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Karl Pruter, Presiding Bishop of the Christ Catholic Church and an
acknowledged expert on the modern autocephalous churches,
delineates the history of the Old Catholic Church in North America
and provides the most straightforward account of the numerous
offspring of this very active religious movement. Complete with
Chronology, Notes, Bibliography, Index, and photographs.
Jesuits established a large number of astronomical, geophysical and
meteorological observatories during the 17th and 18th centuries and
again during the 19th and 20th centuries throughout the world. The
history of these observatories has never been published in a
complete form. Many early European astronomical observatories were
established in Jesuit colleges.
During the 17th and 18th centuries Jesuits were the first western
scientists to enter into contact with China and India. It was
through them that western astronomy was first introduced in these
countries. They made early astronomical observations in India and
China and they directed for 150 years the Imperial Observatory of
Beijing.
In the 19th and 20th centuries a new set of observatories were
established. Besides astronomy these now included meteorology and
geophysics. Jesuits established some of the earliest observatories
in Africa, South America and the Far East.
Jesuit observatories constitute an often forgotten chapter of the
history of these sciences.
This book is a theory-informed, comparative and historical
exploration of the notion of the public sphere within Western and
Islamic traditions. It situates the emergence of the modern public
sphere in a wider historical and theoretical context than usually
done in conventional analyses. The work traces cross-cutting
genealogies spanning conventional borders between tradition and
modernity, and in particular between the Western and the Islamic
world. This approach unsettles received, evolutionary views of the
public sphere as an exclusive legacy of Western political cultures.
The public sphere is finally reconceived as a complex platform for
the modern cultivation of culturally diverse, competing, yet
intersecting discourses.
This book explores the role of children and young people within
early modern England's Catholic minority. It examines Catholic
attempts to capture the next generation, Protestant reactions to
these initiatives, and the social, legal and political contexts in
which young people formed, maintained and attempted to explain
their religious identity.
The Call to Read is the first full-length study to situate the
surviving oeuvre of Reginald Pecock in the context of current
scholarship on English vernacular theology of the late medieval
period. Kirsty Campbell examines the important and innovative
contribution Pecock made to late medieval debates about the roles
of the Bible, the Church, the faculty of reason, and practices of
devotion in fostering a vital, productive, and stable Christian
community. Campbell argues that Pecock's fascinating attempt to
educate the laity is more than an effort to supply religious
reading material: it is an attempt to establish and unite a
community of readers around his books, to influence and thus change
the ways they understand their faith, the world, and their place in
it. The aim of Pecock's educational project is to harness the power
of texts to effect religious change. Combining traditional
approaches with innovative thinking on moral philosophy, devotional
exercises, and theological doctrine, Pecock's works of religious
instruction are his attempt to reform a Christian community
threatened by heresy through reshaping meaningful Christian
practices and forms of belief. Campbell's book will be of interest
to scholars and students of medieval literature and culture,
especially those interested in fifteenth-century religious history
and culture.
In this thoughtful and compelling book, leading Spanish
literature scholar Noel Valis re-examines the role of Catholicism
in the modern Spanish novel. While other studies of fiction and
faith have focused largely on religious themes, "Sacred Realism"
views the religious impulse as a crisis of modernity: a fundamental
catalyst in the creative and moral development of Spanish
narrative.
While focusing on the relationship between the papacy and the
14th-century crusades, this study also illuminates other fields of
activity in Avignon, such as papal taxation and interaction with
Byzantium. Using recent research, Housley covers all areas where
crusading occurred--including the eastern Mediterranean, Spain,
eastern Europe, and Italy--and analyzes the Curia's approach to
related issues such as peacemaking between warring Christian
powers, the work of Military Orders, and western attempts to
maintain a trade embargo on Mamluk, Egypt. Placing the papal
policies of Avignon firmly in context, the author demonstrates that
the period witnessed the relentless erosion of papal control over
the crusades.
Calixtus II (1119-1124) transformed the orientation of the papacy
by signing the Concordat of Worms with the emperor, Henry V, in
1122, resolving the conflict over imperial investiture of bishops.
As the tough-minded archbishop of Vienne, he had opposed the
emperor and anyone else who stood in his way. As pope, he
aggressively promoted the authority of the papacy, but suffered
defeat in South Italy. To gain Henry V's support, he jettisoned his
life-long opposition, and compromised over investitures. Students
of the medieval papacy will find that this new interpretation of a
pivotal pope challenges many of the conventional conceptions.
Each year on Good Friday, Christian congregations all over the
world walk the Stations of the Cross, a commemoration of Jesus'
walk to Calvary. In "Walking the Way of Sorrows," artist Noyes
Capehart and writer/journalist Katerina Whitley provide a fresh
resource for congregations and individuals who want to explore the
meaning of these Stations more deeply. Capehart's stark and
powerful block cuts of the fourteen Stations are accompanied by
monologues from the point of view of someone at each station. These
monologues, along with biblical references and a brief liturgy, are
excellent for individual devotion, but can also be used by groups
who walk the Stations together.
Medicine and the Inquisition offers a wide-ranging and nuanced
account of the role played by the Roman, Spanish and Portuguese
Inquisitions in shaping medical learning and practice in the period
from 1500 to 1850. Until now, learned medicine has remained a
secondary subject in scholarship on Inquisitions. This volume
delves into physicians' contributions to the inquisitorial
machinery as well as the persecution of medical practitioners and
the censorship of books of medicine. Although they are commonly
depicted as all-pervasive systems of repression, the Inquisitions
emerge from these essays as complex institutions. Authors
investigate how boundaries between the medical and the religious
were negotiated and transgressed in different contexts. The book
sheds new light on the intellectual and social world of early
modern physicians, paying particular attention to how they complied
with, and at times undermined, ecclesiastical control and the
hierarchies of power in which the medical profession was embedded.
Contributors are Herve Baudry, Bradford A. Bouley, Alessandra
Celati, Maria Pia Donato, Martha Few, Guido M. Giglioni, Andrew
Keitt, Hannah Marcus, and Timothy D. Walker. This volume includes
the articles originally published in Volume XXIII, Nos. 1-2 (2018)
of Brill's journal Early Science and Medicine with one additional
chapter by Timothy D. Walker and an updated introduction.
This is the first book length study in English of the development
of Catholic identity and a specific German Catholic culture in the
300 years after the Protestant Reformation. Focusing on religious
and cultural history, Forster highlights the importance of
Catholicism in the German-speaking lands and seeks to integrate the
study of Catholic Germany into our understanding of the origins of
both modern Germany and modern European Catholicism.
The specific concern in What We Hold in Trust comes to this: the
Catholic university that sees its principal purpose in terms of the
active life, of career, and of changing the world, undermines the
contemplative and more deep-rooted purpose of the university. If a
university adopts the language of technical and social change as
its main and exclusive purpose, it will weaken the deeper roots of
the university's liberal arts and Catholic mission. The language of
the activist, of changing the world through social justice,
equality and inclusion, or of the technician through
market-oriented incentives, plays an important role in university
life. We need to change the world for the better and universities
play an important role, but both the activist and technician will
be co-opted by our age of hyper-activity and technocratic
organizations if there is not first a contemplative outlook on the
world that receives reality rather than constructs it. To address
this need for roots What We Hold in Trust unfolds in four chapters
that will demonstrate how essential it is for the faculty,
administrators, and trustees of Catholic universities to think
philosophically and theologically (Chapter One), historically
(Chapter Two) and institutionally (Chapters Three and Four). What
we desperately need today are leaders in Catholic universities who
understand the roots of the institutions they serve, who can wisely
order the goods of the university, who know what is primary and
what is secondary, and who can distinguish fads and slogans from
authentic reform. We need leaders who are in touch with their
history and have a love for tradition, and in particular for the
Catholic tradition. Without this vision, our universities may grow
in size, but shrink in purpose. They may be richer but not wiser.
The reign of Pope Gregory VII (1073-85) is critically important in the history of the medieval Church and Papacy. This original and authoritative study, the first for over fifty years, records the remarkable career of the Pope who started life as a humble clerk of the Roman church, gave his name to the Gregorian Reforms, and finally died in exile at Salerno. His reign prepared the way for an age of strong papal monarchy throughout medieval Europe.
Religion in Europe is currently undergoing changes that are
reconfiguring physical and virtual spaces of practice and belief,
and these changes need to be understood with regards to the
proliferation of digital media discourses. This book explores
religious change in Europe through a comparative approach that
analyzes Atheist, Catholic, and Muslim blogs as spaces for
articulating narratives about religion that symbolically challenge
the power of religious institutions. The book adds theoretical
complexity to the study of religion and digital media with the
concept of hypermediated religious spaces. The theory of
hypermediation helps to critically discuss the theory of
secularization and to contextualize religious change as the result
of multiple entangled phenomena. It considers religion as being
connected with secular and post-secular spaces, and media as
embedding material forms, institutions, and technologies. A spatial
perspective contextualizes hypermediated religious spaces as
existing at the interstice of alternative and mainstream, private
and public, imaginary and real venues. By offering the innovative
perspective of hypermediated religious spaces, this book will be of
significant interest to scholars of religious studies, the
sociology of religion, and digital media.
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