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This book collects twelve of the papers given at a conference held
at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., on 1-3 April 1993, in
conjunction with the exhibition `Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library
and Renaissance Culture'. A group of distinguished scholars
considered music in medieval and Renaissance Rome. The volume
presents a series of wide-ranging and original treatments of music
written for and performed in the papal court from the fourteenth to
the sixteenth century. New discoveries are offered which force a
radical reevaluation of the Italian papal court as a musical centre
during the Great Schism. A series of motets for various popes are
subject to close analysis. New interpretations and information are
offered concerning the repertory of the papal chapel in the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the institutional life of the
papal singers, and the individual biographies of singers and
composers. Thought-provoking, even controversial, evaluations of
the music of composers connected with, or thought to be connected
with, Rome and the papal court, such as Ninot le Petit, Josquin,
and Palestrina round out the volume.
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This book presents a range of perspectives on the current state of
Catholic education in the opening decades of the twenty-first
century. All of the chapters have their origin in an International
Conference on Catholic Education, held at Heythrop College
(University of London) in September 2016. The book brings together
many leading scholars to present a survey of the latest research on
Catholic education in areas such as the aims of Catholic education,
Catholic schools and Catholic identity, leadership issues in
Catholic schools and fresh thinking about the place of Religious
Education (RE) in Catholic Education. This book demonstrates how
the field of Catholic Education Studies has firmly come of age.
Rather than being a subfield of educational or theological
discourse, it is now an established field of research and study. As
such, the book invites readers to engage with much of the new
thinking on Catholic education that has grown rapidly in recent
years. It offers a broad range of contemporary perspectives on
research in Catholic Education and rich insights into current
thinking about Catholic Education.
Philip Schaff's The Creeds of Christendom is a massive set,
originally published in three volumes and here reproduced across
five volumes, cataloging and explaining the many different creeds
from the myriad Christian denominations. The differences in belief
between Calvinists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians, for example, can
often be subtle, so a thorough examination of the particulars as
well as an explanation for how those different beliefs result in a
different worldview is necessary. Volume Two covers: . Scripture
Confessions . the Anti-Nicene and Nicene Rules of Faith and
Baptismal Creeds . Symbola ecumenica . Romans Creeds . Greek and
Russian Creeds . Orthodox Confessions of the Eastern Church . the
Confession of Dositheus, or the Eighteen Decrees of the Synod of
Jerusalem . the Longer Catechism of the Orthodox, Catholic, Eastern
Church . and the Old Catholic Union Creeds. Swiss theologian PHILIP
SCHAFF (1819-1893) was educated in Germany and eventually came to
the United States to teach at the German Reformed Theological
Seminary in Pennsylvania. He wrote a number of books and hymnals
for children, including History of the Christian Church and The
Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
In an age when few people ventured beyond their place of birth,
Andre Palmeiro left Portugal on a journey to the far side of the
world. Bearing the title Father Visitor, he was entrusted with the
daunting task of inspecting Jesuit missions spanning from
Mozambique to Japan. A global history in the guise of a biography,
The Visitor" tells the story of a theologian whose extraordinary
travels bore witness to the fruitful contact and violent collision
of East and West in the early modern era.
In India, Palmeiro was thrust into a controversy over the
missionary tactics of Roberto Nobili, who insisted on dressing the
part of an indigenous ascetic. Palmeiro walked across Southern
India to inspect Nobili s mission, recording fascinating
observations along the way. As the highest-ranking Jesuit in India,
he also coordinated missions to the Mughal Emperors and the
Ethiopian Christians, as well as the first European explorations of
the East African interior and the highlands of Tibet.
Orders from Rome sent Palmeiro farther afield in 1626, to
Macau, where he oversaw Jesuit affairs in East Asia. He played a
crucial role in creating missions in Vietnam and seized the
opportunity to visit the Chinese mission, trekking thousands of
miles to Beijing as one of China s first Western tourists. When the
Tokugawa Shogunate brutally cracked down on Christians in Japan
where neither he nor any Westerner had power to intervene Palmeiro
died from anxiety over the possibility that the last Jesuits still
alive would apostatize under torture."
This comparative study of the history of the Catholic Church in
China and Vietnam from the seventeenth to the twentieth century
opens up new perspectives for the understanding of the presence of
Christianity in Asia. The author narrates the biographies of a
number of outstanding missionaries and Christians from China and
Vietnam and tries to understand them in their respective historical
backgrounds by applying the principle of mutual illumination: the
experience of China may help to understand the Vietnamese reality
and vice versa. In this way some interesting similarities between
European missionaries and local Christians are revealed. At the
same time the parallel biographies from China and Vietnam throw a
light on the peculiar cultural and political contexts of
Christianity in the two nations. The book, based on recent research
in several languages, is a pioneering attempt at writing
comparative ecclesiastical history in Asia and offers an insightful
synopsis, occasionally even including observations on Japan and
Korea. The study presents new questions and fields for further
research, including native church leadership, Christian
architecture, arts, and literature, and common theological
vocabularies. The work discloses hitherto unnoticed spiritual links
between China and Vietnam.
An invaluable collection of primary sources for the study of
eighteenth-century convent life. Between 1728 and 1744 the Catholic
lawyer Mannock Strickland (1673-1744) acted as agent for English
nuns living on the Continent, including St Monica's, Louvain, the
Brussels Dominicans and the Dunkirk Benedictines. Most convent
archives perished at the French Revolution, but Strickland's papers
survived in the archives of Mapledurham House, Oxfordshire,
offering a unique insight into the workings of English convents.
These extraordinary documents reveal the reality of exile for a
group of formidable yet vulnerable women, "doubly dead" to English
law. Two hundred letters tell stories of hardship, isolation,
severe winters, war, starvation, Jacobite intrigue and
international finance. They show that convent bursars became
skilled at playing international exchange markets yet remained at
the mercy of unscrupulous investors. The letters are presented here
with full notes; a thorough introduction sets theletters, cash day
books, bills of exchange and other documents in context. Richard G.
Williams is Librarian and Archivist of Mapledurham House; he has
also held senior posts at the University of Warwick, Imperial
College London, Birkbeck College London and at Yale University.
Unlike most recent studies of the Catholic Church in Latin America,
Philip William's book sets out to analyze the Church in two very
dissimilar political contexts - Nicaragua and Costa Rica, focusing
especially on the period since Vatican II.;Despite the obvious
differences, Williams uses first-hand research to argue that in
both cases the Church has responded to social change in a
remarkably similar fashion. The efforts of progressive clergy to
promote change in both countries has been largely blocked by Church
hierarchs, fearful that such change will threaten the Church's
influence in society.
This open access book reconstructs and examines a crucial episode
of Anglo-Iberian diplomatic rivalry: the clash between the
Portuguese-sponsored Jesuit missionaries and the English East India
Company (EIC) at the Mughal court between 1580 and 1615. This
35-year period includes the launch of the first Jesuit mission to
Akbar's court in 1580 and the preparation of the royal embassy led
by Sir Thomas Roe to negotiate the concession of trading privileges
to the EIC, and encompasses not only the extension of the conflict
between the Iberian crowns and England into Asia, but also the
consolidation of the Mughal Empire. The book examines the
proselytizing and diplomatic activities of the Jesuit missionaries,
the evolution of English diplomatic strategies concerning the
Mughal Empire, and how the Mughal authorities instigated and
exploited Anglo-Iberian rivalry in the pursuit of specific
commercial, geopolitical, and ideological agendas.
Winner of the 2020 Catholic Press Association Book Award In a book
hailed as "liberating" (Gary Chapman, New York Times bestselling
author), an award-winning author and mother of four weaves her own
stories and struggles with those of seven ex-perfectionist saints
(and one heretic) who show us how to pursue a new kind of
perfection: freedom in Christ. Spiritual perfectionism--an
obsession with flawlessness rooted in the belief that we can earn
God's love--is dangerous because so many of us mistake it for
virtue. Its toxic cycle of pride, sin, shame, blame, and despair
distorts our vision, dulls our faith, and leads us to view others
through the same hypercritical lens we think God is using to view
us. As a lifelong overachiever who drafted her first resume in
sixth grade and spell-checked her high school boyfriend's love
letters, Colleen Carroll Campbell knows something about the
perfectionist trap. But it was only after she became a mother that
she started to see how insidiously perfectionism had infected her
spiritual life, how lethal it could be to her happiness and her
family, and how disproportionately it afflicts the people working
hardest to serve God. In the ruins of her own mistakes, Colleen dug
into Scripture and the lives of the canonized saints for answers.
She discovered to her surprise that many holy men and women were,
in fact, recovering perfectionists. And their grace-fueled victory
oer this malady--not perfectionist striving--was the key to their
heroic virtue and contagious joy. In The Heart of Perfection,
Colleen weaves the stories and wisdom of seven ex-perfectionist
saints (and one heretic) with Scripture and beautifully crafted
tales of her own trial-and-error experiments in applying that
wisdom to her life. Gorgeously written and deeply insightful,
Colleen Carroll Campbell's The Heart of Perfection is a "must-read"
(Jeannie Gaffigan, executive producer of The Jim Gaffigan Show)
that "gives us permission to...walk in the freedom of God's
unconditional love" (Jennifer Fulwiler, author of One Beautiful
Dream). For a free Heart of Perfection reading guide for book
clubs, visit Colleen-Campbell.com.
This book introduces Catholic social teaching (CST) and its
teaching on the common good to the reader and applies them in the
realm of public health to critically analyze the major global
issues of COVID-19 that undermine public interest. It uses the
sociotheological approach that combines the moral principles of CST
and the holistic analysis of modern sociology and also utilizes the
secondary literature as the main source of textual data.
Specifically, it investigates the corporate moral irresponsibility
and some unethical business practices of Big Pharma in the sale and
distribution of its anti-COVID vaccines and medicines, the
injustice in the inequitable global vaccine distribution, the
weakening of the United States Congress's legislative regulation
against the pharmaceutical industry's overpricing and profiteering,
the inadequacy of the World Health Organization's (WHO) law
enforcement system against corruption, and the lack of social
monitoring in the current public health surveillance system to
safeguard the public good from corporate fraud and white-collar
crime. This book highlights the contribution of sociology in
providing the empirical foundation of CST's moral analysis and in
crafting appropriate Catholic social action during the pandemic. It
is hoped that through this book, secular scholars, social
scientists, religious leaders, moral theologians, religious
educators, and Catholic lay leaders would be more appreciative of
the sociotheological approach to understanding religion and
COVID-19. "This book brings into dialogue two bodies of literature:
documents of Catholic social teaching, and modern sociology and its
core thinkers and texts...The author does especially well to
describe how taking 'the sociotheological turn'...will benefit the
credibility and dissemination of Catholic social thought." - Rev.
Fr. Thomas Massaro, S.J., Professor of Moral Theology, Jesuit
School of Theology, Santa Clara University, Berkeley, California.
Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, deftly shares his personal insights on
topics including Divine Mercy, the Eucharist, the papacy, the
Church, confession, prayer, the cross, masculinity, and femininity.
The Blessed Virgin Mary is the central thread weaving a tapestry
throughout with quotes about Our Lady from saints, blessed, and
popes. Certain to become a "tour de force" Marian book for the Year
of Faith
Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700 offers a radical
reassessment of the history of early modern papacy, constructed
through the first major analytical treatment of papal elections in
English. Papal elections, with their ceremonial pomp and high
drama, are compelling theatre, but, until now, no one has analysed
them on the basis of the problems they created for cardinals: how
were they to agree rules and enforce them? How should they manage
the interregnum? How did they decide for whom to vote? How was the
new pope to assert himself over a group of men who, until just
moments before, had been his equals and peers? This study traces
how the cardinals' responses to these problems evolved over the
period from Martin V's return to Rome in 1420 to Pius VI's
departure from it in 1798, placing them in the context of the
papacy's wider institutional developments. Miles Pattenden argues
not only that the elective nature of the papal office was crucial
to how papal history unfolded but also that the cardinals of the
fifteenth to eighteenth centuries present us with a unique case
study for observing the approaches to decision-making and
problem-solving within an elite political group.
An examination of the Spanish Church in transition over recent
decades, as it responded to far-reaching societal change. Having
disengaged from Francoism, it embraced democracy but found itself
somewhat at odds with various aspects of the modernisation of
Spain, the ongoing process of secularisation and the 'supermarket'
approach to doctrine of its own membership. In its goal of
maintaining influence, its long-established strategy of alliances
with secular - political and socio-economic - power groups became
pointless in a society not so much hostile as indifferent to
institutionalised religion. The challenges facing the Spanish
Church are placed in the context of Vatican and grassroots Church
developments as well as within the sweep of Spanish history.
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