Download or read book Famous Clergy written by S.E. Long and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It profiles the lives of Jeremy Talyor, George Walker, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Percy, Richard Mant, William Alexander and William Shaw Kerr. These giants of the faith had a considerable influence on the Church of Ireland, providing much needed leadership and leaving an enduring legacy. Canon Long explains, "Each of them accepted the duties, responsibilities and opportunities of leadership and selflessly spent himself in the pursuit of causes in which he believed and by his example encouraged and persuaded his people to follow his lead. They were intelligent men able to discern that what is true is true and that what is false is false and people recognised that they were both perceptive and courageous. "Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force that thought rules the world." (Emerson) These seven understood that and applied this philosophy and for that reason have earned recognition, appreciation and gratitude."

Download or read book America s Most Famous Catholic According to Himself written by Stephanie N. Brehm and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A case study of the intersection of humor and American Catholicism in contemporary society. For nine years, Stephen Colbert’s persona “Colbert”?a Republican superhero and parody of conservative political pundits?informed audiences on current events, politics, social issues, and religion while lampooning conservative political policy, biblical literalism, and religious hypocrisy. To devout, vocal, and authoritative lay Catholics, religion is central to both the actor and his most famous character. Yet many viewers wonder, “Is Colbert a practicing Catholic in real life or is this part of his act?” This bookexamines the ways in which Colbert challenges perceptions of Catholicism and Catholic mores through his faith and comedy. Religion and the foibles of religious institutions have served as fodder for scores of comedians over the years. What set “Colbert” apart on his show, The Colbert Report, was that his critical observations were made more powerful and harder to ignore because he approached religious material not from the predictable stance of the irreverent secular comedian but from his position as one of the faithful. He is a Catholic celebrity who can bridge critical outsider and participating insider, neither fully reverent nor fully irreverent. Providing a digital media ethnography and rhetorical analysis of Stephen Colbert and his character from 2005 to 2014, author Stephanie N. Brehm examines the intersection between lived religion and mass media, moving from an exploration of how Catholicism shapes Colbert’s life and world towards a conversation about how “Colbert” shapes Catholicism. Brehm provides historical context by discovering how “Colbert” compares to other Catholic figures, such Don Novello, George Carlin, Louis C.K., and Jim Gaffigan, who have each presented their views of Catholicism to Americans through radio, film, and television. The last chapter provides a current glimpse of Colbert on The Late Show, where he continues to be voice for Catholicism on late night, now to an even broader audience. America’s Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself) also explores how Colbert carved space for Americans who currently define their religious lives through absence, ambivalence, and alternatives. Brehm reflects on the complexity of contemporary American Catholicism as it is lived today in the often-ignored form of Catholic multiplicity: thinking Catholics, cultural Catholics, cafeteria Catholics, and lukewarm Catholics, or what others have called Colbert Catholicism, an emphasis on the joy of religion in concert with the suffering. By examining the humor in religion, Brehm allows us to clearly see the religious elements in the work and life of comedian Stephen Colbert. Praise for America’s Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself) “Combining the interpretative skills of an academic with a natural appreciation for pop culture, Brehm offers a lively look at why the 'new evangelization' may be just as much the responsibility of comics as of clerics.” —James Martin, SJ, Jesuit priest and author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage and The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life “Anyone interested in religious comedy's recent history in America will enjoy Stephanie Brehm's book . . . If you want to study how humor, social media and entertainment inform and mold our church and public opinion today, this book will be a good choice for you.”?Catholic Philly

Download or read book A Popular History of the Church of England written by William Boyd Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Clergy Education in America written by Larry Abbott Golemon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clergy have historically been represented as figures of authority, wielding great influence over our society. During certain periods of American history, members of the clergy were nearly ever-present in public life. But men and women of the clergy are not born that way, they are made. And therefore, the matter of their education is a question of fundamental public importance. In Clergy Education in America, Larry Golemon shows not only how our conception of professionalism in religious life has changed over time, but also how the education of religious leaders have influenced American culture. Tracing the history of clergy education in America from the Early Republic through the first decades of the twentieth century, Golemon tracks how the clergy has become increasingly diversified in terms of race, gender, and class in part because of this engagement with public life. At the same time, he demonstrates that as theological education became increasingly intertwined with academia the clergy's sphere of influence shrank significantly, marking a turn away from public life and a decline in their cultural influence. Clergy Education in America offers a sweeping look at an oft-overlooked but critically important aspect of American public life.

Download or read book A Popular History of the Catholic Church in the United States written by John O'Kane Murray and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Babel Church written by Li Ma and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assisted by a diverse mass media industry, American evangelicalism has been long plagued by consumerism, entrepreneurism, and social engineering. Churches and movements that carry the name of Christ have become projects of ambition and scandals in the public eye. Without fixing its dysfunctions, these ministry models have expanded to other parts of the world, reaping similar fruits of corruption, prejudice, and abuses. The alarm call of #MeToo and #ChurchToo movements since 2017 made it more urgent for the global body of Christ to inspect its pathological patterns. What kind of response does the #MeToo movement require of our public theology and leadership ethics? Sociologist Li Ma invites us to re-engage with biblical exegesis while being attentive to new mandates of God revealed from #MeToo. A creative Ellulian integration of sociological analysis and theology, Babel Church incisively reveals why American evangelicalism and its global projects have succumbed to the temptations of worldly power at the expense of vulnerable members in the body of Christ.

Download or read book The Living Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Living Church written by Samuel Smith Harris and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An appeal of the clergy of the church of England to the bishops to redress their grievances written by and published by . This book was released on 1708 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Church World and Kingdom written by William C. Mills and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Mills reveals the ways in which, for Schmemann, the liturgy and the sacraments provide the essential sources for pastoral care

Download or read book Power of the Priests written by Sabine Kubisch and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion plays a central role in nearly every aspect in people's life of most pre-modern cultures. Especially the interconnection between religion and politics is a common fact but the details of this relation and interacting processes behind this are not substantially studied. Therefore, this volume does not aim to confirm the linkage of religion and politics in general but to investigate its functionalities in political processes. A focus is placed on the political role of religious personnel beyond their religious and cultic tasks and their influence in pre-modern societies from a cross-cultural perspective. Specialists from various disciplines present their research based on case studies. Thereby this interdisciplinary volume covers a wide geographical and chronological range from ancient Egypt in the Bronze Age until medieval England. These papers are organised according to core functions questioning the instrumentalisation of religious personnel.

Download or read book Priesthood and Clergy Unknown to Christianity written by George Bush and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Priesthood and Clergy Unknown to Christianity or the Church a community of co equal brethren By Campaginator written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Origin of Priesthood and Clergy Or Ecclesiastical Rulers Unknown to Primitive Christianity With Scriptural Arguments in Favor of Congregational Church Government Etc written by George Bush and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Remarks on the Church of Scotland written by Robert Forsyth and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Remarks on the Church of Scotland its history constitution and recent proceedings its present peril and a suggestion of remedies written by Robert FORSYTH (Advocate.) and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Church of England in Nova Scotia and the Tory Clergy of the Revolution written by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton and published by New York : T. Whittaker. This book was released on 1891 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: