of their
number to be pope, all under the strictest
secrecy. This book presents a fascinating
account of the rituals involved in electing
the next pope:
- Takes a hard look at the mysteries and
rumoured conspiracies surrounding past
papal elections
- How political infl uences have shaped the
election over the years. How much infl uence
do modern-day pressure groups
wield?
- Written and unwritten rules and regulations
regarding the papacy: Could a pope
resign?
- Looks into the new mix of nationalities:
how will the many cardinals from Latin
America, Africa and Asia infl uence the
choice of the next pope?
Longtime Rome correspondent Crista
Kramer von Reisswitz is the Vatican
correspondent for the American magazine
Inside the Vatican as well as other magazines
and television stations around the
world. She has an extensive network of
contacts in and around the Vatican.
Michael Langer
The Great Thinkers of Christianity
240 pages, 3-629-01670-7
March 2005
The 16 most important theologians and
their teachings, presented in an easyto-understand
manner as never before
by one of the leading theologians of
our time
Die philosophische Hintertreppe (now in
its 24th printing) is an incomparable bestseller.
The author’s method of teaching the
ideas of the great philosophers didn’t involve
abstract theory, but rather people,
anecdotes, private lives and personalities.
Here, Michael Langer employs that same
method for theologians, becoming the fi rst
to present enjoyable and “easily digestible”
access to the most important thinkers of
Christianity (the Apostle Paul; Origen; St.
Augustine; Benedict; St. Catherine of
Siena; Thomas Aquinas; Martin Luther; St.
John of the Cross; John Henry Newman;
Ignaz von Döllinger; Dietrich Bonhoeffer;
Edith Stein; Henri de Lubac; Karl Rahner;
Hans Urs von Balthasar; Karl Barth).
Dr. Michael Langer (born 1960) teaches
Religious Education at the universities of
Regensburg and Dortmund. A specialist in
Judeo-Christian relations and interdenominational
learning, Langer was coeditor
of The Faith of the Christians,
published by Pattloch.
Dr. Jozef Niewiadomski (born 1951) has
been a professor on the theological faculty
of the University of Innsbruck since 1996
and Dean since 2003.
Freddy Derwahl
The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers
176 pages, 3-629-02111-5
September 2005
The wisdom of monks who didn’t speak
to God, but rather experienced Him
The series “The Wisdom of the Monks”
presents the wisdom, spirituality, and rules
of life as penned by the founders of famed
orders. The oldest texts in this series are
the maxims of the people known as the
Desert Fathers. In the desert, monks and
hermits of the third to fi fth centuries surrendered
themselves to God’s silence.
This collection is the result of the profound
experience of being close to God in the
limitless sadness of the hot desert sand.
The Desert Fathers don’t talk about God,
they experience him!
In the tradition of Biblical fi gures such as
Moses, Elijah, and Jesus, a curious phenomenon
began in the third century: a
spiritual migration to hermit colonies in the
desert by those who sought meaning.
Freddy Derwahl, journalist and theologian,
is “Belgium’s best-known Germanlanguage
writer” according to the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung. He has written
several books about religious hermits.
Also published in this series:
Anselm Grün
The Benedictine Monks’ Art of Living
176 pages
September 2005