Cloister And Community

Author : Mary Jo Weaver
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253341841

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Cloister and Community by Mary Jo Weaver Pdf

Cloister and Community is both a history of the Carmelite monastery of Indianapolis and an introduction to the Carmelites, a contemplative order of Roman Catholicism, founded in the 13th century and rededicated as a reform movement for women religious in the 16th century by Teresa of Avila. A key element of the order is that its nuns live an ascetic, cloistered life, but as Mary Jo Weaver demonstrates, the view that one must "leave the world" to find sacred space apart from it has evolved to embrace the notion that the world itself is a sacred space.Weaver focuses on a modern Indianapolis community and describes how the sisters incorporate Carmelite belief and practice into their daily lives. Cloister and Community is a beautifully written and handsomely produced book that offers readers a privileged view of the world of present-day contemplative spirituality.ALSO OF INTEREST Being RightConservative Catholics in AmericaEdited by Mary Jo Weaver and R. Scott Appleby0-253-32922-1 HB £34.500-253-20999-4 PB £15.50What's LeftLiberal American CatholicsEdited by Mary Jo Weaver0-253-21332-0 HB £30.500-253-21332-0 PB £14.50

Author : Jeff Bach
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271027449

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Voices of the Turtledoves by Jeff Bach Pdf

Winner, 2004 Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies Winner, 2005 Outstanding Publication, Communal Studies Association Co-published with the Pennsylvania German Society/Vandenhoeck && Ruprecht The Ephrata Cloister was a community of radical Pietists founded by Georg Conrad Beissel (1691&–1768), a charismatic mystic who had been a journeyman baker in Europe. In 1720 he and a few companions sought a new life in William Penn&’s land of religious freedom, eventually settling on the banks of the Cocalico Creek in what is now Lancaster County. They called their community &“Ephrata,&” after the Hebrew name for the area around Bethlehem. Voices of the Turtledoves is a fascinating look at the sacred world that flourished at Ephrata. In Voices of the Turtledoves, Jeff Bach is the first to draw extensively on Ephrata&’s manuscript resources and on recent archaeological investigations to present an overarching look at the community. He concludes that the key to understanding all the various aspects of life at Ephrata&—its architecture, manuscript art, and social organization&—is the religious thought of Beissel and his co-leaders.

Author : Paul R Dekar
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718842826

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Community of the Transfiguration by Paul R Dekar Pdf

In the 1930s, German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer anticipated the restoration of the Church after the coming Second World War through a new kind of monasticism, a way of life of uncompromising adherence to the Sermon on the Mount in imitation of Christ. Since then, the renewal of Christian monasticism has become a great spiritual movement. Imbued with a love for God and neighbour, and with a healthy self-love, people are going to monasteries to deepen their relationship with God, to pray, andto find peace. While some monastic institutions are suffering a decline in traditional vocations, many Christians are exploring monastic lifestyles. This book introduces The Community of the Transfiguration in Australia, the story of a new monastic community and an inspiring source of hope for the world at another time of spiritual, social, and ecological crisis.

Author : Michael Halvorson,Karen E. Spierling
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0754661539

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Defining Community in Early Modern Europe by Michael Halvorson,Karen E. Spierling Pdf

Numerous historical studies use the term community' to express or comment on social relationships within geographic, religious, political, social, or literary settings, yet this volume is the first systematic attempt to collect together important examples of this varied work in order to draw comparisons and conclusions about the definition of community across early modern Europe. The chapters demonstrate the complex and changeable nature of community in an era more often characterized as a time of stark certainties and inflexibility. As a result, the volume contributes a vital resource to the ongoing efforts of scholars to understand the creation and perpetuation of communities and the significance of community definition for early modern Europeans.

Author : Janneke Raaijmakers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107002814

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The Making of the Monastic Community of Fulda, C.744-c.900 by Janneke Raaijmakers Pdf

A well-integrated and sophisticated investigation into the development of religious life in an influential early medieval monastic community.

Author : Aruṇa Ṭikekara
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 8179912930

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The Cloister's Pale by Aruṇa Ṭikekara Pdf

Author : Susan E. Dinan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351872300

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Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France by Susan E. Dinan Pdf

Chronicling the history of the Daughters of Charity through the seventeenth century, this study examines how the community's existence outside of convents helped to change the nature of women's religious communities and the early modern Catholic church. Unusually for the time, this group of Catholic religious women remained uncloistered. They lived in private houses in the cities and towns of France, offering medical care, religious instruction and alms to the sick and the poor; by the end of the century, they were France's premier organization of nurses. This book places the Daughters of Charity within the context of early modern poor relief in France - the author shows how they played a critical role in shaping the system, and also how they were shaped by it. The study also examines the complicated relationship of the Daughters of Charity to the Catholic church of the time, analyzing it not only for what light it can shed on the history of the community, but also for what it can tell us about the Catholic Reformation more generally.

Author : Jenna Lay
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812248388

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Beyond the Cloister by Jenna Lay Pdf

Beyond the Cloister reveals the literary significance of manuscripts and printed books written by and about post-Reformation Catholic Englishwomen, offering a reassessment of crucial decades in the development of English literary history.

Author : Kathleen Norris
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1573225843

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The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR “Vivid, compelling... An embrace of moral and spiritual contemplation.” –The New York Times “A remarkable piece of writing. If read with humility and attention, Kathleen Norris's book becomes lectio divina, or holy reading.” –The Boston Globe From the iconic author of Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, a spiritual journey that brings joy to the meanings of love, grace and faith. Why would a married woman with a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith be drawn to the ancient practice of monasticism, to a community of celibate men whose days are centered on a rigid schedule of prayer, work, and scripture? This is the question that poet Kathleen Norris asks us as, somewhat to her own surprise, she found herself on two extended residencies at St. John's Abbey in Minnesota. Part record of her time among the Benedictines, part meditation on various aspects of monastic life, The Cloister Walk demonstrates, from the rare perspective of someone who is both an insider and outsider, how immersion in the cloistered world-- its liturgy, its ritual, its sense of community-- can impart meaning to everyday events and deepen our secular lives. In this stirring and lyrical work, the monastery, often considered archaic or otherworldly, becomes immediate, accessible, and relevant to us, no matter what our faith may be.

Author : John J. Coughlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199877188

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Law, Person, and Community by John J. Coughlin Pdf

Law, Person, and Community: Philosophical, Theological, and Comparative Perspectives on Canon Law takes up the fundamental question "What is law?" through a consideration of the interrelation of the concepts of law, person, and community. As with the concept of law described by secular legal theorists, canon law aims to set a societal order that harmonizes the interests of individuals and communities, secures peace, guarantees freedom, and establishes justice. At the same time, canon law rests upon a traditional understanding of the spiritual end of the human person and religious nature of community. The comparison of one of the world's ancient systems of religious law with contemporary conceptions of law rooted in secular theory raises questions about the law's power to bind individuals and communities. Professor John J. Coughlin employs comparative methodology in an attempt to reveal the differing concepts of the human person reflected in both canon law and secular legal theory. Contrasting the contemporary positivistic view of law with the classical view reflected in canon law, Law, Person, and Community discusses the relationship between canon law, theology, and natural law. It also probes the interplay between the metaphysical and historical in the theory of law by an examination of canonical equity, papal authority, and the canon law of marriage. It juxtaposes the assumptions of canon law about church-state relations with those of the modern liberal state as exemplified by U.S. first amendment jurisprudence. No scholarly work has yet addressed this question of how the principles and substance of canon law, both past and present, relate to current issues in legal theory, such as the foundation of human rights and in particular the right of religious freedom for individuals and communities.

Author : Thomas Coomans
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789462701434

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Life Inside the Cloister by Thomas Coomans Pdf

Sacred architecture as reality and metaphor in secularised Western society Christian monasteries and convents, built throughout Europe for the best part of 1,500 years, are now at a crossroads. This study attempts to understand the sacred architecture of monasteries as a process of the tangible and symbolic organisation of space and time for religious communities. Despite the weight of seemingly immutable monastic tradition, architecture has contributed to developing specific religious identities and played a fundamental part in the reformation of different forms of religious life according to the changing needs of society. The cloister is the focal point of this book because it is both architecture, a physically built reality, and a metaphor for the religious life that takes place within it. Life Inside the Cloister also addresses the afterlife and heritagisation of monastic architecture in secularised Western society.

Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:785692836

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The Culture of Cities by Lewis Mumford Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Rapley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780773569416

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A Social History of the Cloister by Elizabeth Rapley Pdf

A Social History of the Cloister is a study of life in teaching convents across France through two hundred years of history, a history that provided the beginnings and inspiration for most of today's institutions for the Catholic education of girls.

Author : John Michael Talbot
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781570758584

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The World Is My Cloister by John Michael Talbot Pdf

Explores ways to cultivate solitude, silence, and the peace of God, regardless of the noisy and busy surroundings of modern life.

Author : Michelle Armstrong-Partida,Alexandra Guerson,Dana Wessell Lightfoot
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496205117

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Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia by Michelle Armstrong-Partida,Alexandra Guerson,Dana Wessell Lightfoot Pdf

Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia draws on recent research to underscore the various ways Iberian women influenced and contributed to their communities, engaging with a broader academic discussion of women’s agency and cultural impact in the Iberian Peninsula. By focusing on women from across the socioeconomic and religious spectrum—elite, bourgeois, and peasant Christian women, Jewish, Muslim, converso, and Morisco women, and married, widowed, and single women—this volume highlights the diversity of women’s experiences, examining women’s social, economic, political, and religious ties to their families and communities in both urban and rural environments. Comprised of twelve essays from both established and new scholars, Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia showcases groundbreaking work on premodern women, revealing the complex intersections between gender and community while highlighting not only relationships of support and inclusion but also the tensions that worked to marginalize and exclude women.