The Synod of Dort

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Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647540773
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Book Synopsis The Synod of Dort by : Joel R. Beeke

Download or read book The Synod of Dort written by Joel R. Beeke and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Synod of Dort was an international conference of Reformed leaders held in 1618–1619 in the Netherlands. It is famous for its so-called Five Points of Calvinism which were a refutation of the Five Remonstrances of the followers of Arminius on the nature of divine grace and the perseverance of believers unto eternal salvation. As an international Synod, Dort made a significant impact on the definition and development of Reformed orthodoxy for decades and centuries to come. In countries such as France, the Canons of Dort served as a confessional boundary for Reformed orthodoxy and all pastors had to swear allegiance to them. Despite its tremendous influence, the decisions of the Synod of Dort remain a mystery to many today and are subject to caricatures and stereotypes of an extreme divine determinism and the hijacking of Calvin's pure theology. This volume seeks to shed light on various aspects of the Synod of Dort in order to inform the contemporary reader of its proper historical and theological context and its experiential emphases. Some leading scholars of post-Reformation Reformed thought and the Synod have contributed essays to this work. The book is divided into three major sections designed to deliver a better overall perspective on the Synod. The first section focuses on the reception of the Canons of Dort among the Reformed churches in France where they were accepted and enforced. However, there were some internal questions, concerns, and even objections to the canons which are detailed in these chapters. The second section hones in on the theology of the Canons of Dort with particular attention to the doctrines of election and the nature of the atonement. This section also includes an important chapter on the relationship between church and state, always a central concern in the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. Finally, the third major section looks at how believers could apply the theology to their daily lives and devotion to Christ. These chapters indicate that this was not merely a theological conference, but one that had practical and experiential implications as well. The book concludes with a chapter on the application of the Synod for believers today.

Fratelli Tutti

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Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608338886
Total Pages : 123 pages
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Inside the Vatican

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674418018
Total Pages : 330 pages
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Book Synopsis Inside the Vatican by : Thomas J. Reese S.J.

Download or read book Inside the Vatican written by Thomas J. Reese S.J. and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are one billion Catholics in the world today, spread over every continent, speaking almost every conceivable language, and all answering to a single authority. The Vatican is a unique international organization, both in terms of its extraordinary power and influence, and in terms of its endurance. Popes come and go, but the elaborate and complex bureaucracy called the Vatican lives on. For centuries, it has served and sometimes undermined popes; it has been praised and blamed for the actions of the pope and for the state of the church. Yet an objective examination of the workings of the Vatican has been unavailable until now. Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with Vatican officials, this book affords a firsthand look at the people, the politics, and the organization behind the institution. Reese brings remarkable clarity to the almost Byzantine bureaucracy of congregations, agencies, secretariats, tribunals, nunciature, and offices, showing how they serve the pope and, through him, the universal church. He gives a lively account of how popes are elected and bishops appointed, how dissident theologians are disciplined and civil authorities dealt with. Throughout, revealing and colorful anecdotes from church history and the present day bring the unique culture of the Vatican to life. The Vatican is a fascinating institution, a model of continuity and adaptation, which remains constant while functioning powerfully in a changing world. As never before, this book provides a clear, objective perspective on how the enormously complex institution surrounding the papacy operates on a day-to-day level, how it has adapted and endured for close to two thousand years, and how it is likely to face the challenges of the next millennium.

Views on the Synod

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Total Pages : 174 pages
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Book Synopsis Views on the Synod by : Central Conference of American Rabbis

Download or read book Views on the Synod written by Central Conference of American Rabbis and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers and reports read at the meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, held at Louisville, Ky., in June, 1904.

Power Politics and the Missouri Synod

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Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451465389
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Book Synopsis Power Politics and the Missouri Synod by : James C. Burkee

Download or read book Power Politics and the Missouri Synod written by James C. Burkee and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod follows the rise of two Lutheran clergymen - Herman Otten and J. A. O. Preus - who led different wings of a conservative movement that seized control of a theologically conservative but socially and politically moderate church denomination (LCMS) and drove "moderates" from the church in the 1970s. The schism within what was then one of the largest Protestant denominations in the United States ultimately reshaped the landscape of American Lutheranism and fostered the polarization that characterizes today's Lutheran churches.

Views on the Synod (Classic Reprint)

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528562430
Total Pages : 170 pages
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Download or read book Views on the Synod (Classic Reprint) written by Central Conference Of American Rabbis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Views on the Synod The committee is indebted to Dr. E. Schreiber, of Chicago, for having placed at its disposal some material in his possession; the articles which he has compiled and translated are subscribed with his initial. In accordance with the instructions of the Conference the papers and reports read at its meetings touching the subject of the Synod have been included. The committee hopes that this compilation may aid those who read and study these opinions to come to a clear decision and conclusion as to the advisability or non-advisability of forming a Synod as the representative Jewish organization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Views on the Synod

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330195581
Total Pages : 168 pages
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Book Synopsis Views on the Synod by : Central Conference of American Rabbis

Download or read book Views on the Synod written by Central Conference of American Rabbis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Views on the Synod At the meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, held at Louisville, Ky., in June, 1904, the committee to whom was referred the suggestion in the president's report to convene a Synod presented a majority and minority report. Because of the differences of opinion in the committee and among the members of the conference at large the signers of the majority report recommended that the executive committee be instructed to issue a pamphlet containing opinions pro and con on the subject, this pamphlet to be distributed among the people with the purpose of forming and educating public opinion on this vital question. The executive committee entrusted the preparation of the pamphlet to a committee consisting of David Philipson, chairman; H. G. Enelow, Morris M. Feuerlicht, Adolf Guttmacher, and Wm. Rosenau. The committee has compiled opinions on the Synod voiced by leaders of Jewish thought during the past sixty years. The committee has attempted to maintain a purely objective attitude and has included opinions favorable and unfavorable to the project. It has carefully excluded, as far as possible, all articles of a personal nature and also those of a purely polemical abusive character. The material has been drawn for the most part from the files of Jewish newspapers and magazines. The committee has not aimed to reproduce everything that has been published on this theme, but merely to present a number of statements which, in its judgment, discuss the subject from various points of view. The committee is indebted to Dr. E. Schreiber, of Chicago, for having placed at its disposal some material in his possession; the articles which he has compiled and translated are subscribed with his initial. In accordance with the instructions of the Conference the papers and reports read at its meetings touching the subject of the Synod have been included. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Christus Vivit

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Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN 13 : 1681924927
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Christus Vivit written by Pope Francis and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To young Christians of the world, Pope Francis has a message for you: "Christ is alive, and he wants you to be alive!" In his fourth apostolic exhortation, Christus Vivit, Pope Francis encapsulates the work of the 2018 synod of bishops on "Young People, The Faith, and Vocational Discernment." Pope Francis has always had a special relationship with young people, and in his fatherly love for you he shows that: You can relate to young people in Scripture who made a difference You identify with the Christ who is always young You face difficult issues in the world today You yearn for the truth of the Gospel You are capable of amazing things when you respond to the Gospel You learn and grow with help from the faithful of all generations You need bold and creative youth ministry You can discover who God made you to be You are urged to pray for discernment Christus Vivit is written for and to young people, but Pope Francis also wrote it for the entire Church, because, as he says, reflecting on our young people inspires us all. "May the Holy Spirit urge you on as you run this race. The Church needs your momentum, your intuitions, your faith. We need them! And when you arrive where we have not yet reached, have the patience to wait for us."

To Change the Church

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Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501146939
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Book Synopsis To Change the Church by : Ross Douthat

Download or read book To Change the Church written by Ross Douthat and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times columnist and one of America’s leading conservative thinkers considers Pope Francis’s efforts to change the church he governs in a book that is “must reading for every Christian who cares about the fate of the West and the future of global Christianity” (Rod Dreher, author of The Benedict Option). Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936, today Pope Francis is the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis’s stewardship of the Church, while perceived as a revelation by many, has provoked division throughout the world. “If a conclave were to be held today,” one Roman source told The New Yorker, “Francis would be lucky to get ten votes.” In his “concise, rhetorically agile…adroit, perceptive, gripping account (The New York Times Book Review), Ross Douthat explains why the particular debate Francis has opened—over communion for the divorced and the remarried—is so dangerous: How it cuts to the heart of the larger argument over how Christianity should respond to the sexual revolution and modernity itself, how it promises or threatens to separate the church from its own deep past, and how it divides Catholicism along geographical and cultural lines. Douthat argues that the Francis era is a crucial experiment for all of Western civilization, which is facing resurgent external enemies (from ISIS to Putin) even as it struggles with its own internal divisions, its decadence, and self-doubt. Whether Francis or his critics are right won’t just determine whether he ends up as a hero or a tragic figure for Catholics. It will determine whether he’s a hero, or a gambler who’s betraying both his church and his civilization into the hands of its enemies. “A balanced look at the struggle for the future of Catholicism…To Change the Church is a fascinating look at the church under Pope Francis” (Kirkus Reviews). Engaging and provocative, this is “a pot-boiler of a history that examines a growing ecclesial crisis” (Washington Independent Review of Books).

Crispina and Her Sisters

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Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506411894
Total Pages : 480 pages
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Book Synopsis Crispina and Her Sisters by : Christine Schenk

Download or read book Crispina and Her Sisters written by Christine Schenk and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cripina and Her Sisters explores visual imagery found on burial artifacts of prominent early Christian women. It carefully situates the tomb art within the cultural context of customary Roman commemorations of the dead and provides an in-depth review of women‘s history in the first four centuries of Christianity. From this, a fascinating picture emerges of women‘s authority in the early church--a picture either not readily available or recognized, or even sadly distorted in the written history.

Synod on the Freedom of Conscience

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Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089640827
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)

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Book Synopsis Synod on the Freedom of Conscience by : Dirk Volkertszoon Coornhert

Download or read book Synod on the Freedom of Conscience written by Dirk Volkertszoon Coornhert and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete English translation of Dirck Coornhert's 1630 Synod on the Freedom of Conscience, one of the most elaborate and powerful pleas for religious tolerance published in early modern Europe.

Doing Synodality

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Publisher : Verlag Friedrich Pustet
ISBN 13 : 3791775316
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (917 download)

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Book Synopsis Doing Synodality by : Catalina Cerda-Planas

Download or read book Doing Synodality written by Catalina Cerda-Planas and published by Verlag Friedrich Pustet. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the image of a Catholic Church needing renewal has deepened in the German public arena. The Synodal Path identified structural aspects underlying the ecclesial crisis and proposed solutions debating issues such as clerical power, sexuality, participation, and the role of women. Considering the importance of these deliberations for the universal Church and their controversial international discussion, the need for intercultural dialogue became increasingly clear. The empirical project "Synodal Way – Global Church Perspectives" aimed to weave the polyphony of Global-Church perspectives into the debate. This volume presents the research's results and their analysis by academics from different world regions, fills a gap in intercultural mediation, and offers an inspiring contribution to the ongoing synodal dialogue.

The Catholic Thing

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ISBN 13 : 9781587311055
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis The Catholic Thing by : Robert Royal

Download or read book The Catholic Thing written by Robert Royal and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catholic "thing" - the concrete historical reality of Catholicism as a presence in human history - is the richest cultural tradition in the world. It values both faith and reason, and therefore has a great deal to say about politics and economics, war and peace, manners and morals, children and families, careers and vocations, and many other perennial and contemporary questions. In addition, it has inspired some of the greatest art, music, and architecture, while offering unparalleled human solidarity to tens of millions through hospitals, soup kitchens, schools, universities, and relief services. This volume brings together some of the very best commentary on a wide range of recent events and controversies by some of the very best Catholic writers in the English language: Ralph McInerny, Michael Novak, Fr. James V. Schall, Hadley Arkes, Robert Royal, Anthony Esolen, Brad Miner, George Marlin, David Warren, Austin Ruse, Francis Beckwith, and many others. Their contributions cover large Catholic subjects such as philosophy and theology, liturgy and Church dogma, postmodern culture, the Church and modern politics, literature, and music. But they also look into specific contemporary problems such as religious liberty, the role of Catholic officials in public life, growing moral hazards in bio-medical advances, and such like. The Catholic Thing is a virtual encyclopedia of Catholic thought about modern life.

Two Books on Synodal Causes and Ecclesiastical Disciplines

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ISBN 13 : 9781771104166
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Two Books on Synodal Causes and Ecclesiastical Disciplines by : Regino Prumiensis

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On the Family

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Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681496895
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Book Synopsis On the Family by : Pope Francis

Download or read book On the Family written by Pope Francis and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pope Francis has often expressed his concern for the urgent pastoral needs of families in today's society. Underscoring that deep love and concern for the family, the Pope has spent many months speaking on this subject in his weekly Wednesday audience talks. This book is a collection of all of those talks about the family from Dec. 17, 2014 to Sept. 16, 2015. The Pope covers a wide variety of important subjects directly related to family life, speaking in his personal style that offers wisdom and practical insights for the modern family. His words are for families in general, and also directed to the important roles of all those specific persons who make up family life - husbands, wives, parents, children and grandparents. He emphasizes the deep crisis that the family and marriage are undergoing in the Western world, and says that the family is "a new mission field for the Church." He challenges families today to be witnesses to the world of love, fidelity, and service. Some of the specific topics his talks address include: the example of the Holy Family of Nazareth; transmitting the faith; educating the children; family prayer; complementarity of male and female; celebration in family life; mercy and forgiveness; dealing with illness and death; learning the value of work; poverty and economic struggles; evangelizing the culture, and much more. Throughout his addresses, the Holy Father especially emphasizes the primary role of God and faith in family life, and the crucial importance of regular family prayer to draw on God's grace for strength, love, joy and unity within the home. "The true joy which we experience in the family is not superficial; it does not come from material objects, from the fact that everything seems to be going well. . . . True joy comes from a profound harmony between persons, something which we all feel in our hearts." - Pope Francis

Pope Francis and the Theology of the People

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Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608337170
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis Pope Francis and the Theology of the People by : Luciani, Rafael

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Belgic Confession

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Publisher : Fig
ISBN 13 : 1623145422
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)

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