Zondervan, $12.99 (214pp) ISBN 978-0-310-27817-7 The seven deadly sins and the New Testament’s seven beatitudes spoken by Jesus play against each other in this philosophy professor’s first book.

If this world is all there is, then the Beatitudes are not only nonsense; they are wantonly wicked. The core of our faith is that we are loved by someone whom we cannot see.

The Beatitudes, where blessedness is found in weakness and humility, can provide valuable lessons for today, particularly for people who are growing older.

The renewal of the United States depends, Jesus' declaration of the Beatitudes implies, on us, on our own integration of these values in life — regardless of the system we see being bent out of ...

User’s Guide to Sunday, Jan. 29: St. Thomas Aquinas comments that the happiness described in the beatitudes is a stable happiness not easily unsettled or taken away.

A friend sends along this outstanding essay from Tod Lindberg at the Hoover Institution on the meaning of the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-12, printed in full below.). The author finds in these famous ...

In this episode of John Dear's "The Nonviolence Jesus Podcast," Dear sits down with Sr. Joan Chittister to unpack the Beatitudes as bold, countercultural ways of living that challenge systems of ...