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mail: liguori@liguori.org. Web site: www.liguori.org.

In Ablaze: Stories of Daring Teen Saints, Colleen Swaim examines the lives of eight young men and women who were set fire with the Spirit and set free to live lives of extraordinary virtue. All became saints for the outgoing, against-the-current heroism of their teen years. The saints include: St. Dominic Savio St. Teresa of the Andes St. Kizito St. Stanislaus Kostka St. Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception Blessed Pedro Calungsod, and St. Maria Goretti.

Through prayers, images, and maps, readers catch a glimpse of a saint's world that carries lessons for their own. A fine resource for Youth Ministry. Available for $12.99 from Liguori Publications, One Liguori Dr., Liguori, MO 63057. Tel: (800) 325-9521. Fax: (800) 325-9526. E-mail: liguori@liguori.org. Web site: www.liguori.org.

The Christian Future and the Fate of the Earth, Father Thomas Berry, CP. Edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, is a collection of essays by Fr. Berry (he died in 2009 at the age of 95) over the past several decades. The essays in this book reflect Berry's signature views on the interrelatedness of both Earth's future and the Christian future. He ponders why Christians have been late in coming to the issue of the environment. He reflects insightfully on how the environment must be seen as a religious issue, not simply a scientific or economic problem. Drawing on Thomas Aquinas and Teilhard de Chardin he brings the Christian tradition into a cosmology of care for the whole of creation. Available for $20.00 from Orbis Books, P.O. Box 302, Maryknoll, NY 10545-0302. Tel: (800) 258-5838. Fax: (914) 941-7005. E-mail: orbisbooks@maryknoll.org. Web site: www.maryknollmall.org. Christians and Westerners who tackle reading the Qur'an without any foreknowledge of the text usually become frustrated by the seeming incoherence, irregularity of the structure and changing themes and motifs. What Michael Cuypers does in The Banquet: A Reading of the Fifth Sura of the Qur'an is sort out the fragmented text and give it a sense of order. This volume focuses on fifth sura (chapter) where Cuypers finds verses that give guidance on relations with Jews and Christians. There is both an explanation of the existence of other religions; and there is a pronouncement on the status, in terms of salvation, of adherents of the Jewish
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and Christian faiths. Cuypers is a Belgian Brother of Jesus, the religious community founded by Charles de Foucauld. Since 1994 he has utilized the method of rhetorical analysis in focusing his studies entirely on the composition of the Qur'an text. His articles and essays are being increasingly appreciated by Muslim scholars. Available for the special Internet price of $49.46 from Convivium Press, 7661 NW 68th St., Suite 108, Miami, FL 33166. (786) 8669718. Fax: (305) 887-5463. E-mail: sales@conviviumpress.com. Web site: www.conviviumpress.com.

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