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In dramatic stories and sweeping panoramas, distinguished historian
John T. McGreevy tells the mesmerising story of a Church torn
between the forces of reform and reaction for the past 250 years.
Anti-monarchist French clerics celebrated the Revolution, but the
murder of priests and destruction of churches in the Terror
galvanised a powerful conservative reaction that reverberates to
this day. Missionaries around the world greatly expanded the
Church's influence while bringing new tensions between a culturally
diverse syncretism and the ultimate authority of Rome. The
aspirations of the faithful for justice in this world-African
Catholics fighting for independence, Latin Americans developing a
theology of liberation, Polish and South Korean Catholics demanding
democratic governments-challenged the politically cautious. The
cataclysms of the Second World War, decolonisation, the Second
Vatican Council and clerical sexual abuse have each remade the
Church, leaving Pope Francis with the superhuman task of charting a
path for over one billion Catholics worldwide.
Introduces and develops new concepts of general sociological value
for the study of interpersonal relations Develops the understanding
of the role of intentions, ideals and hope in organizations
Explores love and intimacy in a new and unexpected organizational
context Provides a novel analytical framing to explore core
features of monastic life Offers unique insights into the social
relations of a closed world with great historical importance
Explains in remarkable detail all about Confession--its nature,
fruits, and how to make a worthy one. Includes a wonderful
examination of conscience. (5-1.50 ea.; 10-1.25 ea.; 25-1.00
ea.;50-.80ea.; 100-.70 ea.).
The mass is an extraordinary musical form. Whereas other Western
art music genres from medieval times have fallen out of favour, the
mass has not merely survived but flourished. A variety of
historical forces within religious, secular, and musical arenas saw
the mass expand well beyond its origins as a cycle of medieval
chants, become concertised and ultimately bifurcate. Even as
Western societies moved away from their Christian origins to become
the religiously plural and politically secular societies of today,
and the Church itself moved in favour of congregational singing,
composers continued to compose masses. By the early twentieth
century two forms of mass existed: the liturgical mass composed for
church services, and the concert mass composed for secular venues.
Spanning two millennia, The Origins and Ascendancy of the Concert
Mass outlines the origins and meanings of the liturgical texts,
defines the concert mass, explains how and why the split occurred,
and provides examples that demonstrate composers' gradual
appropriation of the genre as a vehicle for personal expression on
serious issues. By the end of the twentieth century the concert
mass had become a repository for an eclectic range of theological
and political ideas.
A translation of Luther's Small Catechism written in contemporary
language with Bible references from the New International Version.
This book focuses on the Philippines as a powerhouse in the
Catholic and global migration landscape. It offers a wide-ranging
look at the roles, dynamics, character, and trajectories of
Catholic faith and practice in the age of migration through an
interdisciplinary, religious, and theological approach to Filipino
Catholics' experience of migration and diaspora both at home and
overseas. In so doing, the book introduces the reader to the
hallmarks and characteristics of a contextual model of world
Christianity and global Catholicism in the twenty-first century.
This book asks what theological messages theologically educated
Catholics in late-eighteenth-century Prague might have perceived in
Mozart's late opera seria La clemenza di Tito. The book's thesis is
two-fold: first, that Catholics might have heard the opera's
advocacy of enlightened absolutism as a celebration of a distinctly
Catholic understanding of political governance; and second, that
they might have found in the opera a metaphor for the relationship
between a gracious God and humanity caught up in sin, expressed as
sexual concupiscence, pride, and lust for power. The book develops
its interpretation of the opera through narrative character
analyses of the main protagonists, an examination of their dramatic
development, and by paying attention to the biblical and
theological associations they may have evoked in a Catholic
audience. The book is geared towards academic readers interested in
opera, theologians, historians, and those who work at the
intersection of theology and the arts. It contributes to a better
understanding of the theological implications of Mozart's operatic
work.
First published in 1985 as Les sources de la morale chretienne by
University Press Fribourg, this work has been recognized by
scholars worldwide as one of the most important books in the field
of moral theology. Already its acclaim has warranted translations
into Spanish, Italian, and Polish. Now it is available for the
first time in an English translation, which includes a new preface.
Writing in a tone that is reconciliatory rather than polemical,
Servais Pinckaers returns Christian ethics to its sources, the
Gospel and the Holy Spirit. After discussing the complementary
domains of morality and the behavioral and natural sciences, he
traces the scriptural themes particularly in the Sermon on the
Mount and the writings of St. Paul that most influence moral
instruction. He then examines in depth the history of moral
theology from the patristic period to the present day. This history
includes a discussion of the relation of Protestant and Catholic
views of Christian ethics. The unique feature of Pinckaers's
contemporary Thomistic view is its emphasis on the virtues, gifts,
and evangelical Beatitudes as the heart of the Christian moral
life. His approach to morality results in what he calls the freedom
for excellence, a notion of freedom that he contrasts with the
nominalist concept of the freedom of indifference, which has
dominated moral theology since the fourteenth century. As a
complete handbook of moral theology, this book will serve the needs
of both beginning and advanced students in seminary and university
courses in moral theology and ethics. For Catholic readers in
particular, it will provide the background and perspective needed
to achieve a fuller understanding of the moral teaching of the
Catechism and of the encyclical Veritatis splendor.
Edition of the register of a late-medieval bishop's register sheds
fascinating light on life at the time. Edward Story, fellow of
Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and later master of Michaelhouse, was
also, in two terms as chancellor, a university administrator. But
it was as a royal servant that he rose to eminence from about 1460
to servesucceeding monarchs with the impartial efficiency of a
career civil servant. Bishop of Carlisle from 1468, he was
translated in 1478 to Chichester, which, although conterminous with
the county of Sussex, contained several exempt jurisdictions,
notably the archbishop of Canterbury's deanery of South Malling.
The register begins with Story's primary visitation of his
diocese.The full record reveals both the shortcomings of the
cathedral chapter and of those religious houses subject to
episcopal jurisdiction. Besides purely diocesan matters such as
ordinations, collations and institutions, clerical indiscipline and
the exercise of his judicial authority, the extraordinary
actionsrequired of the bishop are reflected not only in reports of
local suspicions of heresy, but also in matters of national
importance such as summonses to convocation, clerical taxation,
natural disasters such as plague, and external threats to the
kingdom. The documents are presented here in translation with full
notes and introduction. Janet Stevenson, formerly an assistant
editor of the Victoria History of Wiltshire, has edited The
Edington Cartulary (Wiltshire Record Society, 42, 1987) and The
Durford Cartulary (Sussex Record Society, 90, 2006).
This book investigates the recent renewed theological focus on
ecclesiology and the practices of the church. In light of the
diminishing role of the church in Western society over the last
century, it considers how theologians have come to view church life
as essential to faith and theological thinking. The chapters
analyze key works by John Milbank, Stanley Hauerwas and Nicholas
Healy, and bring them into conversation with an earlier phase in
church history. The historical comparison focuses on the renewal of
ecclesiology in Roman Catholic theology in the early twentieth
century, represented by Romano Guardini, Odo Casel, and Henri de
Lubac. Outlining how the present 'turn to the church' can be seen
as promising, the volume provides readers with a sketch of how a
church-centred theology might assist the church in inhabiting an
increasingly 'post-Christian' world.
The Liturgy Hours or Divine Office has been commonly known as the
breviary or priests' daily prayerbook. The liturgical reform of
Vatican II has restored the Divine Office to its original purpose,
the prayer of the entire Church.
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