Author: Robert Hugh BensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholic converts
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Confessions of a Convert
Author: Robert Hugh BensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholic converts
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Augustine
Author: Robin Lane FoxPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465061575
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 885
Book Description
"This narrative of the first half of Augustine's life conjures the intellectual and social milieu of the late Roman Empire with a Proustian relish for detail." -- New York Times In Augustine, celebrated historian Robin Lane Fox follows Augustine of Hippo on his journey to the writing of his Confessions. Unbaptized, Augustine indulged in a life of lust before finally confessing and converting. Lane Fox recounts Augustine's sexual sins, his time in an outlawed heretical sect, and his gradual return to spirituality. Magisterial and beautifully written, Augustine is the authoritative portrait of this colossal figure at his most thoughtful, vulnerable, and profound.
Confessions of a Convert
Author: Robert Hugh BensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholic converts
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Confessions of a Convert
Author: Robert Hugh BensonPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499602388
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
An Autobiography of Fr Robert Hugh Benson's Conversion from the Church of England to the Catholic Church.
Confessions of a Convert
Author: Robert Hugh BensonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781974593101
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
An Autobiography of Fr Robert Hugh Benson's Conversion from the Church of England to the Catholic Church.
Confessions of a Convert
Author: Robert BensonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781974428830
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
An Autobiography of Fr Robert Hugh Benson's Conversion from the Church of England to the Catholic Church.
The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert
Author: Rosaria Champagne ButterfieldPublisher:
ISBN: 9781884527821
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
"Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for which she cared deeply. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make a difference in the world. In the community, Rosaria was involved in volunteer work. At the university, she was a respected advisor of students and her department's curriculum. And then, in her late 30s, Rosaria encountered something that turned her world upside down -- the idea that Christianity, a religion that she had regarded as problematic and sometimes downright damaging, might be right about who God was. That idea seemed to fly in the face of the people and causes that she most loved. What follows is a story of what she describes as a train wreck at the hand of the supernatural. These are her secret thoughts about those events, written as only a reflective English professor could."--Back cover.
Confessions of a Convert
Author: Robert Hugh BensonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781974599028
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
An Autobiography of Fr Robert Hugh Benson's Conversion from the Church of England to the Catholic Church
Confessions of the Shtetl
Author: Ellie R. SchainkerPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503600246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity. Confessions of the Shtetl explores the day-to-day world of these people, including the social, geographic, religious, and economic links among converts, Christians, and Jews. The book narrates converts' tales of love, desperation, and fear, tracing the uneasy contest between religious choice and collective Jewish identity in tsarist Russia. Rather than viewing the shtetl as the foundation myth for modern Jewish nationhood, this work reveals the shtetl's history of conversions and communal engagement with converts, which ultimately yielded a cultural hybridity that both challenged and fueled visions of Jewish separatism. Drawing on extensive research with conversion files in imperial Russian archives, in addition to the mass press, novels, and memoirs, Ellie R. Schainker offers a sociocultural history of religious toleration and Jewish life that sees baptism not as the fundamental departure from Jewishness or the Jewish community, but as a conversion that marked the start of a complicated experiment with new forms of identity and belonging. Ultimately, she argues that the Jewish encounter with imperial Russia did not revolve around coercion and ghettoization but was a genuinely religious drama with a diverse, attractive, and aggressive Christianity.
Confessions of a Convert
Author: Robert Hugh BensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholic converts
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description