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A Different Touch

A Study of Vows in Religious Life

By: Judith A. Merkle

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A Different Touch

A Study of Vows in Religious Life

By: Judith A. Merkle

This work speaks of the challenges of religious life today where the essentials of Christian living and union with God are sought with "a different touch." Reflecting on the history of religious life since the nineteenth century, Sister Judith comments on how each of the traditional vows shape the ongoing adult development of the religious, and she relates these vows to current cultural and sociopolitical issues. A Different Touch is addressed both to those in religious formation and to congregations that are engaged in theological renewal.

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Liturgical Press

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0814624650

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Sensing the Spirit

Toward the Future of Religious Life

By: Judith A. Merkle SNDdeN

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Sensing the Spirit

Toward the Future of Religious Life

By: Judith A. Merkle SNDdeN

Drawing on the work of Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, this book examines how secular culture affects both the living of Christian discipleship today and impacts how religious congregations engage in their own renewal and future. It argues that religious communities can do more than improve and fix the out of date conditions they met in the renewal after Vatican II. Calling on environmental, sociological and theological insights, this book asks how the ongoing “coming of the Kingdom” in the Spirit brings new gifts for these times and how congregations might respond beyond restorative or post-Christian solutions to new challenges confronting them. This book offers a renewed meaning of religious life in secular life and the gift it offers and receives from every culture in which it is embedded.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567707016

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Beyond Our Lights and Shadows

Charism and Institution in the Church

By: Judith A. Merkle

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Beyond Our Lights and Shadows

Charism and Institution in the Church

By: Judith A. Merkle

Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying of hands by the council of elders" (1Tim. 4:14). Members of the church today can comprehend Paul's sentiment to Timothy. While not all ordained, all baptized Christians have experienced the laying on of hands in baptism. They have been touched by that mysterious mix of charism, initiated into the Body of Christ through the Holy Spirit, as well as launched into life with Christ through the institution of the Church with all its concreteness, ambiguity, sinfulness and goodness. Through the lens of Christian theology, along with the sociology of Max Weber in his study of charism and institution in modern society, Judith A. Merkle analyzes the interaction and tautness between the concept of powerful grace through baptism and the institution in the life of the modern church. Weber asserts that freedom and creativity in modern society only become manifest within social relations. Since these highly valued modern experiences do not exist outside the institutional framework, they exist in tension with the constrictive and creative aspects of the institution. Judith A. Merkle offers the reader perspective on this contemporary experience in the church.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567658244

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Discipleship, Secularity, and the Modern Self

Dancing to Silent Music

By: Judith A. Merkle

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Dancing to Silent Music

By: Judith A. Merkle

Judith A. Merkle examines the situation of Christian spirituality today, in a secular age, through the images of dance, silence, and music. Drawing on the work of Charles Taylor as well as core aspects of the tradition of Christian theology on discipleship, Merkle asks how these new conditions affect the practice of Christianity as modern discipleship. The author calls God the music maker. She argues that response to the reality of God can be captured through the image of dance. Merkle reminds us that people in secular society connect to God in diverse ways, not in the least through the call of creation and the call of conscience. She explores discipleship as a lens through which we can understand how a community of faith, service, prayer, worship, and sacramentality can be viewed and integrated in daily life. She emphasizes how the interconnection between prayer, Eucharist, and a believing community is inseparable from the dance of discipleship as it can be lived in secular society. The image of dancing to silent music is a powerful symbol of Christian religious experience in modern times.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567693430

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Being Faithful: Christian Commitment in Modern Society

By: Judith A. Merkle

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Being Faithful: Christian Commitment in Modern Society

By: Judith A. Merkle

This book explores how the Christian life is lived in a pluralistic situation where different contexts of belonging give rise to different moral challenges. While it is characteristic of modern life to exist in a postmodern situation where there is an erosion of comprehensive systems of meaning, we still live today in contexts of belonging. We still seek to gather out of the fragments of modern life the sustenance of a network of belonging, belief and practice which comprise a faithful life. The construction of such a life, not only for us, but for others, serves as the framework for our moral commitments. Furthermore, sustaining and transforming social frameworks which shape various aspects of human life form the life task of adult Christians.

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0567611507

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Being Faithful: Christian Commitment in Modern Society

By: Judith A. Merkle

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Beyond Our Lights and Shadows

Charism and Institution in the Church

By: Judith A. Merkle

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Sensing the Spirit

Toward the Future of Religious Life

By: Judith A. Merkle SNDdeN

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Toward the Future of Religious Life

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Discipleship, Secularity, and the Modern Self

Dancing to Silent Music

By: Judith A. Merkle

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Dancing to Silent Music

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From the Heart of the Church

The Catholic Social Tradition

By: Judith A. Merkle

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From the Heart of the Church

The Catholic Social Tradition

By: Judith A. Merkle

While to social encyclicals of the popes since Leo XIII form a key expression of the social teachings of the Church in the last century, this book also explores the roots of these teachings in the life and theology of the Church.

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Liturgical Press

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0814651119

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A Different Touch

A Study of Vows in Religious Life

By: Judith A. Merkle

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A Study of Vows in Religious Life

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Rereading The Rabbis

A Woman's Voice

By: Judith Hauptman

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Rereading The Rabbis

A Woman's Voice

By: Judith Hauptman

Fully acknowledging that Judaism, as described in both the Bible and the Talmud, was patriarchal, Judith Hauptman demonstrates that the rabbis of the Talmud made significant changes in key areas of Jewish law in order to benefit women. Reading the texts with feminist sensibilities, recognizing that they were written by men and for men and that the

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Routledge

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0429966202

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The Old English Judith

A Study of Poetic Style, Theological Tradition and Anglo-Saxon Christian Concepts

By: Judith Kaup

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The Old English Judith

A Study of Poetic Style, Theological Tradition and Anglo-Saxon Christian Concepts

By: Judith Kaup

The Old English translation of the biblical Judith is preserved in only 1 manuscript, the 'B.L. Cotton Vitellius A.XV'. Even though the extant text is incomplete at the beginning and possibly at the end, the poem is an exceptionally fine piece of Old English writing. This study considers all different aspects of its composition and reception.

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0773445056

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Judith Plaskow

Feminism, Theology, and Justice

By: Judith Plaskow

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Feminism, Theology, and Justice

By: Judith Plaskow

Judith Plaskow, Professor of Religious Studies Emerita at Manhattan College, is a leading Jewish feminist theologian. Plaskow's feminist reading of traditional sources is a critical reading of Judaism that calls Jews to end oppression, exclusion, and marginalization of individuals and groups.

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9004280006

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Book's by Judith A. Merkle

A Different Touch

A Different Touch

Sensing the Spirit

Sensing the Spirit

Beyond Our Lights and Shadows

Beyond Our Lights and Shadows

Discipleship, Secularity, and the Modern Self

Discipleship, Secularity, and the Modern Self

Being Faithful: Christian Commitment in Modern Society

Being Faithful: Christian Commitment in Modern Society

Being Faithful: Christian Commitment in Modern Society

Being Faithful: Christian Commitment in Modern Society

Beyond Our Lights and Shadows

Beyond Our Lights and Shadows

Sensing the Spirit

Sensing the Spirit

Discipleship, Secularity, and the Modern Self

Discipleship, Secularity, and the Modern Self

From the Heart of the Church

From the Heart of the Church

A Different Touch

A Different Touch

Rereading The Rabbis

Rereading The Rabbis

The Old English Judith

The Old English Judith

Judith Plaskow

Judith Plaskow

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