What Is the Mission of the Church? Illumination Book Award Winner and Director of the Gabelli

and Director of the Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program at Boston College

The English-language first volume of Raimon Panikkar's Opera Omnia addresses the most important theme of Panikkar's life and the "indispensable hermeneutical key" to his published writings: mysticism

on every level

simple peasants of the fourth and fifth centuries whose spiritual progress was marked by inner peace

What Is the Mission of the Church? Illumination Book Award Winner and Director of the GabelliSchroeders canvas is huge, but his palette is rich, his broad strokes bold, and his close work clearly detailed. The overall result is more than two dimensional: effective and attractive, a guide to the history of Christian mission and a careful reading of mission theology and practice. This is a very worthy introductory text."Anthony J. Gittins, CSSp, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago "Presents in lucid language all that a Catholic should know