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Books > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
A must for every Catholic bookshelf, this fresh and inspiring book
distils the essential thoughts of Pope John Paul II on matters of
belief and conscience into one volume. Throughout his more than two
decades as the leader of the world's Catholics, John Paul II has
spoken both officially and informally on all aspects of life in the
modern world. Whether defining the Church's teachings or
passionately espousing the basic human rights of all people, he has
always eloquently and clearly stated his hopes for the Church and
the world. Collected from his encyclicals, speeches, homilies, and
statements to fellow bishops, this book includes the pontiff's
thoughts at the beginning of the third millennium of Christianity.
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.
This collection of papers grew out of a concern of several at
Creighton University for the perduring nature of the thought of
John Henry Cardinal Newman. Although Cardinal Newman died some one
hundred years ago, his influence on today's thinking is still
strong. Like Sir Thomas More with his Utopia, Newman put forward an
ideal of society and life which has a recognizable relation to the
lasting possibilities open to humankind. First published in 1992.
Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa
company.
The Roman Catholic Church's critical stance towards liberalism and
democracy following the French Revolution and through the 19th
century was often entrenched, but the Second Vatican Council of the
1960s saw a shift in the Church's attitude towards democracy. In
recent years, a conflict has emerged between Church doctrine and
modern liberalism under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. This
book is a comprehensive overview of the Catholic Church's
relationship to modern liberal democracy, from the end of the 18th
century until today. It is a connection that is situated within the
context of the history of ideas itself.
This book explores the vital role of faith-based organizations
(FBOs) in compensating for the market's and government's inability
to provide vital services. Its key theoretical contribution is the
notion that poverty is the result of a triadic failure-when
markets, government, and civil society become dysfunctional at the
same time. Using data on Catholic missionaries' development work,
this study presents the various ways by which FBOs mitigate market
and government failures in healthcare, education, and social
services, and in the process build and strengthen civil society.
This study has two main objectives. First, it aims to present an
overview of missionaries' development work, evaluating the
socioeconomic significance of their faith-based development work.
In addition, various comparative advantages and disadvantages have
been imputed to FBOs in the religion-development literature, and we
assess to what extent missionaries actually exhibit these posited
qualities in practice. Second, the groundwork is laid for future
religion-development scholars by presenting a theoretical framework
and a method for evaluating the role and contributions of FBOs in
the larger community. This is an important investigation of
contemporary worldwide Christianity and its relationship with
development. As such, it will interest scholars of religious
studies and missiology, as well as development economics, public
service and the political economy.
The influence of Rome on medieval plainsong and liturgy explored in
depth. Containing substantial new studies in music, liturgy,
history, art history, and palaeography from established and
emerging scholars, this volume takes a cross-disciplinary approach
to one of the most celebrated and vexing questions about plainsong
and liturgy in the Middle Ages: how to understand the influence of
Rome? Some essays address this question directly, examining Roman
sources, Roman liturgy, or Roman practice, whilst others consider
the sway ofRome more indirectly, by looking later sources, received
practices, or emerging traditions that owe a foundational debt to
Rome. Daniel J. DiCenso is Assistant Professor of Music at the
College of the Holy Cross; Rebecca Maloy is Professor of Musicology
at the University of Colorado Boulder. Contributors: Charles M.
Atkinson, Rebecca A. Baltzer, James Borders, Susan Boynton,
Catherine Carver, Daniel J. DiCenso, David Ganz, Barbara
Haggh-Huglo, David Hiley, Emma Hornby, Thomas Forrest Kelly,
William Mahrt, Charles B. McClendon, Luisa Nardini, Edward Nowacki
, Christopher Page, Susan Rankin, John F. Romano, Mary E. Wolinski
Investigating the role played by religious actors in sociopolitical
issues as a manifestation of the invisible politics of religion,
this book concentrates on the social economy, support to migrants,
the fight against social exclusion and pacifist campaigns, where
religious actors have played discreet but structuring roles. In the
European context, politico-religious matters have been reduced in
two ways: first, a reduction of identity with religion being
transformed into a heritage in the form of a minimal sense of
belonging; and second, the media focus on the most fundamentalist
currents within all religions. This book responds by proposing an
alternative perspective with a focus on Southern European
Catholicism and a comparison between Italian, Spanish and French
subnational territories. In a period of polarized relations between
religion and politics, there is a Catholic action repertoire which
avoids this binary confrontation and which, in contrast, is
characterized by its mediating dimension. The Catholic mediation
repertoire receives little publicity and is expressed in a discreet
but structuring way to address different public problems. An
important contribution to the literature, this book will interest
scholars and upper-level students working on religion and politics,
mediation and peace studies, local policy making and comparative
approaches to Southern European society and politics.
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.
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