Uncommon Faithfulness

Author : Mary Shawn Copeland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015080865804

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An engaging study of black catholics, their contributions to the Catholic church, and the challenges they face. These essays describe the experience of black Catholics in this country since their arrival in North america in the sixteenth century ujtil the present day. The essays highlight the difficulties black Catholics faced in their early attempts to join churches and enter religious communities, their participation in the civil rights struggle, and the challenges they face today as they seek full inclusion in the church, whether in terms of liturgical practice or pastoral ministry.

Author : Darren W. Davis,Donald B. Pope-Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107191761

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Perseverance in the Parish? by Darren W. Davis,Donald B. Pope-Davis Pdf

This book examines the religious attitudes of African American Catholics and their relationships to the church.

Author : Dionne Danns,Michelle A. Purdy,Christopher M. Span
Publisher : IAP
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781681231723

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Using Past as Prologue by Dionne Danns,Michelle A. Purdy,Christopher M. Span Pdf

In 1978, V. P. Franklin and James D. Anderson co-edited New Perspectives on Black Educational History. For Franklin, Anderson, and their contributors, there were glaring gaps in the historiography of Black education that each of the essays began to fill with new information or fresh perspectives. There have been a number of important studies on the history of African American education in the more than three decades since Franklin and Anderson published their volume that has pushed the field forward. Scholars have redefined the views of Black southern schools as simply inferior, demonstrated the active role Blacks had in creating and sustaining their schools, sharpened our understanding of Black teachers’ and educational leaders’ role in educating Black students and themselves with professional development, provided a better understanding and recognition of the struggles in the North (particularly in urban and metropolitan areas), expanded our thinking about school desegregation and community control, and broadened our understanding of Black experiences and activism in higher education and private schools. Our volume will highlight and expand upon the changes to the field over the last three and a half decades. In the shadow of 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, contributors expand on the way African Americans viewed and experienced a variety of educational policies including segregation and desegregation, and the varied options they chose beyond desegregation. The volume covers both the North and South in the 19th and 20th centuries. Contributors explore how educators, administrators, students, and communities responded to educational policies in various settings including K-12 public and private schooling and higher education. A significant contribution of the book is showcasing the growing and concentrated work in the era immediately following the Brown decision. Finally, scholars consider the historian’s engagement with recent history, contemporary issues, future directions, methodology, and teaching.

Author : Bradford E. Hinze,Peter C. Phan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498280211

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Learning from All the Faithful by Bradford E. Hinze,Peter C. Phan Pdf

Do various members of the church--regardless of their generation, gender, race, sexual orientation, country of origin, and whatever their doubts are about official church teachings and policies--have any role in determining, safeguarding, and assessing the authentic teaching and praxis of the faith of the church? This has always been a haunting question in the life of the Christian church, though only recently acknowledged, because of the long-standing role of male clergy of European descent with a Eurocentric outlook who held hierarchical offices and determined official doctrines and moral and disciplinary codes. There have been controversies that bear on these matters over the course of the church's history. But it has only been over the last fifty years that the question has received increasing attention among Roman Catholics in terms of the baptismal anointing of the Spirit that bestows the gift of the sense of the faith on individuals and the collective sense of the faithful. This gift provides discerning skills to recognize, receive, and imaginatively and practically apply the living faith in history and society. This book explores these issues from historical, sociological, systematic and theological ethical perspectives, infused by the contributions of world Christianities.

Author : Naphtali DAGGETT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019242835

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The Faithful Serving of God and Our Generation, the Only Way to a Peaceful and Happy Death. A Sermon Occasioned by the Death of the Reverend Thomas Clap, President of Yale-College, Etc by Naphtali DAGGETT Pdf

Author : Fr. James L. Heft SM,Una M. Cadegan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190606527

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In the Lógos of Love by Fr. James L. Heft SM,Una M. Cadegan Pdf

So much has changed about Catholic intellectual life in the half century since the end of the Second Vatican Council that it has become difficult to locate the core concepts that make up the tradition. In the Lógos of Love is a collection of essays that grew out of a 2013 conference on Catholic intellectual life co-sponsored by the University of Dayton and the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California. The essays, written by scholars of theology, history, law, and media studies of religion, trace the history of this intellectual tradition in order to craft new tools for understanding the present day and approaching the future. Each essay explores both the promise of Catholic intellectual life and its various contemporary predicaments. How does a changed media landscape affect the way Catholicism is depicted, and the way its adherents understand and communicate among themselves? What resources can the tradition offer for reflection on new understandings of sexuality and gender? How can and should US Catholic intellectual life embrace and enhance-and introduce students to-the new ways in which Catholicism is becoming a more global tradition? What is the role of scholars in disciplines beyond theology? Of scholars who are not Catholic? Of scholars in universities not sponsored by Catholic religious orders or dioceses? By providing context for and proposing responses to these questions, the scholars invite discussion and reflection from a wide range of readers who have one important thing in common-a stake in sustaining a vibrant, flourishing intellectual tradition.

Author : Nutt, Maurice J., CSsR
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608339563

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Down Deep in My Soul by Nutt, Maurice J., CSsR Pdf

"A comprehensive treatment of preaching in the Black Catholic tradition"--

Author : James Heft,Una M. Cadegan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190280031

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In the Lógos of Love by James Heft,Una M. Cadegan Pdf

This volume brings together scholars of theology, history, law, and media studies of religion, who explore the Catholic intellectual tradition from the perspectives of these disciplines. Each essay explores both the promise of Catholic intellectual life and its contemporary predicaments.

Author : Jessica Thompson
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802499974

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How God Loves Us by Jessica Thompson Pdf

The fruit of the Spirit isn’t just something we display. It’s the way God loves us! Every Christian cherishes the famous passage in Galatians 5:22–23 that lists the fruit of the Spirit. Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness. Goodness. Faithfulness. Gentleness. And self-control. These are the marks of godly character that we strive to display. But has it ever occurred to you that these are also the characteristics of God? Can it be that God loves us with the fruit of the Spirit? And only when we are secure in that love can we display it to others? Jessica Thompson wants to take you deeper into the love that your Heavenly Father has for you. Focusing on the majority of the fruit of the Spirit, she shows how God Himself has these attributes and lavishes them on us. In 40 readings designed for daily devotions, Jessica takes you across the whole arc of the Bible to reveal the character of the triune God. This journey will surely bless you. For the more you behold who He is and the nature of his love, the more you will, by the work of the Spirit, become like Him. “My hope is that the readers will come away from this book more aware of what a magnificent God we serve. My hope is that the readers will remember their first love. My hope is that the readers will come back to this book again and again when they’re looking for a place of healing and hope.” – Jessica Thompson

Author : Dorris van Gaal
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643963994

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Migrant Spirituality by Dorris van Gaal Pdf

Migrant Spirituality makes visible the migration stories of African-born migrants to the USA, analyzes their experiences, and appreciates them as a source for theological reflection. The correlation of these narratives with John of the Cross' narrative of The Dark Night reveals that the dynamic between the concepts of vulnerability, spiritual humility, and God's transformative agency is central to understanding the spiritual dimension of the process of transformation in both narratives. Dorris van Gaal studied theology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. She works in religious education and teaches at Loyola and Notre Dame of Maryland in Baltimore, MD. Her research interests are in Migration Theology, Spirituality, and World Christianity.

Author : Katie Walker Grimes
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506416731

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Fugitive Saints by Katie Walker Grimes Pdf

How should the Catholic church remember the sins of its saints? This question proves particularly urgent in the case of those saints who were canonized due to their relation to black slavery. Today, many of their racial virtues seem like racial vices. In this way, the church celebrates Peter Claver, a seventeenth-century Spanish missionary to Colombia, as “the saint of the slave trade,” and extols Martín de Porres as the patron saint of mixed race people. But in truth, their sainthoods have upheld anti-blackness much more than they have undermined it. Habituated by anti-blackness, the church has struggled to perceive racial holiness accurately. In the ongoing cause to canonize Pierre Toussaint, a Haitian-born former slave, the church continues to enact these bad racial habits. This book proposes black fugitivity, as both a historical practice and an interpretive principle, to be a strategy by which the church can build new hagiographical habits. Rather than searching inside itself for racial heroes, the church should learn to celebrate those black fugitives who sought refuge outside of it.

Author : Nicholas Terpstra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000391909

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Global Reformations Sourcebook by Nicholas Terpstra Pdf

This volume of primary sources brings together letters, memoirs, petitions, tracts, and stories related to religion and reform around the globe from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. The common subject of the sources is the Reformation, and these texts demonstrate the themes and impacts of religious reform in Europe and around the globe. Scholars once framed the Reformation as a sixteenth-century European dispute between Protestant and Catholic churches and states, but now look expansively at connections and entanglements between different confessions, faiths, time periods, and geographical areas. The Reformation coincided with Europeans’ expanding reach across the globe as traders, settlers, and colonists, but the role that religion played in this drive has yet to be fully explored. These readings highlight these reformers’ engagements with Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and indigenous spirituality, and the entanglement of Christian reform with colonialism, trade, enslavement, and racism. Offering a sustained, comparative, and interdisciplinary exploration of religious transformations in the early modern world, this collection of primary sources is invaluable to both undergraduate and postgraduate students working on theology, the Reformation, and early modern society.

Author : Hayes, Diana L.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608336548

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No Crystal Stair by Hayes, Diana L. Pdf

Author : Kathleen Bonnette
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666752052

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(R)evolutionary Hope by Kathleen Bonnette Pdf

This book is for seekers—for those with restless hearts. It is especially for those who express their hope through the Catholic tradition but struggle with disillusionment and long for something more. (R)evolutionary Hope invites readers to journey toward that More. With theological reflection explored and interrogated through memoir, this work reimagines what it means to be Catholic, challenging readers to remain open to the grace that draws them from certainty to possibility, beyond what is to what could be. By infusing the theological tradition of St. Augustine with the spirituality emerging in contemporary women of the church, (R)evolutionary Hope invites readers to shift their paradigm from one of hierarchy to one of interconnection, offering a theology of encounter that is rooted in tradition, responsive to present realities, and ever open to the future.

Author : Eugene R. Schlesinger
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506489681

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Ruptured Bodies by Eugene R. Schlesinger Pdf

The divided church is withering on the vine. Crises of its own making--ranging from clergy sexual abuse and its cover-up to the church's complicity in colonialism, empire, and patriarchy--coupled with societal shifts beyond the church's control, have eroded its credibility. A much-deserved decline is well underway. And yet, churches remain content to continue with business as usual. The causes of this state of crisis are manifold and complex, and no one solution could resolve them all. But so long as the church remains in a state of division, no solutions will be forthcoming. Division is no mere regrettable shortcoming or inconvenience; it is a contradiction of the church's foundation. After all, Jesus prayed that his followers would be one so the world could believe he was sent by God. Faced with a crisis of credibility, the church finds no way forward because a divided church renders the gospel message not credible. Ruptured Bodies is a systematic theological account of the divided church. It argues that no adequate ecclesiology can ignore division, because in doing so, it will fail to describe the church that actually is. Such an understanding must integrate the reality of division, while also refusing to blunt its sharp edge--neither dismissing, excusing, nor minimizing it. What must the church be, given the fact of its division? Schlesinger presents a systematic ecclesiology of the divided church despite that idea's seeming impossibilty, because such an ecclesiology is precisely what we need.