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Come to the Light

Reflections on the Gospel of John

By: Brendan Byrne, SJ

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Come to the Light

Reflections on the Gospel of John

By: Brendan Byrne, SJ

These profound and inspiring reflections on the Gospel of John will open to preachers, religious, and parish groups interested in Scripture, the treasures that the Fourth Gospel contains for the life of the world. Brendan Byrne draws on the insights in Life Abounding, his academic commentary on the Fourth Gospel, to enrich the understanding of non-scholars in Come to the Light. Discussion questions provided at the end of each talk serve as a starting point for the reader’s personal contemplation.

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Liturgical Press

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081466623X

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Theology of Horror

The Hidden Depths of Popular Films

By: Ryan G. Duns, SJ

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Theology of Horror

The Hidden Depths of Popular Films

By: Ryan G. Duns, SJ

Theology of Horror explores the dark reaches of popular horror films, bringing to light their implicit theological and philosophical themes. Horror films scare and entertain us, but there’s more to be found in their narratives than simple thrills. Within their shadows, an attentive viewer can glimpse unexpected flashes of orthodox Christian belief. In Theology of Horror, Ryan G. Duns, SJ, invites readers to undertake an unconventional pilgrimage in search of these buried theological insights. Duns uses fifteen classic and contemporary horror films—including The Blair Witch Project, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Candyman, and The Purge—as doorways to deeper reflection. Each chapter focuses on a single film, teasing out its implicit philosophical and theological themes. As the reader journeys through the text, a surprisingly robust theological worldview begins to take shape as glimmers of divine light emerge from the darkness. Engaging and accessible, Theology of Horror proves that, rather than being the domain of nihilists or atheists, the horror film genre can be an opportunity for reflecting on “things visible and invisible,” as Christians profess in the Nicene Creed.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268208573

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9780268208578

The Book of Cain

On Adding a New Book to the Family Bible

By: Cain, Bill, SJ

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The Book of Cain

On Adding a New Book to the Family Bible

By: Cain, Bill, SJ

Priest and playwright Bill Cain offers a chronicle of the death of his mother, which, like book in the Bible, shows God's presence in the everyday dramas of ordinary families"--

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Orbis Books

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1608339653

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9781608339655

Paul and the Economy of Salvation

Reading from the Perspective of the Last Judgment

By: Brendan SJ Byrne

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Paul and the Economy of Salvation

Reading from the Perspective of the Last Judgment

By: Brendan SJ Byrne

This major contribution to Pauline scholarship by a widely-respected New Testament scholar is the culmination of over forty years of teaching on Paul. Brendan Byrne demonstrates that topics often discussed in Pauline studies and Christian theology go astray when the significance of the last judgment falls from view. Offering a fresh Catholic perspective that engages with centuries of Protestant interpretation, this book recaptures the significance of the motif of the last judgment for the interpretation of Paul.

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Baker Academic

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149343067X

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Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, The

A Lived Experience

By: O'Collins, Gerald, SJ

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Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, The

A Lived Experience

By: O'Collins, Gerald, SJ

The book follows the structure of the Spiritual Exercises, commenting on major themes in what Ignatius calls the First Week, the Second Week, the Third Week, and the Fourth Week, ending with the Contemplation for Attaining Love. It engages the audience by introducing fresh reflections on the Principle and Foundation (to be read in the context of late medieval marriage vows), and by using, at length, several episodes in the Gospel stories (e.g. the nativity of Christ, the call to service of Peter’s mother-in-law, the particular approaches of the evangelists to Christ’s passion and death, and the place of Ch. 21 in John’s theology of love) to show how contemporary biblical interpretation enriches possibilities for prayer. Resources for prayer are drawn from Christian painting, sculpture, music, literature (e.g., Pascal and Kierkegaard) and poetry. The author explores links between the Exercises and the traditional practice of lectio divina. In doing this, he illustrates the scope of teaching on lectio divina coming from the Second Vatican Council and shows how translators and commentators have missed the Council’s use of the technical term lectio divina.

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Paulist Press

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0809188031

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9780809188031

Idol Temples and Crafty Priests

The Origins of Enlightenment Anticlericalism

By: S.J. Barnett

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Idol Temples and Crafty Priests

The Origins of Enlightenment Anticlericalism

By: S.J. Barnett

Barnett traces the Christian critique of the Church and its history in Protestant (English) and Catholic (Italian) thought from the Reformation to the Enlightenment. More than one hundred and fifty years of bitter polemic between the two great confessions and their religious dissidents produced an unprecedented, comparative historical and sociological anticlericalism. In the last decades of the seventeenth century, English dissenting thought was pregnant with a devastating critique of the church, which came to be termed the 'Deist' view of Church history: by 1700 the cornerstone of high 'Enlightenment anticlerical thought' was in ascent.

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Springer

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1349270970

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His Hiding Place Is Darkness

A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence

By: Francis X. Clooney S.J.

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His Hiding Place Is Darkness

A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence

By: Francis X. Clooney S.J.

His Hiding Place is Darkness explores the uncertainties of faith and love in a pluralistic age. In keeping with his conviction that studying multiple religious traditions intensifies rather than attenuates religious devotion, Francis Clooney's latest work of comparative theology seeks a way beyond today's religious and interreligious uncertainty by pairing a fresh reading of the absence of the beloved in the Biblical Song of Songs with a pioneering study of the same theme in the Holy Word of Mouth (9th century CE), a classic of Hindu mystical poetry rarely studied in the West. Remarkably, the pairing of these texts is grounded not in a general theory of religion, but in an engagement with two unexpected sources: the theopoetics, theodramatics, and theology of the 20th-century Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the intensely perceived and written poetry of Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham. How we read and write on religious matters is transformed by this rare combination of voices in what is surely a unique and important contribution to comparative studies and religious hermeneutics.

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Stanford University Press

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0804788804

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Restless Graves

An Irish Family History Exhumed

By: S J Money

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Restless Graves

An Irish Family History Exhumed

By: S J Money

Nora, a confident woman born during Prohibition thought she knew who she was. Now as she battles early-stage dementia the elderly woman discovers the childhood she knew was a lie. This is her quest to uncover her true identity and unravel the tragically violent mystery of her New York family’s past, which consumes her. All before she is ultimately swallowed by the unforgiving disease that plagues her.

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The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1589-1597

Building the Faith of Saint Peter upon the King of Spain's Monarchy

By: Thomas M. McCoog,S.J.

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The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1589-1597

Building the Faith of Saint Peter upon the King of Spain's Monarchy

By: Thomas M. McCoog,S.J.

English Catholic voices, once disregarded as merely confessional, are now acknowledged to provide important perspectives on Elizabethan society. Based on extensive archival research, this book builds on previous studies for the first thorough investigation of the Jesuit mission to England during a critical period between the unsuccessful armadas of 1588 and 1597, a period during which the mission was threatened as much by internal Catholic conflict as it was by the crown. To address properly events in England, the study fully engages with the situation in Ireland, Scotland and the continent so as to contextualize the ambitions, methods and effects of the Jesuit mission. For England felt threatened not only by the military might of Spain but also by any assistance King Philip II might provide to Catholics earls and a vindictive James VI in Scotland, powerful nobles in Ireland, and English Catholics at home and abroad. However, it is the particular role of the Jesuits that occupies central place in the narrative, highlighting the way in which the Society of Jesus typified all that Elizabethan England feared about the Church of Rome. Through an exhaustive study of the many facets of the Jesuit mission to England between 1589 and 1597, this book provides a fascinating insight not only into Catholic efforts to bring England back into the Roman Church, but also the simmering tensions, and disagreements on how this should be achieved, as well as debates concerning the very nature and structure of English Catholicism. A second volume, The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1598-1606 will continue the story through to the early years of James VI & I's reign.

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1317015436

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Handbook of Nonwovens

By: S. J. Russell

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Handbook of Nonwovens

By: S. J. Russell

Handbook of Nonwovens, Second Edition updates and expands its popular interdisciplinary treatment of the properties, processing, and applications of nonwovens. Initial chapters review the development of the industry and the different classes of nonwoven material. The book then discusses methods of manufacture such as dry-laid, wet-laid, and polymer-laid web formation. Other techniques analyzed include mechanical, thermal, and chemical bonding, as well as chemical and mechanical finishing systems. The book concludes by assessing the characterization, testing, and modeling of nonwoven materials.Covering an unmatched range of materials with a variety of compositions and manufacturing routes, this remains the indispensable reference to nonwovens for designers, engineers, materials scientists, and researchers, particularly those interested in the manufacturing of automotive, aerospace, and medical products. Nonwovens are a unique class of textile material formed from fibers that are bonded together through various means to form a coherent structure. The range of properties they can embody make them an important part of a range of innovative products and solutions, which continues to attract interest from industry as well as academia. - Describes in detail the manufacturing processes of a range of nonwoven materials - Provides detailed coverage of the mechanical and thermal properties of non-woven fabrics - Includes extensive updates throughout on the characterization and testing of nonwovens - Explains how to model nonwoven structures

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0128189134

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Ignatian Spirituality and Interreligious Dialogue

Reading Love's Mystery

By: Michael Barnes SJ

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Ignatian Spirituality and Interreligious Dialogue

Reading Love's Mystery

By: Michael Barnes SJ

This is a book about dialogue, specifically about the dialogue between religions. But it is also a book formed in dialogue. I seek to bring together the two sides of my experience as an academic teacher and pastoral worker: on the one hand, the extraordinary world of the religions that is such an important feature of contemporary Western culture; on the other, my spiritual formation and religious practice which has acted as the primary motivation for everything that I do as a Jesuit priest. The book can be read both as a practical correlate to what I have written elsewhere on the theology of religions, and, at a more personal level, as a reflection on my experience ‘on the streets’, as it were. I am guided throughout by the conviction that Christian faith comes truly alive when it is communicated, brought into dialogue with what is ‘other’, different, even strange. God’s own story, what God seeks to reveal of God’s own self through the witness of the Bible, enters into dialogue with the story of one Jesuit who seeks to respond to the mystery of a loving God through the lens of Ignatian spirituality. The twelve linked chapters form a personal introduction, with a degree of autobiography and illustrative anecdote, to an interior dialogue between Christian faith and the challenging context of contemporary religious pluralism. Michael Barnes is the author of Religions in Conversation (SPCK 1989) , God East and West (SPCK 1991), Theology and the Dialogue of Religions (CUP 2002), Interreligious Learning: Dialogue, Spirituality and the Christian Imagination (CUP 2012), Waiting on Grace: a Theology of Dialogue (OUP 2020).

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Messenger Publications

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1788123298

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Sacra Pagina: The Gospel of Matthew

By: Daniel J. Harrington, SJ

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Sacra Pagina: The Gospel of Matthew

By: Daniel J. Harrington, SJ

Matthew wrote his Gospel from his perspective as a Jew. It is with sensitivity to this perspective that Father Harrington undertakes this commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. After an introduction, he provides a literal translation of each section in Matthew's Gospel and explains the textual problems, philological difficulties, and other matters in the notes. He then presents a literary analysis of each text (content, form, use of sources, structure), examines the text against its Jewish background, situates it in the context of Matthew's debate with other first-century Jews, and reflects on its significance for Christian theology and Christian-Jewish relations. Bibliographies direct the reader to other important modern studies.

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Liturgical Press

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From Word to Sentence

A Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Sentence Style

By: Bernard J. Streicher, S.J.

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From Word to Sentence

A Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Sentence Style

By: Bernard J. Streicher, S.J.

From Word to Sentence presents a thorough examination of grammar, usage, and sentence style. The book is set up as a series of rules followed by examples. Among the special features are a section on the capitalization of religious terms, an entire unit on diagraming, and a glossary of frequently confused words. In addition, there are a variety of sentence exercises, including some on inclusive language, parallel structure, and sentence combining. The book is designed as an instructional guide and as a handbook for writers and editors.

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1503523217

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The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England 1541-1588

“Our Way of Proceeding?”

By: Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.

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The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England 1541-1588

“Our Way of Proceeding?”

By: Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.

This volume is the first comprehensive study of the work of the Society of Jesus in the British Isles during the sixteenth century. Beginning with an account of brief papal missions to Ireland (1541) and Scotland (1562), it goes on to cover the foundation of a permanent mission to England (1580) and the frustration of Catholic hopes with the failure of the Spanish Armada (1588). Throughout the book, the activities of the Jesuits - preaching, propaganda, prayer and politics - are set within a wider European context, and within the framework of the Society's Constitutions. In particular, the sections on religious life and involvement in diplomacy show how flexibly the Jesuits adapted their "way of proceeding" to the religious and political circumstances of the British Isles, and to the demands of the Counter-Reformation.

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9004476318

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Fake News in Context

By: Lesley S. J. Farmer

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Fake News in Context

By: Lesley S. J. Farmer

Fake News in Context defines fake news and sets it within a historical and international context. Helping readers to become more skilled at detecting misinformation, the book also demonstrates how such knowledge can be leveraged to facilitate more effective engagement in civic education. Distinguishing between fake news and other forms of misinformation, the book explains the complete communication cycle of fake news: how and why it is created, disseminated and accessed. The book then explains the physical and psychological reasons why people believe fake news. Providing generic methods for identifying fake news, Farmer also explains the use of fact- checking tools and automated algorithms. The book then details how various literacies, including news, media, visual, information, digital and data, offer unique concepts and skills that can help interpret fake news. Arguing that individuals and groups can respond and counter fake news, which leads to civic engagement and digital citizenship, the book concludes by providing strategies for instruction and tips for collaborating with librarians. Including a range of international examples, Fake News in Context will be of interest to teaching faculty, and students of library and information science, communication studies, media studies, politics and journalism. Librarians and information professionals will also find a valuable resource in this book.

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1000281272

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Called to be the Children of God

By: Carl E. Olson,Fr. David Vincent Meconi, S.J.

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Called to be the Children of God

By: Carl E. Olson,Fr. David Vincent Meconi, S.J.

This book gathers fourteen Catholic scholars to present, examine, and explain the often misunderstood process of "deification". The fifteen chapters show what "becoming God" meant for the early Church, for St. Thomas Aquinas and the greatest Dominicans, and for St. Francis and the early Franciscans. This book explains how this understanding of salvation played out during the Protestant Reformation and the Council of Trent. It explores the thought of the French School of Spirituality, various Thomists, John Henry Newman, John Paul II, and the Vatican Councils, and it shows where such thinking can be found today in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. No other book has gathered such an array of scholars or provided such a deep study into how humanity's divinized life in Christ has received many rich and various perspectives over the past two thousand years. This book seeks to bring readers into the central mystery of Christianity by allowing the Church's greatest thinkers and texts to speak for themselves, demonstrating how becoming Christ-like and the Body of Christ on earth, is the only ultimate purpose of the Christian faith.

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Ignatius Press

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1586179470

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Mathematical Modelling

A Way of Life - ICTMA 11

By: S J Lamon,W A Parker,S K Houston

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Mathematical Modelling

A Way of Life - ICTMA 11

By: S J Lamon,W A Parker,S K Houston

Mathematical modelling is often spoken of as a way of life, referring to habits of mind and to dependence on the power of mathematics to describe, explain, predict and control real phenomena. This book aims to encourage teachers to provide opportunities for students to model a variety of real phenomena appropriately matched to students' mathematical backgrounds and interests from early stages of mathematical education. Habits, misconceptions, and mindsets about mathematics can present obstacles to university students' acceptance of a ''models-and-modelling perspective'' at this stage of mathematics education. Without prior experience in building, interpreting and applying mathematical models, many students may never come to view and regard modelling as a way of life. The book records presentations at the ICTMA 11 conference held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2003. - Examines mathematical modelling as a way of life, referring to habits of mind and dependence on the power of mathematics to describe, explain, predict and control real phenomena - Encourages teachers to provide students with opportunities to model a variety of real phenomena appropriately matched to students' mathematical backgrounds and interests from early stages of mathematical education - Records presentations at the ICTMA 11 conference held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2003

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Framing the Ass

Literary Texture in Apuleius' Metamorphoses

By: S. J. Harrison

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Framing the Ass

Literary Texture in Apuleius' Metamorphoses

By: S. J. Harrison

This book studies one of the few novels from the Roman Empire, Apuleius' Metamorphoses or Golden Ass. Harrison shows that this work is one of remarkable literary complexity. The volume traces some of the history of the novel's criticism and offers a detailed analysis of its key sections and issues.

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0199602689

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The Acta Pekinensia or Historical Records of the Maillard de Tournon Legation

Volume III: January 1708 - February 1709

By: Kilian Stumpf SJ

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The Acta Pekinensia or Historical Records of the Maillard de Tournon Legation

Volume III: January 1708 - February 1709

By: Kilian Stumpf SJ

The Acta Pekinensia is a Latin manuscript found in the Jesuit Roman Archives. It is a record of the papal legation to China of Charles Maillard de Tournon, from his arrival in China to his death in Macau. It was compiled by Kilian Stumpf, a German Jesuit missionary/scientist serving at the court of the Kangxi emperor of China. Stumpf was in a privileged position to record day by day the events of this crucial episode not only in the history of Christianity in China but in Chinese-Western relations. This annotated translation provides a full documentation and an acute and lively commentary on the clash of values which resulted in the failure of the legation and the condemnation of Chinese Rites.

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9004697624

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The American Catholic Revolution

How the Sixties Changed the Church Forever

By: Mark S. Massa, S.J.

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The American Catholic Revolution

How the Sixties Changed the Church Forever

By: Mark S. Massa, S.J.

In the 1960s, the Second Vatican Council enacted the most sweeping changes the Catholic Church had seen in centuries. In readable and compelling prose, Mark S. Massa tells the story of the cultural war these changes ignited in the United States - a war that is still being waged today. Suddenly, one Sunday, the mass as the faithful had always known it was different, and so was the Church they had believed was timeless and unchanging. Once the Church opened the door to change, Massa argues, it could not be closed again. Skirmishes broke out over the proper way to worship. Soon, Catholics were bitterly divided over birth control, abortion, celibacy, female priests, and the authority of the Church itself. As he narrates these turbulent events, Massa takes us beyond stereotypes of liberals and conservatives, offering new insights into the last fifty years of American Catholicism.

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Oxford University Press

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Religion, Law, and Power : The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660-1760

The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660-1760

By: S. J. Connolly

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Religion, Law, and Power : The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660-1760

The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660-1760

By: S. J. Connolly

This is a study of religion, politics, and society in a period of great significance in modern Irish history. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries saw the consolidation of the power of the Protestant landed class, the enactment of penal laws against Catholics, and constitutional conflicts that forced Irish Protestants to redefine their ideas of national identity. S. J. Connolly's scholarly and wide-ranging study examines these developments and sets them in their historical context. The Ireland that emerges from his lucid and penetrating analysis was essentially a part of ancien r--eacute--;gime Europe: a pre-industrialized society, in which social order depended less on a ramshackle apparatus of coercion than on complex structures of deference and mutual accommodation, along with the absence of credible challengers to the dominance of a landed --eacute--;lite; in which the ties of patronage and clientship were often more important than horizontal bonds of shared economic or social position; and in which religion remained a central part of personal and political motivation. - ;Abbreviations; Introduction; I. A NEW IRELAND; 1. December 1659: `A Nation Born in a Day'; 2. Settlement and Explanation; 3. A Foreign Jurisdiction; 4. Papists and Fanatics; 5. Counter-Revolution Defeated; II. AN ELITE AND ITS WORLD; 6. Uneven Development; 7. Gentlement and Others; 8. Manners; III. THE STRUCTURE OF POLITICS; 9. A Company of Madmen: The Politics of Party 1691-1714; 10. `Little Employments...Smiles, Good Dinners'; 11. Politics and the People; IV. RELATIONSHIPS; 12. Kingdoms; 13. Nations; 14. Communities; 15. Orders; V. THE INVENTIONS OF MEN IN THE WORSHIP OF GOD: RELIGION AND THE CHURCHES; 16. Numbers; 17. Catholics; 18. Dissenters; 19. Churchmen; 20. Christians; VI. LAW AND THE MAINTENANCE OF ORDER; 21. Resources; 22. The Limits of Order; 23. The Rule of Law; 24. Views from Below: Disaffection and the Threat of Rebellion; 25; Views from Above: Perceptions of the Catholic Threat; VII. `REASONABLE INCONVENIENCES: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE PENAL LAWS'; 26. `Raw Head and Bloody Bones': Parliamentary Management and Penal Legislation; 27. Debate; 28. The Conversion of the Natives; 29. Protestant Ascendancy? The Consequences of the Penal Laws; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. -

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0191591793

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Zero Tolerance

By: John Becker, S.J.

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Zero Tolerance

By: John Becker, S.J.

Fr. Luke Wolfe, a veteran Jesuit English teacher, dabbles serendipitously in murder detective work, ably assisted by his students - as lively as Fagan’s gaggle of thieves from Dickens’ Oliver Twist.

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Contested Island

Ireland 1460-1630

By: S. J. Connolly

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Contested Island

Ireland 1460-1630

By: S. J. Connolly

This definitive study of Ireland's transformation from a medieval to a modern society looks at the way in which the country's different religious groups, and nationalities, clashed and interacted during the transition

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0199563713

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Christ and History

The Christology of Bernard Lonergan from 1935 to 1982

By: Frederick E. Crowe. S.J.

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Christ and History

The Christology of Bernard Lonergan from 1935 to 1982

By: Frederick E. Crowe. S.J.

First published in 2005 by Novalis, St Paul University, Ottawa, Canada"--Title page verso.

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Acts Amid Precepts

The Logical Structure of Thomas Aquinas’s Moral Theology

By: Kevin L. SJ Flannery

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Acts Amid Precepts

The Logical Structure of Thomas Aquinas’s Moral Theology

By: Kevin L. SJ Flannery

Although most natural law ethical theories recognize moral absolutes, there is not much agreement even among natural law theorists about how to identify them. The author argues that in order to understand and determine the morality (or immorality) of a human action, it must be considered in relation to the organized system of human practices within which it is performed. In order to depict this structure and to explain how it bears upon the analysis of action, the author investigates a number of issues that have attracted the attention of Thomistic and Aristotelian scholarship. He examines the nature of practical reason, its relationship with theoretical reason, the derivation of lower from higher ethical principles, the incommensurability of human goods, the relationship between will and intellect, and the principle of double effect.

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The Enlightenment and religion

The myths of modernity

By: S. J. Barnett

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The Enlightenment and religion

The myths of modernity

By: S. J. Barnett

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in eighteenth-century Europe, and constitutes a challenge to the accepted views in traditional Enlightenment studies. Focusing on Enlightenment Italy, France and England, it illustrates how the canonical view of eighteenth-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption, in particular the idea that the thought of the enlightened led to modernity. For, despite a lack of evidence, one of the fundamental assumptions of Enlightenment studies has been the assertion that there was a vibrant Deist movement which formed the “intellectual solvent” of the eighteenth century. The central claim of this book is that the immense ideological appeal of the traditional birth-of-modernity myth has meant that the actual lack of Deists has been glossed over, and a quite misleading historical view has become entrenched.

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Salted With Fire

Spirituality for the Faithjustice Journey

By: Fred Kammer SJ

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Salted With Fire

Spirituality for the Faithjustice Journey

By: Fred Kammer SJ

Like a good gumbo from the author's hometown of New Orleans, this book is rich fare. SALTED WITH FIRE blends the realities of social justice and the burdens of working for justice and peace with a hopeful spirituality, all brewed in the cauldron of the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. The book is for the young, who dream dreams of a more just world, and for their elders, who have grown bone weary fighting the good fight for justice and peace. Community organizers, social service workers, political activists, and parish social justice ministers will find here a sympathetic spirit. The author is himself a social service practitioner, who can deal both with the intracacies of social analysis as well as with a sprituality of coping, hoping, surviving, and even flourishing amidst often discouraging conditions and bureaucratic red tape. Adopting a four-fold "pastoral circle" as his conceptual tool, Kammer offers a solid, practical, and pastoral primer for those seeking to build a more humane and just society. Readers will find here a resonant voice and a spiritual diet to nourish ans sustain them over the long haul.

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Divided Kingdom

Ireland 1630-1800

By: S. J. Connolly

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Divided Kingdom

Ireland 1630-1800

By: S. J. Connolly

For Ireland the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked by war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By the 1630s the era of wars of conquest seemed firmly in the past. But the British civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century fractured both Protestant and Catholic Ireland along lines defined by different combinations of religious and political allegiance. Later, after 1688, Ireland became the battlefield for what was otherwise Britain's bloodless (and so Glorious) Revolution. The eighteenth century, by contrast, was a period of peace, permitting Ireland to emerge, first as a dynamic actor in the growing Atlantic economy, then as the breadbasket for industrialising Britain. But at the end of the century, against a background of international revolution, new forms of religious and political conflict came together to produce another period of multi-sided conflict. The Act of Union, hastily introduced in the aftermath of civil war, ensured that Ireland entered the nineteenth century still divided, but no longer a kingdom.

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0191562432

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How Do Catholics Read the Bible?

By: Daniel J. Harrington, SJ

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How Do Catholics Read the Bible?

By: Daniel J. Harrington, SJ

Do Catholics really read the Bible? If so, how do they read it and is there anything unique about their approach? What role does the Bible play in Catholic life, teaching, and culture? As a leading Scripture scholar who also teaches students and preaches to everyday people, Fr. Daniel Harrington, S.J., has made it his life's mission to answer these and many related questions about the Bible and its relationship to Catholic life. Accessibly written, How Do Catholics Read the Bible? blends biblical scholarship with compelling personal anecdotes to equip readers with the tools they need to more fully engage Scripture and the Catholic tradition. With chapters on how the Catholic canon came to be, what the Church teaches about the Bible, appropriate methods for analyzing Scripture passages, and how to incorporate the Bible into everyday life, this book is ideal for individual or group use in parishes and classrooms. Each chapter concludes with questions for reflection and recommendations for further reading.

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Sheed & Ward

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1461667569

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Illuminating the New Testament

The Gospels, Acts, and Paul

By: O'Collins, Gerald, SJ

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Illuminating the New Testament

The Gospels, Acts, and Paul

By: O'Collins, Gerald, SJ

A collection of eighteen essays on the Gospels, Acts, and the letters of Paul, written throughout Gerald O’Collins's distinguished career.

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The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1598–1606

“Lest Our Lamp be Entirely Extinguished”

By: Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.

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The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1598–1606

“Lest Our Lamp be Entirely Extinguished”

By: Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.

In 1598, Jesuit missions in Ireland, Scotland, and England were either suspended, undermanned, or under attack. With the Elizabethan government’s collusion, secular clerics hostile to Robert Persons and his tactics campaigned in Rome for the Society’s removal from the administration of continental English seminaries and from the mission itself. Continental Jesuits alarmed by the English mission’s idiosyncratic status within the Society, sought to restrict the mission’s privileges and curb its independence. Meanwhile the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, the subject that dared not speak its name, had become a more pressing concern. One candidate, King James VI of Scotland, courted Catholic support with promises of conversion. His peaceful accession in 1603 raised expectations, but as the royal promises went unfulfilled, anger replaced hope.

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9004330682

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Women in the United States, 1830-1945

By: S. J. Kleinberg

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Women in the United States, 1830-1945

By: S. J. Kleinberg

Women in the United States, 1830-1945 investigates women's economic, social, political and cultural history, encompassing all ethnic and racial groups and religions. It provides a general introduction to the history of women in industrializing America. Both a history of women and a history of the United States, its chronology is shaped by economic stages and political events. Although there were vast changes in all aspects of women's lives, gender (the social roles imputed to the sexes) continued to define women's (and men's) lives as much in 1945 as it had in 1830.

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1349276987

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Herbal Supplements and the Brain

Understanding Their Health Benefits and Hazards

By: S.J. Enna,Stata Norton

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Herbal Supplements and the Brain

Understanding Their Health Benefits and Hazards

By: S.J. Enna,Stata Norton

Today, many manufacturers of plant-based "neuroceuticals" claim their products can offer powerful benefits in brain function. However, the US government does not require these manufacturers to demonstrate their products’ effectiveness, leaving it difficult for consumers and health professionals to make decisions about the benefits and risks. In Herbal Supplements and the Brain: Understanding their Health Benefits and Hazards, two leading researchers provide this crucial information in clear language any intelligent reader can understand and use. They begin by introducing the fundamental principles of pharmacology, explaining how drugs and natural products can affect the body’s organs and organ systems. Using examples, they show how to determine whether an ingested substance can enter the bloodstream and reach its target at a concentration sufficient to have an effect. They also explain how natural products may influence blood levels of other substances, and discuss whether such interactions may diminish the effectiveness of prescription medications or alter normal body chemistry. Throughout, the authors emphasize factors relating especially to neuroceuticals and the brain. Individual chapters are devoted to nutritional supplements which promise to enhance memory, relieve pain, safely promote sleep, and aid in the treatment of depression or anxiety. Specifically, readers will find research-based coverage of Ginkgo biloba; St. John’s Wort; Valerian; Lemon Balm; Kava; Lavender; Kudzu, Daffodil, Passion Flower, and Camellia Tea and other caffeinated beverages.

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0132825015

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