{"product_id":"the-life-of-all-living-by-fulton-sheen-paperback-book-copy","title":"The Life of All Living by Fulton Sheen - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNearly a century after its original publication, one of Fulton J. Sheen’s earliest and most fascinating books returns in a carefully restored new edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1929, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Life of All Living: The Philosophy of Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e gives readers a rare look at the intellectual foundations of the Fulton Sheen the world would later come to know through \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Catholic Hour\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLife Is Worth Living\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and decades of preaching, teaching, and writing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHere Sheen begins with one deceptively simple question: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWhat is life?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom that question he builds an extraordinary meditation on the structure of creation and the spiritual meaning hidden within it. Sheen observes that life seems to rise through a hierarchy. The mineral world serves the plant; the plant serves the animal; the animal world is gathered into human life. Man possesses not only bodily life, but intellect and will. And yet even human life remains incomplete. It points beyond itself toward a Life that is perfect, self-sufficient, eternal, and uncreated.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThat Life is God.\u003c\/strong\u003e From this foundation, Sheen develops the book through six major themes:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWhat Is Life?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — an exploration of life as interior or “immanent” activity and the ascending order of creation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Fecundity of Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — how life and goodness naturally communicate themselves, leading Sheen into reflections on Creation, the Incarnation, and the Mystical Body of Christ.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe First Law of Life: Expansion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — the law of nourishment, culminating in Sheen’s profound treatment of the Eucharist as supernatural food for the soul.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Second Law of Life—Mortification\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e— the complementary law of sacrifice: the seed must fall, the lower must surrender itself to the higher, and Christian life must pass through the Cross.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Death of Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e— Sheen’s striking explanation of sin as spiritual disorder and death, in which the lower conquers what was meant to rule it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Hymn of Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — the magnificent conclusion in which creation becomes an immense movement of unity, service, worship, and return to God through Jesus Christ.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThroughout the book, Sheen moves effortlessly between philosophy, theology, Scripture, biology, poetry, history, and everyday experience. Many of the ideas for which he would later become famous are already fully present here: his love of paradox, his sacramental view of creation, his Eucharistic spirituality, his insistence that sacrifice is inseparable from love, and his conviction that the deepest hunger of the human heart can be satisfied only in God.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA Carefully Restored New Edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book features carefully reconstructed the text from early printed sources, using the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJanuary 1929 first printing as the primary textual authority\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. The book was collated against later early printings to identify and correct evident printer’s errors while preserving Sheen’s original wording, structure, period language, quotations, and theological argument.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis edition includes a new foreword \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexamining Sheen’s enduring legacy and the significance of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Life of All Living.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished at a particularly meaningful moment in the continuing legacy of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fjsheen.com\" title=\"Fulton Sheen\"\u003eFulton Sheen\u003c\/a\u003e, this new edition seeks not merely to preserve an old book, but to make one of Sheen’s foundational works accessible to a new generation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor longtime admirers of Sheen, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Life of All Living\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers a fascinating glimpse of the young philosopher and priest before worldwide fame. For readers discovering him for the first time, it offers something even more important: a compelling vision of a universe alive with meaning, ordered toward Christ, and filled with signs of the One who is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLife itself\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e106 Pages. Paperback. Dimensions: 6 X 9 inches.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catholic Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49082073841849,"sku":"3C3-978-1954438163","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/9177\/3369\/files\/live-living-sheen-hardcover.png?v=1788630870","url":"https:\/\/catholicshop.com\/products\/the-life-of-all-living-by-fulton-sheen-paperback-book-copy","provider":"CatholicShop.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}