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Book Vida del bienaventurado padre Ignacio de Loyola

Download or read book Vida del bienaventurado padre Ignacio de Loyola written by Pedro de Ribadeneyra and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Studies of the Spanish Mystics

Download or read book Studies of the Spanish Mystics written by Edgar Allison Peers and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Don Quixote and Catholicism

Download or read book Don Quixote and Catholicism written by Michael McGrath and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four hundred years since its publication, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote continues to inspire and to challenge its readers. The universal and timeless appeal of the novel, however, has distanced its hero from its author and its author from his own life and the time in which he lived. The discussion of the novel’s Catholic identity, therefore, is based on a reading that returns Cervantes’s hero to Cervantes’s text and Cervantes to the events that most shaped his life. The authors and texts McGrath cites, as well as his arguments and interpretations, are mediated by his religious sensibility. Consequently, he proposes that his study represents one way of interpreting Don Quixote and acts as a complement to other approaches. It is McGrath’s assertion that the religiosity and spirituality of Cervantes’s masterpiece illustrate that Don Quixote is inseparable from the teachings of Catholic orthodoxy. Furthermore, he argues that Cervantes’s spirituality is as diverse as early modern Catholicism. McGrath does not believe that the novel is primarily a religious or even a serious text, and he considers his arguments through the lens of Cervantine irony, satire, and multiperspectivism. As a Roman Catholic who is a Hispanist, McGrath proposes to reclaim Cervantes’s Catholicity from the interpretive tradition that ascribes a predominantly Erasmian reading of the novel. When the totality of biographical and sociohistorical events and influences that shaped Cervantes’s religiosity are considered, the result is a new appreciation of the novel’s moral didactic and spiritual orientation.

Book The New Rhetoric

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chaïm Perelman
  • Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
  • Release : 1991-09-30
  • ISBN : 0268175098
  • Pages : 652 pages

Download or read book The New Rhetoric written by Chaïm Perelman and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 1991-09-30 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Rhetoric is founded on the idea that since “argumentation aims at securing the adherence of those to whom it is addressed, it is, in its entirety, relative to the audience to be influenced,” says Chaïm Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, and they rely, in particular, for their theory of argumentation on the twin concepts of universal and particular audiences: while every argument is directed to a specific individual or group, the orator decides what information and what approaches will achieve the greatest adherence according to an ideal audience. This ideal, Perelman explains, can be embodied, for example, "in God, in all reasonable and competent men, in the man deliberating or in an elite.” Like particular audiences, then, the universal audience is never fixed or absolute but depends on the orator, the content and goals of the argument, and the particular audience to whom the argument is addressed. These considerations determine what information constitutes "facts" and "reasonableness" and thus help to determine the universal audience that, in turn, shapes the orator's approach. The adherence of an audience is also determined by the orator's use of values, a further key concept of the New Rhetoric. Perelman's treatment of value and his view of epideictic rhetoric sets his approach apart from that of the ancients and of Aristotle in particular. Aristotle's division of rhetoric into three genres–forensic, deliberative, and epideictic–is largely motivated by the judgments required for each: forensic or legal arguments require verdicts on past action, deliberative or political rhetoric seeks judgment on future action, and epideictic or ceremonial rhetoric concerns values associated with praise or blame and seeks no specific decisions. For Aristotle, the epideictic genre was of limited importance in the civic realm since it did not concern facts or policies. Perelman, in contrast, believes not only that epideictic rhetoric warrants more attention, but that the values normally limited to that genre are in fact central to all argumentation. "Epideictic oratory," Perelman argues, "has significant and important argumentation for strengthening the disposition toward action by increasing adherence to the values it lauds.” These values are central to the persuasiveness of arguments in all rhetorical genres since the orator always attempts to "establish a sense of communion centered around particular values recognized by the audience.”

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vida del bienaventurado padre Ignacio de Loyola fundador de la religion de la compa    a de Jesus

Download or read book Vida del bienaventurado padre Ignacio de Loyola fundador de la religion de la compa a de Jesus written by Pedro de Ribadeneyra (S.J.) and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Francis Xavier  His Life  His Times  Japan and China  1549 1552

Download or read book Francis Xavier His Life His Times Japan and China 1549 1552 written by Georg Schurhammer and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library has v. 4 only.

Book Vida de San Ignacio de Loyola

Download or read book Vida de San Ignacio de Loyola written by Pedro de Ribadeneyra and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jesuit Order As a Synagogue of Jews

Download or read book The Jesuit Order As a Synagogue of Jews written by Robert A. Maryks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews" the author explains how Christians with Jewish family backgrounds went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation of the Society of Jesus to being prohibited from membership in it. The author works at the intersection to two important historical topics, each of which attracts considerable scholarly attention but that have never received sustained and careful attention together, namely, the early modern histories of the Jesuit order and of Iberian purity of blood concerns. An analysis of the pro- and anti-converso texts in this book (both in terms of what they are claiming and what their limits are) advance our understanding of early modern, institutional Catholicism at the intersection of early modern religious reform and the new racism developing in Spain and spreading outwards.

Book The Jesuit Code of Liberal Education

Download or read book The Jesuit Code of Liberal Education written by Allan Peter Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vida del bienaventurado padre Ignacio de Loyola

Download or read book Vida del bienaventurado padre Ignacio de Loyola written by Pedro de Ribadeneyra and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth Century Europe

Download or read book Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth Century Europe written by Derek Massarella and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys to Europe. Until the arrival of the embassy in Europe, the Euro-Japanese encounter had been almost exclusively one way: Europeans going to Japan. This book is an account of their travels, their long journeys out and back, and the 20 months in Europe being received by popes and kings. It was published in Macao in 1590 with the title De Missione Legatorvm Iaponensium ad Romanum curiam. The present edition is the first complete version of this rich, complex and impressive work to appear in English, and is accompanied with maps and illustrations of the mission, and an introduction discussing its context and the subsequent reception of the book.

Book Francis Xavier  His Life  His Times  Indonesia and India  1545 1549

Download or read book Francis Xavier His Life His Times Indonesia and India 1545 1549 written by Georg Schurhammer and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library has v. 4 only.

Book Inca Apocalypse

    Book Details:
  • Author : R. Alan Covey
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-05-01
  • ISBN : 0190299134
  • Pages : 593 pages

Download or read book Inca Apocalypse written by R. Alan Covey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, set in a larger global context than previous accounts Previous accounts of the fall of the Inca empire have played up the importance of the events of one violent day in November 1532 at the highland Andean town of Cajamarca. To some, the "Cajamarca miracle"-in which Francisco Pizarro and a small contingent of Spaniards captured an Inca who led an army numbering in the tens of thousands-demonstrated the intervention of divine providence. To others, the outcome was simply the result of European technological and immunological superiority. Inca Apocalypse develops a new perspective on the Spanish invasion and transformation of the Inca realm. Alan Covey's sweeping narrative traces the origins of the Inca and Spanish empires, identifying how Andean and Iberian beliefs about the world's end shaped the collision of the two civilizations. Rather than a decisive victory on the field at Cajamarca, the Spanish conquest was an uncertain, disruptive process that reshaped the worldviews of those on each side of the conflict.. The survivors built colonial Peru, a new society that never forgot the Inca imperial legacy or the enduring supernatural power of the Andean landscape. Covey retells a familiar story of conquest at a larger historical and geographical scale than ever before. This rich new history, based on the latest archaeological and historical evidence, illuminates mysteries that still surround the last days of the largest empire in the pre-Columbian Americas.

Book Vida del Bienaventurado Padre Ignacio de Loyola  fundador de la religion de la Compa    a de Jes  s

Download or read book Vida del Bienaventurado Padre Ignacio de Loyola fundador de la religion de la Compa a de Jes s written by Pedro De Ribadeneyra and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patrons and Petitioners

Download or read book Patrons and Petitioners written by Daniel Harlan Max Berenberg and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: