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Discover the Christian meaning in " The Hobbit. "
In " Bilbo\'s Journey " go beyond the dragons, dwarves, and elves,
and discover the surprisingly deep meaning of J.R.R. Tolkien\'s
classic novel " The Hobbit. "
Bilbo\'s quest to find and slay the dragon Smaug is a riveting
tale of daring and heroism, but as renowned Tolkien scholar Joseph
Pearce shows, it is not simply Bilbo\'s journey, it is our journey
too.
It is the Christian journey of self-sacrifice out of love for
others, and abandonment to providence and grace.
In " Bilbo\'s Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning of The
Hobbit " you will relive the excitement of Tolkien\'s classic tale,
while discovering the profound Christian meaning that makes " The
Hobbit " a truly timeless adventure.
Originally published in 1988 Religious Higher Education in the
United States is a selected bibliography of sources addressing how
religion has changed and affected education in the United States.
This volume attempts to address the problems currently facing
religious institutions of higher education, covering government aid
and the regulation of religious colleges and universities in the
US.
Stephen Hamrick demonstrates how poets writing in the first part of
Elizabeth I's reign proved instrumental in transferring Catholic
worldviews and paradigms to the cults and early anti-cults of
Elizabeth. Stephen Hamrick provides a detailed analysis of poets
who used Petrarchan poetry to transform many forms of Catholic
piety, ranging from confession and transubstantiation to sacred
scriptures and liturgical singing, into a multivocal discourse used
to fashion, refashion, and contest strategic political, religious,
and courtly identities for the Queen and for other Court patrons.
These poets, writers previously overlooked in many studies of Tudor
culture, include Barnabe Googe, George Gascoigne, and Thomas
Watson. Stephen Hamrick here shows that the nature of the religious
reformations in Tudor England provided the necessary contexts
required for Petrarchanism to achieve its cultural centrality and
artistic complexity. This study makes a strong contribution to our
understanding of the complex interaction among Catholicism,
Petrachanism, and the second English Reformation.
I Am God's Storyteller invites children to use their gifts to shine
God's light and share the Gospel. Offering children examples of
noted storytellers in Bible history (Sarah, Moses, Deborah, Esther,
David, Isaiah, Mary, John the Baptist, and the Evangelists and
early Church), this colorful and engaging picture book also looks
at how Jesus used storytelling to teach and share his message of
faith, hope and love. I Am God's Storyteller concludes by asking
children to be "God's storytellers," and helps them to understand
that our world needs them now more than ever to shine God's light.
Includes information for parents, teachers and caregivers, with
suggestions and guidelines for building a love for storytelling in
the hearts of children. With encouragement and empowerment, young
storytellers are sent on a mission to engage the world around them
with joy and creativity.
George Pell is the most recognisable face of the Australian
Catholic Church. He was the Ballarat boy with the film-star looks
who studied at Oxford and rose through the ranks to become the
Vatican's indispensable 'Treasurer'. As an outspoken defender of
church orthodoxy, 'Big George's' ascendancy within the clergy was
remarkable and seemingly unstoppable. The Royal Commission into
Institutional Responses to Child Abuse has brought to light
horrific stories about sexual abuse of the most vulnerable and
provoked public anger at the extent of the cover-up. George Pell
has always portrayed himself as the first man in the Church to
tackle the problem. But questions about what the Cardinal knew, and
when, have persisted. The nation's most prominent Catholic is now
the subject of a police investigation into allegations spanning
decades that he too abused children. Louise Milligan is the only
Australian journalist who has been privy to the most intimate
stories of complainants. She pieces together a series of disturbing
pictures of the Cardinal's knowledge and his actions, many of which
are being told here for the first time. Conspiracy or cover-up?
Cardinal uncovers uncomfortable truths about a culture of sexual
entitlement, abuse of trust and how ambition can silence evil.
Published in 1998, these essays focus on Rome and the curia in the
11th and 12th centuries. Several relate to Cardinal Deusdedit and
his canonical collection (1087) and to the pontificate of Paschal
II (1099-1118). Both personalities and their ideas are presented
within the larger setting of contemporary problems, highlighting
divergent currents among ecclesiastical reformers at a time of the
investiture controversies. A third common theme is formed by
discussions of the organization and archival practices of the
curia, which were of fundamental importance for the growth and
codification of canon law, not to mention papal control of the
Church.
Edition of theological debates and discussions, giving an
intriguing and unusual insight into the English catholic community
in the seventeenth century. How did English Catholics come to terms
with living in an alien state? Could they, for example, practise
equivocation to avoid arrest, possible imprisonment and execution?
Could they use force against their captors? What contact could they
maintain with Protestants in order to survive and carry on a normal
life? In such a context it is not surprising that a training in
casuistry, the science of resolving difficult cases of conscience,
was an important aspect of the education of English Catholic
missionary priests. A number of the manuals used in that training
have survived, largely in manuscript versions only. This volume, a
companion to Dr Holmes' selection from Elizabethan materials
(Elizabethan Casuistry, 1981), contains discussions and debates
dating from the reign of Charles I. Their author was Thomas
Southwell, a professor at the English Jesuit College in Liege, a
respected scholar and teacher. He focuses on the problems facing
Catholic priests and laymen under persecution in England,
discussing, for example, attitudes to the Oath of Allegiance, the
Roman Index of Prohibited Books and the Church's laws on fasting.In
addition, there are cases here about witchcraft, astrology,
duelling, usury, monopolies and bills of exchange. An important
section contains over sixty cases dealing with betrothal and
marriage, both from the point of view ofEnglish Catholics and in
more general terms. The documents are accompanied by a full
critical introduction, setting them in context, and elucidatory
notes. Peter Holmes holds a doctorate in History from the
University of Cambridge, where his research focused on the
political thought of the Elizabethan Catholics
It is only in the years since Vatican II that the new thinking
about Catholic education has crystalised into shape. Vatican II and
New Thinking about Catholic Education provides an opportune moment
to take stock of the impact of Vatican II on Catholic education.
This volume considers the various ways in which Vatican II and its
teaching on education has been received and engages with the
challenges and testing times that beset faith-based education in
the twenty-first century. With insights from an international range
of leading and influential advocates of Catholic education, the
volume demonstrates the differing contexts of Catholic education
and explores the ways in which Vatican II's teaching on education
has been received over the past four or five decades.
Many Catholics today are disenchanted with the Church's continuing
distrust of women and laity. But, despite this widespread
dissatisfaction, traditional power relations have hardly changed
over the last century. "Catholics, Conflicts and Choices" presents
detailed interviews with lay people, priests, Sisters, and
Christian Brothers, each discussing their personal struggles with
church teachings and practices. The conversations are selected to
illustrate different experiences of power relations - particularly
different aspects of gender dynamics - within the organisational
structures of the Church. The interviews are examined within a
framework of feminist, sociological and psychological theory.
"Catholics, Conflicts and Choices" reveals how, despite a long
history of challenging official notions of authority and obedience
and assumptions about intimate relationships, there is little
potential for change if the established power relations of the
Church are not confronted.
This innovative book offers an original insight into the context
and times of St Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582) as well as exploring
her contemporary relevance from the perspective of some of the
foremost thinkers and scholars in the Teresian field today
including Professors Julia Kristeva, Rowan Williams and Bernard
McGinn. As well as these academic approaches there will be chapters
by friars and nuns of the Carmelite order living out the Carmelite
charism in today's world. The book addresses both theory and
practice, and crosses traditional disciplinary and denominational
boundaries - including medieval studies, philosophy, psychology,
pastoral and systematic theology - thus demonstrating her
continuing relevance in a variety of contemporary
multi-disciplinary areas.
Published in over 6,000 editions before the year 1900, "The
Imitation of Christ" has been more widely read than any other book
in human history except the Bible itself. It has been called "the
most influential work in Christian literature," "a landmark in the
history of the human mind," and "the fifth gospel."Now, and for the
first time, comes an exhaustive edition of this classic work, a
work that is bound to become a classic in its own right. Fr.
John-Julian introduces Kempis and his "Imitation" in ways that will
shock many who have read the book before. For example, Protestant
devotees to the book may be astounded to discover that Thomas was
not only a Roman Catholic but an ardent traditionalist
contemplative monk as well. And devoted Catholic readers may be
amazed to discover that he was a radical moral reformer and part of
a group twice formally charged with heresy. Notes and introductions
to every aspect of "The Imitation" open the meaning of this classic
to the next generation of readers.
Translated by CARL IPSEN The Vatican against Nazism and Fascism on
the eve of the Second World War. A tired pope watching the crisis
unfold and considering what action to take against the new enemies
of Christianity. Pius XI died on February 10th, 1939, just after
finishing the address he hoped to deliver to the Italian bishops on
the tenth anniversary of the Lateran Pact. That text dealt harshly
with Nazism and Fascism and was written in solitude. It was a
discourse that Mussolini feared and that the pope did not survive
to deliver. This moment captures the spirit of Emma Fattorini's
book, a work that employs newly available and unpublished
documentation from the Vatican Secret Archive to rewrite a
fundamental page of 20th history. Pius XI came to view the 1930s as
a conflict of civilizations,' a crisis which could only be resolved
by a return to the Christian roots of the West. He was a pope who
strongly defended the Jews because, in contrast to other elements
in the Catholic hierarchy, he held the theological conviction that
Jews and Christians shared a common origin: spiritually we are all
Semites.' So wrote Pius XI in the last years of his life as he
contemplated the direction in which the world was headed and came
to the conclusion that Nazi and Fascist totalitarianism could be
stopped by the Vatican.
From the Trinity provides an overall view of the history and the
philosophical and theological significance of God the Trinity, not
only from a religious point of view but from an anthropological and
socio-cultural view as well. The perspective is that of Christian
doctrine, specifically Catholic, in dialogue with the cultural
sensitivity of our times and with the religious pluralism that
characterizes it. Following the generative-progressive method
proposed by Vatican II, the book begins with a phenomenological
reading of the signs of the times, with special focus upon the
performative aspect of the announcement and the doctrine of faith.
In particular, constant attention to the contribution made by the
mystics and great charisms (from Augustine of Hippo to Francis of
Assisi and Theresa of Avila up until Therese of Lisieux, Edith
Stein and Chaira Lubich) toward a deeper understanding of the
Trinitarian truth. From the Trinity is unique in what it offers not
only for Trinitarian theology, but also for other theological
disciplines (Christology, Pneumatology, Anthropology, Ecclesiology,
etc.) - in which the Trinity shines forth as the central and
enlightening truth - as well as for philosophy, the humanities and
the natural sciences. This perspective is especially developed in
terms of a Trinitarian ontology (see Part V) by which reality is
understood in light of the revelation of the Trinity. The
implications of the incarnation of the Son of God and the gift of
the Holy Spirit are taken seriously in studying the truth of all
things as they are perceived in the space created by living and
thinking "in" Jesus, united to the Father in the Spirit, as
suggested by the title of the book, looking upon reality "From the
Trinity."
The Catholic Church has been moving into a new phase, one where its
congregation can choose to meet and practice elements of their own
version of their faith on online forums. This new form of
congregating allows for an individualised faith to manifest itself
outside of the usual church authority structures. Online Catholic
Communities provides insight into how religious and non-religious
internet forum users interact and form groups during interactions;
it also discusses the transformation of religious authority and its
emanations in these digital contexts. Using the top three online
forums used by Polish Catholics as a case study, this project
explores the formation of these online communities. It then looks
at the alternative authority structures that emerge online and how
these lead to an individualised form of religious engagement that
can develop independently of mainstream doctrine. Through
highlighting how religious discourse in Poland is appropriated and
creatively modified by users in fulfilling their own spiritual
needs, this work reveals the constant interplay between online and
offline religious contexts. This monograph includes cutting edge
research on online expressions of religious community, authority
and individualisation and as such will be of keen interest to
scholars of religious studies and the sociology of religion, as
well as communication studies.
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