Logic, clarity, and simplicity permeate this eminently readable book.

    Clement's epistle, written c. 96, is called the first epistle, and is a model of a pastoral letter. The epistles of St. Ignatius, Bishop of Smyrna at the beginning of the second century, are addressed to six Christian communities.

    

    The Mysteries of Christianity, a definitive work in the evolution of Western Catholic thought, continues to inspire and challenge a new generation of Catholics seeking a logically rigorous and heartfelt presentation of the truths of the Catholic faith.

    It featured selections from the 1917 translation of the JPS Tanakh, bridged by narrative summaries written by Rabbi Cohen. Rabbi Stein has replaced the 1917 JPS translation with the 1985 translation and has updated the prose and made the language gender-sensitive. This new edition shares the same essential features as the original, especially the core principle that Pathways Through the Bible, in Cohen's words, is not intended to replace The Holy Scriptures...it is rather to be regarded as preparatory to the reading of the Bible itself...Its purpose is to open for you pathways into the magic realm of the greatest literature ever written.

    "The Primitive Hymns, Spiritual Songs, and Sacred Poems, regularly selected, classified and set in order and adapted to social singing and all occasions of divine worship by Benjamin Lloyd, minister of the Gospel."