Isaac Hecker

Author : Boniface Hanley
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809152322
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paulist Father Isaac Hecker written by Boniface Hanley and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Paulist Father Isaac Hecker: An American Saint is a short biography about this fascinating and influential nineteenth-century religious figure. Father Hecker was a convert to the Catholic faith and a man who was 'a ahead of his times." His version has been the impetus for the religious charism of the Paulists and their various apostolates in North America." "For those who are already familiar with the Paulist Fathers, this concise work offers insights into the life of the Paulist founder and explains the origins of the Paulist mission that continues to the present day, Those not familiar with Isaac Hecker will learn his story and come to appreciate his remarkable vision for the American Church."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Franco, Ronald A., CSP
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 1616433728
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isaac Hecker for Every Day written by Franco, Ronald A., CSP and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the thinking and spirituality of Isaac Thomas Hecker, founder of the Paulist Fathers, on a daily basis in the context of the calendar year.

Author : Vincent F. Holden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yankee Paul: Isaac Thomas Hecker written by Vincent F. Holden and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Thomas Hecker (December 18, 1819 - December 22, 1888) was an American Roman Catholic Priest and founder of the Paulist Fathers, a North American religious society of men; he is named a Servant of God by the Catholic Church. Hecker was originally ordained a Redemptorist priest in 1849. Then, with the blessing of Pope Pius IX, he founded the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle, now known as the Paulist Fathers, in New York on July 7, 1858. The Society was established to evangelize both believers and non-believers in order to convert America to the Catholic Church. Father Hecker sought to evangelize Americans using the popular means of his day, primarily preaching, the public lecture circuit, and the printing press. One of his more enduring publications is The Catholic World, which he created in 1865. Hecker's spirituality centered largely on cultivating the action of the Holy Spirit within the soul as well as the necessity of being attuned to how He prompts one in great and small moments in life. Hecker believed that the Catholic faith and American culture were not opposed, but could be reconciled. The ideas of individual freedom, community, service, and authority were fundamental to Hecker when conceiving of how the Paulists were to be governed and administered. Hecker's work was likened to that of Cardinal John Henry Newman, by the Cardinal himself. Father Hecker's cause for Sainthood was opened January 25, 2008, in the mother Church of the Paulist Fathers on 59th St, New York City.

Author : Joseph McSorley
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809116058
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isaac Hecker and His Friends written by Joseph McSorley and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the founding of the Paulist Fathers.

Author : Vincent F. Holden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early Years of Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-1844)... written by Vincent F. Holden and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Isaac Thomas Hecker (December 18, 1819 - December 22, 1888), an American Roman Catholic Priest and founder of the Paulist Fathers, a North American religious society of men; he is named a Servant of God by the Catholic Church.

Author : John Farina
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809125555
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hecker Studies written by John Farina and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five essays offering analysis of Hecker's thought from the perspectives of church history, political science, theology, and psychology. +

Author : David J. O'Brien
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809103973
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isaac Hecker written by David J. O'Brien and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Thomas Hecker was the prototype nineteenth-century American. He was an idealist and a visionary, a believer in the "rightness" of the American experiment. A utopian at heart, Hecker sampled life in New England's transcendentalist communes, later entering the Catholic Church where he began a new community that was founded on the ideals of freedom and personal initiative. He had all the virtues and all the flaws of his era, being optimistic, passionate, energetic, far-sighted, naive. Yet Hecker was also profoundly counter-cultural. He was a mystic in an age of pragmatism. He proclaimed the value of the collective to a generation of Americans who already were falling under the influence of laissez-faire individualism. Within his adopted Catholic community he championed personalism to an unreceptive audience; Rome and its hierarchy were in a defensive posture that favored obedience and conformity. In the end Rome assailed "Americanism" as a threat to its good order. David J. O'Brien has written the first, full life of Isaac Hecker to appear in a hundred years. In the process he enables us to see Hecker's great significance for American religious and social history. Hecker was well-known in his own day--a friend of Thoreau, Emerson and Alcott, popular speaker, best-selling author--but soon after his death he slipped into semi-obscurity. To Catholic intransigents he was an embarrassment, to American pragmatists he was a curiosity. But the present age has witnessed a renewal of spiritual seeking that characterized Hecker's own journey, and the church he swore allegiance to has begun to see things the way he did. The time is ripe for this honest and comprehensive account of Isaac Hecker'sfascinating story.

Author : William L. Portier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isaac Hecker and the First Vatican Council written by William L. Portier and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Hecker's participation in, and response to, the First Vatican Council.

Author : Owen F. Cummings
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 0809144468
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophets, Guardians, and Saints written by Owen F. Cummings and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book seeks to explore various aspects of nineteenth-century Catholic tradition, as embodied in its movements, such as Modernism, and in Vatican Council I, but especially through its people - its popes, theologians, and saints."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Lincoln A. Mullen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674975626
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chance of Salvation written by Lincoln A. Mullen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chance of Salvation offers a history of conversions in the United States which shows how religious identity came to be a matter of choice. Shortly after the American Revolution, people in the United States increasingly encountered an expanded array of religious options. Evangelical Protestants began an effort to convert Americans, while developing new practices that emphasized conversion as an immediate choice. Their missionary effort extended to Native American nations such as the Cherokee in the Southeast, who received Christianity on their own terms. Enslaved and newly freed African Americans likewise created a variety of Christian conversion that was centered on religious hope and eschatological expectation. Mormons, drawing on earlier Protestant practices and beliefs, enthusiastically proselytized for a new tradition that emphasized individual choice and free will. By uncovering the way that religious identity is structured as an obligatory decision, this book explains why Americans change their religions so much, and why the United States is both highly religious in terms of religious affiliation and very secular in the sense that no religion is an unquestioned default.--