Documents the history of Catholic activism to mitigate human rights abuses in Guatemala and the failed US policies in the country and region during the 1970s and 1980s Blessed Are the Activists examines US Catholic activists' influence on US-Guatemalan relations during the Guatemalan civil war's most violent years in the 1970s and 1980s.
Con la experiencia de haber pertenecido a la Orden de los Carmelitas Descalzos, Abel de Jesús, considerado el primer «influencer» de teología en español, presenta una nueva biografía de la primera mujer doctora de la Iglesia.
Paulos Mar Gregorios (1922–1996) war ein Protagonist der ökumenischen Bewegung und zugleich eine zentrale Figur des indischen Thomaschristentums im 20.
Im Vormärz veränderten zentralstaatliche Durchdringung, mediale Innovation, wirtschaftlicher Wandel, neue politische Ideen und »religious revivals« die Gesellschaften Europas grundlegend.
In der Biographie des preußisch gesonnenen, konservativen und jüdischen Religionshistorikers Hans Joachim Schoeps (1909-1980), der seit seiner Jugend Mitglied der bündischen Jugend gewesen ist, 1938 emigrierte und schon 1946 heimwehkrank nach Deutschland zurückkehrte, zeigen sich beispielhaft jene Wünsche, Widersprüche und Enttäuschungen, die deutsche Juden im Zwanzigsten Jahrhundert hegten und verarbeiten mussten.
In der Biographie des preußisch gesonnenen, konservativen und jüdischen Religionshistorikers Hans Joachim Schoeps (1909-1980), der seit seiner Jugend Mitglied der bündischen Jugend gewesen ist, 1938 emigrierte und schon 1946 heimwehkrank nach Deutschland zurückkehrte, zeigen sich beispielhaft jene Wünsche, Widersprüche und Enttäuschungen, die deutsche Juden im Zwanzigsten Jahrhundert hegten und verarbeiten mussten.
Die Briefsammlungen des normannischen Bischofs Arnulf von Lisieux und des angelsächsischen Gelehrten Johannes von Salisbury verraten viel über die Innensicht und überzeugungen ihrer Verfasser zu jenem großen Konflikt, der die Kirche in der zweiten Hälfte des 12.
Nach dem Militärputsch in Argentinien 1976 wurde das Verschwindenlassen von Regimegegner*innen durch geheime Militär- und Polizeieinheiten zu einer massiv angewandten Repressionspraxis.
Though the Nicene Creed is regularly recited in weekly church services, few understand its historical origins and connections to Scripture and key Christian doctrines.
Find hope when you need it the most with reminders that God can bring you past your broken beginnings, through the messy middles, and into a faith-filled future.
This book explores how the themes and insights of official Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and broader Catholic social thought might illuminate, and be illuminated by, a deeper engagement with the context of prisons.
This book explores how the themes and insights of official Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and broader Catholic social thought might illuminate, and be illuminated by, a deeper engagement with the context of prisons.
A constructive model of engagement with unjust laws from the ground upThe current political atmosphere would suggest that law is imposed only from above, specifically by the chief executive acting upon some sort of perceived populist mandate.
A constructive model of engagement with unjust laws from the ground upThe current political atmosphere would suggest that law is imposed only from above, specifically by the chief executive acting upon some sort of perceived populist mandate.
An expansion of the discipline of ethics demonstrates that Aquinass infusing of virtue makes better sense of the moral life than finding a method to guide actionWhile teaching ethics is universally applauded, how one goes about it is much more difficult and contested than is often recognized.
End of Days is both a meditation on Jewish morality in the age of Israeli Jewish power, and a cri du coeur by an Orthodox Israeli Jew, a former combat officer in the IDF, for Israelis to look into the Jewish religious ethical tradition for an alternative to the secular and religious Zionism that sanctifies power, statehood, and sovereignty.
In Rudolf Steiners Buch 'Der Seelen Erwachen' wird die spirituelle Reise eines Protagonisten durch seine eigenen Gedanken und Emotionen detailliert beschrieben.
Das Jahr und seine festlichen BesonderheitenMit einer ganz besonderen Hingabe ist Emil Bock (1895-1959) immer wieder neue Wege gegangen, um ein tieferes Verständnis der christlichen Feste zu vermitteln.
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS YOU CAN SEE ONLY WHEN YOU SLOW DOWN - OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD'Reading this is like receiving a warm hug' Vex King, author of Good Vibes, Good Life'A warm and reassuring path through the most challenging moments of our lives' Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone***Modern life doesn't always go our way.
In Meaningful Pasts, Russell Johnston and Michael Ripmeester explore two strands of identity-making among residents of the Niagara region in Ontario, Canada.
An inside account of the Chinese invasion of Tibet told through the voices of three persecuted monks*; 2024 International Book Award Nonfiction - Creative Category*; Shares the true story of three monks' heroic escape from occupied Tibet and the subsequent rebirth of the Bn religion in exile*; Introduces Bn, Tibet's oldest religion, and a traditional way of life extinguished by foreign occupation*; Reveals details of the 1950 Chinese invasion of Tibet and the exodus of thousands of Tibetans to neighboring countriesProviding an inside view into the Chinese occupation of Tibet and the tenets of Bn, one of the world's oldest but least known religions, this book chronicles the true story of three Bn monks who heroically escaped occupied Tibet and went on to rebuild their culture through incredible resilience, determination, and passion.
This book discusses 20th- and 21st-centuries' literary retellings of biblical texts, focusing on how fiction and poetry fill the extant narrative gaps present in the often-sparse biblical accounts and align the narratives with theological and/or cultural expectations of modern interpreting communities.
