Author: Agnes Baillie Cunninghame DunbarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A Dictionary of Saintly Women
Author: Agnes Baillie Cunninghame DunbarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Women of the Church
Author: Bronwen McSheaPublisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1955305404
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
While many Catholics are aware of great female saints such as Catherine of Siena and Thérèse of Lisieux, a view persists that, over the centuries, women played a limited role in the development of Catholic traditions and institutions. In this innovative survey of Church history, Bronwen McShea demonstrates instead that faithful women have always been at the heart of the Church's common life, shaping it and the course of entire civilizations. In Women of the Church, McShea presents a wide array of well known and lesser known canonized and beatified women, others awaiting beatification, and still more figures not meriting canonization but whom every Catholic should know. She situates Catholic women from diverse social, ethnic, and national origins in their historical contexts, examining specific challenges they faced in settings such as imperial Rome, Reformation Europe, colonial Latin America and Africa, and the USA and Soviet Union during the Cold War. In the process, she shows that, in every age, women inspired by God with creativity, courage, and fidelity have helped save the Church from corruption, disunity, and destruction. In short, McShea clarifies that the history of Catholic women is the history of the Church—as much as the history of Catholic men is.
The Captors' Narrative
Author: William Henry FosterPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801440595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The author reconstructs the lived experience of both captors and captives to show that captivity was always intertwined with gender struggles, providing a novel perspective on the struggles over female authority pervasive in colonial America.
The Month
Author: The Stigmata: Those Who Bore the Wounds of Christ
Author: Deacon Albert E. GrahamPublisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1698714947
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 559
Book Description
Whether you are an atheist, an agnostic or a true believer and disciple of Jesus Christ, you will be mystified at what you learn from The Stigmata. The Stigmata examines such other worldly phenomena, one could liken it to a spiritual X-files episode. Christ’s death and resurrection was not the end, but the beginning for us all. Jesus’ agonizing suffering, sacrifice and surrender of his own life opened the gates of heaven to all those willing to follow Him. The stigmatics serve as an earthly human reminder of the Divine Jesus’ obedient, holy and sacrificial offering to us. The Stigmata is a compilation of some 657 individuals from the 13th to the 21st centuries who have incomprehensibly borne the wounds suffered by Christ. The Stigmata discusses many of the stigmatics in biographical detail. Some stigmatics are recognized saints, such as St. Padre Pio and St. Therese Neumann. Sainted or not, all stigmatics suffer in some way like Christ, bearing evidence of nail piercings to the hands and feet, the crown of thorns and sword laceration near the heart. Have there been fraudulent stigmatics? Yes, and The Stigmata discusses the fakes, separating them like wheat from chaff. Aside from the painful and bloody wounds these individuals suffer, many stigmatics exhibit other miraculous mysteries, from levitation and bi-location to reading of souls and other human impossibilities. The pain the stigmatics have endured is real, the phenomena they’ve experienced is mystical and their complete impact on the world is known only to God.
Bulletin ... of Books Added to the Public Library of Detroit, Mich
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Books by Catholic Authors in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
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Category : Catholic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Spiritual Marriage
Author: Dyan ElliottPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400844347
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The early Christian and medieval practice of spiritual marriage, in which husband and wife mutually and voluntarily relinquish sexual activity for reasons of piety, plays an important role in the development of the institution of marriage and in the understanding of female religiosity. Drawing on hagiography, chronicles, theology, canon law, and pastoral sources, Dyan Elliott traces the history of spiritual marriage in the West from apostolic times to the beginning of the sixteenth century.
Clothes Make the Man
Author: Valerie R. HotchkissPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135231710
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
In this book, the author explores medieval society's fascination with the cross-dressed woman. The author examines a wide variety of religious, literary, and historical sources, which record interpretations of sartorial attempts to overcome gender hierarchy and also illustrate, mainly through the device of inversion, a remarkably sustained desire to examine and reexamine the nature of social gender identities.
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