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Book The Utopia of Pope John XXIII

Download or read book The Utopia of Pope John XXIII written by Giancarlo Zizola and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John XXIII

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  • Author : Peter Hebblethwaite
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2005-03-01
  • ISBN : 0860123871
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book John XXIII written by Peter Hebblethwaite and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angelo Roncalli was elected Pope in 1958 and in four and a half years, through summoning the Second Vatican Council and putting in hand a major revision of the code of Canon Law, had transformed the Roman Catholic Church. Through his personality and teaching, and his initiatives with world leaders, he gave the papacy a new vision and set before the Catholic Church a new version of its mission to the world. Today many people throughout the world see Pope John XXIII as one of the twentieth-century's most loved and influential figures.

Book The Destruction of the Christian Tradition

Download or read book The Destruction of the Christian Tradition written by Rama P. Coomaraswamy and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on the post-Vatican II revisions of its teachings, this book tells the story of the destruction of the Roman Catholic tradition, a defining event of the twentieth century.

Book John XXIII

Download or read book John XXIII written by Massimo Faggioli and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People of God is a brand new series of inspiring biographies for the general reader. Each volume offers a compelling and honest narrative of the life of an important twentieth or twenty-first century Catholic. Some living and some now deceased, each of these women and men have known challenges and weaknesses familiar to most of us, but responded to them in ways that call us to our own forms of heroism. Each offers a credible and concrete witness of faith, hope, and love to people of our own day. The canonization of Pope John XXIII and the fiftieth anniversary of Vatican II call for a fresh look at this remarkable man. Now highly regarded Vatican II historian Massimo Faggioli offers a rich and insightful portrait. His sources include the complete edition of the private diaries of the future John XXIII, published recently in ten volumes, much of which is unavailable in English. Faggioli's use of this treasure of personal notes of the future pope means this biography offers a more complete and nuanced understanding of Angelo Roncalli than is available anywhere else in English at this time. The result is both unforgettable and inspiring.

Book The Concept of Justice

Download or read book The Concept of Justice written by Thomas Patrick Burke and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Concept of Justice, Patrick Burke explores and argues for a return to traditional ideas of ordinary justice in opposition to conceptions of 'social justice' that came to dominate political thought in the 20th Century. Arguing that our notions of justice have been made incoherent by the radical incompatibility between instinctive notions of ordinary justice and theoretical conceptions of social justice, the book goes on to explore the historical roots of these ideas of social justice. Finding the roots of these ideas in religious circles in Italy and England in the 19th century, Burke explores the ongoing religious influence in the development of the concept in the works of Marx, Mill and Hobhouse. In opposition to this legacy of liberal thought, the book presents a new theory of ordinary justice drawing on the thought of Immanuel Kant. In this light, Burke finds that all genuine ethical evaluation must presuppose free will and individual responsibility and that all true injustice is fundamentally coercive.

Book Pope John XXIII  Shepherd of the Modern World

Download or read book Pope John XXIII Shepherd of the Modern World written by Peter Hebblethwaite and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the boyhood and adult achievements of the Pope who called the Second Vatican Council and transformed the Church and the image of the papacy.

Book The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law  Politics  and Human Nature

Download or read book The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law Politics and Human Nature written by John Witte and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first volume examines modern Christian thinkers' views on the most pressing political, legal, and ethical questions of our time. The essays present a vital new understanding of the diversity and richness of modern christian legal and political thought from 1880 to the present." "Volume two illustrates the different venues, vectors, and sometimes conflicting visions of what a Christian understanding of law, politics, and society entails."--book jackets.

Book Faith and Leadership

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  • Author : Michael P. Riccards
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2012-04-19
  • ISBN : 073917133X
  • Pages : 637 pages

Download or read book Faith and Leadership written by Michael P. Riccards and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first major study of the papacy as a managerial structure that has evolved over two thousand years. Special emphasis is placed on the environments in which the Church functioned and in which it had to reach uneasy compromises. The volume is both scholarly and very readable.

Book Modern Catholic Social Teaching

Download or read book Modern Catholic Social Teaching written by Kenneth R. Himes and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including contributions from twenty-two leading moral theologians, this volume is the most thorough assessment of modern Roman Catholic social teaching available. In addition to interrogations of the major documents, it provides insight into the biblical and philosophical foundations of Catholic social teaching, addresses the doctrinal issues that arise in such a context, and explores the social thought leading up to the "modern" era, which is generally accepted as beginning in 1891 with the publication of Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum. The book also includes a review of how Catholic social teaching has been received in the United States and offers an informed look at the shortcomings and questions that future generations must address. This second edition includes revised and updated essays as well as two new commentaries: one on Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Caritas in Veritate and one on Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si'. An outstanding reference work for anyone interested in studying and understanding the key documents that make up the central corpus of modern Catholic social teaching.

Book Religion and Democratizations

Download or read book Religion and Democratizations written by Jeffrey Haynes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines key debates on religion and democratization from three main perspectives: Religious traditions have core elements which are more or less conducive to democratization and democracy; Religious traditions may be multi-vocal – but at any moment there may be dominant voices more or less receptive to and encouraging of democratization; Religious actors rarely if ever determine democratization outcomes. However, they may in various ways and with a range of outcomes be of significance for democratization. The contributions are divided into two sections: (1) Religion, democratization and democracy, and (2) Secularization, democratization and democracy. Overall, they examine the three assertions in the bullet points above. The book’s starting point is that in general around the world, religions have left their assigned place in the private sphere. This means they have in many cases become recognisably politically active in various ways and with assorted outcomes. This re-emergence from political marginality dates back until at least the 1980s. At that time, the US sociologist, Jose Casanova noted that ‘what was new and became "news" ... was the widespread and simultaneous refusal of religions to be restricted to the private sphere’. This involved a remodelling and re-assumption of public roles by religion, which theories of secularisation had long condemned to social and political marginalisation. This book was published as a special issue of Democratization.

Book Norman Cousins

Download or read book Norman Cousins written by Allen Pietrobon and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the editor of the Saturday Review for more than thirty years, Norman Cousins had a powerful platform from which to help shape American public debate during the height of the Cold War. Under Cousins's leadership, the magazine was considered one of the most influential in the literary world. Cousins's progressive, nonpartisan editorials in the Review earned him the respect of the public and US government officials. But his deep impact on postwar international humanitarian aid, anti-nuclear advocacy, and Cold War diplomacy has been largely unexplored. In this book, Allen Pietrobon presents the first true biography of Norman Cousins. Cousins was much more important than we realize: he was involved in several secret citizen diplomacy missions during the height of the Cold War and, acting as a private citizen, played a major role in getting the Limited Test Ban Treaty signed. He also wrote JFK's famous 1963 American University commencement speech ("not merely peace in our time but peace for all time"). This book is a fascinating look at the outsized impact that one individual had on the course of American public debate, international humanitarianism, and the Cold War itself. This biography of the vocal anti-communist and anti-nuclear activist's public life will interest readers across the ideological spectrum.

Book Christian Socialism

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  • Author : Cort, John C.
  • Publisher : Orbis Books
  • Release : 2020-05-20
  • ISBN : 1608338207
  • Pages : 675 pages

Download or read book Christian Socialism written by Cort, John C. and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This full-scale study of Christian socialism, from the beginnings of the Jewish-Christian tradition through the present day, argues that socialism, per se, is basically Christian"--

Book The Teachings of Modern Roman Catholicism on Law  Politics  and Human Nature

Download or read book The Teachings of Modern Roman Catholicism on Law Politics and Human Nature written by John Witte (Jr.) and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Landmark three volume series examines how modern Catholic, Protestant & Orthodox thinkers have responded to the most pressing political, legal & ethical questions of our time.

Book Modern Papal Diplomacy and Social Teaching in World Affairs

Download or read book Modern Papal Diplomacy and Social Teaching in World Affairs written by Mariano P. Barbato and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection offers a concise introduction to the institutional framework of the Holy See, conceptualizing papal agency and positions from a range of international theory perspectives. The authors – international scholars from political science, history, and religious studies – explore multiple fields of papal and Vatican influence, ranging from spy networks and inter-religious dialogue to social doctrine and religious freedom. This book demonstrates that, contrary to secularization theory, the papacy is not in decline in world politics. Since World War II, the Holy See has played a steadily increasing role in international relations. Globalization supports the role of the Catholic Church as a transnational actor not only in the advanced industrial societies of the West but also increasingly across the Global South. In this volume, the authors document the legacies of John Paul II and Benedict XVI as well as the current pontificate of Pope Francis from a range of contemporary perspectives. This book comprises research articles and commentary essays on the papacy in world politics originally published in The Review of Faith & International Affairs.

Book Bribes

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  • Author : John Thomas Noonan
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1987-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520061545
  • Pages : 868 pages

Download or read book Bribes written by John Thomas Noonan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of bribery from ancient Egypt to ABSCAM, examines changing perceptions of bribery, and discusses the legal, ethical and religious injunctions against bribes

Book Vatican II and Phenomenology

Download or read book Vatican II and Phenomenology written by J.F. Kobler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thesis of this essay may be stated quite briefly: Vatican II is a demonstration model of the phenomenological method employed on an international scale. It exemplifies the final developmental stage, postulated by Husserl, of an inter subjective phenomenology which would take its point of departure, not from individual subjectivity, but from transcendental intersubjectivity. Vatican II, accordingly, offers a unique application of a universal transcendental philosophy in the field of religious reflection for the practical purposes of moral and socio cultural renewal. Phenomenology, as a distinctively European development, is relatively un known in America - at least in its pure form. Our contact with this style of 1 intuitive reflection is usually filtered through psychology or sociology. How ever, Edmund Husserl, The Father of Phenomenology, was originally trained in mathematics, and he entered the field of philosophy because he recognized 2 that the theoretical foundations of modern science were disintegrating. He foresaw that, unless this situation were rectified, modern men would eventually slip into an attitude of absolute scepticism, relativism, and pragmatism. After the First World War he saw this theoretical problem mirrored more and more in the social turbulence of Europe, and his thoughts turned to the need for a 3 renewal at all levels of life. In 1937 when Nazism was triumphant in Germany, and Europe on the brink of World War II, he wrote his last major work, The 4 Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Philosophy.

Book Making Saints

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  • Author : Kenneth L. Woodward
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2016-04-26
  • ISBN : 1439143951
  • Pages : 488 pages

Download or read book Making Saints written by Kenneth L. Woodward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From inside the Vatican, the book that became a modern classic on sainthood in the Catholic Church. Working from church documents, Kenneth Woodward shows how saint-makers decide who is worthy of the church's highest honor. He describes the investigations into lives of candidates, explains how claims for miracles are approved or rejected, and reveals the role politics -- papal and secular -- plays in the ultimate decision. From his examination of such controversial candidates as Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador and Edith Stein, a Jewish philosopher who became a nun and was gassed at Auschwitz, to his insights into the changes Pope John Paul II has instituted, Woodward opens the door on a 2,000-year-old tradition.