America S Rome Catholic And Contemporary Rome

Author : William L. Vance
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300044534

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America's Rome: Catholic and contemporary Rome by William L. Vance Pdf

"This remarkable book examines the impact of Rome on American artists and writers from the earliest days of the new republic to the present. In volume I: Classical Rome Vance shows, for example, how the Forum and the Colosseum inspired American thoughts of ideal republics and how the Pantheon presented a pagan challenge to American ideas of divinity, beauty, and sexuality. In volume II: Catholic and Contemporary Rome, Vance begins by examining the three foremost Roman Catholic symbols: the bambino, the madonna, and the pope. In the section on contemporary Rome, he addresses American attitudes toward Rome's earliest attempts at democratization, toward its aristocratic social structures, and toward the political changes that occurred after World War II"--Publisher's website, viewed August 23, 2018.

Author : Peter R. D'Agostino
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807855154

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Rome in America by Peter R. D'Agostino Pdf

For years, historians have argued that Catholicism in the United States stood decisively apart from papal politics in European society. Drawing on previously unexamined documents from Italian state collections and newly opened Vatican archives, Peter D'Agostino paints a starkly different portrait.

Author : William L. Vance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:874427807

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America's Rome by William L. Vance Pdf

Author : Chester Gillis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231551212

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Roman Catholicism in America by Chester Gillis Pdf

Who are American Catholics and what do they believe and practice? How has American Catholicism influenced and been influenced by American culture and society? This book examines the history of American Catholics from the colonial era to the present, with an emphasis on changes and challenges in the contemporary church. Chester Gillis chronicles America Catholics: where they have come from, how they have integrated into American society, and how the church has influenced their lives. He highlights key events and people, examines data on Catholics and their relationship to the church, and considers the church’s positions and actions on politics, education, and gender and sexuality in the context of its history and doctrines. This second edition of Roman Catholicism in America pays particular attention to the tumultuous past twenty years and points toward the future of the religion in the United States. It examines the unprecedented crisis of sexual abuse by priests—the legal, moral, financial, and institutional repercussions of which continue to this day—and the bishops’ role in it. Gillis also discusses the election of Pope Francis and the controversial role Catholic leadership has played in American politics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Anti-Catholicism
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081793804

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Roman Catholicism in the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dwight Longenecker
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0852444869

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The Path to Rome by Dwight Longenecker Pdf

This collection of conversion stories relates how former Baptists, Presbyterians, Salvation Army officers, Plymouth Brethren, Episcopalians, evangelicals, and New Age believers all made their way to the fullness of the Catholic faith. (Catholic)

Author : David Yamane
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199964987

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Becoming Catholic by David Yamane Pdf

The history of Christianity and particularly of Roman Catholicism has been profoundly shaped by conversion for centuries, from the first apostles to such prominent modern converts as John Henry Newman, St Elizabeth Ann Seton, G.K. Chesterton, Thomas Merton, and Graham Greene. In this work, David A. Yamane offers a study of Roman Catholic converts in contemporary America.

Author : Charles Stuteville Isaacson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:44751440

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Rome in Many Lands by Charles Stuteville Isaacson Pdf

Author : Peter Steinfels
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781439128411

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A People Adrift by Peter Steinfels Pdf

In A People Adrift, a prominent Catholic thinker states bluntly that the Catholic Church in the United States must transform itself or suffer irreversible decline. Peter Steinfels shows how even before the recent revelations about sexual abuse by priests, the explosive combination of generational change and the thinning ranks of priests and nuns was creating a grave crisis of leadership and identity. This groundbreaking book offers an analysis not just of the church's immediate troubles but of less visible, more powerful forces working below the surface of an institution that provides a spiritual identity for 65 million Americans and spans the nation with its parishes, schools, colleges and universities, hospitals, clinics, and social service agencies. In A People Adrift, Steinfels warns that entrenched liberals and conservatives are trapped in a "theo-logical gridlock" that often ignores what in fact goes on in families, parishes, classrooms, voting booths, and Catholic organizations of all types. Above all, he insists, the altered Catholic landscape demands a new agenda for leadership, from the selection of bishops and the rethinking of the priesthood to the thorough preparation and genuine incorporation of a lay leadership that is already taking over key responsibilities in Catholic institutions. Catholicism exerts an enormous cultural and political presence in American life. No one interested in the nation's moral, intellectual, and political future can be indifferent to the fate of what has been one of the world's most vigorous churches -- a church now severely challenged.

Author : Matteo Binasco
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319959757

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Rome and Irish Catholicism in the Atlantic World, 1622–1908 by Matteo Binasco Pdf

This book builds upon research on the role of Catholicism in creating and strengthening a global Irish identity, complementing existing scholarship by adding a ‘Roman perspective’. It assesses the direct agency of the Holy See, its role in the Irish collective imagination, and the extent and limitations of Irish influence over the Holy See’s policies and decisions. Revealing the centrality of the Holy See in the development of a series of missionary connections across the Atlantic world and Rome, the chapters in this collection consider the formation, causes and consequences of these networks both in Ireland and abroad. The book offers a long durée perspective, covering both the early modern and modern periods, to show how Irish Catholicism expanded across continental Europe and over the Atlantic across three centuries. It also offers new insights into the history of Irish migration, exploring the position of the Irish Catholic clergy in Atlantic communities of Irish migrants.

Author : Jerry L. Walls,Kenneth J. Collins
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493411740

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Roman but Not Catholic by Jerry L. Walls,Kenneth J. Collins Pdf

This book offers a clearly written, informative, and fair critique of Roman Catholicism in defense of the catholic faith. Two leading evangelical thinkers in church history and philosophy summarize the major points of contention between Protestants and Catholics, honestly acknowledging real differences while conveying mutual respect and charity. The authors address key historical, theological, and philosophical issues as they consider what remains at stake five hundred years after the Reformation. They also present a hopeful way forward for future ecumenical relations, showing how Protestants and Catholics can participate in a common witness to the world.

Author : David Yamane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Catholic converts
ISBN : 0199363455

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Becoming Catholic by David Yamane Pdf

The history of Christianity and particularly of Roman Catholicism has been profoundly shaped by conversion for centuries, from the first apostles to such prominent modern converts as John Henry Newman, St Elizabeth Ann Seton, G.K. Chesterton, Thomas Merton, and Graham Greene. In this work, David A. Yamane offers a study of Roman Catholic converts in contemporary America.

Author : Emily Michelson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691211336

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Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews by Emily Michelson Pdf

A new investigation that shows how conversionary preaching to Jews was essential to the early modern Catholic Church and the Roman religious landscape Starting in the sixteenth century, Jews in Rome were forced, every Saturday, to attend a hostile sermon aimed at their conversion. Harshly policed, they were made to march en masse toward the sermon and sit through it, all the while scrutinized by local Christians, foreign visitors, and potential converts. In Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews, Emily Michelson demonstrates how this display was vital to the development of early modern Catholicism. Drawing from a trove of overlooked manuscripts, Michelson reconstructs the dynamics of weekly forced preaching in Rome. As the Catholic Church began to embark on worldwide missions, sermons to Jews offered a unique opportunity to define and defend its new triumphalist, global outlook. They became a point of prestige in Rome. The city’s most important organizations invested in maintaining these spectacles, and foreign tourists eagerly attended them. The title of “Preacher to the Jews” could make a man’s career. The presence of Christian spectators, Roman and foreign, was integral to these sermons, and preachers played to the gallery. Conversionary sermons also provided an intellectual veneer to mask ongoing anti-Jewish aggressions. In response, Jews mounted a campaign of resistance, using any means available. Examining the history and content of sermons to Jews over two and a half centuries, Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews argues that conversionary preaching to Jews played a fundamental role in forming early modern Catholic identity.

Author : Francis J. Beckwith
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441203908

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Return to Rome by Francis J. Beckwith Pdf

What does it mean to be evangelical? What does it mean to be Catholic? Can one consider oneself both simultaneously? Francis Beckwith has wrestled with these questions personally and professionally. He was baptized a Catholic, but his faith journey led him to Protestant evangelicalism. He became a philosophy professor at Baylor University and president of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS). And then, in 2007, after much prayer, counsel, and consideration, Beckwith decided to return to the Catholic church and step down as ETS president. This provocative book details Beckwith's journey, focusing on his internal dialogue between the Protestant theology he embraced for most of his adult life and Catholicism. He seeks to explain what prompted his decision and offers theological reflection on whether one can be evangelical and Catholic, affirming his belief that one can be both. EXCERPT It's difficult to explain why one moves from one Christian tradition to another. It is like trying to give an account to your friends why you chose to pursue for marriage this woman rather than that one, though both may have a variety of qualities that you found attractive. It seems to me then that any account of my return to the Catholic church, however authentic and compelling it is to me, will appear inadequate to anyone who is absolutely convinced that I was wrong. Conversely, my story will confirm in the minds of many devout Catholics that the supernatural power of the grace I received at baptism and confirmation as a youngster were instrumental in drawing me back to the Mother Church. Given these considerations, I confess that there is an awkwardness in sharing my journey as a published book, knowing that many fellow Christians will scrutinize and examine my reasons in ways that appear to some uncharitable and to others too charitable.

Author : C. Michael Shea
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192523495

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Newman's Early Roman Catholic Legacy, 1845-1854 by C. Michael Shea Pdf

For decades, scholars have assumed that the genius of John Henry Newman remained underappreciated among his Roman Catholic contemporaries. In order to find the true impact of his work, one must therefore look to the century following his death. Newman's Early Roman Catholic Legacy, 1845-1854 unpicks this claim. Examining a host of overlooked evidence from England and the European continent, C. Michael Shea considers letters, records of conversations, and obscure and unpublished theological exchanges to show how Newman's 1845 Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine influenced a host of Catholic teachers, writers, and Church authorities in nineteenth-century Rome and beyond. Shea explores how these individuals employed Newman's theory of development to argue for the definability of the new dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary during the years preceding the doctrine's definition in 1854. This study traces how the theory of development became a factor in determining the very language that the Roman Catholic Church would use in referring to doctrinal change over time. In this way, Newman's Early Roman Catholic Legacy, 1845-1854 uncovers a key dimension of Newman's significance in modern religious history.