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Christian Initiation and Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Evidence from the First Eight Centuries
Kilian McDonnell OSB and George T. Montague
Up to now the teaching on baptism in the Holy Spirit has been based on a few scriptural texts, whose interpretation was disputed. This doubt cast its shadow on those who promote baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Now new evidence has been found in early post-biblical authors (Tertullian, Hilary of Poitiers, Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, Philoxenus, and the Syrians) which demonstrates that what is called baptism in the Holy Spirit was integral to Christian initiation (baptism, confirmation, Eucharist). Because it was part of initiation into the Church, it was not a matter of private piety, but of public worship. Therefore it was and remains normative.
This is an intriguing ground-breaking study of value to RCIA teams, pastors, theology teachers and students, and Church offices.
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Fanning the Flame : What Does Baptism in the Holy Spirit Have to Do with Christian Initiation?
Kilian McDonnell OSB and George T. Montague
"The Heart of the Church Consultation of theologians and pastoral leaders met May 6-11, 1990 in Techny, Illinois, to examine the pastoral implications of the evidence from the early post-biblical authors that baptism in the the Holy Spirit is integral to Christian initiation and is normative."
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"Working the Earth of the Heart" : the Messalian Controversy in History, Texts, and Language to A.D. 431
Columba Stewart OSB
This study provides a complete reassessment of the Messalian controversy of the fourth and fifth centuries AD. The Messalians were an ascetic group, their name (of Syriac derivation) meaning `praying people'. Their extraordinary claims and graphic spiritual vocabulary were considered heretical by the early Christian Church and were condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431. Dr. Stewart reconstructs the history of the controversy from its beginnings, carefully avoiding all previous suppositions and flawed methodologies. He considers in depth the spiritual vocabulary which lies at the root of the controversy and which can also be found in the Greek pseudo-Macarian writings. He proves that the pseudo-Macarian vocabulary can be traced to a Syriac milieu and demonstrates this by comparisons with such early Syriac texts as the writings of Ephrem, Aphrahat, and especially the anonymous Liber graduum. In this light, the claims of the Messalians are shown to result from the influence upon Greek Christian culture of an equally orthodox tradition, the Semitic Syriac culture of the Christian East. Christian writers of both cultures were determined to show others a way to 'work the earth of the heart', an image favoured by pseudo-Macarius for its evocation of the patient labour of asceticism. The controversy was thus not indeed a question of heresy, but of misperceived differences of culture and of spiritual idiom.
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A Sense of Place II: The Benedictines of Collegeville
Colman J. Barry OSB
A collection of 31 personal essays by alumni and friends of St. John's Abbey and University.
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Readings, Cases, Materials in Canon Law: A Textbook for Ministerial Students
Jordan F. Hite and Daniel J. Ward OSB
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The Holy Way: Sunday and Weekday Meditations on the Masses for Ordinary Time
Emeric Anthony Lawrence OSB
Church year meditations
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The Homeric Narrator
Scott Richardson
The narrator of the Iliad and the Odyssey[…]belongs neither to the stories he tells nor to the real world. He is not a fictional character living in the heroic world of the epic, nor is he the historical author known as Homer.[…]This metacharacter, the Homeric narrator, is the subject of the present study. [from the Introduction]
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Scales Out of Balance
Lawrence "Larry" Schug
With a unique voice, a proud regionalism, Schug captures with his poetry the spirit, the character, the strengths, and quirks of the people who make up the colorful quilt of rural and small-town Minnesota.
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Cuba: A Different America
Wilber A. Chaffee and Gary Prevost
This well-balanced and objective work attempts to present the reality of contemporary Cuban life, particularly the social progress that the Cuban government has made over the past quarter-century. All the authors, who are from various backgrounds and have a wide range of expertise, have visited Cuba and investigated particular aspects of Cuban society.
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Theology of Priesthood and Seminary Formation: Issues of Assembly II
Daniel K. Finn, Zeni Fox, John O'Malley, and Robert Schwartz
Contents:
Introduction, by Rev. Robert J. Wister; Ordained Ministry: Sign of Leadership and Unity in the Great Sacrament of the Church, by Rev. Robert Schwartz; A Response, by Rev. Robert Schreiter, CPPS; A Response, by Msgr. George H. Niederauer; Diocesan and Religious Models of Formation – Historical Perspectives, by Rev. John O’Malley, SJ; Preparing for Collaborative Ministry, by Dr. Zeni Fox; A Response, by Rev. John E. Linnan, CSV; Response, by Rev. Robert J. Cook; Theological Scholarship: Freedom and Responsibility in the Seminary Setting, by Dr. Daniel Finn; A Response, by Rev. Frederick M. Jelly, OP; A Response, by Rev. Thomas D. McGonigle, OP.
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Lafayette, Hero of Two Worlds : The Art and Pageantry of His Farewell Tour of America, 1824-1825 : Essays
Stanley J. Idzerda, Anne C. Loveland, and Marc H. Miller
Produced to accompany an exhibition commemorating General Gilbert du Motier Lafayette's triumphal visit to America nearly 50 years after the outbreak of the American Revolution--in which his participation proved indispensable--this felicitous mesh of history and art presents such curiosities as a coach that carried Lafayette from Albany to Buffalo and a breast pin con taining locks of Lafayette's and George Washington's hair. Idzerda (co-editor of Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution ) contributes a biographical essay. Loveland ( Emblem of Liberty: The Image of Lafayette in the American Mind ) captures the reactions of the populace to this hero of two revolutions and defines the manner in which his visit acted as ``a crucial impetus to American nationalism.'' Miller, curator of the Queens (N.Y.) Museum, distinguishes the styles of portraits and busts of the period, examines Lafayette's influence on the restoration of Revolutionary War sites and traces the shapes of monuments to their classical origins.
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Why You Can Disagree-- and Remain a Faithful Catholic
Philip S. Kaufman OSB
This popular bestseller has been greatly revised and expanded to include new insights on conscience, infallibility, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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Open the Windows : The Popes and Charismatic Renewal
Kilian McDonnell OSB
Open the Windows contains the popes' public statements of pastoral direction, counsel and encouragement to the charismatic renewal in the Catholic Church. The editor, Fr. Kilian McDonnell, osb, is a consultor to the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity and the founder of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research. His introductory essay documents the presence of the charismatic gifts in the early church's rites of initiation.
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Training and Habilitating Developmentally Disabled People : An Introduction
Richard M. Wielkiewicz and Christiane R.X. Calvert
How can an employer determine whether a prospective employee is suited to serving the developmentally disabled? What rights does a developmentally disabled person have? Are certain skills necessary for service providers to successfully train developmentally disabled people to support themselves and live independently? Answering these and other challenging questions, this volume emphasizes the practical issues surrounding the implementation of behavioural programmes. It provides a hands-on introduction to basic knowledge useful in training mentally disabled people.
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The Ideal of Heimat in the Works of Hermann Hesse
Andreas Kiryakakis
This analysis of the ideal of Heimat in Hesse's Demian, Siddhartha and Steppenwolf is a significant contribution to Hesse scholarship, as well as a fascinating re-evaluation of the culture-bound concept of Heimat itself. Kiryakakis shows how the three novels form a trilogy, with each successive hero expanding upon and benefitting from the experiences of his precursor, and draws parallels between the novels and Hesse's own tenuous relationship to his Heimat. Using both textual and biographical analysis, he examines the three novels within the framework of a continuum, which reflects various developmental stages in the heros' search for the lost ideal of Heimat. Thus he shows how, ultimately, the trilogy not only depicts the development of an individual, but epitomizes the very nature of twentieth-century existence.
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