Download or read book A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation written by Saint Thomas More and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sadness of Christ written by Saint Thomas More and published by Scepter Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was the last that St. Thomas More wrote in the Tower of London before he was executed for standing firm in his Catholic faith. In it, he explores the Gospel passages that depict the agony of Our Lord in the Garden of Gethsemane. He depicts Christ as a model of virtue in the face of suffering and persecution. And along the way, he includes valuable and eternally relevant reflections on prayer, courage, friendship, statesmanship, and more. Here is an excellent resource for Lent or anytime!
Download or read book A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation written by Thomas More and published by Scepter Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition will include all of More's extant works. Each volume will be edited by a specialist in the field of Renaissance studies and will include a comprehensive introduction. Latin texts will be accompanied by a facing English translation.
Download or read book Dialogue Of Comfort Against Tribulation written by Saint Thomas More and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the English statesman, jurist, and scholar Saint Thomas More in the 16th century, "Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation" is a classic piece of Christian literature. The book, which was finished in 1534 when More was imprisoned in the Tower of London, is told as a fictional conversation between two characters, Vincent and his uncle Anthony. The conversation takes place during a turbulent time of political and religious unrest. Vincent turns to his uncle Anthony for support and direction since he is in danger of being persecuted for his faith. Anthony provides philosophical and spiritual insights on the nature of suffering, the transient nature of earthly problems, and the significance of facing adversity with faith and trust in God throughout the talk. More's strong religious beliefs are evident in the work, which tackles the issue of finding solace in difficult times by sticking to one's religion. More examines the moral and theological dimensions of suffering, highlighting Christian virtues such as hope, patience, and trust in divine providence. "Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation" is a literary work that demonstrates More's wit, intelligence, and humanistic perspective on life's hardships in addition to being a theological treatise.
Download or read book Thomas More written by Richard Marius and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the centuries, biographers of Thomas More have always praised him and made him an example for their own times. He was a man for all seasons. Truly, he was a Renaissance man with the contradictions such praise imposes on a towering figure. In Richard Marius's authoritative and engaging portrait, Sir Thomas More, the martyr and brilliant public figure, is a lesson for our season.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Thomas More written by George M. Logan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the life and work of a major figure of the modern world. Combining breadth of coverage with depth, the book opens with essays on More's family, early life and education, his literary humanism, virtuoso rhetoric, illustrious public career and ferocious opposition to emergent Protestantism, and his fall from power, incarceration, trial and execution. These chapters are followed by in-depth studies of five of More's major works - Utopia, The History of King Richard the Third, A Dialogue Concerning Heresies, A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation and De Tristitia Christi - and a final essay on the varied responses to the man and his writings in his own and subsequent centuries. The volume provides an accessible overview of this fascinating figure to students and other interested readers, whilst also presenting, and in many areas extending, the most important modern scholarship on him.
Download or read book A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation written by Sir Thomas More (Saint) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saint Thomas More written by Thomas More and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-04-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas More is perhaps most familiar to us from his courageous struggle with Henry VIII, unforgettably portrayed in Robert Bolt's classic, A Man for All Seasons. But that final struggle, which ended in his execution for treason, was only the crowning act in a life that he had devoted to God long before. In the first selection in decades made for the general reader from his collected works, this volume traces More's journey of moral conviction in his own words and writings. Drawing on a variety of More's late writings-the extraordinary "Tower Works," written in prison, his poignant last letters to his daughter Margaret, and his poems, private prayers and devotional works-this collection will provide even readers lacking a background in Renaissance humanism or history with a rich introduction to a startlingly modern man of spiritual principle. Also included is the famous "Life of Sir Thomas More," written by his son-in-law, William Roper. In the annals of spirituality certain books stand out both for their historical importance and for their continued relevance. The Vintage Spiritual Classics series offers the greatest of these works in authoritative new editions, with specially commissioned essays by noted contemporary commentators. Filled with eloquence and fresh insight, encouragement and solace, Vintage Spiritual Classics are incomparable resources for all readers who seek a more substantive understanding of mankind's relation to the divine.
Download or read book The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght Sometyme Lorde Chauncellour of England written by Thomas More and published by . This book was released on 1557 with total page 1496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation written by and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Thomas More wrote his masterpiece DIALOGUE OF COMFORT AGAINST TRIBULATION during the last fifteen months of his life, months spent imprisoned in the Tower of London as he awaited execution for treason in 1535. Second only to King Henry VIII, More was a man with much to live for. He had wealth, position, and a very happy home life; he certainly did not desire a martyr's death. He wrote this DIALOGUE in hopes that he might persuade himself to compromise his conscience, and so preserve his life and station. Assuming the form of a conversation between two cousins in war-torn Hungary, under the threat of Turkish invasion, the DIALOGUE explores the prospect of Christian suffering and death. Wise old Anthony counsels his troubled younger cousin Vincent, who asks what a Christian ought to do in the face of slavery and death, how one is to endure the daily fear and sadness that accompany the mere threat of slavery and death. Through patient conversation, Anthony develops a lesson on the acquisition and cultivation of virtue, markedly the virtue of fortitude. This Dialogue exhibits the cheerful humor, artful styling, and depth of thought that mark all the works of St. Thomas More; a true saint for the modern age. Wiseblood Books fosters works of fiction and non-fiction, poetry and philosophy that find redemption in uncanny places and people; wrestle us from the tyranny of boredom; mock the pretensions of respectability; engage the hidden mysteries of the human heart, be they sources of either violence or courage; articulate faith and doubt in their incarnate complexity; dare an unflinching gaze at human beings as "political animals"; and suffer through this world's trials without forfeiting hope. Visit us at www.wisebloodbooks.com We are wide-eyed for new epiphanies of beauty.
Download or read book The Life of Thomas More written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures of history. Thomas More (1478-1535) was a renowned statesman; the author of a political fantasy that gave a name to a literary genre and a worldview (Utopia); and, most famously, a Catholic martyr and saint. Born into the professional classes, Thomas More applied his formidable intellect and well-placed connections to become the most powerful man in England, second only to the king. As much a work of history as a biography, The Life of Thomas More gives an unmatched portrait of the everyday, religious, and intellectual life of the early sixteenth century. In Ackroyd's hands, this renowned "man for all seasons" emerges in the fullness of his complex humanity; we see the unexpected side of his character--such as his preference for bawdy humor--as well as his indisputable moral courage.
Download or read book Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation written by Thomas More and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation is a work written by Thomas More while imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1534. The Dialogue is set in the Kingdom of Hungary in 1528, between the invasions of Suleiman the Magnificent. It is a fictional dialogue between Vincent and his uncle, Anthony. The book begins with Vincent paying a visit to his uncle. He is terrified by the invasions of the Ottomans and seeks comfort from Anthony.
Download or read book The Four Last Things written by Saint Thomas More and published by Scepter Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Four Last Things, More prescribes frequent meditation on Death, Judgment, Pain and Joy in order to combat the spiritual diseases of pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth.The Supplication of Souls is More's vigorous, humorous, and artful defense of one of the flashpoints of the Reformation: the Catholic dogma of Purgatory. It is his devastating response to a defamatory political tract that claimed that the greed and corruption of English clergymen stemmed from their insistence on being paid to pray for the dead.
Download or read book The Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation written by Thomas More, Sir Saint and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-01-27 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among Thomas More's last works, "A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation" is one of his most important. Thomas More wrote this book in the Tower of London as he awaited execution, but the style is not the raging vituperative one he used when confuting Tyndale. There are "merry tales" such as the one about the German who was never satiate his own praise, but most of the book is given over to meditation on death. Thomas More has two characters, Anthony a young man, and Vincent, his aged Uncle. They are placed in Budapest and they are fearful of an impending invasion by the Turks. More's story has been read as thinly veiled allegory of his own situation. Anthony standing in for More's son-in-law William Roper, and Vincent for Thomas More himself. That may be putting it too simplistically, but it is a good starting point. Unlike More's best known work "Utopia," "A Dialogue of Comfort" was not written in Latin, but in English. In this spiritual book, Thomas More asks the question "where shall comfort come from," then answers his own question: "For God is and must be your comfort, and not I."
Download or read book For God and Country written by Fr. Michael J. Cerrone and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am not afraid . . . I was born to do this." -St. Joan of Arc She is not the typical saint. Born and baptized in Domremy in 1412, Joan of Arc was thirteen when the Archangel Michael appeared and exhorted her to safeguard her virginity. Two more heavenly voices later spoke to this daughter of God and revealed the divine Will for her to unify and liberate France from the English invaders. With God's grace in her soul and in her soldiers, the seventeen year old Joan valiantly led battlefield operations to defeat the siege of Orleans and see the king anointed and crowned at Reims. Captured as a prisoner of war, Joan of Arc was sold to the English in Rouen, brutally mistreated, then unjustly condemned by a corrupt church court as a heretic, apostate, and witch. While being burned at the stake, she forgave her enemies and invoked the help of God and his saints. The Catholic Church, with the authority of the pope in Rome, nullified her previous conviction and canonized Joan of Arc as a Saint of God in 1920. In these pages you will discover the true character and accomplishments of Saint Joan of Arc, and be led to meditate on her profound legacy of virtue. You will be inspired by her heroic love of God and Country and will understand how prayer and the Church's sacramental life of grace gave her strength to overcome all obstacles in achieving her mission. You will be amazed at the enduring impact of this soldier saint and virgin martyr on the rebirth of the nation of France and on the renewal of the Catholic Church, even six centuries after her birth. “Joan of Arc’s momentous appearance on the stage of medieval European and Church history is skillfully recounted by Father Michael Cerrone. A colorful and insightful narrative awaits and will reward the reader.” -Cardinal Edwin O’Brien Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
Download or read book Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation written by St. More and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awaiting execution for treason against King Henry VIII after refusing to recognize the king as the Supreme Church Head of England, Thomas More wrote one of his greatest English works, A Dialogue of Comfort, to express his own thoughts on hope in the face of tribulation. In this fictional dialogue set in sixteenth century Hungary between a young Anthony and his dying uncle, Vincent, Anthony is terrified of an impending Turkish invasion and expresses his fears of dying a martyr to his uncle. Vincent responds with a message of comfort in God during difficulties and sufferings. A work that aptly conveys More's belief that God is and must be our only comfort, this book is a lasting legacy of hope in the faithfulness of God - both for More, and for the reader today.
Download or read book The Complete Works of St Thomas More written by Thomas More and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
