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The Secular Saints

Author : Hunter Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604191196
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Secular Saints written by Hunter Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "secular saint" may immediately raise questions or even objections. Each religion specifies grounds for being considered a saint. What does it mean to be a secular saint? Presumably an exemplary life. But exemplary based on what? Exemplary according to whom? Perhaps an exemplary life is not even enough to qualify. Perhaps the life must also be inspiring or have something to teach us. But, again, inspiring or instructive according to whom? These questions are variants of the perennial question: are ethics and moral objective in some way or completely subjective? Is anybody's opinion worth hearing? Most people would agree that Hitler's morals were horrendous. But is there a way to distinguish good from bad without reliance on revealed religion? All of this in turn leads to questions humans have always asked themselves. What is right or wrong? What is good or bad or just less good? What is just or unjust? These are not just questions for confused or searching teenagers. Human beings are guided day by day by our beliefs and values, and are absolutely lost without this kind of guidance. This book provides "brief lives" and thoughts of some leading candidates for the term secular saint. Many of them are famous moral philosophers. Taken together, they offer a kind of history of moral thought. Some of them are not what we would today consider philosophers. All of them have much to teach us about how we lead our lives and think about the fundamental questions. This book also offers a conclusion: that morals and ethics are not just subjective, that they are grounded in very objective realities. There is such a thing as right and wrong, better and worse, and as thinking creatures we should recognize this and act on it.

Secular Saints

Author : Joan Carroll Cruz
Publisher : Tan Books
ISBN 13 : 9780895556585
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Secular Saints written by Joan Carroll Cruz and published by Tan Books. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental Lives of the Saints: people who lived and died as laymen and laywomen. No priests, nuns or monks here--people who often had to overcome incredible difficulties to achieve holiness or who had committed outrageous sins prior to their conversions. Fully indexed by topic. Purposely written to inspire and encourage lay people today. Unique in Catholic literature! 800 pgs 192 Illus, PB

Secular Saints

Author : Joan Carroll Cruz
Publisher : Tan Books & Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780895553836
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Secular Saints written by Joan Carroll Cruz and published by Tan Books & Pub. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Soldiers of God in a Secular World

Author : Sarah Shortall
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674980107
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Soldiers of God in a Secular World written by Sarah Shortall and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory account of the nouvelle thologie, a clerical movement that revitalized the Catholic ChurchÕs role in twentieth-century French political life. Secularism has been a cornerstone of French political culture since 1905, when the republic formalized the separation of church and state. At times the barrier of secularism has seemed impenetrable, stifling religious actors wishing to take part in political life. Yet in other instances, secularism has actually nurtured movements of the faithful. Soldiers of God in a Secular World explores one such case, that of the nouvelle thologie, or new theology. Developed in the interwar years by Jesuits and Dominicans, the nouvelle thologie reimagined the ChurchÕs relationship to public life, encouraging political activism, engaging with secular philosophy, and inspiring doctrinal changes adopted by the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. Nouveaux thologiens charted a path between the old alliance of throne and altar and secularismÕs demand for the privatization of religion. Envisioning a Church in but not of the public sphere, Catholic thinkers drew on theological principles to intervene in political questions while claiming to remain at armÕs length from politics proper. Sarah Shortall argues that this Òcounter-politicsÓ was central to the mission of the nouveaux thologiens: by recoding political statements in the ostensibly apolitical language of doctrine, priests were able to enter into debates over fascism and communism, democracy and human rights, colonialism and nuclear war. This approach found its highest expression during the Second World War, when the nouveaux thologiens led the spiritual resistance against Nazism. Claiming a powerful public voice, they collectively forged a new role for the Church amid the momentous political shifts of the twentieth century.

A SECULAR AGE

Author : Charles TAYLOR
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674044282
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A SECULAR AGE written by Charles TAYLOR and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

Beheading the Saint

Author : Geneviève Zubrzycki
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022639168X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Beheading the Saint written by Geneviève Zubrzycki and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The province of Quebec used to be called the priest-ridden province by its Protestant neighbors in Canada. During the 1960s, Quebec became radically secular, directly leading to its evolution as a welfare state with lay social services. What happened to cause this abrupt change? Genevieve Zubrzycki gives us an elegant and penetrating history, showing that a key incident sets up the transformation. Saint John the Baptist is the patron saint of French Canadians, and, until 1969, was subject of annual celebrations with a parade in Montreal. That year, the statue of St. John was toppled by protestors, breaking off the head from the body. Here, then is the proximate cause: the beheading of a saint, a symbolic death to be sure, which caused the parades to disappear and other modes of national celebration to take their place. The beheading of the saint was part and parcel of the so-called Quiet Revolution, a period of far-reaching social, economic, political, and cultural transformations. Quebec society and the identity of its French-speaking members drastically reinvented themselves with the rejection of Catholicism. Zubrzycki is already acknowledged as a leading authority on nationalism and religion; this book will significantly enlarge her stature by showing the extent to which a core feature of the Quiet Revolution was an aesthetic revolt. A new generation rejected the symbols of French Canada, redefining national identity in the process (and as a process) and providing momentum for institutional reforms. We learn that symbols have causal force, generating chains of significations which can transform a Catholic-dominated conservative society into a leftist, forward-looking, secular society."

Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX

Author : Andrew Willard Jones
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
ISBN 13 : 1945125403
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX written by Andrew Willard Jones and published by Emmaus Academic. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference

Author : Linell E. Cady
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231162480
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference written by Linell E. Cady and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global struggles over women’s roles, rights, and dress have taken center stage in a drama that casts the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. Advocates for equality speak of the issue in terms of rights and modern progress while reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals. Both sides presume women’s emancipation is tied to secularization. This volume upsets these certainties by blending diverse voices and traditions, both secular and religious, in studies historicizing, questioning, and testing the implicit links between secularism and expanded freedoms for women. Rather than treat secularism as the answer to conflicts over gender and sexuality, these essays show how it structures the conditions generating them.

The Secular Saint

Author : Robert E. Webber
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592446302
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book The Secular Saint written by Robert E. Webber and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-03-26 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the need for an evangelically oriented book to guide believers dealing with the issue of Christianity's relation to society, educator Robert Webber has developed a unique approach to this subject that gives clear solutions to the Christ-culture problem from both a biblical and historical point of view. The biblical material in 'The Secular Saint' presents the social, moral, and cultural concerns of the Judeo-Christian heritage. The historical material then shows how the church in history has either separated from its culture, identified with it, or attempted to transform it. On the basis of these three historical models, Webber argues that there is more than one way for the Christian to live in a responsible relationship with the world. This is a book of principles, not a how-to guidebook. As the author states, My purpose is not to deal with contemporary problems themselves but to give the reader the biblical and historical tools needed to understand and deal with modern issues.

The Secular Saint

Author : Robert E. Webber
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 172521038X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Secular Saint written by Robert E. Webber and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-03-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the need for an evangelically oriented book to guide believers dealing with the issue of Christianity's relation to society, educator Robert Webber has developed a unique approach to this subject that gives clear solutions to the Christ-culture problem from both a biblical and historical point of view. The biblical material in 'The Secular Saint' presents the social, moral, and cultural concerns of the Judeo-Christian heritage. The historical material then shows how the church in history has either separated from its culture, identified with it, or attempted to transform it. On the basis of these three historical models, Webber argues that there is more than one way for the Christian to live in a responsible relationship with the world. This is a book of principles, not a how-to guidebook. As the author states, My purpose is not to deal with contemporary problems themselves but to give the reader the biblical and historical tools needed to understand and deal with modern issues.

John Stuart Mill

Author : Timothy Larsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198753152
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book John Stuart Mill written by Timothy Larsen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mill is famous for being an unbeliever, yet he was immersed in religion and open to spirituality in ways that many will find startling today. This well-research biography offers original findings and insights, you will encounter the Mill that you never knew.

The Secular Saint

Author : Robert Webber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780310366416
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book The Secular Saint written by Robert Webber and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biblical material in The Secular Saint presents the social, moral, and cultural concerns of the Judeo-Christian heritage. The historical material then shows how the church in history has either separated from its culture, identified with it, or attempted to transform it. On the basis of these historical models, Webber argues that there is more than one way for the Christian to live in a responsible relationship with the world. --From publisher's description.

Politics of Worship in the Contemporary Middle East

Author : Andreas Bandak
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004249222
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Politics of Worship in the Contemporary Middle East written by Andreas Bandak and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sainthood in Fragile States, a wide range of social scientists explore the contested role of sainthood in the contemporary Middle East. By expanding the notion of sainthood to cover both the religious and secular ways of dealing with extraordinary events, people and things, the volume offers new insights into the way sainthood is embedded in various levels of everyday life, as well as national and international politics. The case studies highlight how fragility as a central aspect of sainthood is a productive force that often consolidates tales of the extraordinary, and is also the source of contesting social identities. Contributors include: Andreas Bandak, Mikkel Bille, Jürgen Frembgen, Sune Haugbolle, Angie Heo, Daniella Kuzmanovic, Edith Szanto, and Pnina Werbner.

Secular Saints

Author : Wayne Luckmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book Secular Saints written by Wayne Luckmann and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On the Road with Saint Augustine

Author : James K. A. Smith
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 149341996X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book On the Road with Saint Augustine written by James K. A. Smith and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★ Publishers Weekly starred review One of the Top 100 Books and One of the 5 Best Books in Religion for 2019, Publishers Weekly Christianity Today 2020 Book Award Winner (Spiritual Formation) Outreach 2020 Resource of the Year (Spiritual Growth) Foreword INDIES 2019 Honorable Mention for Religion This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows far more about us than we might expect. Following Smith's successful You Are What You Love, this book shows how Augustine can be a pilgrim guide to a spirituality that meets the complicated world we live in. Augustine, says Smith, is the patron saint of restless hearts--a guide who has been there, asked our questions, and knows our frustrations and failed pursuits. Augustine spent a lifetime searching for his heart's true home and he can help us find our way. "What makes Augustine a guide worth considering," says Smith, "is that he knows where home is, where rest can be found, what peace feels like, even if it is sometimes ephemeral and elusive along the way." Addressing believers and skeptics alike, this book shows how Augustine's timeless wisdom speaks to the worries and struggles of contemporary life, covering topics such as ambition, sex, friendship, freedom, parenthood, and death. As Smith vividly and colorfully brings Augustine to life for 21st-century readers, he also offers a fresh articulation of Christianity that speaks to our deepest hungers, fears, and hopes.

The Secular Saint

Author : Allan R. Brockway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Secular Saint written by Allan R. Brockway and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Saints

Author : Françoise Meltzer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226519937
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Saints written by Françoise Meltzer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity—categories that define the saint. In this collection, Françoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner bring together top scholars from across the humanities to reconsider our denial of saintliness and examine how modernity returns to the lure of saintly grace, energy, and charisma. Addressing such problems as how saints are made, the use of saints by political and secular orders, and how holiness is personified, Saints takes us on a photo tour of Graceland and the cult of Elvis and explores the changing political takes on Joan of Arc in France. It shows us the self-fashioning of culture through the reevaluation of saints in late-antique Judaism and Counter-Reformation Rome, and it questions the political intent of underlying claims to spiritual attainment of a Muslim sheikh in Morocco and of Sephardism in Israel. Populated with the likes of Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and Padre Pio, this book is a fascinating inquiry into the status of saints in the modern world.