Worldly Saints

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Publisher : Finnish Literature Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Worldly Saints by : Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner

Download or read book Worldly Saints written by Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner and published by Finnish Literature Society. This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the Dominican penitents were actually situated in the world, and what were their techniques for saintly living in that world. These lay women did not withdraw from the world into a specifically defined religious space. Instead they created spiritual fulfillment within their ordinary lives by following specific religious practices, exercising pious customs, and by drawing a mental, rather than physical, boundary between themselves and the world. The vita activa, which was principally manifested in penitents' manual labour, charity, and teaching, complemented their mystical and contemplative piety. In fact, the hagiographies stressed the importance of concrete acts of neighbourly service. This book examines the various forms of active service work available to the Dominican penitent saints and their role in these women's spiritual perfection.

Saintly Influence

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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823230899
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Book Synopsis Saintly Influence by : Eric Boynton

Download or read book Saintly Influence written by Eric Boynton and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of her first book, Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics, in 1974-the first book about Levinas published in English-Edith Wyschogrod has been at the forefront of the fields of Continental philosophy and philosophy of religion. Her work has crossed many disciplinary boundaries, making peregrinations from phenomenology and moral philosophy to historiography, the history of religions (both Western and non-Western), aesthetics, and the philosophy of biology. In all of these discourses, she has sought to cultivate an awareness of how the self is situated and influenced, as well as the ways in which a self can influence others. In this volume, twelve scholars examine and display the influence of Wyschogrod's work in essays that take up the thematics of influence in a variety of contexts: Christian theology, the saintly behavior of the villagers of Le Chambon sur Lignon, the texts of the medieval Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia, the philosophies of Levinas, Derrida, and Benjamin, the practice of intellectual history, the cultural memory of the New Testament, and pedagogy. In response, Wyschogrod shows how her interlocutors have brought to light her multiple authorial personae and have thus marked the ambiguity of selfhood, its position at the nexus of being influenced by and influencing others.

Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 080209807X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign by : Daisy Delogu

Download or read book Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign written by Daisy Delogu and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delogu examines how biographical writings on kings contributed to nascent ideas of nationhood, exerted pressure upon traditional ideals of kingship, and ultimately redefined the theoretical and practical bases of medieval kingship.

Worldly Saintliness

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis Worldly Saintliness by : Darla K. Rudy-Gervais

Download or read book Worldly Saintliness written by Darla K. Rudy-Gervais and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The High Road of Humanity

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004463747
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis The High Road of Humanity by : Albert William Levi

Download or read book The High Road of Humanity written by Albert William Levi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The High Road of Humanity is a cultural ethics. It is an exposition of the moral positions of the West, intended to accompany the intellectual positions of Western philosophy and society formulated in Levi's earlier Philosophy as Social Expression. In opposition to the nearly complete abstraction from actual moral life that is the common stance of the works in ethics in our time from positivism to applied ethics, Levi's aim is to take the process of moral thought back one step further from moral inquiry to its basis in the moral imagination. For Levi the moral life and moral discourse requires first of all an ideal that is shaped in the imagination, an image of the human. The seven ethical ages he discusses are the Greek aristocrat, Stoic sage, Christian saint, Renaissance prince, Enlightenment gentleman, the nineteenth-century merchant prince, and the professional man and women of today. He gathered the details of each historical figure or moral ideal and selected sculpture, paintings, and portraits to illustrate them. Levi's approach to moral philosophy is based on his lifelong study in the philosophy of culture. The foreword is by Donald Phillip Verene.

The Enchantments of Mammon

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Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 0674984617
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Book Synopsis The Enchantments of Mammon by : Eugene McCarraher

Download or read book The Enchantments of Mammon written by Eugene McCarraher and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene McCarraher challenges the conventional view of capitalism as a force for disenchantment. From Puritan and evangelical valorizations of profit to the heavenly Fordist city, the mystically animated corporation, and the deification of the market, capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity, laying hold to our souls.

Saints or Devils Incarnate?

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004257373
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Saints or Devils Incarnate? by : John W. O'Malley

Download or read book Saints or Devils Incarnate? written by John W. O'Malley and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost from the moment the Jesuits were founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola and his companions they suffered from misunderstanding, some positive, much of it negative. Myth and misinformation abounded. The Society of Jesus, the Jesuits' official name, was a society of saints or of devils incarnate. Not until the mid-twentieth century did historians begin to dispel some of the myths, but only with John O'Malley's The First Jesuits (1993) did a new era open in the study of the Society. Since then the Jesuits have attracted great attention from scholars of all disciplines on an international basis. O'Malley has continued to write about Saint Ignatius and the subsequent history of the Jesuits. This volume contains a number of such studies and presses forward the trajectory he launched two decades ago with his book.

Saints in the World

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Publisher : Scepter Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1594170843
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (941 download)

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Book Synopsis Saints in the World by : Jesús Urteaga Loidi

Download or read book Saints in the World written by Jesús Urteaga Loidi and published by Scepter Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ordinary Saints

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625647468
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Book Synopsis Ordinary Saints by : Stuart C. Devenish

Download or read book Ordinary Saints written by Stuart C. Devenish and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does God manifest himself in the world? Through the righteous lives of his holy people (the saints). As a religion of witnesses, Christianity is dependent upon its saints (defined as activated disciples) to "testify" to the grace of Christ and the kingdom of God. Their lives are walking billboards of the value of Jesus' teaching and authenticity of Christianity as an ancient spiritual pathway. This is a book about saints who are alive now, and whose everyday acts of kindness and goodness announce that God is at work in the world. Like Jesus, their Master, they are the message, the messenger, and the working model of the kingdom of God, in a lesser key. In following Jesus, ordinary saints are willing to give away their lives in order to convey the substance of their faith to a watching world. If ever there was a time when saints need to live courageously for Christ in the world, it is now. But it will take conviction, credibility, and a great deal of audacity. Ordinary Saints explores what it means to be a saint in the twenty-first century, by exploring the depth-dimensions of saints' lives, bodies, emotions, values, and relationships.

The Rhetoric of Newman's Apologia Pro Catholica, 1845-1864

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Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433100154
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rhetoric of Newman's Apologia Pro Catholica, 1845-1864 by : Victor J. Lams

Download or read book The Rhetoric of Newman's Apologia Pro Catholica, 1845-1864 written by Victor J. Lams and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing upon the arguments Newman uses to define Catholicism against the hostility of English protestants, this book is a reader's guide to the books Newman published soon after his own conversion: Mixed Congregations; Difficulties of Anglicans; Present Position of Catholics, and his two novels. While the arguments advanced in Difficulties of Anglicans and Present Position of Catholics are confrontationally direct, his novels Loss and Gain and Callista respond to the attacks of Elizabeth Harris' From Oxford to Rome and Charles Kingsley's Hypatia by the indirection which typifies Newman's fictional rhetoric.

Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality

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Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589013414
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (134 download)

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Book Synopsis Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality by : Andrew Michael Flescher

Download or read book Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality written by Andrew Michael Flescher and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us are content to see ourselves as ordinary people—unique in ways, talented in others, but still among the ranks of ordinary mortals. Andrew Flescher probes our contented state by asking important questions: How should "ordinary" people respond when others need our help, whether the situation is a crisis, or something less? Do we have a responsibility, an obligation, to go that extra mile, to act above and beyond the call of duty? Or should we leave the braver responses to those who are somehow different than we are: better somehow, "heroes," or "saints?" Traditional approaches to ethics have suggested there is a sharp distinction between ordinary people and those called heroes and saints; between duties and acts of supererogation (going beyond the expected). Flescher seeks to undo these standard dichotomies by looking at the lives and actions of certain historical figures—Holocaust rescuers, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, among others—who appear to be extraordinary but were, in fact, ordinary people. Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality shifts the way we regard ourselves in relationship to those we admire from afar—it asks us not only to admire, but to emulate as well—further, it challenges us to actively seek the acquisition of virtue as seen in the lives of heroes and saints, to learn from them, a dynamic aspect of ethical behavior that goes beyond the mere avoidance of wrongdoing. Andrew Flescher sets a stage where we need to think and act, calling us to lead lives of self-examination—even if that should sometimes provoke discomfort. He asks that we strive to emulate those we admire and therefore allow ourselves to grow morally, and spiritually. It is then that the individual develops a deeper altruistic sense of self—a state that allows us to respond as the heroes of our own lives, and therefore in the lives of others, when times and circumstance demand that of us.

Saints and Virtues

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520061637
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)

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Book Synopsis Saints and Virtues by : John Stratton Hawley

Download or read book Saints and Virtues written by John Stratton Hawley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-09-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a larger family of saints—those celebrated not just by Christianity but by other religious traditions of the world: Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Confucian, African, and Caribbean. The essays show how saints serve as moral exemplars in the communities that venerate them.

Saint Francis and the Sultan

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019923972X
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Saint Francis and the Sultan by : John V. Tolan

Download or read book Saint Francis and the Sultan written by John V. Tolan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September, 1219, Francis of Assisi went to Egpyt to preach to Sultan al-Malik al-Kâmil. John Tolan examines the varying depictions of this brief but highly significant meeting and how they reveal the changing fears and hopes that Muslim-Christian encounters have inspired in European artists and writers in the centuries since.

The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674598555
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (745 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History by : Rian Thum

Download or read book The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History written by Rian Thum and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 250 years the Turkic Muslims of Altishahr, who now call themselves Uyghurs, have cultivated a sense of history and identity that challenges Beijing’s national narrative. The roots of this history run deeper than recent conflicts, Rian Thum says, to a time when manuscripts and pilgrimage along the Silk Road dominated understandings of the past.

Submitting to Freedom

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195360761
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Submitting to Freedom by : Bennett Ramsey

Download or read book Submitting to Freedom written by Bennett Ramsey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramsey presents a new analysis and interpretation of the religious views of the nineteenth-century American philosopher William James. He argues that James was primarily motivated by religious concerns in his writings and that this fact has been obscured by the artificial scholarly division of his "philosophy," "psychology," and "religion"--a symptom of the professionalization which James himself strenuously resisted in his own time. Ramsey believes that James is best understood in his historical context, as a representative of a society and culture struggling to come to terms with modernity. Much of James's religious work is a direct reflection of what has been called "the spiritual crisis of the Gilded Age," a crisis which Ramsey examines in illuminating detail. James's religious vision, in Ramsey's view, hinges on the recognition and acceptance of "contingency"--the knowledge that we are at the mercy of change and chance. With so little else to rely on, James believed, people must learn to submit freely and responsibly into one another's care. Ramsey reintroduces James's thought into the contemporary discussion, and puts forward the kind of religious alternative that James was pointing to in his work: not worship, but acquiescence in a world of mutual relations; not obedience to authority, but conversion to the freedom of responsibility.

The Saints in Italy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Saints in Italy written by Lucy Menzies and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of John Galsworthy: Saint's progress

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
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Book Synopsis The Works of John Galsworthy: Saint's progress by : John Galsworthy

Download or read book The Works of John Galsworthy: Saint's progress written by John Galsworthy and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: