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Book The Anticipatory Corpse

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  • Author : Jeffrey P. Bishop
  • Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
  • Release : 2011-09-19
  • ISBN : 0268075859
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book The Anticipatory Corpse written by Jeffrey P. Bishop and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by contemporary medicine and in our social and political views of death, as shaped by our scientific successes and ongoing debates about euthanasia and the “right to die”—or to live. The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying, informed by Foucault’s genealogy of medicine and power as well as by a thorough grasp of current medical practices and medical ethics, argues that a view of people as machines in motion—people as, in effect, temporarily animated corpses with interchangeable parts—has become epistemologically normative for medicine. The dead body is subtly anticipated in our practices of exercising control over the suffering person, whether through technological mastery in the intensive care unit or through the impersonal, quasi-scientific assessments of psychological and spiritual “medicine.” The result is a kind of nihilistic attitude toward the dying, and troubling contradictions and absurdities in our practices. Wide-ranging in its examples, from organ donation rules in the United States, to ICU medicine, to “spiritual surveys,” to presidential bioethics commissions attempting to define death, and to high-profile cases such as Terri Schiavo’s, The Anticipatory Corpse explores the historical, political, and philosophical underpinnings of our care of the dying and, finally, the possibilities of change. This book is a ground-breaking work in bioethics. It will provoke thought and argument for all those engaged in medicine, philosophy, theology, and health policy.

Book The Bishop of Salisbury s New Preface to His Pastoral Care

Download or read book The Bishop of Salisbury s New Preface to His Pastoral Care written by Gilbert Burnet and published by . This book was released on 1713 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bishop of Salisbury s New Preface to His Pastoral Care  Consider d     The Second Edition   Erroneously Described  Consisting in Fact of G  Burnet s Preface to His Translation of the    De Mortibus Persecutorum    of Lactantius

Download or read book The Bishop of Salisbury s New Preface to His Pastoral Care Consider d The Second Edition Erroneously Described Consisting in Fact of G Burnet s Preface to His Translation of the De Mortibus Persecutorum of Lactantius written by Gilbert Burnet and published by . This book was released on 1713 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bishop who Cared

Download or read book The Bishop who Cared written by Agnes Sutherland and published by [Fort Smith, N.W.T.] ; A. Sutherland. This book was released on 1995 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Light a Fire on the Earth

Download or read book To Light a Fire on the Earth written by Robert Barron and published by Image. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly anticipated follow-up to Bishop Robert Barron's hugely successful Catholicism: A Journey to the Faith As secularism gains influence, and increasing numbers see religion as dull and backward, Robert Barron wants to illuminate how beautiful, intelligent, and relevant the Catholic faith is. In this compelling new book—drawn from conversations with and narrated by award-winning Vatican journalist John L. Allen, Jr.—Barron, founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, proclaims in vivid language the goodness and truth of the Catholic tradition. Through Barron’s smart, practical, artistic, and theological observations as well as personal anecdotes—from engaging atheists on YouTube to discussing his days as a young diehard baseball fan from Chicago—To Light a Fire on the Earth covers prodigious ground. Touching on everything from Jesus to prayer, science, movies, atheism, the spiritual life, the fate of Church in modern times, beauty, art, and social media, Barron reveals why the Church matters today and how Catholics can intelligently engage a skeptical world.

Book Pastoral Care

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  • Author : Pope Gregory I
  • Publisher : e-artnow
  • Release : 2022-01-04
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Pastoral Care written by Pope Gregory I and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastoral Care, or The Book of the Pastoral Rule, is a treatise on the responsibilities of the clergy written by Pope Gregory I in which he contrasted the role of bishops as pastors of their flock with their position as nobles of the church: the definitive statement of the nature of the episcopal office. Gregory enjoined parish priests to possess strict personal, intellectual and moral standards which were considered, in certain quarters, to be unrealistic and beyond ordinary capacities. The influence of the book, however, was vast and became one of the most influential works on the topic ever written. It was translated and distributed to every bishop within the Byzantine Empire.

Book The Bishop s Burden

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  • Author : Celeste McNamara
  • Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
  • Release : 2020-08-14
  • ISBN : 0813233577
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book The Bishop s Burden written by Celeste McNamara and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1563, the Council of Trent published its Decrees, calling for significant reforms of the Catholic Church in response to criticism from both Protestants and Catholics alike. Bishops, according to the Decrees, would take the lead in implementing these reforms. They were tasked with creating a Church in which priests and laity were well educated, morally upright, and focused on worshipping God. Unfortunately for these bishops, the Decrees provided few practical suggestions for achieving the wide-ranging changes demanded. Reform was therefore an arduous and complex process, which many bishops struggled to accomplish or even refused to undertake fully. The Bishop’s Burden argues that reforming bishops were forced to be creative and resourceful to accomplish meaningful change, including creating strong diocesan governments, reforming clerical and lay behavior, educating priests and parishioners, and converting non-believers. The book explores this issue through a detailed case study of the episcopacy of Cardinal-Bishop Gregorio Barbarigo of Padua (bp. 1664-1697), asking how a dedicated bishop formulated a reform program that sought to achieve the Church’s goals. Barbarigo, like other reforming bishops, borrowed strategies from a variety of sources in the absence of clear guidance from Rome. He looked to both pre- and post-Tridentine bishops, the Society of Jesus, the Venetian government, and the Propaganda Fide, which he selectively emulated to address the problems he discovered in Padua. The book is based primarily on the detailed records of Barbarigo’s visitations of rural parishes and captures the rarely-heard voices of seventeenth-century Italian peasants. The Bishop's Burden helps us understand not only the changes experienced by early modern Catholics, but also how even the most sophisticated plans of central authorities could be frustrated by practical realities, which in turn complicates our understanding of state-building and social control.

Book On Care to Be Had for the Dead

Download or read book On Care to Be Had for the Dead written by St. Augustine and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book, On care to be had for the dead, I wrote, having been asked by letter whether it profits any person after death that his body shall be buried at the memorial of any Saint. The book begins thus: Long time unto your Holiness, my venerable fellow bishop Paulinus.

Book Care and Treatment of Epileptics

Download or read book Care and Treatment of Epileptics written by William Pryor Letchworth and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Bishop s Carriage

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  • Author : Miriam Michelson
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 2008-11-07
  • ISBN : 1442911921
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book In the Bishop s Carriage written by Miriam Michelson and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-11-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read.

Book A Reply to the Bishop of Exeter s Second Arraignment of His Metropolitan in His Letter to the Archdeacon of Toines  Oppugning the Validity of the Orders of the Foreign Non Episcopal Churches

Download or read book A Reply to the Bishop of Exeter s Second Arraignment of His Metropolitan in His Letter to the Archdeacon of Toines Oppugning the Validity of the Orders of the Foreign Non Episcopal Churches written by W[illiam] Goode and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bishop s Palace

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  • Author : Maureen Catherine Miller
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780801435355
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book The Bishop s Palace written by Maureen Catherine Miller and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book looks at the art and architecture of episcopal palaces as expressions of power and ideology. Tracing the history of the bishop's residence in the urban centers of northern Italy over the Middle Ages, Maureen C. Miller asks why this once rudimentary and highly fortified structure called a domus became a complex and elegant "palace" (palatium) by the late twelfth century. Miller argues that the change reflects both the emergence of a distinct clerical culture and the attempts of bishops to maintain authority in public life. She relates both to the Gregorian reform movement, which set new standards for clerical deportment and at the same time undercut episcopal claims to secular power. As bishops lost temporal authority in their cities to emerging communal governments, they compensated architecturally and competed with the communes for visual and spatial dominance in the urban center. This rivalry left indelible marks on the layout and character of Italian cities.Moreover, Miller contends, this struggle for power had highly significant, but mixed, results for western Christianity. On the one hand, as bishops lost direct governing authority in their cities, they devised ways to retain status, influence, and power through cultural practices. This response to loss was highly creative. On the other hand, their loss of secular control led bishops to emphasize their spiritual powers and to use them to obtain temporal ends. The coercive use of spiritual authority contributed to the emergence of a "persecuting society" in the central Middle Ages.

Book A defence of modern Calvinism  containing an examination of the Bishop of Lincoln s work  entitled  A refutation of Calvinism  Also  sermons and charges

Download or read book A defence of modern Calvinism containing an examination of the Bishop of Lincoln s work entitled A refutation of Calvinism Also sermons and charges written by Edward Williams and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the     Annual Convention  Diocese of Minnesota

Download or read book Journal of the Annual Convention Diocese of Minnesota written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book When the Bishop Comes to Visit

Download or read book When the Bishop Comes to Visit written by Brook H. Packard and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bishop comes to visit a congregation for many reasons—a parish celebration, baptism, confirmation, or a pastoral visit. With black and white illustrations, this interactive book for children and families describes the ministry of a bishop, including symbols and apparel, in preparation for the visit and worship. Confirmands will find this book particularly helpful as it walks them through the liturgy of Confirmation. During the actual Confirmation rite, children will have a guide to follow along during the service, making this book serve multiple purposes for young and old alike.

Book The Bishop and the Apostle

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  • Author : Edwina Murphy
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2018-09-24
  • ISBN : 3110600161
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book The Bishop and the Apostle written by Edwina Murphy and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines how Cyprian of Carthage, the most significant bishop in the early Latin tradition, appropriates the canonical Paul. Cyprian, like Paul, is a pastoral theologian, so his pastoral concerns provide a helpful lens through which to study his use of the apostle. These include divine truth and eternal glory; the church’s unity, ministry and sacraments; discipline and repentance; and wealth and welfare. Examining Cyprian’s use of Paul in these areas allows us to move beyond a simple literal/allegorical paradigm to appreciate the wide range of reading strategies used by Cyprian: model, image, maxim, title, contextual exegesis, direct application, prophetic fulfilment and qualification. It also provides a different perspective on Paul than the one arrived at by privileging a handful of texts. This study of Cyprian’s appropriation of Pauline texts therefore illuminates the interplay between text, context and theology in his exegesis. It also deepens our understanding of the early North African hermeneutical tradition and the early reception of Paul.

Book The Bishop s Man

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  • Author : Linden MacIntyre
  • Publisher : Catapult
  • Release : 2010-09-10
  • ISBN : 1582436991
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book The Bishop s Man written by Linden MacIntyre and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Duncan MacAskill has spent most of his priesthood as the "Exorcist"—an enforcer employed by his bishop to discipline wayward priests and suppress potential scandal. He knows all of the devious ways that lonely priests persuade themselves that their needs trump their vows, but he's about to be sorely tested himself. While sequestered by his bishop in a small rural parish to avoid an impending public controversy, Duncan must confront the consequences of past cover–ups and the suppression of his own human needs. Pushed to the breaking point by loneliness, tragedy, and sudden self–knowledge, Duncan discovers how hidden obsessions and guilty secrets either find their way to the light of understanding or poison any chance we have for love and spiritual peace.