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Book The Catholic Priest

Download or read book The Catholic Priest written by Steen Heidemann and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides an extremely rich and varied range of pictures, which present images of the Catholic priesthood in all its fullness, from the perspectives both of history and of its sacred nature. The book is further enriched by contributions from many eminent Churchmen, whose quality makes it not just an art-book but an essential work of reference." --Book Jacket.

Book Religion  Art  and Money

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter W. Williams
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2016-02-24
  • ISBN : 1469626985
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Religion Art and Money written by Peter W. Williams and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cultural history of mainline Protestantism and American cities--most notably, New York City--focuses on wealthy, urban Episcopalians and the influential ways they used their money. Peter W. Williams argues that such Episcopalians, many of them the country's most successful industrialists and financiers, left a deep and lasting mark on American urban culture. Their sense of public responsibility derived from a sacramental theology that gave credit to the material realm as a vehicle for religious experience and moral formation, and they came to be distinguished by their participation in major aesthetic and social welfare endeavors. Williams traces how the church helped transmit a European-inflected artistic patronage that was adapted to the American scene by clergy and laity intent upon providing moral and aesthetic leadership for a society in flux. Episcopalian influence is most visible today in the churches, cathedrals, and elite boarding schools that stand in many cities and other locations, but Episcopalians also provided major support to the formation of stellar art collections, the performing arts, and the Arts and Crafts movement. Williams argues that Episcopalians thus helped smooth the way for acceptance of materiality in religious culture in a previously iconoclastic, Puritan-influenced society.

Book The Clergy and Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Fairbrother Strange
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 4 pages

Download or read book The Clergy and Art written by Edward Fairbrother Strange and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of Preaching

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  • Author : Daniel Cardo
  • Publisher : CUA Press
  • Release : 2021-08-27
  • ISBN : 0813234735
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book The Art of Preaching written by Daniel Cardo and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Art of Preaching: A Theological and Practical Primer explores the theological understanding of the homily, lessons from classical and contemporary rhetoric, the relevance of preaching for the life of the Church, highlighting recent teachings of the Magisterium, and it presents the incarnation as the foundation for preaching, understood as an essential aspect of the priestly life and mission. This primer offers a simple and effective method for the preparation and delivery of homilies. The book also provides a selection of homilies from the great preachers of the Church, organized chronologically, with brief introductions and commentaries that highlight what those homilies teach us for preaching today"--

Book The Visual Arts and Christianity in America

Download or read book The Visual Arts and Christianity in America written by John Dillenberger and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-09-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has religion affected the creation and patronage of American art? This is the question explored in 'The Visual Arts and Christianity in America', the most comprehensive treatment of this subject to date. With its 184 illustrations, the volume is a visual and textual survey of both the religious paintings, statuary, and architecture produced in America since colonial times and the attitudes toward such art expressed by the artists, the clergy, and the religious press. By means of a multifaceted approach that includes investigation of biographical, journalistic, art historical, as well as religious literature, a broad range of art objects and buildings are carefully placed in their social and intellectual context. Part One presents the colonial backdrop, both English and Spanish, against which and out of which the ensuing developments in American art and religious life took shape. Part Two treats nineteenth-century views of art and architecture, focusing on the views held by the clergy and conveyed in religious journals as well as the religious views of the artists and architects themselves. In Part Three, devoted to art in private and public life, major issues emerge that will remain as such into the twentieth century: the relation between nature and history, the place of art in civil religion, and the presence or absence of explicit biblical themes. The fourth and entirely new portion of the book, devoted to the twentieth century, examines the continuities and discontinuities in style and content between nineteenth- and twentieth-century art in relation to spiritual and religious perceptions.

Book The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling

Download or read book The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling written by Michelle Friedman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling provides a clear, practical guide to working with congregants in a range of settings and illustrates the skills and core principles needed for effective pastoral counseling. The material is drawn from Jewish life and rabbinic pastoral counseling, but the fundamental principles in these pages apply to all faith traditions and to a wide variety of counselling relationships. Drawing on relational psychodynamic ideas but writing in a very accessible style, Friedman and Yehuda cover when, how and why counseling may be sought, how to set up sessions, conduct the work in those sessions and deal with difficult situations, maintain confidentiality, conduct groupwork and approach traumatic and emotive subjects. They guide the reader through the foundational principles and topics of pastoral counseling and illustrate the journey with accessible and lively vignettes. By using real life examples accompanied by guided questions, the authors help readers to learn practical techniques as well as gain greater self-awareness of their own strengths and vulnerabilities. With a host of examples from pastoral and clinical experience, this book will be invaluable to anyone offering counselling to both the Jewish community and those of other faiths. The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling will appeal to psychoanalysts, particularly those working with Jewish clients, counselors, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and rabbis offering pastoral counseling, as well as clergy of other faiths such as ministers, priests, imams and lay chaplains.

Book The Art of Pastoring

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  • Author : David Hansen
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2012-09-27
  • ISBN : 0830866531
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book The Art of Pastoring written by David Hansen and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading us well beyond the niceties of self-help literature, Montana pastor David Hansen pulls back the veil on the actual pastorate—the one that emerges without your permission in the midst of life and ministry. In this revised and expanded edition, Hansen expands on his view of the pastor as a "parable of Jesus" and adds a new postlude.

Book An Essay on the Art of Preaching  addressed to the Clergy   In verse

Download or read book An Essay on the Art of Preaching addressed to the Clergy In verse written by Anthony MOORE (Vicar of Stratton.) and published by . This book was released on 1758 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Clandestine Splendor

Download or read book Clandestine Splendor written by Xander van Eck and published by Waanders Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the history of Netherlandish religious painting during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Book Third Series of Lectures to My Students

Download or read book Third Series of Lectures to My Students written by Charles Haddon Spurgeon and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The White Stone

    Book Details:
  • Author : Esther de Waal
  • Publisher : Canterbury Press
  • Release : 2021-11-30
  • ISBN : 1786224011
  • Pages : 69 pages

Download or read book The White Stone written by Esther de Waal and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esther de Waal is one of today’s most beloved spiritual writers. In The White Stone, she reflects on the changes and losses that come with growing older. Esther reflects on solitude and, following a period of illness, saying goodbye to a family home and the Welsh border landscape she had known for decades which inspired some of her greatest writing, and adjusting to a new city environment. In her characteristic style, she sees everything as a portal into a deeper spiritual understanding. She draws on the wealth of the Christian tradition, especially scripture and the monastic and Celtic spiritualities she knows so well, to help her navigate her way through not only the inevitable sense of loss that accompanies such change, but also to embrace the new possibilities it brings. The white stone of the title refers to a small pebble from the river that ran through her garden that she keeps in her pocket, but also strikes a note of hope referring to the new identity promised by God (Revelation 2.17). This is a book of simple, profound wisdom that will speak to many coping with change in their own lives.

Book The Lost Art of Walking on Water

Download or read book The Lost Art of Walking on Water written by Michael Heher and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Not Purely Decorative

Download or read book Not Purely Decorative written by Lauren Heather Lay and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Interpreting Christian Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Heidi J. Hornik
  • Publisher : Mercer University Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780865548503
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Interpreting Christian Art written by Heidi J. Hornik and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the iconoclastic controversies of the eighth and ninth centuries, the visual arts have been the subject of much ecclesiastical discussion and contention. In particular, since the mid-1960s Protestant scholars and clergy have been paying more attention to the potential role of the visual arts in theology and liturgy of the Christian Church. As a result, numerous programs were begun under a variety of nomenclature, e.g., Religion and the Arts, Theology and the Arts, etc. Most of the essays in this book were originally presented as part of the Pruit Symposium on "Interpreting Christian Art, " held at Baylor University in October 2000. The symposium provided the opportunity to bring together scholars, clergy, and laity who are interested in the question of how religious art can contribute to the life of the contemporary Christian community. The resulting essays are a rich fare in interdisciplinary exploration of Christian art by art historians, theologians, and biblical scholars. Essayists include Margaret Miles, Robin M. Jensen, Graydon F. Snyder, Charles Barber, Anthony Cutler, William M. Jensen, Paolo Berdini, John W. Cook, and the editors, Heidi J. Hornik and Mikeal C. Parsons.

Book The Art Journal

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1875
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book The Art Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1867 includes Illustrated catalogue of the Paris Universal Exhibition.

Book All in Sync

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Wuthnow
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2003-05-05
  • ISBN : 0520420616
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book All in Sync written by Robert Wuthnow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-05-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Wuthnow shows how music and art are revitalizing churches and religious life across the nation in this first-ever consideration of the relationship between religion and the arts. All in Sync draws on more than four hundred in-depth interviews with church members, clergy, and directors of leading arts organizations and a new national survey to document a strong positive relationship between participation in the arts and interest in spiritual growth. Wuthnow argues that contemporary spirituality is increasingly encouraged by the arts because of its emphasis on transcendent experience and personal reflection. This kind of spirituality, contrary to what many observers have imagined, is compatible with active involvement in churches and serious devotion to Christian practices. The absorbing narrative relates the story of a woman who overcame a severe personal crisis and went on to head a spiritual direction center where participants use the arts to gain clarity about their own spiritual journeys. Readers visit contemporary worship services in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston and listen to leaders and participants explain how music and art have contributed to the success of these services. All in Sync also illustrates how music and art are integral parts of some Episcopal, African American, and Orthodox worship services, and how people of faith are using their artistic talents to serve others. Besides examining the role of the arts in personal spirituality and in congregational life, Wuthnow discusses how clergy and lay leaders are rethinking the role of the imagination, especially in connection with traditional theological virtues. He also shows how churches and arts organizations sometimes find themselves at odds over controversial moral questions and competing claims about spirituality. Accessible, relevant, and innovative, this book is essential for anyone searching for a better understanding of the dynamic relationships among religion, spirituality, and American culture.

Book Patron of Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter Hussey
  • Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN : 9780297785637
  • Pages : 157 pages

Download or read book Patron of Art written by Walter Hussey and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1985 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: