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Originally published in 1975, this book helps students understand
why the Movements of the 12th century remained much more enclosed
and monastic or turned to heresy; How much the new orders of Friars
owed to the earlier movements and to what extent they arose from
the personal inspiration of Saint Francis and Saint Dominic. The
introduction is arranged to help the documents to speak for
themselves: it opens with a direct confrontation with Francis then
goes back to search the religious experience of the 10th to 12th
centuries for movements and especially well documented individuals
who can help explain the development of fashions and ideas. There
are sections on precursors, both monks and heretics, and on the
papal policies towards these movements, and the introduction closes
with a chapter on Dominic and an epilogue on the impact of the
Friars.
This book looks at Eastern and Western monasticism's continuous and
intensive interactions with society in Eastern Europe, Russia and
the Former Soviet Republics. It discusses the role monastics played
in fostering national identities, as well as the potentiality of
monasteries and religious orders to be vehicles of ecumenism and
inter-religious dialogue within and beyond national boundaries.
Using a country-specific analysis, the book highlights the monastic
tradition and monastic establishments. It addresses gaps in the
academic study of religion in Eastern European and Russian
historiography and looks at the role of monasticism as a cultural
and national identity forming determinant in the region.
What message was the author of Acts seeking to convey, and what
would the original audience have understood? How is God speaking to
believers today through Acts as it has been used by the church
throughout the centuries? In this addition to the Catholic
Commentary on Sacred Scripture, respected New Testament scholar
William Kurz offers a close reading and explanation of the entire
narrative of Acts, grounded in the original Greek but keyed to the
NABRE for liturgical use. This volume, like each in the series,
relates Scripture to life, is faithfully Catholic, and is
supplemented by features designed to help readers understand the
Bible more deeply and use it more effectively.
A distinctive and modern telling of the history of the Society of
Jesus in America The history of America cannot be told without the
history of religion, the history of American religion cannot be
told without the history of Catholicism, and the history of
Catholicism in America cannot be told without the history of
Jesuits in America. Jesuits in the United States offers a panoramic
overview of the Jesuit order in the United States from the colonial
era to the present. David J. Collins, SJ, describes the development
of the Jesuit order in the US against the background of American
religious, cultural, and social history. He investigates the
relationship of Jesuit activities in America to those in Europe
and, by the twentieth century, to those around the world as US
Jesuits are increasingly assigned to “foreign missions” and the
political and religious connections between the US and the world,
especially Latin America, grow. He covers the papacy’s
suppression of the order and its restoration period. He also
reflects on the future of the order in light of its past. Readers
familiar with the Jesuit tradition and those who are new to it will
learn from this book’s distinctive and modern perspective—using
twenty-first century scholarship and opinions on Jesuit
slaveholding, the sexual abuse crisis, and other contemporary
issues—on 500 years of Jesuit history in the United States.
For centuries, Catholics in the Western world and the Orthodox in
Russia have venerated certain saints as martyrs. In many cases,
both churches recognize as martyrs the same individuals who gave
their lives for Jesus Christ. On the surface, it appears that while
the external liturgical practices of Catholics and Russian Orthodox
may vary, the fundamental theological understanding of what it
means to be a martyr, and what it means to canonize a saint, are
essentially the same. But are they? In Making Martyrs East and
West, Caridi examines how the practice of canonization developed in
the West and in Russia, focusing on procedural elements that became
established requirements for someone to be recognized as a saint
and a martyr. She investigates whether the components of the
canonization process now regarded as necessary by the Catholic
Church are fundamentally equivalent to those of the Russian
Orthodox Church and vice versa, while exploring the possibility
that the churches use the same terminology and processes but in
fundamentally different ways that preclude the acceptance of one
church's saints by the other. Caridi examines official church
documents and numerous canonization records, collecting and
analyzing information from several previously untapped medieval
Russian sources. Her highly readable study is the first to focus on
the historical documentation on canonization specifically for
juridical significance. It will appeal to scholars of religion and
church history, as well as ecumenicists, liturgists, canonists, and
those interested in East-West ecumenical efforts.
Popular Catholic blogger and speaker Reinhard offers the first book
to accompany expectant mothers from conception to baptism with
weekly reflections and prayers rooted in the mysteries of the
Rosary and related to the baby's physical development.
Independent Catholics are not formally connected to the pope in
Rome. They practice apostolic succession, seven sacraments, and
devotion to the saints. But without a pope, they can change quickly
and experiment freely, with some affirming communion for the
divorced, women's ordination, clerical marriage, and same-sex
marriage. From their early modern origins in the Netherlands to
their contemporary proliferation in the United States, these "other
Catholics" represent an unusually liberal, mobile, and creative
version of America's largest religion. In The Other Catholics,
Julie Byrne shares the remarkable history and current activity of
independent Catholics, who number at least two hundred communities
and a million members across the United States. She focuses in
particular on the Church of Antioch, one of the first Catholic
groups to ordain women in modern times. Through archival documents
and interviews, Byrne tells the story of the unforgettable leaders
and surprising influence of these understudied churches, which,
when included in Catholic history, change the narrative arc and
total shape of modern Catholicism. As Pope Francis fights to soften
Roman doctrines with a pastoral touch and his fellow Roman bishops
push back with equal passion, independent Catholics continue to
leap ahead of Roman reform, keeping key Catholic traditions but
adding a progressive difference.
The Unknown Relatives analyses a large body of Victorian literary
texts dealing with the topic of Catholicism and Catholics, written
from the non-Catholic perspective. The readings of these texts are
inspired by psychoanalytic criticism, primarily by the work of
Freud and Kristeva. Kristeva's work on abjection, the paradoxical
repulsion mixed with attraction, provides the framework for the
first part of the book, which argues that Victorian depictions of
Catholicism exhibit the same mixture of fascination and attraction.
The second part of the book is constructed largely around Freud's
idea of the uncanny, showing how Catholicism was cast in the role
of the archaic religion, profoundly strange and yet at the same
time somehow familiar. The book includes the readings of a number
of Victorian authors, both canonical (Charlotte Bronte, William
Thackeray, Charles Dickens) and lesser-known ones (George Borrow,
John Shorthouse, Mrs Humphry Ward). The book will be of interest to
scholars of cultural, literary and religious studies, as well as to
readers interested in the matters of religion in literature and
religious prejudice.
Ordinary Christology is defined as the account of who Jesus was/is
and what he did/does that is given by Christian believers who have
received no formal theological education. In this fascinating study
Ann Christie analyses, and offers a theological appraisal, of the
main christologies and soteriologies operating in a sample of
ordinary churchgoers. Christie highlights the formal
characteristics of ordinary Christology and raises questions about
how we should respond to the beliefs about Jesus held by ordinary
churchgoers. Empirical findings have important pastoral,
theological, and missiological implications, and raise important
questions about the importance (or otherwise) of 'right' belief for
being Christian. This book presents a model for how the study of
ordinary theology can be conducted, with the in-depth theological
analysis and critique which it both requires and deserves.
In a culture obsessed with law, judgment, and violence, this book
challenges Christians to remember that Jesus urged his followers to
judge no one, bring harm upon no one, and follow no law save the
law of altruistic love. It traces Christian history first to show
that Christians of an earlier age took very seriously the gospel
injunctions against punitive legal judgment and then how the advent
of formal legal codes and philosophical dualism undermined that
perspective to create a division between a private Christian
spirituality and a public morality of order and legally sanctioned
violence. This historical approach is accompanied by an argument
that the recovery of a Christian ethic based upon unconditional
love and forgiveness cannot be accomplished without the renewal of
a Christian spirituality that mirrors the contemplative
spirituality of Jesus.
Hunt examines the apparent paradox that Jesus' earthly existence
and post resurrection appearances are experienced through
consummately physical actions and attributes yet some ascetics
within the Christian tradition appear to seek to deny the value of
the human body, to find it deadening of spiritual life. Hunt
considers why the Christian tradition as a whole has rarely managed
more than an uneasy truce between the physical and the spiritual
aspects of the human person. Why is it that the 'Church' has
energetically argued, through centuries of ecumenical councils, for
the dual nature of Christ but seems still unwilling to accept the
full integration of physical and spiritual within humanity, despite
Gregory of Nazianzus's comment that 'what has not been assumed has
not been redeemed'?
Karl Barth is widely considered the greatest theologian of the
Twentieth Century, exerting a major influence in almost every area
of theological thought in both Reformation and Roman Catholic
traditions. Ecclesial Mediation in Karl Barth deals with one of the
most important and controversial themes in Barth's theology, the
relation between divine and human action. John Yocum argues that
Barth's late rejection of the concept of sacrament, explicated in
the final volume of his Church Dogmatics, is not only at odds with
his account of the nature and importance of sacraments presented
earlier in the Church Dogmatics but subverts important elements of
his theology as a whole especially the mediation of divine grace in
preaching and the Bible. Bringing Barth into fruitful dialogue with
Yves Congar, Yocum contends that the notion of sacrament is crucial
to an account of the divine-human relation that respects the
character of both agents.
Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life is the response, at long last, to
Evelyn Waugh's call, in 1935, for a 'scholarly biography' to
replace Richard Simpson's Edmund Campion (1867). Whereas early
accounts of his life focused on the execution of the Jesuit priest,
this new biography presents a more balanced assessment, placing
equal weight on Campion's London upbringing among printers and
preachers, and on his growing stature as an orator in an Oxford
riven with religious divisions. Ireland, chosen by Campion as a
haven from religious conflict, is shown, paradoxically, to have
determined his life and his death. Gerard Kilroy here draws on
newly discovered manuscript sources to reveal Campion as a
charismatic and affectionate scholar who was finding fulfilment as
priest and teacher in Prague when he was summoned to lead the first
Jesuit mission to England. The book argues that the delays in his
long journey suggest reluctant acceptance, even before he was told
that Dr Nicholas Sander had brought 'holy war' to Ireland, so that
Campion landed in an England that was preparing for papal invasion.
The book offers fresh insights into the dramatic search for
Campion, the populist nature of the disputations in the Tower, and
the legal issues raised by his torture. It was the monarchical
republic itself that, in pursuit of the Anjou marriage, made him
the beloved 'champion' of the English Catholic community. Edmund
Campion: A Scholarly Life presents the most detailed and
comprehensive picture to date of an historical figure whose loyalty
and courage, in the trial and on the scaffold, swiftly became
legendary across Europe.
With a focus on seven Jesuit university leaders emeriti and the
late University of Notre Dame President Father Theodore Hesburgh,
this book offers a critical analysis of the common values,
philosophies, and leadership practices of Jesuit-Catholic
university presidents within the broader higher education context.
Looking at the impact of these leaders' spirituality on their
leadership styles, The Hermeneutics of Jesuit Leadership
illuminates the influence of their common perspectives and
leadership styles on university policy and culture. Offering a
clear framework for Jesuit-Catholic organizational culture in
higher education, the author explores the key lessons and practices
that can be derived from the presidents' similar leadership ideals
and qualities.
An Exploration of the extent and limitations of Papal power in the
period after the Council of Trent in the mid-Sixteenth century,
during the 'long' history of the Counter-Reformation. Europe and
the wider world were religiously divided in the build-up to the
French revolution. The book Challenges the view that the
development of Papal authority during this period simply reflected
the 'Absolutism' of secular governments of the European Ancien
regime. Examines multiple commitments of the Popes of this period,
including: the Bishop of Rome, Metropolitan of the Roman
Ecclesiastical Province, Primatial Leader of the Italian Church,
Patriarchal of the Catholic Church in Western Europe, Supreme
Pontiff, Ruler of the Papal States in Central Italy. For anyone
interested in religious history, history of the Catholic Church,
Italian history or Early Modern European History. Also available in
Cloth: 0-582-087481 $79.95.
With humour and simple illustrations, theology professor John
Bergsma focuses on Matthew, Luke, Paul, and John, whose writings
comprise about 90 percent of the New Testament. The gospel of
Matthew, written for Jewish Christians, illuminates the life and
teachings of Christ as the long-promised Messiah. In Luke's gospel,
readers will delve into the infancy and Triduum narratives, as well
as the Acts of the Apostles and the life of the early Church. This
leads the reader to discover St. Paul and his first and arguably
greatest theological treatise: Romans. Finally, "the beloved
apostle" St. John draws us in to the unsurpassed beauty of the
fourth gospel, as well as the most mysterious book of the New
Testament: the book of Revelation. A concluding chapter offers
suggestions for further study.
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.
Collection of letters from the Catholic Bishop Goss vividly depict
contemporary ecclesiastical life. These letters, covering the years
between 1850 and 1872, illustrate the complex issues facing the
newly-established Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales. Bishop
Alexander Goss was closely involved in the struggles to assert
diocesan independence from Westminster and undue interference by
Rome and was a determined upholder of his episcopal rights, "strong
and resolute almost to vehemence - the crozier, hook and point" as
Cardinal Manning claimed. At thesame time, as leader of the diocese
with the largest number of Catholics in England and Wales, he faced
the problems of serving the needs of a rapidly expanding population
and of integrating a huge numbers of Irish migrants, without
damaging the flourishing recusant traditions that had made
Lancashire so important in the survival and growth of English Roman
Catholicism. Whether he was writing on ecclesiastical politics, or
his reasons for opposing the definition of infallibility, or the
spiritual needs of his people, he wrote "without restraint or
reticence" and his letters show us both his energy and
administrative ability, and something of his complex personality.
They are presented here with introduction and elucidatory notes.
Peter Doyle, a retired history lecturer, has written extensively on
the history of the Catholic Church in England after 1850. His
published work includes a historyof Westminster Cathedral, a
ground-breaking history of the Catholic diocese of Liverpool from
1850-2000, and three volumes in the new Butler's Lives of the
Saints, as well as a range of contributions to academic journals.
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