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...El MASTER OF ARTS IN THEOLOGY Programs of academic ex- Lawrence S. Cunningham teaches theology at the University of Notre Dame...
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...spiritual forms found in the various cluding one short-lived marriage) and There is a wonderful portrait of novel- "schools" of Christian spirituality...
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...To do comparative theology is not for everyone since it requires, in addition to a grasp of one's own tradition, the ability are changing to study texts in other languages...
...More recently, but more contentious- centric to a "reality centered" vision in Fredericks is not enamored of the pluly, a number of authors have jettisoned order to argue for an inclusive idea of ralist project...
...ond discusses the category of "invisi- al inclinations...
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...Prologue the individuals profiled...
...the role of hervarious struggles with his writing, psy- Price advised, "Try it sometime, Mister mitages...
...Nor does Short have much to say about how the Franciscan revival of the late Commonweal 40 September 8, 2000 nineteenth century helped scholars trace back to medieval spirituality some roots HARVARD DIVINITY of Renaissance art...
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...As the book's title re- part of the year in Florida, continues to no, the poet Jacopone da Todi, Ubertino flects, the quest for discernment, for the sort out his romantic life, and hangs da Casale (who influenced Dante), Saint wisdom to distinguish God from mere onto his basic religious convictions...
...The precise merit of Fredericks's to the liberal Protestantism of Von Harfor Christians to understand the pres- book is that he details how pluralist au- nack) to a "soteriocentric" one...
...Another foundress, lenge," I had the pleasure of interstory ends near Venice where she was a Australian Blessed Mary MacKillop viewing both Father Harvey and his highly regarded religious, and also (died 1909), whose biography is also in colleague at Courage, Father James Blessed Anna Maria Taigi (died 1837), this volume, might well fit the same Lloyd...
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...The pluralists claim to know what religion is ultimately about...
...tradition Not everything can be covered in a brief work...
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...He ranges from the biblical tradition to prayers written in Nazareth h College our own time...
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...ics such as abortion, euthanasia, health-care rationing, The Church military interventions, and the future of Catholic & Error fWfiard Ncwen FOWAIL Rkhard John NeuMtn higher education...
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...In a series of influential, but pluralist understanding by which one standing of the particularities of specific highly controversial, studies, Karl Rah- could affirm many saviors and many traditions...
...ceives" such a movement into its tradition we have a "school" of spirituality...
...Along with other critics, he discerns a subtle claim of omniscience in such schemes...
...first provides an intelligent discussion of Courage also cautions individuals that The Liturgical Press is in the process of the tradition of women living in male such programs give no guarantee that publishing all twelve volumes of the monasteries disguised as men...
...He notes, for example, to write sinewy, nonsentimental prose growing number of Americans (30 per- that the little-read Giovanni de Caulibus distinguish this volume from much of cent according to a December 1999 (died 1335) influenced the Christology of the Carthusian Ludolph of Saxony, whose work, in turn, was a crucial part of the spiritual reading of the young Ignatius of Loyola...
...How does the church help or hinder you in integrating your faith with your culture, politics, imagination...
...own translation of the Gospels, and who Francis and Saint Clare but to the tradiA Spiritual Memoir challenged Jesus Seminar guru John Do- tion which these seminal figures emDan Wakefield minic Crossan's assertions about Jesus...
...structions are performed is through Responsibilities: teaching one course and one seminar for undergraduates, and prayer...
...mrweis@naz.edu) standard categories: prayers of praise...
...Actually, cal sketches of female saints from antiq- an active community of women in the Courage has the explicit approval of seventeenth century were met with cler- the Pontifical Council for the Family: Women Saints ical persecution...
...interest in the history of women in the that Courage offers reparative therapy, Those interested in the more arcane church, which is all to the good...
...He traces the influence of Duns Scotus on the poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins but does not discuss the view that the English Jesuit was also influenced by Bonaventure...
...If four semiliterate writers of bad Greek major Franciscan currents: life in povercould invent the person of Jesus, then, ty...
...The of varied comprehensiveness, for fur- opinion on that matter...
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...Still there is a body of talented comparativist 11Pi111`;h,l' I C'Clith-es /he Collaboration r}R' the beiplized...
...Short shows how ty, as well as his persistent desire to Now recovered from heart surgery, these appear in authors writing in the develop what the Ignatian tradition calls at an age when the Social Security Franciscan tradition: medieval masters discernment, that which helps us know checks could arrive, Wakefield teaches and mistresses such as Angela of Foligthe will of God...
...Shannon Chair in Catholic Studies, an endowed and wisdom...
...Comparative theology prizes that form of intellectual and spiritual sharing which goes under the beautiful rubric of friendship...
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...ANNOUNCEMENT Classic prayers offer profound re- William H. Shannon Chair in Catholic Studies sources for theological reflection...
...Jones divides her In 1978 the Jesuits finally granted her mosexual persons to live in accordance saints according to categories (visionar- community their constitutions-some- with the laws of God and the teaching ies, martyrs, collaborators, wives and thing she had sought all during her of his church...
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...I never make hagiographical matters will enjoy the erence section provides bibliographies such a statement, nor do I have an appendices to this readable volume...
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...Knitter, a Catholic, described ner developed the notion of the "anony- paths to salvation...
...Rowan Williams, one of distinguished visiting professorship, established to assist in keeping alive and visible the most perceptive theologians writ- the Roman Catholic intellectual tradition upon which Nazareth College was founded...
...Kathleen Jones was responsible for re- ble women," saints in their own right As the director of Courage, I have vising the June and December volumes...
...In other words, pluWASHINGTON ralists and inclusivists often skirt the same kind of reductionism...
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...Shores ist Reynolds Price, who has done his survey pays attention not only to Saint How Do We Know When It's God...
...Such is an option, not an obligation...
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...These are short onesentence or single-phrase prayers which April, 1991 lend themselves to repetition and med- Lee helps expose the itation...
...our students are learning collalxlrativ'e ministry through collaborative education all sttidenLc are in classes together- lay, religious, priesthood Fredericks's eminently readable book tours the field of interreligious dialogue candidates, and esperienci'd minister on sabbatical...
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...When Short gets to the modern period he is less thorough...
...In the latter category is one might like to see a new category of The author replies: the former Sudanese slave, Josephine saint: a slow martyr at the hands of While researching "Dignity's ChalBakhita (died 1947) whose improbable church authority...
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...When It's God?, reprises and updates his spiritual journey, covering his active Lawrence S. Cunningham Poverty and Joy: membership at King's Chapel in Boston The Franciscan Tradition (Unitarian in theology, Anglican in litur- William Short, O.F.M...
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...Not Bonaventure, and Duns Scotus...
...n Returning: A Spiritual Gallup Poll) who consider themselves Journey (1988), novelist and "spiritual but not religious...
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...52'10 Fax: 202.726.1't6 more demanding work of Jacques Commonweal 42 September 8, 2000 Dupuis in Towards a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism (Orbis, 1997...
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...psychological frisson, is Wakefield's a denominational person, Wakefield de- Short also traces the effect that Francentral subject...
...ho gems (Sir Walter Raleigh's poem written before his execution was a revelation), August, 1975 so it stands as a good addendum to Oscar Ruix, a child streets, dies of gunshot wounds...
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