Category: Catholicism

By Deleuze/Parnet

ISBN-10: 2080813439

ISBN-13: 9782080813435

By John T. Noonan Jr.

Initially released in 1965, birth control bought unanimous acclaim from all quarters because the first thorough, scholarly, aim research of Catholic doctrine on contraception. greater than ever this topic is of acute predicament to an international dealing with severe inhabitants difficulties, and the writer has written an enormous new appendix reading the improvement of and debates over the doctrine long ago two decades.

By Gabriel Bunge

ISBN-10: 0898708370

ISBN-13: 9780898708370

The Fathers of the Church, deeply-rooted within the Scriptures, have left us a wealthy treasure as inheritance, not just of texts, but additionally of manners, types and gestures of prayer. this present day, western Christianity in a distinct manner, must rediscover the intimate union which needs to exist—in prayer simply as in any element of Christian life—between conception and perform, among contemplation and useful workout. One learns find out how to pray via praying, and the entire of our being is termed to take part during this paintings: the brain, the guts, but in addition the physique, the gaze, the senses. Fr. Gabriel Bunge, a hermit with nice religious discernment and profound wisdom of the Fathers of the barren region, offers with masterly coherence this significant harmony among what one believes and what one expresses within the perform of prayer: a desirable rediscovery of the dear treasure inside the teachings of the Church Fathers at the perform of non-public prayer.

By Nicholas Atkin, Frank Tallett

ISBN-10: 1417520973

ISBN-13: 9781417520978

ISBN-10: 1860646654

ISBN-13: 9781860646652

The Catholic Church has continually been a tremendous participant in eu and international heritage. no matter if it has loved a spiritual dominance or existed as a minority faith, Catholicism hasn't ever been diverted from political existence. "Priests, Prelates and other people" documents the Church suffering to evolve to the recent political panorama ushered in by means of the French Revolution, and indicates how the formation of country states and identities was once either helped and hindered by means of the Catholic institution. It portrays the Vatican more and more out of step within the wake of global struggle, chilly struggle and the large growth of the constructing international, with its difficulties of inhabitants development and under-development.

By Edmund Paris

ISBN-10: 0937958107

ISBN-13: 9780937958100

Secrets and techniques the Jesuits don't need you to know

Out of Europe, a voice is heard from the secular international that files traditionally an identical details instructed via ex-priests. the writer exposes the Vatican's involvement in global politics, intrigues, and the fomenting of wars all through background. it sounds as if, past any doubt, that the Roman Catholic establishment isn't really a Christian church and not was once. The negative Roman Catholic humans were betrayed by means of her and are dealing with religious catastrophe. Paris exhibits that Rome is accountable for the 2 nice global wars.

Older variations of this vintage paintings have been often picture reproductions of the unique, yet this version is totally retypset in a simple to learn smooth typeface.

By Cleo McNelly Kearns

ISBN-10: 0511408722

ISBN-13: 9780511408724

ISBN-10: 0521871565

ISBN-13: 9780521871563

The Virgin Mary performs a major-although usually paradoxical-role within the incarnation and crucifixion and within the ecclesiastical constitution of Christianity. This position is formed through sacrifice as understood when it comes to the non secular patrimony of historic Israel and as refigured within the new Christian and Islamic paradigms bobbing up from it. right here the delivering up of a son is an often happening motif, one within which fathers and moms play an emotionally fraught, anthropologically conditioned and theologically major function. Like such figures as Abraham and Sarah within the Hebrew Bible, Mary's dating to sacrifice has profound implications not just for Christian theology, yet for later advancements in monotheism, together with the position of ladies and gender in growing and maintaining non secular identities, the emergence of competing definitions of orthodoxy, and the establishment in a few traditions of a masculine priesthood and non secular hierarchy.

By Todd A. Salzman

ISBN-10: 158901913X

ISBN-13: 9781589019133

Ideas seize the essence of the Catholic culture on sexual ethics: that every and each marriage act needs to stay open to the transmission of existence, and that any human genital act needs to happen in the framework of marriage. within the Catholic culture, ethical sexual intercourse is institutionalized in the confines of marriage and procreation, and sexual morality is marital morality. yet theologians Todd Salzman and Michael Lawler contend that there's a disconnect among a number of the Church's absolute sexual norms and different theological and highbrow advancements explicitly well-known and counseled within the Catholic culture, specifically because the moment Vatican Council. those advancements contain the shift from a first-rate static worldview to a traditionally unsleeping worldview, one who acknowledges truth as dynamic, evolving, altering, and specific. via utilizing this type of traditionally unsleeping worldview, replacement claims concerning the ethical legitimacy of arguable themes corresponding to birth control, man made copy, and gay marriage can faithfully emerge inside of a Catholic context. confident of the primary position that love, wish, and fertility play in a human lifestyles, and likewise within the lifetime of Christian discipleship, the authors suggest an figuring out of sexuality that ends up in the enhancement of human sexual relationships and flourishing.This accomplished advent to Catholic sexual ethics -- whole with thought-provoking examine questions on the finish of every bankruptcy -- could be guaranteed to stimulate discussion approximately sexual morality among Catholic laity, theologians, and the hierarchy. someone looking a reputable and trained Catholic sexual ethic will welcome this most likely progressive booklet.

By John Senior

ISBN-10: 1932528164

ISBN-13: 9781932528169

ISBN-10: 1932528520

ISBN-13: 9781932528527

By Paul Williams

ISBN-10: 0567088308

ISBN-13: 9780567088307

The tale of 1 man's unforeseen pilgrimage from Buddhism to Catholicism.There are Christians who, in mid-life choose to abandon their Christian religion and develop into Buddhists. Paul Williams did the other. After two decades spent practicing and educating Tibetan Buddhism in Britain, student and broadcaster Paul Williams astonished his friends and family in 1999 through changing to Roman Catholicism. Williams explains why he joined a Church that many Buddhists and others may perhaps regard as a repressed and outmoded lifestyle and trust. He argues that being a Catholic within the sleek international isn't any much less rational than being a Buddhist, and should in lots of respects, be extra so.

By James J. Buckley, Visit Amazon's Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt Page, search results, Learn about Author Central, Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, , Trent Pomplun

ISBN-10: 1405112247

ISBN-13: 9781405112246

The Blackwell significant other to Catholicism deals an intensive survey of the background, doctrine, practices, and worldwide conditions of Roman Catholicism, written by means of more than a few amazing and skilled Catholic writers.

• Engages its readers in an educated and informative dialog approximately Roman Catholic lifestyles and notion
• Embraces the neighborhood and the worldwide, the prior and the current, lifestyles and the afterlife, and a large diversity of associations and actions
• Considers either what's certain approximately Catholic lifestyles and concept, and the way Catholicism overlaps with and transforms alternative ways of considering and residing
• Topics coated contain: peacemaking, violence and wars; funds, the vow of poverty and socio-economic existence; paintings via and approximately Catholics; and males, ladies and sex