Author: Ronald A. Franco
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809146253
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Introduces the thinking and spirituality of Isaac Thomas Hecker, founder of the Paulist Fathers, on a daily basis in the context of the calendar year.
Isaac Hecker for Every Day
Author: Ronald A. Franco
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809146253
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Introduces the thinking and spirituality of Isaac Thomas Hecker, founder of the Paulist Fathers, on a daily basis in the context of the calendar year.
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809146253
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Introduces the thinking and spirituality of Isaac Thomas Hecker, founder of the Paulist Fathers, on a daily basis in the context of the calendar year.
Isaac Hecker
Author: David J. O'Brien
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780809103973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Isaac Thomas Hecker was the prototype nineteenth-century American. He was an idealist and a visionary, a believer in the "rightness" of the American experiment. A utopian at heart, Hecker sampled life in New England's transcendentalist communes, later entering the Catholic Church where he began a new community that was founded on the ideals of freedom and personal initiative. He had all the virtues and all the flaws of his era, being optimistic, passionate, energetic, far-sighted, naive. Yet Hecker was also profoundly counter-cultural. He was a mystic in an age of pragmatism. He proclaimed the value of the collective to a generation of Americans who already were falling under the influence of laissez-faire individualism. Within his adopted Catholic community he championed personalism to an unreceptive audience; Rome and its hierarchy were in a defensive posture that favored obedience and conformity. In the end Rome assailed "Americanism" as a threat to its good order. David J. O'Brien has written the first, full life of Isaac Hecker to appear in a hundred years. In the process he enables us to see Hecker's great significance for American religious and social history. Hecker was well-known in his own day--a friend of Thoreau, Emerson and Alcott, popular speaker, best-selling author--but soon after his death he slipped into semi-obscurity. To Catholic intransigents he was an embarrassment, to American pragmatists he was a curiosity. But the present age has witnessed a renewal of spiritual seeking that characterized Hecker's own journey, and the church he swore allegiance to has begun to see things the way he did. The time is ripe for this honest and comprehensive account of Isaac Hecker'sfascinating story.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780809103973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Isaac Thomas Hecker was the prototype nineteenth-century American. He was an idealist and a visionary, a believer in the "rightness" of the American experiment. A utopian at heart, Hecker sampled life in New England's transcendentalist communes, later entering the Catholic Church where he began a new community that was founded on the ideals of freedom and personal initiative. He had all the virtues and all the flaws of his era, being optimistic, passionate, energetic, far-sighted, naive. Yet Hecker was also profoundly counter-cultural. He was a mystic in an age of pragmatism. He proclaimed the value of the collective to a generation of Americans who already were falling under the influence of laissez-faire individualism. Within his adopted Catholic community he championed personalism to an unreceptive audience; Rome and its hierarchy were in a defensive posture that favored obedience and conformity. In the end Rome assailed "Americanism" as a threat to its good order. David J. O'Brien has written the first, full life of Isaac Hecker to appear in a hundred years. In the process he enables us to see Hecker's great significance for American religious and social history. Hecker was well-known in his own day--a friend of Thoreau, Emerson and Alcott, popular speaker, best-selling author--but soon after his death he slipped into semi-obscurity. To Catholic intransigents he was an embarrassment, to American pragmatists he was a curiosity. But the present age has witnessed a renewal of spiritual seeking that characterized Hecker's own journey, and the church he swore allegiance to has begun to see things the way he did. The time is ripe for this honest and comprehensive account of Isaac Hecker'sfascinating story.
Saint Alphonsus Liguori for Every Day
Author: Alfonso Maria de' Liguori
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809146567
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
This devotional book is composed of 365 sayings from a great Doctor of the Church--"The Most Zealous Doctor"--Saint Alphonsus Liguori.
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809146567
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
This devotional book is composed of 365 sayings from a great Doctor of the Church--"The Most Zealous Doctor"--Saint Alphonsus Liguori.
Catholic Converts
Author: Patrick Allitt
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501720538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again, at the center of western intellectual life. The lives of individual converts—such as John Henry Newman, G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day—have been well documented, but Patrick Allitt has written the first account of converts' collective impact on Catholic intellectual life. His book is also the first to characterize the distinctive style of Catholicism they helped to create and the first to investigate the extensive contacts among Catholic convert writers in the United States and Britain. Allitt explains how, despite the Church's dogmatic style and hierarchical structure, converts working in the areas of history, science, literature, and philosophy maintained that Catholicism was intellectually liberating. British and American converts followed each other's progress closely, visiting each other and sending work back and forth across the Atlantic. The outcome of their labors was not what the converts had hoped. Although they influenced the Catholic Church for three or four generations, they were unable to restore it to the central place in Western intellectual life that it had enjoyed before the Reformation.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501720538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again, at the center of western intellectual life. The lives of individual converts—such as John Henry Newman, G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day—have been well documented, but Patrick Allitt has written the first account of converts' collective impact on Catholic intellectual life. His book is also the first to characterize the distinctive style of Catholicism they helped to create and the first to investigate the extensive contacts among Catholic convert writers in the United States and Britain. Allitt explains how, despite the Church's dogmatic style and hierarchical structure, converts working in the areas of history, science, literature, and philosophy maintained that Catholicism was intellectually liberating. British and American converts followed each other's progress closely, visiting each other and sending work back and forth across the Atlantic. The outcome of their labors was not what the converts had hoped. Although they influenced the Catholic Church for three or four generations, they were unable to restore it to the central place in Western intellectual life that it had enjoyed before the Reformation.
The Life of Father Hecker
Author: Walter Elliott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Life of Father Hecker
Author: Walter Elliott
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott is the biography of Isaac Hecker, an American Catholic priest and founder of the Paulist Fathers, a North American religious society of men. Excerpt: "CHAPTER I.—CHILDHOOD II.—YOUTH III.—THE TURNING-POINT IV.—LED BY THE SPIRIT V.—AT BROOK FARM VI.—INNER LIFE WHILE AT BROOK FARM VII.—STRUGGLES VIII.—FRUITLANDS IX.—SELF-QUESTIONINGS X.—AT HOME AGAIN XI.—STUDYING AND WRITING XII.—THE MYSTIC AND THE PHILOSOPHER XIII.—HIS SEARCH AMONG THE SECTS XIV.—HIS LIFE AT CONCORD XV.—AT THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH XVI.—AT THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH."
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott is the biography of Isaac Hecker, an American Catholic priest and founder of the Paulist Fathers, a North American religious society of men. Excerpt: "CHAPTER I.—CHILDHOOD II.—YOUTH III.—THE TURNING-POINT IV.—LED BY THE SPIRIT V.—AT BROOK FARM VI.—INNER LIFE WHILE AT BROOK FARM VII.—STRUGGLES VIII.—FRUITLANDS IX.—SELF-QUESTIONINGS X.—AT HOME AGAIN XI.—STUDYING AND WRITING XII.—THE MYSTIC AND THE PHILOSOPHER XIII.—HIS SEARCH AMONG THE SECTS XIV.—HIS LIFE AT CONCORD XV.—AT THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH XVI.—AT THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH."
The Early Years of Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-1844)...
Author: Vincent F. Holden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Biography of Isaac Thomas Hecker (December 18, 1819 - December 22, 1888), an American Roman Catholic Priest and founder of the Paulist Fathers, a North American religious society of men; he is named a Servant of God by the Catholic Church.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Biography of Isaac Thomas Hecker (December 18, 1819 - December 22, 1888), an American Roman Catholic Priest and founder of the Paulist Fathers, a North American religious society of men; he is named a Servant of God by the Catholic Church.
Hecker Studies
Author: John Farina
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809125555
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Five essays offering analysis of Hecker's thought from the perspectives of church history, political science, theology, and psychology. +
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809125555
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Five essays offering analysis of Hecker's thought from the perspectives of church history, political science, theology, and psychology. +
Christian Tradition in Global Perspective
Author: Schroeder, Roger P.
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608338975
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
"A one-volume history of Christianity for undergraduate students, written from a Catholic perspective"--
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608338975
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
"A one-volume history of Christianity for undergraduate students, written from a Catholic perspective"--
Mapping the Catholic Cultural Landscape
Author: Paula Jean Miller
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742531840
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Mapping the Catholic Cultural Landscape explores the intersection of Catholicism with cultural expressions of literature and art, holiness and personal devotion, faith and secular society. With essays selected from the world's first International Conference of Catholic Studies, this volume is a primary resource for Catholic Studies directors in curriculum development and for students in the classroom. This text emerges as an objective way of studying the relationship between religion, history, and culture.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742531840
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Mapping the Catholic Cultural Landscape explores the intersection of Catholicism with cultural expressions of literature and art, holiness and personal devotion, faith and secular society. With essays selected from the world's first International Conference of Catholic Studies, this volume is a primary resource for Catholic Studies directors in curriculum development and for students in the classroom. This text emerges as an objective way of studying the relationship between religion, history, and culture.