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Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon, written by Paul from prison
in the middle of the first century, were addressed to specific
Christian communities facing concrete challenges. What did these
letters mean at the time, and what do they mean for us today?
In this addition to the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture,
seasoned New Testament scholar Dennis Hamm explores the
significance of these letters and their enduring relevance to the
life and mission of the church. Based on solid scholarship yet
readily accessible, the book is enriched with pastoral reflections
and applications and includes sidebars on the living tradition and
biblical background.
On 9th August 1945, the US dropped the second atomic bomb on
Nagasaki. Of the dead, approximately 8500 were Catholic Christians,
representing over sixty percent of the community. In this
collective biography, nine Catholic survivors share personal and
compelling stories about the aftermath of the bomb and their lives
since that day. Examining the Catholic community's interpretation
of the A-bomb, this book not only uses memory to provide a greater
understanding of the destruction of the bombing, but also links it
to the past experiences of religious persecution, drawing
comparisons with the 'Secret Christian' groups which survived in
the Japanese countryside after the banning of Christianity. Through
in-depth interviews, it emerges that the memory of the atomic bomb
is viewed through the lens of a community which had experienced
suffering and marginalisation for more than 400 years. Furthermore,
it argues that their dangerous memory confronts
Euro-American-centric narratives of the atomic bombings, whilst
also challenging assumptions around a providential bomb. Dangerous
Memory in Nagasaki presents the voices of Catholics, many of whom
have not spoken of their losses within the framework of their faith
before. As such, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of
Japanese history, religion and war history.
In this Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, the Pope sums up the
important work done by the Synod of Bishops on the Word of God in
the Life and Mission of the Church. The document has three major
parts:
This book explores the endeavors and activities of one of the most
prominent early modern Irishmen in exile, the Franciscan Luke
Wadding. Born in Ireland, educated in the Iberian Peninsula,
Wadding arrived in Rome in 1618, where he would die in 1657. In the
"Eternal City," the Franciscan emerged as an outstanding
theologian, a learned scholar, a diplomat, and a college founder.
This innovative collection of chapters brings together a group of
international scholars who provide a ground-breaking analysis of
the many cultural, political, and religious facets of Wadding's
life. They illustrate the challenges and changes faced by an
Irishman who emerged as one of the most outstanding global figures
of the Catholic Reformation. The volume will attract scholars of
the early modern period, early modern Catholicism, and Irish
emigration.
A Visual Approach to the Study of Religious Orders applies visual
methods to the exploration of various facets of religious life,
such as everyday lived experience, contemporary monastic identity
or monastic architecture. Presenting a series of visual essays, it
treats images not as simple illustrations but as an autonomous form
of expression, capable of unveiling vital and developmental layers
of experience, while inviting readers to examine and interpret the
data themselves. The first book of its kind, it brings together
case studies from various locations across Europe to demonstrate
what the use of visual methodologies can contribute to social
scientific research on religious orders. As such, it will appeal to
scholars and students of sociology, religious studies and theology
and anyone with interests in religious orders.
This book explores the rhetoric and public communication of the
Catholic Church in the United States in the wake of the sexual
abuse scandals and offers a demonstration of how large
organizations negotiate a loss of public trust while retaining
political power. While the Catholic Church remains a major
political force in the United States, recent scandals have
undoubtedly had an adverse effect on both its reputation and moral
authority. This has been exacerbated by the public responses of
Catholic clergy, which have often left supporters of the Church,
let alone critics, profoundly unsatisfied. Drawing on documents -
voting guides, pastoral letters, sermons, press releases, and other
materials - issued by the United States Conference of Catholic
Bishops (USCCB) as well as American nuns, the book explores
Catholic political statements issued after the sexual abuse crises
entered the public consciousness. Using approaches from linguistics
and rhetoric, it analyses how these statements compare to similar
materials issued before this time. This comparison demonstrates
that for the American Catholic Church persuasion is less important
than maintaining the impression that there has been no loss of
authority. This is a timely study of the Catholic Church's handling
of the recent revelations of abuse within the Church. As such, it
will be of keen interest to scholars of religious rhetoric,
contemporary Catholicism, linguistics, rhetoric, communication, and
religious studies.
It is because Catholicism played such a formative role in the
construction of Western legal culture that it is the focal point of
this enquiry. The account of international law from its origin in
the treaties of Westphalia, and located in the writing of the
Grotian tradition, had lost contact with another cosmopolitan
history of international law that reappeared with the growth of the
early twentieth century human rights movement. The beginnings of
the human rights movement, grounded in democratic sovereign power,
returned to that moral vocabulary to promote the further growth of
international order in the twentieth century. In recognising this
technique of periodically returning to Western cosmopolitan legal
culture, this book endeavours to provide a more complete account of
the human rights project that factors in the contribution that
cosmopolitan Catholicism made to a general theory of sovereignty,
international law and human rights.
A 216-page hardcover book that makes the case for women in the
Catholic priesthood - even though the hierarchy of the Church has
traditionally opposed the idea, based largely on their belief that
Christ wanted a male-only priesthood for all time. The author, a
renowned theologian, disputes that ultra-conservative viewpoint and
explains why it is in the Church's best interest to ordain women.
In this book, first published in 1984, Paul Cohen examines the
Catholic revival among the young French intelligentsia prior to the
First World War. He explores this intellectual revival by studying
that period's "talas", the Catholic students at the elite Ecole
Normale Superieure, and devotes his attention to some of the
highest-profile coverts, such as Charles Peguy and Jacques
Maritain. This title will be of interest to students of nineteenth-
and twentieth-century religious and social history.
Included in this bibliography, originally published in 1989, are
books, pamphlets, dissertations, and articles from periodicals and
collections, published for the most part since 1900, which present
Catholic development in the nineteenth-century as its major theme.
Each entry is annotated with the major idea or theme of the work as
expressed by its author or editor. This title will be of interest
to students of European History and Religious Studies.
Catholicism has had an important place in Macau since the earliest
days of Portuguese colonization in the sixteenth century. This
book, based on extensive original research including in-depth
interviews, examines in detail the everyday life of Catholics in
Macau at present. It outlines the tremendous societal pressures
which Macau is currently undergoing - sovereignty handover and its
consequences, the growth of casinos and tourism and the
transformation of a serene and somewhat obscure colony into a
vibrantly developing city. It shows how, although the formal
structures of Catholicism no longer share in rule by the colonial
power, and although formal religious observance is declining,
nevertheless the personal piety and ethical religious outlook of
individual Catholics continue to be strong, and have a huge, and
possibly increasing, impact on public life through the application
of personal religious ethics to issues of human rights and social
justice and in the fields of education and social services.
This collection of papers grew out of a concern of several at
Creighton University for the perduring nature of the thought of
John Henry Cardinal Newman. Although Cardinal Newman died some one
hundred years ago, his influence on today's thinking is still
strong. Like Sir Thomas More with his Utopia, Newman put forward an
ideal of society and life which has a recognizable relation to the
lasting possibilities open to humankind. First published in 1992.
Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa
company.
Originally published in 1988. This study examines women religious
in the American community in the first half of the nineteenth
century. The primary aim of this research was to determine who the
women were who entered eight religious communities, and whether
there was any clear relationship between who they were and their
choice of community. This title will be of interest to students of
history and religious studies.
Originally published in 1988. The new-found freedom and changing
attitudes towards Catholics after the American Revolution presented
the Catholic Church with its first real opportunity to prosper in
the English speaking "new world". But the Catholic Church could not
take advantage of this opportunity unless it shook off some of its
"old world" characteristics and became accustomed to the American
environment. This study attempts to analyse the very nature of
American Catholicism by investigating the impact of the American
environment on the development of the Catholic Church in American
during the episcopacy of John Carroll. This title will be of
interest to students of history and religious studies.
This volume, first published in 1982, examines the attempts of
English liberal Catholics to reconcile their Church with secular
culture and provides an account of the development of liberal
Catholicism in England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. This work was written not only for specialists in
religious history but for all readers who might be interested in
this seminal period of Catholicism. It is a study in religious,
intellectual, and cultural history.
This title, first published in 1988, examines accounts of religious
conversion contained in the personal narratives of
nineteenth-century American coverts to Roman Catholicism. Given
their newly acquired status as members of an unpopular religious
minority, a number of converts recorded their conversion stories in
an effort to justify becoming Catholic and to defend the teaching
and practice of their Church. This title will be of interest to
students of nineteenth-century religious and social history.
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