The Concept Of Freedom In The Writings Of St Francis De Sales

Author : Eunan McDonnell
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 303911963X

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The Concept of Freedom in the Writings of St. Francis de Sales by Eunan McDonnell Pdf

Through the examination of the concept of freedom in the writings of St Francis de Sales the author concludes that, in contradistinction to a contemporary understanding of freedom perceived as self-determination, a Salesian understanding privileges freedom's relationship to 'the good'. This situates St Francis de Sales in the classical Thomistic tradition of freedom's necessary relationship to the good, but involves a methodological shift as he employs the Renaissance starting point of 'the turn to the subject'. This study demonstrates how St Francis arrives inductively at what St Thomas demonstrated deductively, namely, the essential relationship of freedom to the good. Along with this Thomistic influence, the author analyses the Salesian indebtedness to Augustinian anthropology which explains the primacy St Francis gives to the will, and consequently, to love. Love, understood as the heart's movement towards the good, allows the Salesian approach to move beyond the confines of a traditional faculty psychology to embrace a more biblical understanding of the human person. This examination of love's relationship to freedom reveals their teleological and archaeological natures, coming back to our origins wherein we discover the source of our freedom bestowed on us as a gift from God.

Author : Alexander T. Pocetto
Publisher : Christus Publishing, LLC
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780984170739

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A Lenten Journey with Jesus Christ and St. Francis de Sales by Alexander T. Pocetto Pdf

Images of travel and voyages abound in the writings of St. Francis de Sales who encouragingly and alluringly invites those seeking his guidance to travel the road that Jesus himself has so graciously and courageously opened up for us. This he has done by his life, death and resurrection, thereby giving us access to God. It is St. Francis de Saless thought and ideas that are paraphrased and adapted here to present an enticing invitation to make this Lenten journey in his company and in that of Our Lord. Accept the invitation to journey through Lent with Jesus Christ and one of the great spiritual writers of the Catholic Church, St. Francis de Sales. Inside you will find an Invitation from St. Francis de Sales, a short biography of St. Francis de Sales, a description of the Salesian Spirit, and more. Each day of Lent, weekdays and Sundays, begins with: a Gospel Reading, a selection from the Writings of St. Francis de Sales, a Reflection, and a Prayer. May the presence of Jesus Christ and the gentle and loving kindness of St. Francis de Sales guide you on your Lenten Journey, and lead you to Gods Holy Easter of Peace, Love and Joy.

Author : Ann W. Astell
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268106232

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Saving Fear in Christian Spirituality by Ann W. Astell Pdf

Hailed in Sacred Scripture as the “beginning of wisdom” (Ps 111:10), the “fear of the Lord” is seldom mentioned and little understood today. A gift of the Spirit and a moral virtue or disposition, the “fear of the Lord” also frequently entails emotional experiences of differing kinds: compunction, dread, reverence, wonderment, and awe. Starting with the Bible itself, this collection of seventeen essays explores the place of holy fear in Christian spirituality from the early church to the present and argues that this fear is paradoxically linked in various ways to fear’s seeming opposite, love. Indeed, the charged dynamic of love and fear accounts for different experiences and expressions of Christian life in response to changing historical circumstances and events. The writings of the theologians, mystics, philosophers, saints, and artists studied here reveal the relationship between the fear and the love of God to be profoundly challenging and mysterious, its elements paradoxically conjoined in a creative tension with each other, but also tending to oscillate back-and-forth in the history of Christian spirituality as first one, then the other, comes to the fore, sometimes to correct a perceived imbalance, sometimes at the risk of losing its companion altogether. Given this historical pattern, clearly evident in these chronologically arranged essays, the palpable absence of a discourse of holy fear from the mainstream theological landscape should give us pause and invite us to consider if and how—under what aspect, in which contexts—a holy fear, inseparable from love, might be regained or discovered anew within Christian spirituality as a remedy both for a crippling anxiety and for a presumptive recklessness. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Christian spirituality, theology, biblical studies, religious studies, and religion and literature. Contributors: Ann W. Astell, Pieter G. R. de Villiers, Donna R. Hawk-Reinhard, John Sehorn, Catherine Rose Cavadini, Joseph Wawrykow, Robert Boenig, Ralph Keen, Wendy M. Wright, Ephraim Radner, Julia A. Lamm, Cyril O’Regan, Brenna Moore, Maj-Britt Frenze, and Todd Walatka

Author : Boenzi, Joseph, SDB,Chorpenning, Joseph F., OSFS,Toczyski, Suzanne C.,Wright, Wendy M.
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781587685767

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Nineteenth-Century Salesian Pentecost, The by Boenzi, Joseph, SDB,Chorpenning, Joseph F., OSFS,Toczyski, Suzanne C.,Wright, Wendy M. Pdf

In the wake of the French Revolution and other upheavals, Don Bosco (1815–1888) and other nineteenth-century founders and spiritual leaders contributed to the development of spiritual practices and perspectives on the Christian life that have been described as the “Salesian Pentecost.” Here are translations of and commentaries on the little-known spiritual writings of Don Bosco, his collaborators, and his contemporaries involved in the Salesian Pentecost. These diverse persons, fully engaged in apostolic ministry or occupied with the demands of ordinary life as lay women and men, were at the same time engaged in conscious spiritual practices that sought the interior exchange of the heart of Jesus for the human heart.

Author : Stijn Bussels,Karl A.E. Enenkel,Michel Weemans,Elliott D. Wise
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004682641

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Imago and Contemplatio in the Visual Arts and Literature (1400–1700) by Stijn Bussels,Karl A.E. Enenkel,Michel Weemans,Elliott D. Wise Pdf

This volume contains twenty-four essays, which, in their subjects and methodology, pay tribute to the scholarship of Walter S. Melion. The contributions are grouped under three categories: “Devotion,” “Art and Image Theory,” and “Vision and Contemplation.” The Devotion section addresses votive practices, theological theory and polemic literature. The Art and Image Theory section focuses on Jesuit image theory, the reflexive dimension of works, and artists’ reflections on the function of images. Finally, the Vision and Contemplation section discusses the ‘early modern eye’ as a tool for thoughtful, prolonged looking to ascertain visual wit, deception, self-assessment and friendship, sacred and profane allegories.

Author : Ulrich L. Lehner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Church renewal
ISBN : 9780197620601

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The Inner Life of Catholic Reform by Ulrich L. Lehner Pdf

"While studies abound about Catholic Reform and its institutional or social history, its spiritual motives and practices, what one could call its "inner life," have been widely neglected. This book examines how these spiritual ideas and practices shaped the Catholic Reform and Catholic view of the world and led to a diverse but peculiarly theological imagination, a new outlook on the self and the world, and influenced human behaviors and sentiments. It tells the story of how the idea of the "inner reform of the soul" shaped a world religion. The historicization of these religious practices and beliefs makes this book also highly accessible to historians and anthropologists. It relies on a plethora of published and unpublished sources, and a wide field of secondary literature. Although the emphasis is on Europe, this book takes a global perspective by integrating material from Africa, America and Asia as it was in this era that Catholicism became a "world religion.""--

Author : Julia A. Lamm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781119283508

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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism by Julia A. Lamm Pdf

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism brings together a team of leading international scholars to explore the origins, evolution, and contemporary debates relating to Christian mystics, texts, and the movements they inspired. Provides a comprehensive and engaging account of Christian mysticism, from its origins right up to the present day Draws on the best of current scholarship by bringing together a collection of newly-commissioned readings by leading scholars Considers examples of mysticism in both Eastern and Western Christianity Offers a brilliant synthesis of the key figures and historical periods of mysticism; its core themes, such as heresy, gender, or aesthetics; and its theoretical considerations, including theological, literary, social scientific, and philosophical approaches Features chapters on current debates such as neuroscience and mystical experience, and inter-religious dialogue

Author : Wimbush Andy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783838213699

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Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism by Wimbush Andy Pdf

In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an ‘abject self-referring quietism’. Andy Wimbush argues that ‘quietism’—a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness—is a key to understanding Beckett’s artistic vision and the development of his career as a fiction writer from his early novels Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy to late short prose texts such as Stirrings Still and Company. Using Beckett’s published and archival material, Still: Samuel Beckett’s Quietism shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism from the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, E.M. Cioran, Thomas à Kempis, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and André Gide, before turning it into an aesthetic that would liberate him from the powerful literary traditions of nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century high modernism. Quietism, argues Andy Wimbush, was for Beckett a lifelong preoccupation that shaped his perspectives on art, relationships, ethics, and even notions of salvation. But most of all it showed Beckett a way to renounce authorial power and write from a position of impotence, ignorance, and incoherence so as to produce a new kind of fiction that had, in Molloy’s words, the ‘tranquility of decomposition’.

Author : Greg Kame
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725291676

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Predestination by Greg Kame Pdf

The doctrine of predestination is an important starting point for the study of Christian theology thought from a Reformed theological perspective. This doctrine is essential because it is one of the central themes from the Bible that has been the reason for many debates among many theologians in the history of the church. Despite the different views held by mainline Protestant theologians like Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Jacobus Arminus, this book points to Scripture as the basis for Reformed soteriology. It uses the tools of biblical interpretation to show how the entire Bible addresses the doctrine of predestination so that theology students, pastors, Bible teachers, and anyone interested in Christian theology will better understand predestination from a Reformed perspective toward an effective ministry today.

Author : Eunan McDonnell
Publisher : Columba Press (IE)
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1856073432

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God Desires You by Eunan McDonnell Pdf

Anyone who is seriously seeking the path of Gospel freedom, will find in St Francis de Sales a sure guide to accompany them in the way of love. This volume presents in detail the spiritual journey as outlined by St Francis de Sales. Incidents from the life of the saint are related to illustrate how he overcame certain difficulties and eventually arrived at an understanding of God's goodness that is unshakeable. As an adolescent, Francis passed through a severe personal crisis, but emerges convinced of God's love and desire to save everyone. It is this complete trust and confidence in the goodness of God that is the touchstone of his spirituality. Drawing attention to the correspondence between the human heart and God's heart, he urges us to let go of any anxiety that seeks to rob us of the inner peace and joy that God desires for us.

Author : Saint Francis de Sales,Catholic Way Publishing
Publisher : Catholic Way Publishing
Page : 6518 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783794454

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The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [15 Books] by Saint Francis de Sales,Catholic Way Publishing Pdf

THE SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES COLLECTION [15 BOOKS] SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING — 15 Books: 10 by the Author, 5 About the Author — Over 1.45 Million Words, Over 2,000 Active Linked Endnotes — Includes an Active Index, Table of Contents for each book and Layered NCX Navigation — Includes Illustrations by Gustave Dore Saint Francis de Sales (21 August 1567 – 28 December 1622), Doctor of the Church, was a Bishop of Geneva. He became noted for his deep faith and his gentle approach to the religious divisions in his land resulting from the Protestant Reformation. He is known also for his writings on the topic of spiritual direction and spiritual formation, particularly the Introduction to the Devout Life and the Treatise on the Love of God. BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR: INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVOUT LIFE TREATISE ON THE LOVE OF GOD THE CATHOLIC CONTROVERSY THE SPIRITUAL CONFERENCES PRACTICAL PIETY THE CONSOLING THOUGHTS OF SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES THE SECRET OF SANCTITY LETTERS TO PERSONS IN THE WORLD LETTERS TO PERSONS IN RELIGION THE MYSTICAL EXPLANATION OF THE CANTICLE OF CANTICLES BOOKS ABOUT THE AUTHOR: THE SPIRIT OF SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES by Jean-Pierre Camus MONTH OF MARY: ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT OF SAINT DE SALES by Don Gaspar Gilli A MAN OF GOOD ZEAL: A BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL BASED ON THE LIFE OF SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES by John Edward Beahn SAINT JANE FRANCES DE CHANTAL’S DEPOSITIONS: IN THE CAUSE OF THE BEATIFICATION AND CANONISATION OF SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES by Saint Jane Frances de Chantal SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES by Various PUBLISHER: CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING

Author : Saint Francis (de Sales)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822019622026

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Library of St. Francis de Sales: Letters to persons in religion by Saint Francis (de Sales) Pdf

Author : Saint Francis (de Sales)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Consolation
ISBN : UVA:X004914276

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The Consoling Thoughts of St. Francis de Sales by Saint Francis (de Sales) Pdf

Author : François de Sales (st.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590870490

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Maxims and counsels of st. Francis de Sales, tr. by E. McMahon by François de Sales (st.) Pdf

Author : Saint Francis (de Sales)
Publisher : DeSales
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0982927126

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St. Francis De Sales by Saint Francis (de Sales) Pdf

Selection of 125 letters from the origianl 2,000 letters by St. Francis de Sales, translated with an introduction, biographical notes and bibliography.