Download or read book John Tracey Ellis written by Thomas J. Shelley and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several decades prior to his death in October1992, Monsignor John Tracy Ellis was the most prominent historian of American Catholicism. His bibliography lists 395 published works, including seventeen books, most famously, American Catholics and the Intellectual Life, a scathing indictment of the mediocrity of Catholic higher education and a clarion call for American Catholics to make a greater contribution to American intellectual life. Ellis’s ecumenically-minded scholarship led to his election in 1969 as the President of both the American Catholic Historical Association and the predominantly Protestant American Society of Church History. As a professor at the Catholic University of America, Ellis trained numerous graduate students, who made their own contributions to American Catholic history, and he also furthered the careers of several talented young church historians. Especially in his later years, during the polarized atmosphere that followed Vatican II, Ellis became an outspoken but balanced advocate of reform in the Church, urging greater transparency and honesty, collegiality on the diocesan level, a role for the laity in the selection of bishops, reassessment of church teaching on birth control, decentralization to provide an enhanced role for the local churches, and an eloquent defense of religious freedom and the American Catholic commitment to separation of church and state. His fellow church historian, Jay P. Dolan, remarked that Ellis “used history as an instrument to promote changes he believed necessary for American Catholicism. . . .No other historian of American Catholicism matched Ellis in this regard.”

Download or read book A Commitment to Truth written by John Tracy Ellis and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Commitment to Truth was the 19th lecture in the Wimmer Memorial Lecture Series (1947-1970) at Saint Vincent and was given in 1965.

Download or read book American Catholicism written by John Tracy Ellis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1969-06-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catholic Church remains one of the oldest institutions of Western civilization. It continues to withstand attack from without and defection from within. In his revision of American Catholicism, Monsignor Ellis has added a new chapter on the history of the Church since 1956. Here he deals with developments in Catholic education, with the changing relations of the Church to its own members and to society in general, and especially with arguments for and against the ecumenical movement brought about by Vatican Council II. The author gives an updated historical account of the part played by Catholics in both the American Revolution and the Civil War, and of the difficulties within the Church that came with the clash of national interests among Irish, French, and Germans in the nineteenth century. He regards immigration as the key to the increasingly important role of American Catholicism in the nation after 1820. For contemporary America, the author counts among the signs of the mature Church an increase in Church membership, the presence of nine Americans in the College of Cardinals in May, 1967, and the expansion of American effort in Catholic missions throughout the world.

Download or read book Documents of American Catholic History Edited by John Tracy Ellis Second Edition written by John Tracy Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Faith and Learning written by John Tracy Ellis and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1989 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsignor John Tracy Ellis is Professorial Lecturer in Church History at the Catholic University of America. The career of this pre-eminent church historian is here traced from his early schooling in Illinois to his graduate studies and teaching posts at the Catholic University of America. He has also taught at the University of San Francisco and has held several visiting professorships both here and abroad. Generations of church historians have studied under him. His publications number in the hundreds, but he is best known for a dozen or so books in the field of American Catholic history. For a half-century now he has served on the editorial board of the Catholic Historical Review, from 1941 to 1963 as its managing editor. By his numerous public addresses, essays, and talks on radio and television, he has become a major interpreter of the American Catholic experience to the nation at large. The story of this long and remarkable career are here told in lively and reflective detail. Co-published with the Catholic University Department of Church History.

Download or read book Documents of American Catholic History written by John Tracy Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Catholics and the Intellectual Life written by Benedict Viviano and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Catholic Priest in the United States written by John Tracy Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Select Bibliography of the History of the Catholic Church in the United States by John Tracy Ellis written by John Tracy Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Guide to American Catholic History written by John Tracy Ellis and published by Milwaukee, Wisc. : Bruce Publishing Company. This book was released on 1959 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catholics in Colonial Americ written by John Tracy Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Perspectives in American Catholicism written by John Tracy Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book John Courtney Murray in a Cold War Context written by Thomas W. O'Brien and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Courtney Murray, "arguably the most influential American Catholic theologian of the last century," was foundationally influenced in his thinking by the Cold War ideology of anti-communism and Americanism, according to O'Brien (Catholic social thought, DePaul U.). Murray's Cold War ideology, he suggests, is partly responsible for the form of Murray's theological work on the Catholic natural law tradition, historical consciousness and the development of doctrine, inter-creed cooperation and ecumenism, and religious liberties. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Download or read book Documents of American Catholic History From the Second Plenary Council at Baltimore in 1866 to the present written by John Tracy Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Catholics and the Intellectual Life written by John Tracy Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the shortcomings of Catholic universities and colleges in graduating alumni capable to contribute to American intellectual life, and offers suggestions on how to remedy this situation.

Download or read book Religious Traditions of North Carolina written by W. Glenn Jonas, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents most of the religious traditions North Carolinians and their ancestors have embraced since 1650. Baptists, Presbyterians, Catholics, Methodists, Episcopalians, Jews, Brethren, Quakers, Lutherans, Mennonites, Moravians, and Pentecostals, along with African American worshippers and non-Christians, are covered in fourteen essays by men and women who have experienced the religions they describe in detail. The North Caroliniana Society is a nonprofit, nonsectarian, membership organization dedicated to the promotion of increased knowledge and appreciation of North Carolina's heritage through the encouragement of scholarly research and writing and the teaching of state and local history, literature and culture.

Download or read book Essays in Seminary Education written by John Tracy Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: