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Book Synopsis Boniface Wimmer by : Boniface Wimmer
Download or read book Boniface Wimmer written by Boniface Wimmer and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boniface written by Jordan M. Hainsey and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1846 Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B., (1809-1887), set sail from Germany with a vision of transplanting the Benedictine Order to America. Armed with nothing more than an unwavering vision and 18 brave companions, Wimmer founded Saint Vincent Archabbey, College, and Seminary, set amidst the rolling hills of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, firmly rooting Benedictine Monasticism as part of the American-Catholic tradition. Following Wimmer s death in 1887, the monks of Saint Vincent and its daughterhouses set out to gather all of his letters and correspondences a task that undoubtedly included collecting portrait photographs of Wimmer. Portrait photography of the mid-19th century possesses an intrinsic artistry; a 30-plus-second exposure demanded thoughtful and compelling compositions with a painterly aesthetic, accomplished with soft, natural light and mirrors. The Complete Portraits of Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B., presents 21 portrait photographs accompanied by heartening quotes from Wimmer s letters, and excerpts from the Pittsburg Dispatch, tracing Wimmer s life as an early American missionary priest, to his death as Archabbot of Saint Vincent, revealing an intimate look into the founder of Benedictine Monasticism in North America.
Book Synopsis An American Abbot by : Jerome Oetgen
Download or read book An American Abbot written by Jerome Oetgen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a newly revised and expanded version of An American Abbot, the biography of Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B., published twenty years ago by the Archabbey Press. In preparing the new edition, Jerome Oetgen has thoroughly reexamined the primary sources, added material from additional sources, and taken into account the results of scholarly research on American Catholic and Benedictine history published since 1976. The achievement of Boniface Wimmer, the father of the Benedictine presence in the United States, has been generally underestimated in the history of American Catholicism. Modern historians of the Catholic Church in the United States have tended to neglect the story of Catholicism on the American rural frontier where between 1830 and 1860 the majority of the 1.5 million German immigrants settled. It was chiefly to serve these farm-bound immigrants that Wimmer came to America in 1846, and for the next forty years, as his evangelization efforts expanded to include Irish, African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants from eastern Europe, he consistently exhibited the traditional Benedictine preference to establish monasteries and religious centers in farming regions and to work among the people of the countryside rather than those of the cities. In his own lifetime Wimmer was widely esteemed both by the American hierarchy for his distinguished pastoral work and by European ecclesiastical and monastic leaders for the crucial role he played in the nineteenth-century revival and development of Benedictine monasticism. Though his work may not have brought him to center stage in the American Catholic Church, he was nonetheless one of the key supporting actors. This biography assesses his part and lasting importance. Jerome Oetgen is a U.S. foreign service officer currently on assignment as director of the Fulbright Exchange Program for Latin America and the Caribbean at the United States Information Agency in Washington, D.C. He has published numerous articles on the history of the American Benedictines. ""This work of nonfiction contains several of the key ingredients of a classic adventure story. . . . The serious student of American religion cannot afford to ignore this biography.""--The Heythrop Journal ""Oetgen has rewritten our understanding of the founder of American monasticism, creating in the process a work of enduring value. . . .""-Dom Paschal Baumstein, O.S.B., Belmont Abbey College ""No one who is interested in the history of religion in America or in the fortunes of this venerable Benedictine order will want to overlook this fine work.""-Demetrius R. Dumm, O.S.B., Saint Vincent Archabbey ""This revised edition is filled with new information. . . . Wimmer, dedicated, single minded, stubborn, made history. Oetgen has done a commendable job of writing it.""-Prof. David J. O'Brien, College of the Holy Cross ""Oetgen has written a revised and expanded version of the unique historical record of Boniface Wimmer. In doing so, he gives the reader an even deeper appreciation of Wimmer's role as monastic pioneer in the context of nineteenth-century American Catholicism.""-F. Joel Rippinger, O.S.B., Marmion Abbey ""Every so often a figure comes along who captures the spirit of the times and is able to use that insight to spread the gospel. Boniface Wimmer did just that.""-Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B., Archbishop of Milwaukee Table of Contents: Foreword by Demetrius Dumm, OSB Preface to the Revised Edition Preface to the 1976 Edition Introduction by Colman J. Barry, OSB 1. Thalmassing to Metten 2. Answering the Call 3. The First Years 4. Growth and Expansion 5. Visions and Rebellions 6. Consolidation and Further Growth 7. Laughter and Tears Epilogu
Book Synopsis The Letters of Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B. by : Boniface Wimmer (O.S.B., Archabbot)
Download or read book The Letters of Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B. written by Boniface Wimmer (O.S.B., Archabbot) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wimmer Letters written by Boniface Wimmer and published by . This book was released on 195? with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Worship and Work by : Colman James Barry
Download or read book Worship and Work written by Colman James Barry and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Worship and Work: Saint John's Abbey and University, 1856-1956, was published on the occasion of the centennial observance of Abbot Boniface Wimmer's first American monastic foundation in Minnesota. Reprinted in 1980 on the occasion of the fifteen-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abbot Saint Benedict, the work included an epilogue covering the first quarter of Saint John's second century. This third edition, published in 1993, contains the original, unabridged text of the first two editions, along with an epilogue covering 1980-1992.
Book Synopsis The Benedictine Fathers in Cambria County, Pennsylvania ... by : Modestus Wirtner
Download or read book The Benedictine Fathers in Cambria County, Pennsylvania ... written by Modestus Wirtner and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In the Benedictine Tradition by : M. Dorothy Neuhofer
Download or read book In the Benedictine Tradition written by M. Dorothy Neuhofer and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1999 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the transmittal of the Benedictine tradition of love of learning, books, and libraries associated with the order's monasteries in Europe to the United States. The author analyses the establishment of the Benedictine Order in the United States and the college libraries that its members began.
Book Synopsis American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Era by : Deirdre M. Moloney
Download or read book American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Era written by Deirdre M. Moloney and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the development of social reform movements among American Catholics from 1880 to 1925, Deirdre Moloney reveals how Catholic gender ideologies, emerging middle-class values, and ethnic identities shaped the goals and activities of lay activists. Rather than simply appropriate American reform models, ethnic Catholics (particularly Irish and German Catholics) drew extensively on European traditions as they worked to establish settlement houses, promote temperance, and aid immigrants and the poor. Catholics also differed significantly from their Protestant counterparts in defining which reform efforts were appropriate for women. For example, while women played a major role in the Protestant temperance movement beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Catholic temperance remained primarily a male movement in America. Gradually, however, women began to carve out a significant role in Catholic charitable and reform efforts. The first work to highlight the wide-ranging contributions of the Catholic laity to Progressive-era reform, the book shows how lay groups competed with Protestant reformers and at times even challenged members of the Catholic hierarchy. It also explores the tension that existed between the desire to demonstrate the compatibility of Catholicism with American values and the wish to preserve the distinctiveness of Catholic life.
Book Synopsis Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B. and the Foundation of Saint Vincent Seminary by : Brian D. Boosel (O.S.B.)
Download or read book Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B. and the Foundation of Saint Vincent Seminary written by Brian D. Boosel (O.S.B.) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis So Conceived and So Dedicated by : Lorien Foote
Download or read book So Conceived and So Dedicated written by Lorien Foote and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Outstanding essays” exploring how educated Northerners viewed, and discussed, the Civil War (Michael B. Ballard, Civil War News). With contributions from multiple historians, this volume addresses the role intellectuals played in framing the Civil War and implementing their vision of a victorious Union. Broadly defining “intellectuals” to encompass doctors, lawyers, sketch artists, college professors, health reformers, and religious leaders, the essays address how these thinkers disseminated their ideas, sometimes using commercial or popular venues and organizations to implement what they believed. To what extent did educated Americans believe that the Civil War exposed the failure of old ideas? Did the Civil War promote new strains of authoritarianism in northern intellectual life, or reinforce democratic individualism? How did it affect northerners’ conception of nationalism and their understanding of their relationship to the state? These essays explore myriad topics, including: *How antebellum ideas about the environment and the body influenced conceptions of democratic health *How leaders of the Irish American community reconciled their support of the United States and the Republican Party with their allegiances to Ireland and their fellow Irish immigrants *How intellectual leaders of the northern African American community explained secession, civil war, and emancipation *The influence of southern ideals on northern intellectuals *Wartime and postwar views from college and university campuses—and the ideological acrobatics that professors at Midwestern universities had to perform in order to keep their students from leaving the classroom *How northern sketch artists helped influence the changing perceptions of African American soldiers over the course of the war Collectively, So Conceived and So Dedicated offers an in-depth look at this part of the nation’s intellectual history—and suggests that antebellum modes of thinking remained vital and tenacious well after the Civil War.
Book Synopsis Miracle on High Street by : Thomas A. McCabe
Download or read book Miracle on High Street written by Thomas A. McCabe and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just outside downtown Newark, New Jersey, sits an abbey and school. For more than 150 years Benedictine monks have lived, worked, and prayed on High Street, a once-grand thoroughfare that became Newark’s Skid Row and a focal point of the 1967 riots. St. Benedict’s today has become a model of a successful inner-city school, with 95 percent of its graduates—mainly African American and Latino boys—going on to college. Miracle on High Street is the story of how the monks of St. Benedict’s transformed their venerable yet outdated school to become a thriving part of the community that helped save a faltering city. In the 1960s, after a trinity of woes—massive deindustrialization, high-speed suburbanization, and racial violence—caused an exodus from Newark, St. Benedict’s struggled to remain open. Enrollment in general dwindled, and fewer students enrolled from the surrounding community. The monks watched the violence of the 1967 riots from the school’s rooftop along High Street. In the riot’s aftermath more families fled what some called “the worst city in America.” The school closed in 1972, in what seemed to be just another funeral for an urban Catholic school. A few monks, inspired by the Benedictine virtues of stability and adaptability, reopened St. Benedict’s only one year later with a bare-bones staff . Their new mission was to bring to young African American and Latino males the same opportunities that German and Irish immigrants had had 150 years before. More than thirty years later, St. Benedict’s is one of the most unusual schools in the country. Its remarkable success shows that American education can bridge the achievement gap between white and black, as well as that between rich and poor. The story of St. Benedict’s is about an institution’s rise and fall, resurrection and renaissance. It also provides valuable insights into American religious, immigration, educational, and metropolitan history. By staying true to their historical values amid a continually changing city, the downtown monks, in resurrecting its prep school, helped save an American city. Some have even called it the miracle on High Street.
Download or read book The Motley Crew written by Benet Tvedten and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounter the stories of ancestors and contemporary monastics, the saints and the laypeople who contributed to this movement over the centuries.
Book Synopsis A Benedictine Reader by : Hugh B. Feiss
Download or read book A Benedictine Reader written by Hugh B. Feiss and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Benedictine Reader shares the treasures of the Benedictine traditionthrough the collaboration of a dozen scholars. It provides a broad and deep sense of the reality of Benedictine monasticism using primary sources in English translation. The texts included are drawn from many different genres and originally written in six different languages. The introduction to each of the chapters aims to situate each author and text and to make connections with other texts and studies within and outside the Reader. This second volume of A Benedictine Reader looks at Benedictine monks and nuns from many angles, as founders, reformers, missionaries, teachers, spiritual writers and guides, playwrights, scholars, and archivists. In four centuries, they went from Bavaria to North America and Africa, from England and Spain to Australia, adapting to new environments. Committed to the liturgy by their profession, they played an important role in the liturgical renewal that culminated at Vatican II. Rooted in God, church, and their surroundings, they showed remarkable resilience in the face of wars, confiscations, suppression, and exile. Their impact has been deep and stabilizing, and their story is a microcosm of the history of the church in modern times.
Book Synopsis History of Higher Education Annual: 1998 by : Roger L. Geiger
Download or read book History of Higher Education Annual: 1998 written by Roger L. Geiger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1998, this is Volume 18 of the Perspectives on the History of Higher Education annual which includes a collection of 7 articles on The Land-Grant Act and American Higher Education: Context and Consequences.
Book Synopsis Walking in Valleys of Darkness by : Albert Holtz
Download or read book Walking in Valleys of Darkness written by Albert Holtz and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we deal with and attempt to understand God's presence and overarching love for us when life goes wrong, when we encounter difficulties and tragedies? This noted Benedictine monk and priest shares his personal journeys through troubled times, using the discipline of meditating on single words of Scripture from the New Testament. He skilfully translates from Greek to English to reveal these "buried treasures" with multiple nuances of meaning that give light along difficult paths in life. Meditations are followed by questions for reflection, further examples from Scripture, and a quote from the Rule of Saint Benedict to aid the reader.
Book Synopsis History and Relevance by : Howard Mumford Jones
Download or read book History and Relevance written by Howard Mumford Jones and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1980s were certainly years of turmoil and upheaval fueled by both domestic conflict and a questionable foreign policy, and these years also posed some difficult questions for historians searching for explanations. Could an appreciation of history provide insights into a particular epoch or an understanding of domestic issues? In his 1986 Wimmer Memorial Lecture, History and Relevance, Howard Mumford Jones explored these questions and affirmed the relevance of history. According to Jones, It is, I think, true that a good many stresses and strains in our society are, if not new in character, novel in intensity. Yet the historian muses on much that is traditional in these conflicts. History, he concluded, does teach a valuable lesson. Only by patience and reflection do we amid a thousand blunders slowly improve the lot of man. And to the study of man in this large sense, Howard Mumford Jones concluded his Wimmer Memorial Lecture, the humanities and history must remain forever committed. Howard Mumford Jones (1892-1980) taught English at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Montana at Missoula, and the University of North Carolina. In 1936, he accepted an offer to become an English professor at Harvard, where he taught for 26 years while also serving as the University's Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences between 1943 and 1944. Jones has published a variety of books including America and French Culture: 1750-1848, for which he was awarded the Jusserand Medal from the American Historical Association in 1932, and the 1965 Pulitzer Prize-winning O Strange New World. History and Relevance was the 22nd lecture in the Wimmer Memorial Lecture Series (1947-1970) at Saint Vincent. It was given in 1969.