Author: Gloria Shahin
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ISBN: 9781599821481
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-311) and index.

Author: Gerald P. Fogarty
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ISBN: 9780268070649
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Commonwealth Catholicism is the first comprehensive history of the Catholic Church in the State of Virginia. Distinguished historian Gerald P. Fogarty tells the story of Virginia's Catholics in the state's history, from the colonial period to the present. Using archival resources, Fogarty brings to life the events and characters that comprise the Church's colorful and often turbulent history. Catholics in Virginia, as in other parts of the South, were a tiny minority from the beginning and remained so for much of their history. They gathered into small, isolated communities, often without a resident priest. The Catholic population in Virginia was so small, in fact, that there was only one diocese until 1974. Catholics were often suspected of unpatriotic sympathies by their Protestant neighbors and tried to remain unnoticed, blending in, as far as possible, with the prevailing Protestant culture. Full religious tolerance for Virginia Catholics did not come until the Revolution. Reconstructing the available documentary evidence, Fogarty tells the story of these early communities in full detail. Fogarty also brings to life many of the prominent actors in the unfolding drama. Father Matthew O'Keefe, the pastor of the Norfolk region from 1852 until 1886--a period of intense Know Nothing activity--is one example. O'Keefe was asked by two men calling at the rectory door to minister to a dying man. Reaching the Elizabeth River on the edge of Portsmouth, Virginia, the two said that the dying man lay further on. O'Keefe "took a pair of revolvers from his coat, placed the men under citizen's arrest, and marched them into Portsmouth where he turned them over to the sheriff. They subsequently confessed that they had been hired to assassinate him." Commonwealth Catholicism, a considerable accomplishment from one of the most prominent historians of American Catholicism, will remain for many years the definitive study on the subject of Virginia's Catholic heritage.

Author: James H. O'Donnell
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ISBN:
Category : Hartford, Conn. (Diocese)
Languages : en
Pages : 578

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Author: Bob Joseph Bernreuter
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ISBN: 9780977852840
Category : Key West (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Samuel Tymms
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Category : Bury Saint Edmunds (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Author: Bryan Ward-Perkins
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191622362
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Why did Rome fall? Vicious barbarian invasions during the fifth century resulted in the cataclysmic end of the world's most powerful civilization, and a 'dark age' for its conquered peoples. Or did it? The dominant view of this period today is that the 'fall of Rome' was a largely peaceful transition to Germanic rule, and the start of a positive cultural transformation. Bryan Ward-Perkins encourages every reader to think again by reclaiming the drama and violence of the last days of the Roman world, and reminding us of the very real horrors of barbarian occupation. Attacking new sources with relish and making use of a range of contemporary archaeological evidence, he looks at both the wider explanations for the disintegration of the Roman world and also the consequences for the lives of everyday Romans, in a world of economic collapse, marauding barbarians, and the rise of a new religious orthodoxy. He also looks at how and why successive generations have understood this period differently, and why the story is still so significant today.

Author: Luigi Gambero
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1642290971
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Father Luigi Gambero, internationally-known expert on early Christianity, presents a comprehensive survey of the development of Marian doctrine and devotion during the first eight centuries. Focusing on the lives and works of over thirty of the most famous Church Fathers and early Christian writers, Fr. Gambero has produced a clear and readable summary of the richness of the patristic age's theological and devotional approach to the Mother of God. The book contains numerous citations from the works of those men who developed the defining Christological and Mariological positions that have constituted the foundational doctrinal teaching of the Church. Each chapter concludes with an extended reading from the works of the patristic authors. A number of these texts have never before been published in English. The thought of the Fathers and early Christian writers continues to fascinate readers today. Their theological acuity and spiritual depth led them faithfully into the mysteries of Sacred Scripture. Their vast experience made them reliable and trustworthy witnesses to the faith of the people of God.

Author: James B. Bennett
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691121482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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"Drawing on a range of local and personal accounts from the post-Reconstruction period, newspapers, and church records Bennett's analysis challenges the assumption that churches fell into fixed patterns of segregation without a fight. In sacred no less than secular spheres, establishing Jim Crow constituted a long, slow, and complicated journey that extended well into the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Tina Rosenthal Monosmith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781599821498
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Teacher guide for a twelfth-grade course on church history developed in line with the U.S. Bishops' High School Curriculum Framework. The course examines the events of the church's life, the contributions to human life it has made, and studies the challenges the church has faced overtime, from her earliest history.--

Author: Rev. John Edward JACKSON
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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