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Author : Mrs. Lang,Andrew Lang,Lenora Lang
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781933184135
True stories and legends about the saints.
Author : George Hodges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : PRNC:32101059590297
Author : Andrew Michael Flescher
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1589013417
Most of us are content to see ourselves as ordinary people—unique in ways, talented in others, but still among the ranks of ordinary mortals. Andrew Flescher probes our contented state by asking important questions: How should "ordinary" people respond when others need our help, whether the situation is a crisis, or something less? Do we have a responsibility, an obligation, to go that extra mile, to act above and beyond the call of duty? Or should we leave the braver responses to those who are somehow different than we are: better somehow, "heroes," or "saints?" Traditional approaches to ethics have suggested there is a sharp distinction between ordinary people and those called heroes and saints; between duties and acts of supererogation (going beyond the expected). Flescher seeks to undo these standard dichotomies by looking at the lives and actions of certain historical figures—Holocaust rescuers, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, among others—who appear to be extraordinary but were, in fact, ordinary people. Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality shifts the way we regard ourselves in relationship to those we admire from afar—it asks us not only to admire, but to emulate as well—further, it challenges us to actively seek the acquisition of virtue as seen in the lives of heroes and saints, to learn from them, a dynamic aspect of ethical behavior that goes beyond the mere avoidance of wrongdoing. Andrew Flescher sets a stage where we need to think and act, calling us to lead lives of self-examination—even if that should sometimes provoke discomfort. He asks that we strive to emulate those we admire and therefore allow ourselves to grow morally, and spiritually. It is then that the individual develops a deeper altruistic sense of self—a state that allows us to respond as the heroes of our own lives, and therefore in the lives of others, when times and circumstance demand that of us.
Author : Julia Harrell
Publisher : Pauline Books & Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 081983453X
What if you could be a superhero with superpowers? This book explores the superpowers of the saints (better known as virtues). With stories illustrating cardinal, theological, and "little" virtues, this comprehensive Catholic virtue training will help children ages 9 to 11 build strong faith to last a lifetime. Using a snapshot from the saint's life exemplifying the virtue, each short vignette includes a Bible verse, virtue definition, story, questions for reflection and an original prayer to help children develop the specific virtue.
Author : Albert Blankert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1987-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0894680390
Author : Rebecca Stangl
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197508459
"Most of us are far from perfect in virtue. Faced with this fact, moral philosophers can respond in two different ways. On the one hand, they might insist that the only real virtue is perfect virtue, and the only right actions are perfectly virtuous ones. Any failure to meet the exacting standards of perfect virtue will amount to vice, and any less than perfectly virtuous actions will be wrong. On the other hand, and if they reject such a rigorist picture, they can instead affirm that there are actions that are truly good and right even if they fall short of perfection. This book urges the attractions of a virtue ethics committed to the second sort of picture. In doing so, it makes two major innovations. First, it constructs and defends Neo-Aristotelian accounts of supererogation and suberogation. But just as importantly, and far from encouraging a kind of complacency, the recognition that there can be genuine goodness short of perfection is precisely what opens up theoretical space for appreciating the goodness of striving towards ideal virtue. Thus, the second major innovation it makes is to show that self-improvement itself can be morally excellent, and the disposition to seek and engage in it, where appropriate, can itself be a virtue"--
Author : Erika Summers Effler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226188676
Why do people keep fighting for social causes in the face of consistent failure? Why do they risk their physical, emotional, and financial safety on behalf of strangers? How do these groups survive high turnover and emotional burnout? To explore these questions, Erika Summers Effler undertook three years of ethnographic fieldwork with two groups: anti–death penalty activists STOP and the Catholic Workers, who strive to alleviate poverty. In both communities, members must contend with problems that range from the broad to the intimately personal. Adverse political conditions, internal conflict, and fluctuations in financial resources create a backdrop of daily frustration—but watching an addict relapse or an inmate’s execution are much more devastating setbacks. Summers Effler finds that overcoming these obstacles, recovering from failure, and maintaining the integrity of the group require a constant process of emotional fine-tuning, and she demonstrates how activists do this through thoughtful analysis and a lucid rendering of their deeply affecting stories.
Author : George Hodges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:164479546
Author : Cynthia De Giorgio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : 999327481X
"This book studies the iconography of saints and heroes of the Knights of Malta as depicted by the artist Mattia Preti between 1658 and 1698."- [preface].
Author : Cherríe Moraga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Mexican Americans
ISBN : OCLC:689258014
Author : Henri Chambert-Loir,Anthony Reid
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824825551
The dead are potent and omnipresent in modern Indonesia. Presidents and peasants alike meditate before sacred graves to exploit the power they confer, and mediums do good business curing the sick by interpreting the wishes of deceased forebears. Among non-Muslims there are ritual reburials of the bones of the dead in monuments both magnificent and modest. This is the first book to assess the indigenous systems of belief in the spirits of ancestors. A unique team of anthropologists, historians, and literary scholars from Europe, Australia, and North America demonstrate the continuing importance of the potent dead for understanding contemporary Indonesia. At the same time, they help us understand historic processes of conversion to Islam and Christianity by examining the continuing interactions of the spirit world with formal religion. The Potent Dead is a collection of studies by leading scholars of Indonesian culture, history, and anthropology that examines the death practices and rituals of tribal groups in Indonesia. It covers an important area of cultural and social history in Indonesia, with pieces linking the death practices of so-called tribal groups with historical changes in the country, from on-going changes in Islam to the roles of forms of modernity. Contributors: Henri Chambert-Loir, Elizabeth Coville, James Fox, Danielle Geirnaert, Rodolfo Giambelli, Claude Guillot, Christian Pelras, George Quinn, Anthony Reid, Minako Sakai, Anne Schiller, Bernard Sellato, Klaus Shreiner.For sale in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand by NUS Press (Singapore)
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783849673062
A noted non-Catholic writer on pedagogical subjects stated some time ago that if his own religious body had the wealth of story contained in the lives of the saints of the Catholic Church, it would be abundantly supplied with religious literature for children. It is true that the lives of the saints are an inexhaustible treasure-house for all that will interest and stimulate children; and that the same treasure-house is too seldom drawn upon. Its riches are, comparatively speaking, little known to our children or, indeed, to our older folks. A book that taps this vein of Catholic inheritance is: The Book of Saints and Heroes, by Mrs. Lang, and edited by the late Andrew Lang. Needless to say the work is admirably well written, and no child, even though tired, would think of sleep while the story of Jerome and the Lion, or Francis and the Wolf of Agobio, was being read. Here is all that will arouse the imagination, fascinate the mind, and instill that romantic love of heroic deeds which, in turn, is so powerful a stimulus to virtue. The book is most richly and tastefully illustrated with page drawings, many of them beautifully colored. The author has combined legend and history, and has sought to give us an interesting story book.
Author : Cordelia Heß, Gustavs Strenga
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111351223
Author : Frank Field
Publisher : Society for Promoting Christian
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0281061874
Every politician needs inspiration and ideals in this cynical age. Frank Field's Anglican faith provides his inspiration, and a foundation for a set of ideals known as English Idealism, put forward by T. H. Green. These ideals built on Christianity to form a widely shared public ideology. As a leading politician and churchman, Frank Field illustrates his understanding of English Idealism through the life and work of five people who have inspired his political career. He looks at two Archbishops of Canterbury - the Temples, father and son - who helped to build up this public theology; George Bell who, as Bishop of Chichester during World War II, had the courage to be a lone voice campaigning against the policy of obliteration bombing of German cities; William Beveridge - this country's key reformer of welfare; Eleanor Rathbone, one of the greatest MPs, who campaigned to build an inclusive citizenship.
Author : Mrs. Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Heroes
ISBN : OCLC:7755146