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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.
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.
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.
Radical Religious Movements in Early Modern Europe (1980) examines
Western European history during three crucial centuries of
transition. He expands the concept of Reformation to cover all the
movements of religious resurgence in the fifteenth, sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries in Europe. Social, economic, political,
literary and artistic developments are fully considered, alongside
more strictly religious themes.
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.
John Henry Newman is one of the outstanding Christian figures of
the 19th century. Never afraid to court controversy he lead the
High-Anglican Oxford Movement until 1845, before becoming founder
of the English branch of the Oratory, a catholic congregation.
Account of an important Catholic family in early modern East
Anglia, demonstrating their influence upon their wider community.
For almost 250 years the Gages of Hengrave Hall, near Bury St
Edmunds, were the leading Roman Catholic family in Suffolk, and the
sponsors and protectors of most Catholic missionary endeavours in
the western half of the county. This book traces their rise from an
offshoot of a Sussex recusant family, to the extinction of the
senior line in 1767, when the Gages became the Rookwood Gages.
Drawing for the first time on the extensive records of the Gage
familyin Cambridge University Library, the book considers the Gages
as part of the wider Catholic community of Bury St Edmunds and west
Suffolk, and includes transcriptions of selected family letters as
well as the surviving eighteenth-century Benedictine and Jesuit
mission registers for Bury St Edmunds. Although the Gages were the
wealthiest and most influential Catholics in the region, the
gradual separation and independent growth of the urban Catholic
community in Bury St Edmunds challenges the idea that
eighteenth-century Catholicism in the south of England was moribund
and "seigneurial". The author argues that in the end, the Gages'
achievement was to create a Catholic community that could
eventually survive without their patronage. Francis Young gained
his doctorate from the University of Cambridge.
In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in
the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys, two of whom represented
important Christian daimyo in western Japan, to Europe. This book
is an account of their travels. The boys left Japan on 20 February
1582 and disembarked in Lisbon on 11 August 1584. They then
travelled through Portugal, Spain and Italy as far as Rome, the
highpoint of their journey, before returning to Lisbon to begin the
long voyage home on 13 April 1586. They reached Nagasaki on 21 July
1590, amidst great rejoicing, more than eight years after their
departure. During their travels in Europe they had audiences and
less formal meetings with Philip II, king of Spain and Portugal,
and with popes Gregory XIII and Sixtus V, and were received by many
of the most important political, ecclesiastical and social figures
in the places they visited. Until the arrival of the embassy in
Europe, the Euro-Japanese encounter had been almost exclusively one
way: Europeans going to Japan. The embassy was an integral part of
Valignano's strategy for advancing the Jesuit mission in Japan. The
boys chosen were intended to personify Jesuit success in Japan,
raise awareness of Japan in Europe amongst the clerical and secular
elites, and demonstrate conclusively that what the Jesuits had been
writing about Japan since their arrival there in 1549 was not a
fabrication. The embassy was further intended to impress upon the
boys the glory, unity, stability and splendour of Christian Europe,
so that they might report favourably about their experiences on
their return, and counter what Valignano believed were the negative
impressions of Europe left by Portuguese merchants and seamen in
Japan. As part of this plan, a book consisting of thirty-four
colloquia detailing the boys' travels was compiled and translated
into Latin under Valignano's supervision. It was published in Macao
in 1590 with the title De Missione Legatorvm Iaponensium ad Romanum
curiam. Valignano anticipated that it would become a standard text
in Jesuit seminaries in Japan. The present edition is the first
complete version of this rich, complex and impressive work to
appear in English, and is accompanied with maps and illustrations
of the mission, and an introduction discussing its context and the
subsequent reception of the book.
In the inspiring new book, 21 Ways to Worship, best-selling author,
Vinny Flynn, shares his favorite ways to pray in Eucharistic
Adoration. Written in the author's personal, conversational style,
complete with puns and other bits of humor, 21 Ways to Worship is
an easy to read, practical guide, jam-packed with inspiring ideas,
techniques, and prayers to help you make the most of your Holy
Hour. It's a perfect resource for the beginner wondering what
Adoration is all about, and for the veteran adorer looking for
additional ideas.
This title was first published in 2002. Misguided Morality presents
a survey of how the Catholic moral programme has failed to make a
decisive impact on the behaviour of the Church's members. Despite a
cogent theology of human conduct, the author argues that its
effectiveness is not impressive. This book analyses what has gone
wrong in the transmission of the New Testament ideals. The book
covers the whole field of morality, starting with the bible and
tracing the historical and sociological factors which have effected
the dilution of those ideals, frequently to the level of anodyne
respectability. Having explored the causes of failure, the author
offers positive suggestions for improvement in each area where
shortcomings have been revealed. Combining loyalty to the Roman
Catholic Church, with constructive criticism of shortcomings in
implementing moral policies, this book is essential reading to
those studying and participating in Catholic moral teaching in the
contemporary church. The author is well known for his books on the
challenges to the Church after Vatican II, including his books
Mission or Maintenance, and Whatever Happened to Vatican II.
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