The Ground Beneath The Cross

Author : Kevin F. Burke, SJ
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589014473
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ground Beneath the Cross written by Kevin F. Burke, SJ and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the thought of Ignacio Ellacuría, the Jesuit philosopher-theologian martyred for his work on behalf of Latin America's oppressed peoples. While serving as president of the Jesuit-run University of Central America in the midst of El Salvador's brutal civil war, Ellacuría was also a prolific writer. His advocacy on behalf of the country's persecuted majority provoked the enmity of the Salvadoran political establishment. On November 16, 1989, members of the Salvadoran military entered the university's campus and murdered Ellacuría, along with five other Jesuit priests and two women. Kevin F. Burke, SJ, shows why Ellacuría is significant not only as a martyr but also as a theologian. Ellacuría effectively integrated philosophy, history, anthropology, and sociopolitical analysis into his theological reflections on salvation, spirituality, and the church to create an original contribution to liberation theology. Ellacuría's writings directly address one of the most vexing issues in theology today: can theologians account for the demands arising from both the particularity of their various social-historical situations and also the universal claims of Christian revelation? Burke explains how Ellacuría bases theology in a philosophy of historical reality—the "ground beneath the cross"—and interprets the suffering of "the crucified peoples" in the light of Jesus' crucifixion. Ellacuría thus inserts the theological realities of salvation and transcendence squarely within the course of human events, and he connects these to the Christian mandate to "take the crucified peoples down from their crosses." Placing Ellacuría's thought in the context of historical trends within the Roman Catholic Church, particularly Vatican II and the rise of liberation theology in Latin America, Burke argues that Ellacuría makes a distinctive contribution to contemporary Catholic theology.

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466822627
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ground Beneath Her Feet written by Salman Rushdie and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2000-03-16 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the world renowned author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses comes Salman Rushdie's brilliant novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet, featuring an epic, exuberant love story with a rock 'n' roll soundtrack. At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks, and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Their epic romance is narrated by Ormus's childhood friend and Vina's sometime lover, her "back-door man," the photographer Rai, whose astonishing voice, filled with stories, images, myths, anger, wisdom, humor, and love, is perhaps the book's true hero. Telling the story of Ormus and Vina, he finds that he is also revealing his own truths: his human failings, his immortal longings. He is a man caught up in the loves and quarrels of the age's goddesses and gods, but dares to have ambitions of his own. And lives to tell the tale. Around these three, the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break. Cracks and tears have begun to appear in the fabric of the real. There are glimpses of abysses below the surfaces of things. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's most gripping novel and his boldest imaginative act, a vision of our shaken, mutating times, an engagement with the whole of what is and what might be, an account of the intimate, flawed encounter between the East and the West, a brilliant remaking of the myth of Orpheus, a novel of high (and low) comedy, high (and low) passions, high (and low) culture. It is a tale of love, death, and rock 'n' roll.

Author : Barbara B. Diefendorf
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195070132
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beneath the Cross written by Barbara B. Diefendorf and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on the popular religious fanaticism and hatred caused by the religious conflicts of 16th-century France, particularly the St Bartholomew's Day massacres of 1572. It uses an array of sources to examine the violence which escalated during this period.

Author : Gerardo Joseph Colacicco
Publisher : Jubilee Studio
ISBN 13 : 9781883551827
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beneath the Cross written by Gerardo Joseph Colacicco and published by Jubilee Studio. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Beneath the Cross," author and bishop Gerardo J. Colacicco offers an original series of meditations on the Seven Last Words spoken by Christ from the cross. Each of the eleven meditations is based on a Gospel account of a person who encountered Jesus during His public ministry and now, by way of the author¿s rendering, is drawn to Calvary to be with Jesus in His final hours and shares his or her personal reflections ¿beneath the cross.¿ These meditations were delivered by Bishop Colacicco at St. Patrick¿s Cathedral in New York City on April 10, 2020, as part of the Three Hours¿ (Tre Ore) liturgical service held annually on Good Friday to commemorate the Passion of Jesus Christ. This particular service, held during the coronavirus pandemic, was unlike any in recent memory. The bishop delivered his reflections to a nearly empty cathedral but the service was livestreamed, drawing tens of thousands of viewers from all over the world. The book includes a section for further prayer and reflection, featuring related prayers and Scriptures.

Author : J. Matthew Ashley
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608335089
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Justice written by J. Matthew Ashley and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : O. Ernesto Valiente
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823268535
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberation through Reconciliation written by O. Ernesto Valiente and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past one hundred years alone, more than 200 million people have been killed as a consequence of systematic repression, political revolutions, or ethnic or religious war. The legacy of such violence lingers long after the immediate conflict. Drawing on the author’s experiences of his native El Salvador, Liberation through Reconciliation builds on Jon Sobrino’s thought to construct a Christian spirituality and theology of reconciliation that overcomes conflict by attending to the demands of truth, justice, and forgiveness.

Author : Matthew Allen Shadle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190660139
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interrupting Capitalism written by Matthew Allen Shadle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Interrupting Capitalism' traces the history of Catholic thinking about economic life from the perspective of a 'theology of interruption'. The church's social teaching provides a way for Christians to interrupt capitalism, to live out economic life faithfully in the midst of the global economy.

Author : Lucretia B. Yaghjian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441113169
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Theology Well written by Lucretia B. Yaghjian and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-11-24 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its creative integration of the disciplines of writing, rhetoric, and theology, Writing Theology Well provides a standard text for theological educators engaged in the teaching and mentoring of writing across the theological curriculum. As a theological rhetoric, it will also encourage excellence in theological writing in the public domain by helping to equip students for their wider vocations as writers, preachers, and communicators in a variety of ministerial and professional contexts.

Author : Stephen J. Pope
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608332764
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hope and Solidarity written by Stephen J. Pope and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bette Charlene Werner
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838750841
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blake's Vision of the Poetry of Milton written by Bette Charlene Werner and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Blake's series of interpretive illustrations to six poems by John Milton represent Blake's rethinking of Milton's themes. The author insists upon the integrity of the separate series and investigates the distinctive properties of each. Illustrated.