Download or read book Isaac Hecker for Every Day written by Ronald A. Franco and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the thinking and spirituality of Isaac Thomas Hecker, founder of the Paulist Fathers, on a daily basis in the context of the calendar year.
Download or read book The Life of Father Hecker written by Walter Elliott and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of the founder of the Paulist Order. Isaac Thomas Hecker lives to-day, and with added years he will live more fully than he does to-day. His influence for good remains, and with a better understanding of his plans and ideals, which is sure to come, his influence will widen and deepen among laymen and priests of the Church in America. The writing of his biography is a tribute to his memory which the love and esteem of his spiritual children could not refuse; it is, also, a most important service to generations present and unborn, in whose deeds will be seen the fruits of inspirations gathered from it. We are thankful that this biography has been written by one who from closest converse and most intimate friendship knew Father Hecker so thoroughly. He has given us in his book what we need to know of Father Hecker. We care very little, except so far as details may accentuate the great lines of a life and make them sensible to our obtuse touch, where or when a man was born, what places he happened to visit, what houses he built, or in what circumstances of malady or in what surroundings he died. These things can be said of the ten thousand. We want to know the thoughts and the resolves of the soul which made him a marked man above his fellows and which begot strong influences for good and great works, and if none such can be unfolded then drop the man out of sight, with a "Requiescant in pace" engraven upon his tombstone. Few deserve a biography, and to the undeserving none should be given.
Download or read book Isaac Hecker written by David J. O'Brien and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Thomas Hecker was the prototype nineteenth-century American. He was an idealist and a visionary, a believer in the "rightness" of the American experiment. A utopian at heart, Hecker sampled life in New England's transcendentalist communes, later entering the Catholic Church where he began a new community that was founded on the ideals of freedom and personal initiative. He had all the virtues and all the flaws of his era, being optimistic, passionate, energetic, far-sighted, naive. Yet Hecker was also profoundly counter-cultural. He was a mystic in an age of pragmatism. He proclaimed the value of the collective to a generation of Americans who already were falling under the influence of laissez-faire individualism. Within his adopted Catholic community he championed personalism to an unreceptive audience; Rome and its hierarchy were in a defensive posture that favored obedience and conformity. In the end Rome assailed "Americanism" as a threat to its good order. David J. O'Brien has written the first, full life of Isaac Hecker to appear in a hundred years. In the process he enables us to see Hecker's great significance for American religious and social history. Hecker was well-known in his own day--a friend of Thoreau, Emerson and Alcott, popular speaker, best-selling author--but soon after his death he slipped into semi-obscurity. To Catholic intransigents he was an embarrassment, to American pragmatists he was a curiosity. But the present age has witnessed a renewal of spiritual seeking that characterized Hecker's own journey, and the church he swore allegiance to has begun to see things the way he did. The time is ripe for this honest and comprehensive account of Isaac Hecker'sfascinating story.
Download or read book Paulist Father Isaac Hecker written by Boniface Hanley and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Paulist Father Isaac Hecker: An American Saint is a short biography about this fascinating and influential nineteenth-century religious figure. Father Hecker was a convert to the Catholic faith and a man who was 'a ahead of his times." His version has been the impetus for the religious charism of the Paulists and their various apostolates in North America." "For those who are already familiar with the Paulist Fathers, this concise work offers insights into the life of the Paulist founder and explains the origins of the Paulist mission that continues to the present day, Those not familiar with Isaac Hecker will learn his story and come to appreciate his remarkable vision for the American Church."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Saint Alphonsus Liguori for Every Day written by Alfonso Maria de' Liguori and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This devotional book is composed of 365 sayings from a great Doctor of the Church--"The Most Zealous Doctor"--Saint Alphonsus Liguori.
Download or read book The Yankee Paul Isaac Thomas Hecker written by Vincent F. Holden and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Thomas Hecker (December 18, 1819 - December 22, 1888) was an American Roman Catholic Priest and founder of the Paulist Fathers, a North American religious society of men; he is named a Servant of God by the Catholic Church. Hecker was originally ordained a Redemptorist priest in 1849. Then, with the blessing of Pope Pius IX, he founded the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle, now known as the Paulist Fathers, in New York on July 7, 1858. The Society was established to evangelize both believers and non-believers in order to convert America to the Catholic Church. Father Hecker sought to evangelize Americans using the popular means of his day, primarily preaching, the public lecture circuit, and the printing press. One of his more enduring publications is The Catholic World, which he created in 1865. Hecker's spirituality centered largely on cultivating the action of the Holy Spirit within the soul as well as the necessity of being attuned to how He prompts one in great and small moments in life. Hecker believed that the Catholic faith and American culture were not opposed, but could be reconciled. The ideas of individual freedom, community, service, and authority were fundamental to Hecker when conceiving of how the Paulists were to be governed and administered. Hecker's work was likened to that of Cardinal John Henry Newman, by the Cardinal himself. Father Hecker's cause for Sainthood was opened January 25, 2008, in the mother Church of the Paulist Fathers on 59th St, New York City.
Download or read book Nineteenth century Spirituality for Our Time written by Isaac Thomas Hecker and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his early days Isaac Hecker (1819-1888), founder of the Paulist Fathers, was a spiritual seeker. In 1845 he converted to Catholicism and then joined the Redemptorists before founding the Missionary Society of Saint Paul the Apostle with a band of colleagues. While at seminary he began keeping notebooks of spiritual reflections intended for use in sermons and retreats. Nineteenth-Century Spirituality for Our Time, with an introduction by Paulist historian/archivist Fr. Paul Robichaud, gathers some of Hecker's early, as yet unpublished reflections and shows Hecker's spirituality to be as relevant to our times as to his own. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Life of Father Hecker written by Walter Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Early Years of Isaac Thomas Hecker 1819 1844 written by Vincent F. Holden and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Isaac Thomas Hecker (December 18, 1819 - December 22, 1888), an American Roman Catholic Priest and founder of the Paulist Fathers, a North American religious society of men; he is named a Servant of God by the Catholic Church.
Download or read book Hecker Studies written by John Farina and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five essays offering analysis of Hecker's thought from the perspectives of church history, political science, theology, and psychology. +
Download or read book Christian Tradition in Global Perspective written by Schroeder, Roger P. and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A one-volume history of Christianity for undergraduate students, written from a Catholic perspective"--
Download or read book Mapping the Catholic Cultural Landscape written by Paula Jean Miller and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping the Catholic Cultural Landscape explores the intersection of Catholicism with cultural expressions of literature and art, holiness and personal devotion, faith and secular society. With essays selected from the world's first International Conference of Catholic Studies, this volume is a primary resource for Catholic Studies directors in curriculum development and for students in the classroom. This text emerges as an objective way of studying the relationship between religion, history, and culture.
Download or read book Isaac Hecker and the First Vatican Council written by William L. Portier and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Hecker's participation in, and response to, the First Vatican Council.
Download or read book Catholic Converts written by Patrick Allitt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again, at the center of western intellectual life. The lives of individual converts—such as John Henry Newman, G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day—have been well documented, but Patrick Allitt has written the first account of converts' collective impact on Catholic intellectual life. His book is also the first to characterize the distinctive style of Catholicism they helped to create and the first to investigate the extensive contacts among Catholic convert writers in the United States and Britain. Allitt explains how, despite the Church's dogmatic style and hierarchical structure, converts working in the areas of history, science, literature, and philosophy maintained that Catholicism was intellectually liberating. British and American converts followed each other's progress closely, visiting each other and sending work back and forth across the Atlantic. The outcome of their labors was not what the converts had hoped. Although they influenced the Catholic Church for three or four generations, they were unable to restore it to the central place in Western intellectual life that it had enjoyed before the Reformation.
Download or read book The Days of Henry Thoreau written by Walter Harding and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry David Thoreau is generally remembered as the author of Walden and "Civil Disobedience," a recluse of the woods and a political protester who once went to jail. To his contemporaries he was a minor disciple of Emerson; he has since joined the ranks of America's most respected and beloved writers. Few, however, really know the complexity of the man they revere—wanderer and scholar, naturalist and humorist, teacher and surveyor, abolitionist and poet, Transcendentalist and anthropologist, inventor and social critic, and, above all, individualist. In this widely acclaimed biography, the eminent Thoreau scholar Walter Harding presents all of these Thoreaus. Scholars will find here the culmination of a lifetime of research and study, meticulously documented, while general readers will find an absorbing story of a remarkable man. Writing with supreme lucidity, Harding has marshaled all the facts so as best to “let them speak for themselves.” Thoreau’s thoughtfulness and stubbornness, his more than ordinarily human amalgam of the earthy and sublime, his unquenchable vitality emerge to the reader as they did to his own family, friends, and critics. The new afterword evaluates new scholarship about Thoreau. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Catholic Apologetical Literature in the United States 1784 1858 written by Robert Gorman and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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