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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
Originally published in 1996 Religious Higher Education in the
United States looks at the issue of higher education and a lack of
a clearly articulated purpose, an issue particularly challenging to
religiously-affiliated institutions. This volume attempts to
address the problems currently facing denomination-affiliated
institutions of higher education, beginning with an introduction to
government aid and the regulation of religious colleges and
universities in the US. The greater part of the volume consists of
24 chapters, each of which begins with a historical essay followed
by annotated bibliographical entries covering primary and secondary
sources dating back to 1986 on various denomination-connected
institutions.
Why is the Resurrection of Christ so remote, almost non-existent in
many early Christian writings of the first 140 years of
Christianity? This is the first Patristic book to focus on the
development of the belief in the Resurrection of Christ through the
first centuries A.D. By Paul, Christ's Resurrection is regarded as
the basis of Christian hope. In the fourth century it becomes a
central Christian tenet. But what about the discrepancy in the
first three centuries? This thought provoking book explores this
core topic in Christian culture and theology. Taking a broad
approach - including iconography, archaeology, history, philosophy,
Jewish Studies and theology - Markus Vinzent offers innovative
reading of well known biblical and other texts complemented by
rarely discussed evidence. Christ's Resurrection in Early
Christianity takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the
wilderness of unorthodox perspectives in the breadth of early
Christian writings. It is an eye-opening experience with insights
into the craftsmanship of early Christianity - and the earliest
existential debates about life and death, death and life - all
centred on the cross, on suffering, enduring and sacrifice.
The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out
of their search for God
In the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to
believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious
faith was to write about them-in works that readers of all kinds
could admire. "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" is their story-a
vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over
us.
Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the
founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O'Connor a
"Christ-haunted" literary prodigy in Georgia; Walker Percy a doctor
in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. A
friend came up with a name for them-the School of the Holy
Ghost-and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read
one another's books, and grappled with what one of them called a
"predicament shared in common."
A pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story; and in "The
Life You Save May Be Your Own" Paul Elie tells these writers' story
as a pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past of Dante and
Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life.
It is a story of how the Catholic faith, in their vision of things,
took on forms the faithful could not have anticipated. And it is a
story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us
make sense of our experience, about the power of literature to
change-to save-our lives.
In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in religion
and religious issues. Some have linked this to a neo-liberal form
of individualism, while others noted that secularism has left
people bereft of a humanly necessary link with the transcendent.
The importance of identity issues has also been remarked upon. This
book examines how liberal forms of religion are allowing people to
engage with religion on their own terms, while also feeling part of
something more universal. Looking at liberal approaches to the
Abrahamic faiths - Judaism, Protestant and Roman Catholic
Christianity and Islam - this book teases out how postmodern
culture has shaped the way in which people engage with these
religions. It also compares and contrasts how liberal thinking and
theology have been expressed in each of the faiths examined, as
well as the reactionary responses to its emergence. By considering
how liberalism has influenced the narrative around the Abrahamic
faiths, this book demonstrates how malleable faith and spirituality
can be. As such, it will be of interest to scholars working in
Religious Studies, Theology, Sociology and Cultural Anthropology.
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.
John Hardon's comprehensive, one-volume work of reference
defining the key
terms of Catholicism; updated to include the most recent
developments in the
Catholic Church.
Clear, concise, and faithful, with over 2,000 entries, "Catholic
Dictionary "is the essential Catholic lexicon in the areas of
faith, worship, morals, history, theology, and spirituality. Now
revised to include the statements of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope
John Paul II, new movements and devotions, and other recent
developments within Catholicism, this edition brings the legacy of
Father Hardon into the contemporary era. A worthy companion to
"Catechism of the Catholic Church "and Scott Hahn's "Catholic Bible
Dictionary," this book is an essential resource for the Catholic
reader.
This volume is about Pope Francis, the diplomat. In his eight years
of pontificate, Pope Francis as a peacemaker has propagated the
ideas of human and divine cooperation to build a global human
fraternity through his journeys outside the Vatican. This book
discusses his endeavours to connect and develop a common peaceful
international order between countries, faith communities, and even
antagonistic communities through a peaceful journey of human
beings. The book analyses his speeches, and meetings as a diplomat
of peace, including his visits to Cuba and the United States, and
his mediations for peace in Colombia, Myanmar, Kenya, Egypt,
Turkey, Jordan, Jerusalem, the Central African Republic, Sri Lanka,
and Bangladesh. It discusses the role of Pope Francis as mediator
in different circumstances through his own writings, letters, and
Vatican documents; his encounters with world leaders; as well as
his contributions to a universal understanding on inter-faith
dialogue, climate change and the environment, and human migration
and the refugee crisis. The volume also sheds light on his ideas on
a post-pandemic just social order, as summarised in his 2020
encyclical. A definitive work on the diplomacy and the travels of
Pope Francis, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and
researchers of religious studies, peace and conflict studies,
ethics and philosophy, and political science and international
relations. It will be of great interest to the general reader as
well.
The Catholic Church through the Ages, now in its second edition, is
a one-volume survey of the history of the Catholic Church from its
beginning until (and including) the pontificate of Pope Francis.
The book explains the Church's progress by using Christopher
Dawson's division of the Church's history into six distinct "ages,"
or 350-400 year periods of time, each cycle beginning with great
enthusiasm and advancement and ending in decline and loss. Writing
with the experience of thirty years of teaching, the author has
fashioned an ideal text that combines substance with readability.
Undergraduates, graduates, and interested lay people have given the
author an idea of what topics should be emphasized. As a result, he
has emphasized such areas monasticism, the Crusades, medieval
theology, the Inquisition, Reformation, French Revolution, the
nineteenth century, and the Church in the United States. And he has
added material on the Oxford Movement, John Henry Newman's
contributions to the Oxford Movement and to the Catholic
intellectual tradition, and the Catholic literary revival that took
place in several countries in the early twentieth century, as well
as on the last three popes. As a supplement to each chapter, the
author has included an updated the recommended readings and
bibliography, as well as the audio-visual materials.
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.
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.
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