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Infallible-- a Papal Fantasy

Author : William Mott

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 538 pages

File Size : 26,49 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0595163386

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During the reign of Pope John Paul II, relations between gays and the Catholic Church have hit an all time low. Infallible - A Papal Fantasy is a rollicking speculation on what might happen if a Pope were to decide to use his ‘infallible’ authority to advance, instead of hindering, the cause of gay rights. "Infallible" mixes romance, sex, and murder with the Byzantine machinations of Vatican politics, as the newly elected Pope Patrick I is sent on a spiritual journey where he is subjected to the trials, tribulations and triumphs of gay life. Convinced that he has experienced a real epiphany, Patrick must now, using all of his substantial Papal powers, find a way to peacefully achieve God’s grand design. Faced with unrelenting opposition from within his own Vatican hierarchy, the Pope enlists the help of two young men: Randy Feigal - an AIDs activist and long-time political adversary from his hometown Boston, and Alberto Camello - a young Swiss Guardsman who’s just beginning to question his own sexuality. The sides are drawn. Will the forces of traditional dogma win the day? Or will Patrick and his friends at last find a way to wrench the Catholic Church into the Twenty-first Century?



The Fantasy of Reunion

Author : Mark D. Chapman

Publisher : OUP Oxford

Page : 340 pages

File Size : 49,55 MB

Release : 2014-02-20

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0191511927

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This book discusses the different understandings of 'catholicity' that emerged in the interactions between the Church of England and other churches - particularly the Roman Catholic Church and later the Old Catholic Churches - from the early 1830s to the early 1880s. It presents a pre-history of ecumenism, which isolates some of the most distinctive features of the ecclesiological positions of the different churches as these developed through the turmoil of the nineteenth century. It explores the historical imagination of a range of churchmen and theologians, who sought to reconstruct their churches through an encounter with the past whose relevance for the construction of identity in the present went unquestioned. The past was no foreign country but instead provided solutions to the perceived dangers facing the church of the present. Key protagonists are John Henry Newman and Edward Bouverie Pusey, the leaders of the Oxford Movement, as well as a number of other less well-known figures who made their distinctive mark on the relations between the churches. The key event in reshaping the terms of the debates between the churches was the Vatican Council of 1870, which put an end to serious dialogue for a very long period, but which opened up new avenues for the Church of England and other non-Roman European churches including the Orthodox. In the end, however, ecumenism was halted in the 1880s by an increasingly complex European situation and an energetic expansion of the British Empire, which saw the rise of Pan-Anglicanism at the expense of ecumenism.





Nexus

Author : Yuval Noah Harari

Publisher : Random House

Page : 529 pages

File Size : 48,5 MB

Release : 2024-09-10

Category : History

ISBN : 059373422X

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. “Masterful and provocative.”—Mustafa Suleyman For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI—a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence. Information is not the raw material of truth; neither is it a mere weapon. Nexus explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and in doing so, rediscovers our shared humanity.



How the Pope Became Infallible

Author : August Hasler

Publisher : Doubleday Books

Page : 408 pages

File Size : 46,73 MB

Release : 1981

Category : Religion

ISBN :

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In a moment of candor and humility, the late Pope Paul VI admitted that the papacy itself - and specifically the doctrine of papal infallibility, fought for so relentlessly by his predecessor, Pius IX - is one of the greatest obstacles to Christian reunion. How that doctrine went from being a minority opinion at the beginning of the nineteenth century to a solemnly defined dogma at the First Vatican Council in 1870 makes for the fascinating story of personality conflicts, papal politics, and doctrinal transformations that the Swiss historian August Berhard Hasler recounts in this controversial book. At center stage is the redoubtable Pius IX, for whom the achievement of a binding conciliar definition of papal infallibility became a crusade, if not an obsession. Hasler details how he bullied and coerced opponents of the definition and hounded doubters after the doctrine was proclaimed by having their works placed on the Index of Forbidden Books, Did the pope's epilepsy influence his behavior? Did the pressures ha and his allies exerted on the waverers among the bishops render the Council unfree and its decisions of questionable validity? These are the kinds of questions Father Hasler raises in his thought-provoking and ultimately constructive effort to reopen debate on the major issue that still divides Christians and makes headlines more than a century after the doctrine was solemnly proclaimed.



About the Religion of Senators Kennedy and Kerry

Author : John Schroeder

Publisher : Trafford Publishing

Page : 381 pages

File Size : 12,16 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1412035228

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Senators Kennedy and Kerry not only hail from the same state, not only serve in the same capacity, the two lawmakers also share the same religion. To many, this makes them mystery men sort of, because so little is known about the Roman Catholic Church. To others, these men represent what is perceived in some quarters as a very real danger, verbalized as the fear that their decisions as lawmakers are influenced by the Roman Catholic Pope. A third group simply wants to know, "What do these men believe?" This book is for all three groups cited above. It is not an endorsement of either Senator Kennedy or Senator Kerry. Nor is it a polemic opposing them. Politically, it is as neutral as neutral can be. What then is this book's purpose? Simply to present, both objectively and honestly, what the Roman Catholic Church teaches, what it's followers, including Senators Kennedy and Kerry, are required to believe; its history and structure, and how it relates to the Holy Bible, held in highest esteem by evangelical Christians. The reader is not likely to find in these pages reasons to cast a vote for or against either of these men. Their political views, their voting records, their private lives are subjects for others to deal with, and such information will not be found between these pages. What will be found is a new and comprehensive understanding of the religion to which they belong, and the doctrines they must accept and believe in order to be practicing Roman Catholics. Also contained in these pages is the answer to the key spiritual question of our time, namely: in their religious beliefs, are these famous men and their fellow Roman Catholics "under Grace," or "under the law?"



From Synagogue to Church

Author : James Tunstead Burtchaell

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 404 pages

File Size : 11,36 MB

Release : 2004-03-11

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9780521891561

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This important work challenges an entrenched scholarly consensus, that at the beginning it was inspired leaders - not ordained officers - who dominated the church. James Burtchaell illustrates that the traditional argument on behalf of clerical authority had read history backwards, and found the apostles to be the first bishops. In this study, Burtchaell reads history forwards, and demonstrates that first century Jews knew only one form of community organization, that of the synagogue. The three-level structure of offices in the synagogue - president, elders, and assistant - emerges, in the author's estimation, as the most plausible antecedent for the Christian offices which stand forth clearly in the second century. Burtchaell's conclusion is that ordained office is a foundational element in Christianity, but that, while the officers presided from the first, they rarely led. Thus, while Jesus' brother James presided as the ordained chief of the mother church in Jerusalem, it was Peter - Jesus' inspired veteran disciple - whose voice carried most authority. This revisionist historical account of Christian origins creatively subverts the established positions on church order, and thus opens up the arguments to new and larger conclusions.



Exploring the Fantastic

Author : Ina Batzke

Publisher : transcript Verlag

Page : 301 pages

File Size : 31,65 MB

Release : 2018-03-31

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 3839440270

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The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The contributions pinpoint and discuss current developments in theory and practice by offering enlightening snapshots of the contemporary Anglophone landscape of research in the fantastic. The authors' arguments and analyses thus give new impetus to the field's theoretical and methodological approaches, its textual materials, its main interests, and its crucial findings.



The Changing Nature of The Marriage Contract

Author : Dr. Geraldine Sgarp

Publisher : Honora-publishing.org

Page : 10 pages

File Size : 46,47 MB

Release : 2017-10-01

Category :

ISBN :

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In Western liberal democracies changes in the nature of the marriage contract are emerging. With the increasing demand for a partnership of equals with shared responsibilities, the traditional marriage contract is being replaced by a more democratic marriage contract. The marriage contract is changing from one of unequal power relations in which men hold power over women, to one of equal power relations with an equal distribution of power. The changing nature of interpersonal relations is resulting in a significant shift of power in marriage and in the family. These changes involve a shift of power which is not without repercussions.



Theology for the End of the World

Author : Marika Rose

Publisher : SCM Press

Page : 123 pages

File Size : 28,99 MB

Release : 2023-07-31

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0334060664

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It feels like the world is ending. In the midst of apocalyptic times it’s tempting to cling on tightly to what we still have. But what if our desire to save the world is part of the problem? Theology for the End of the World suggests that in responding to the deeply entwined systems of capitalism, racism and patriarchy we should stop trying to unearth a ‘good version’ of Christianity which stands opposed to these forms of violence and seek instead to reckon with the role that Christianity has played in making the world we now inhabit. How has Christianity shaped the histories of marriage and the family? How did Christianity invent race and give birth to capitalism? Grappling with the ambivalent inheritance of Christianity, a tradition passed down by enslaved people and enslavers; by violent husbands, resourceful wives and courageous sex workers; by rich people and the dispossessed, the book suggests Christians should give up on trying to redeem the world – a social order founded on violence and exploitation – and seek instead to end it.