This powerful Lenten prayer book from the Apostleship of Prayer (The Popes Worldwide Prayer Network) engages and inspires readers with the Churchs daily scripture readings from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, introducing Catholics and other Christians to the traditional spiritual devotion known aslectio divina, or ';sacred reading,' in a new way.
The history of the Reconquista - the Christian reconquest of Spain from the Arabs - has proved an increasingly stimulating field of historical research.
This is the first textbook of its kind to amass cases of genocide and other mass atrocities across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries that have largely been pushed to the periphery of Genocide Studies or "e;forgotten"e; altogether.
In the articles included in this collection, Professor Daniel argues that Abbot Joachim of Fiore was a disciple of Bernard of Clairvaux whose tertius status was reformist, not millenialist.
A Leading Catholic Teacher Offers a Biblical Theology of MarriageThe Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments series provides readers with a deeper appreciation of God's gifts and call in the sacraments through a renewed encounter with God's Word.
The articles in this volume trace the development of the theory that humanity forms a single world community and that there exists a body of law governing the relations among the members of that community.
Shinto : La Voie des Dieux II - L'âme du Japon entre tradition et présentAvec « Shinto : La Voie des Dieux II », découvrez un voyage unique dans le monde fascinant du shintoïsme, la plus ancienne religion du Japon.
This third volume of essays by Peter Linehan deals with matters of perennial interest to all historians of medieval Church and State, and in particular to students of the history of medieval Spain and Portugal and of the papacy in the 12th and 13th centuries.
In Japan verschmelzen Shintoismus und Buddhismus zu einem faszinierenden und einzigartigen Glaubenssystem, das die japanische Kultur und Spiritualität seit Jahrhunderten prägt.
Globalization has quickened the process of communication across the world, creating changes in material and non-material culture with the flow of ideas.
Analysing 100 material objects which helped to shape the Spanish Civil War, this textbook explores one of the seminal events of 20th century through a unique material culture lens.
After an introductory general essay on the life cycle and status of women in Byzantine society, this volume focuses on female religious life, with particular emphasis on the role of convents - as spiritual sanctuary, refuge for women in need, or provider of charitable services.
First published in 1980, but then out of print for several years, this collection, together with The History of Ideas and Doctrines of Canon Law in the Middle Ages, presents a series of fundamental articles by the acknowledged master of medieval canon law studies.
Zionism and Jewish Culture examines the history of Zionism from a new perspective, arguing that Zionism was not only a political project, but also a major cultural force in modern Jewish life.
Fiel a su misión fundacional de dedicarse a la formación de los candidatos al sacerdocio y a los jóvenes sacerdotes, la Facultad de Teología de la Universidad Pontificia Comillas organizó un congreso internacional (abril 2010) con motivo del año sacerdotal convocado por el Papa.
Quakerism: The Basics introduces a vibrant twenty-first-century religion, tracing the evolution of the Religious Society of Friends from its origins in seventeenth-century England to a worldwide religion, balancing discussion of Quaker history, evolving beliefs and practices, and contemporary social action.