Author : Robert Royal
Publisher : Crossroad
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Royal presents the first comprehensive history of 20th-century martyrs. This guide traces the specific situations of each area and time when martyrdom occurred and studies the political systems and the reasons for confrontation.
Author : Anna L. Peterson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791431825
Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion explores the ways that Salvadoran Catholics sought to make sense of political violence in their country in the 1970s and 1980s by constructing a theological ethics that could both explain repression in religious terms and propose specific responses to violence. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the book highlights the ways that progressive Catholicism offered a justification and tools for political resistance in the face of extraordinary destruction. Using the case of Catholicism in El Salvador, the book explores the nature of religious responses to social crisis and the ways that ordinary believers construct and strive to live by ethical systems. By highlighting the importance of theological belief, of narrative, and of religious rationality in political mobilization, it touches questions of general interest to readers concerned with the social role of religion and ethics.
Author : Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1681495236
Balthasar puts his finger on the precise origin of all those elements in modern Christianity which see the real Jesus Christ as unknowable, the Gospels as merely the confused reflections of later Christians, and Christian tradition as a perpetuation of the mythology.
Author : Willibald Sauerlander
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606062689
The art of Rubens is rooted in an era darkened by the long shadow of devastating wars between Protestants and Catholics. In the wake of this profound schism, the Catholic Church decided to cease using force to propagate the faith. Like Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) sought to persuade his spectators to return to the true faith through the beauty of his art. While Rubens is praised for the “baroque passion” in his depictions of cruelty and sensuous abandon, nowhere did he kindle such emotional fire as in his religious subjects. Their color, warmth, and majesty—but also their turmoil and lamentation—were calculated to arouse devout and ethical emotions. This fresh consideration of the images of saints and martyrs Rubens created for the churches of Flanders and the Holy Roman Empire offers a masterly demonstration of Rubens’s achievements, liberating their message from the secular misunderstandings of the postreligious age and showing them in their intended light.
Author : Paul Thigpen
Publisher : Servant Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Christian martyrs
ISBN : 9781569552155
This biography tells the stories of representative martyrs throughout the history of the Church, beginning with Christ's own passion as the model of Christian martyrdom. As the stories unfold, Thigpen explains relevant details, including the nature of martyrdom, how martyrdom helped build and shape the Church, and how the Church authenticates martyrs.
Author : P.D. James
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0857861077
Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James
Author : Gregory XIII
Publisher : Aeterna Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release :
Category : Religion
ISBN :
The Roman Martyrology is an official and accredited record, on the pages of which are set forth in simple and brief, but impressive words, the glorious deeds of the Soldiers of Christ in all ages of the Church; of the illustrious Heroes and Heroines of the Cross, whom her solemn verdict has beatified or canonized. In making up this long roll of honor, the Church has been actuated by that instinctive wisdom with which the Spirit of God, who abides in her and teaches her all truth, has endowed her, and which permeates through and guides all her actions. She is the Spouse of Christ, without spot or wrinkle or blemish, wholly glorious and undefiled, whom He loved, for whom He died, and to whom He promised the Spirit of Truth, to comfort her in her dreary pilgrimage through this valley of tears, and to abide with her forever. She is one with Him in Spirit and in love, she is subject to Him in all things; she loves what He loves, she teaches and practises what He commands. Aeterna Press
Author : Anthony E. Clark
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1611460174
The first book-length study of China's Catholic martyr saints, this work recounts the cultural, religious, and economic conflicts that unfolded during China's Qing dynasty (1644–1911). China's Saints considers closely the personal and public lives of both missionaries and Chinese converts lived during China's late-imperial era.
Author : John Wagner
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Contains over 50 tales of Christian martyrs. Each biography is told in comic form by comic book writers and artists.
Author : Henri Daniel-Rops
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Church history
ISBN : 9781685951436
"An immersion into the infancy of the Church, The Church of Apostles and Martyrs offers an outstanding overview of the spread of the Gospel and the way of life of the first Christians in their original witness to the Good News. Indeed, what Daniel-Rops writes in reference to the Acts of the Apostles and its author might well be applied to himself and The Church of Apostles and Martyrs: “This book was not written with any intention of satisfying the curiosity of the future historian, but simply in order to exalt the faith. And yet, within the limits which it voluntarily sets itself, what an incomparable witness it is! No one who reads it can remain unmoved by it.” -- from back cover.
