Download or read book A Monk s Alphabet written by Jeremy Driscoll and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2007-12-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time of the desert fathers to our own "post-Christian" age, the literature of monastic wisdom has provided inspiration for those of us who lead ordinary lives in the world. Father Jeremy Driscoll, a poet and theologian who is also a Benedictine monk, brings the genre into the twenty-first century with this exquisitely written collection of reflections on life from a monastic perspective. Whether reflecting on the details of the cloistered life, or observing the weirdness of American culture, explaining a fine point of Catholic theology to a child, or meditating on the flight of a seagull over the glittering ocean at sunrise, Fr. Jeremy's voice both enchants and provokes us to further contemplation. The 187 meditations are arranged by short titles in alphabetical order to emphasize that the reader should approach them in random fashion, without preconceived ideas, in order to be open to where they lead the heart and mind.
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Download or read book The City of Mourners and the Court of Lucifer written by George Eliot, Nathan Gallizier, Petya Lehmann and published by Auroralit Edition. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two major Italian cities are introduced here on the verge of the 16th century. The public and social life of Florence was dominated by the powerful personality of a Dominican Friar, named Girolamo Savonarola. Savonarola criticized relentlessly the worldliness and vicious habits of the clergy. He insisted on the duty of Christian men and women not to hide in easy life when wrong was triumphing in public. He urged and taught them not to spend their wealth in outward pomp and riches when their fellow-citizens were suffering from want and sickness. On the other side, Savonarola was a bitter enemy to freethinkers, philosophers and Renaissance. And Savonarola’s mightiest enemy was Pope Alexander VI … Rodrigo Borgia, or Pope Alexander VI, ruled at the same time in Rome. Alexander VI had four children by a long time mistress, one of many. He had a passion for his children and endowed them with honours and wealth at the church’s and his neighbours’ expense. The citizens of Rome lived in unspeakable horrors in the midst of intrigues, murder, tortures in subterranean dungeons. No one’s life was safe. Alexander VI indulged in chase, stage plays, and orgies. He had many enemies amongst the nobles of Italy for wilfully excommunicating them and confiscating their land. But Alexander’s subtlest enemy was his son, Cesare Borgia …
Download or read book The Invention of Saintliness written by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses, from an historical and literary angle, the ways in which sanctification and the inscription of saintliness take place. Going beyond the traditional categories of canonization, cult, liturgical veneration and hagiographical lives, the work raises fundamental issues concerning definitions of saints and saintliness in a period before the concept was crystallized in canon law. As well as discussing sources and methodology, contributions cover contextual issues, including relics and veneration, life and the afterlife, and examinations of specific sources and texts. Subjects raised include the idea of hagiography as intimate biography, perceptions of holiness in writings by and about female mystics, and bodily aspects of the Franciscan search for evangelical perfection.
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Download or read book Crises in the History of the Papacy written by Joseph McCabe and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Crises in the History of the Papacy' is a fascinating study about the careers of twenty famous popes, whose lives influenced the development of the Church as well as the history of the world. It provides a perspective of the Papacy from the early 3rd to the early 20th century, as the Papacy has the most varied and remarkable history. This edition includes the lives and legacy of:_x000D_ St. Callistus and the Early Struggle_x000D_ St. Damasus and the Triumph_x000D_ Leo the Great, the Last Pope of Imperial Rome_x000D_ Gregory the Great, the First Mediæval Pope_x000D_ Hadrian I. and the Temporal Power_x000D_ Nicholas I. and the False Decretals_x000D_ John X. and the Iron Century_x000D_ Hildebrand_x000D_ Innocent III.: The Papal Zenith_x000D_ John XXII.: The Court at Avignon_x000D_ John XXIII. and the Great Schism_x000D_ Alexander VI.: The Borgia-Pope_x000D_ Julius II.: The Fighting Pope_x000D_ Leo X. and the Dance of Death_x000D_ Paul III. and the Counter-Reformation_x000D_ Sixtus V. and the New Church_x000D_ Benedict XIV.: The Scholar-Pope_x000D_ Pius VII. and the Revolution_x000D_ Pius IX._x000D_ Leo XIII.
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Download or read book Vegetarian Christian Saints written by Holly H. Roberts and published by Anjeli Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roberts shares the life stories of 150 individuals canonized into sainthood who were committed to vegetarianism. Each story has a distinct message and the potential to further peace upon the planet.
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Download or read book History of Latin Christianity Including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicolas V A Continuation of The History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ Etc written by Henry Hart Milman and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Papal Monarchy written by William Barry and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaric, King of the Western Goths, entered Rome with his army, by the Salarian Gate -- outside of which Hannibal had encamped long ago--and took the Imperial City. Eleven hundred and sixty-four years had passed since its legendary foundation under Romulus; four hundred and forty-one since the battle of Actium, which made Augustus Lord in deed, if not in name, of the Roman world. When the Gothic trump sounded at midnight, it announced that ancient history had come to an end, and that our modern time was born. St. Jerome, who in his cell at Bethlehem saw the Capitol given over to fire and flame, was justified from an historical point of view when he wrote to the noble virgin Demetrias, "Thy city, once the head of the universe, is the sepulchre of the Roman people." Even in that age of immense and growing confusion, the nations held their breath when these tidings broke upon them. Adherents of the classic religion who still survived felt in them a judgment of the gods; they charged on Christians the long sequel of calamities which had come down upon the once invincible Empire. Christians retorted that its fall was the chastisement of idolatry. And their supreme philosopher, the African Father St. Augustine, wrote his monumental work, "Of the City of God," by way of proving that there was a Divine kingdom which heathen Rome could persecute in the martyrs, but the final triumph of which it could never prevent. This magnificent conception, wrought out in a vein of prophecy, and with an eloquence which has not lost its power, furnished to succeeding times an Apocalypse no less than a justification of the Gospel. Instead of heathen Rome, it set up an ideal Christendom. But the center, the meeting-place, of old and new, was the City on the Seven Hills.
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Download or read book A History of the Church in the Middle Ages written by F. Donald Logan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Conceptually well organized, stylistically clear, intellectually thoughtful, and pedagogically useful." - Thomas Head, Speculum "For its humane and learned approach to its enormous canvas, as well as for the cogency with which it penetrates at speed to the essentials of a vanished historical epoch, this History of the Church in the Middle Ages deserves a very wide audience indeed." - Barrie Dobson, English Historical Review "To have written a scholarly and very readable history of the Western Church over a millennium is a remarkable tour de force, for which Donald Logan is to be warmly congratulated." - C.H Lawrence, The Tablet "A feat of historical synthesis, most confident in its telling of the coming of Christianity. Books like Logan's are needed more than ever before." - Miri Rubin, TLS In this fascinating survey, F. Donald Logan introduces the reader to the Christian church, from the conversion of the Celtic and Germanic peoples to the discovery of the New World. He reveals how the church unified the people of Western Europe as they worshipped with the same ceremonies and used Latin as the language of civilized communication. From remote, rural parish to magnificent urban cathedral, A History of the Church in the Middle Ages explores the role of the church as a central element in determining a thousand years of history. This new edition brings the book right up to date with recent scholarship, and includes an expanded introduction exploring the interaction of other faiths - particularly Judaism and Islam - with the Christian church.
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