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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church > General
This cultural and institutional history explores the careers of men
who served in Rome's Office of Ceremonies during the papal court's
growth period (c.1466-1528), in order to understand how the
smallest papal college stands as a model of early modern curial
advancement. The experiences and textual contributions of three
ceremonialists, Agostino Patrizi, Johann Burchard, and Paris de'
Grassi, show diverse strategies and origins, but similar concerns
and achievements. In a period of heightened competition and
increasing pressure for regularization and reform, the Office's
professionalization and their combined office-holding, networks,
and textual production, reveal how early modern curialists got
ahead. This study shows the complexity of successful advancement
strategies that were cultivated over decades and stretched far
beyond papal support.
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Faith and Reason
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Nigel Zimmermann, Sandra Lynch; Foreword by Anthony Fisher
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Postmodernity is a name that has been attached to our cultural
milieu. Among its features are a sense of historical consciousness,
a recognition of the social construction of knowledge, an
appreciation for pluralism, and a suspicion of grand narratives. It
is a cultural worldview that is naturally suspicious of Christian
"mission." Meanwhile, conservative Catholics are equally suspicious
of postmodernism, associating it with relativism, secularism, and
syncretism). Drawing on his own mission training and experience,
John Sivalon believes the gospel can and must be inculturated in
any culture, and he believes that postmodernism, rather than
rendering Christian mission meaningless, breathes fresh insight,
vision, and life into Vatican II's notion that mission is centered
in the very heart of God. Above all, postmodernism offers "the gift
of uncertainty"--the ground of questioning, Why are we doing this?
What should we do? How is it best done? With actual case studies
that reflect the new face of mission, Fr. Sivalon offers a hopeful
vision of how the Gospel retains its challenge and relevance in an
age of uncertainty and change.
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