How Latino Catholics and America are transforming each otherMost histories of Catholicism in the United States focus on the experience of Euro-American Catholics, whose views on social issues have dominated public debates.
How the rise of Christianity profoundly influenced the development of Judaism in late antiquityIn late antiquity, as Christianity emerged from Judaism, it was not only the new religion that was being influenced by the old.
The first complete and annotated English translation of Maimon's influential and delightfully entertaining memoirSolomon Maimon's autobiography has delighted readers for more than two hundred years, from Goethe, Schiller, and George Eliot to Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt.
Saints' cults, with their focus on miraculous healings and pilgrimages, were not only a distinctive feature of Christian religion in fifth-and sixth-century Gaul but also a vital force in political and social life.
The Methodists and Revolutionary America is the first in-depth narrative of the origins of American Methodism, one of the most significant popular movements in American history.
A unique account of a peasant girl's mental illness in nineteenth-century FranceHysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almost two centuries ago, in the aftermath of the French Revolution.
Nearly twenty-five percent of the world's Christians count themselves among the Charismatic and Pentecostal family of Christian Movements, yet few know how Pentecostalism began.
"e;Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.
In his twenties, Fydor Dostoevsky, son of a Moscow doctor, graduate of a military academy, and rising star of Russian literature, found himself standing in front of a firing squad, accused of subversive activities against the Russian Tsar.
AnIllustrated Outline of Buddhism is an ideal introduction to the vast and complex field of Buddhism, a world religion with more than a billion followers.
In his fascinating new book, Bosnian academic and former statesman, Rusmir Mahmutcehajic, explores how men and women traditionally ordered their communities, architecture, and habits of life to reflect the divine order, and how this order is coming under attack in an increasingly secularized modern world.
Possessing an extraordinary love for God, Protestant Lilian Staveley (1878-1928) teaches us to combine an inner and hidden dialog with Jesus Christ, along with an outward life of everyday duties.
Este libro recorre la Iglesia española de los siglos XIX y XX deteniéndose en diez episodios: una guerra(Independencia), una institución (Inquisición), una restauración (Compañía de Jesús), un tipo sacerdotal (el cura liberal exaltado), una desamortización (de bienes culturales), una devoción (Corazón de Jesús), un santo (José María Rubio), un régimen político (segunda república), una noble tarea (cultura católica) y un sector del clero (los religiosos).
Wer in helfenden Berufen arbeitet, wer ehrenamtlich kranke Menschen begleitet, trifft auch auf die Spiritualität von Patienten und Angehörigen - ob in nichtreligiöser oder in religiöser Form: Die konkrete Not sucht Sprache und "Sinn".
In allen kriegführenden europäischen Staaten wie auch in den USA herrschte die Überzeugung vor, dass der Erste Weltkrieg als Verteidigungskrieg, als gerechter Krieg geführt wurde, bei dem man Gott auf der eigenen Seite wusste.
Am Beispiel der Deutschen Kommission Justitia et Pax untersucht Lüer den Umgang der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland mit den neuen friedens- und sicherheitspolitischen Herausforderungen seit 1989/90.
Discover the wonders of God's unconditional love with this official workbook to the New York Times bestselling book, The Love Stories of the Bible Speak.
• Basándose en la sabiduría ancestral griega y egipcia, explica las Siete Leyes del Universo y cómo identificar qué deseos se alinean con tu propósito superior.
Los comienzos del movimiento Comunión y Liberación (CL) no se pueden separar de la vitalidad de don Giussani desde el momento mismo en que pisó por primera vez la América Latina en 1973.
Diarmaid MacCulloch, acknowledged master of the big picture in Christian history, unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond.
Surveying the content and character of early Christian iconography from the third to the sixth century CE, this substantially revised and updated new edition of Understanding Early Christian Art makes the critical tools of art historians accessible to students.
Recaptures the magical vitality of the original Orphic Hymns*; Presents literary translations of the teletai that restore important esoteric details and correspondences about the being or deity to which each hymn is addressed*; Includes messages inscribed on golden leaves meant to be passports for the dead as well as a reinvention of a lost hymn to Number that preserves the original mystical intent of the teletai*; Explores the obscure origins and the evolution of the Orpheus myth, revealing a profound influence on countercultures throughout Western historyAs famous Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino wrote, ';No magic is more powerful than that of the Orphic Hymns.
Surveying the content and character of early Christian iconography from the third to the sixth century CE, this substantially revised and updated new edition of Understanding Early Christian Art makes the critical tools of art historians accessible to students.
