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Manufacturer: Alba House
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Turks
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Publisher: Alba House
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Dewey Decimal Number: 609
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Publication Date: 1995-09
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.89
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Manufacturer: Ignatius Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Joseph M. Becker
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Publisher: Ignatius Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230
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Publication Date: 1992-04
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Reading Level: 422
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Price: $8.95
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Sale: $5.73
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Manufacturer: Ignatius Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Adrienne Von Speyr
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Publisher: Ignatius Press
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Edition: Rev Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248.482094
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Publication Date: 1986-02
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Reading Level: 137
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Price: $37.95
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Sale: $32.98
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Manufacturer: D.S.Brewer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: D.S.Brewer
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248.29
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Publication Date: 2000-05-25
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Reading Level: 168
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Description: Saint Birgitta of Sweden (canonised in 1391) is one of the most important female figures of medieval Europe. She participated vigorously in its political life, attempting through her writings to end the Hundred Years War between England and France, and to strengthen the Papacy against the Schism; she also influenced other mystics, such as Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, Chiara Gambacorta, Margery Kempe and Elizabeth Barton, leading a tradition in which women, despite being forbidden to preach, could act through writing visionary books. Birgitta was helped by cardinals, bishops, priors and masters in her task, speaking to Popes, Emperors and all Europe. For this work she is now proclaimed, with Catherine of Siena and Edith Stein, Patron of Europe.This book presents in modern English her medieval biography, excerpts from her massive book, the Revelationes, from a translation into Middle English made at Brigittine Syon Abbey in England. This is accompanied by an interpretive essay and an introduction tracing her life.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $4.50
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Judith C. Brown
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.76630924
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Publication Date: 1985-11-14
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Reading Level: 222
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Description: The discovery of the fascinating and richly documented story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the
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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $32.58
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Manufacturer: Fordham University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James Holleran
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Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 272.7
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Publication Date: 1999-01-01
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Reading Level: 249
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Description: In the year 1581, after four days of debating six leading Anglican divines at the Tower of London, Jesuit Edmund Campion (1540-1581) was put to death because he would not deny his faith. In 1970, the martyred Campion was canonized a saint. A Jesuit Challenge is a book-length edition of previously unpublished Catholic manuscript accounts of those debates.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $19.29
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Manufacturer: HarperOne
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Hugh Feiss
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Dewey Decimal Number: 255.01
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Publication Date: 2000-06-01
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Essential Monastic Wisdom: Writings on the Contemplative Life, edited and translated by Hugh Feiss, is the Benedictine version of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Feiss assimilates a broad range of arcane material and makes it accessible to the general reader without rendering the tough parts of monasticism toothless. His book begins with a concise history of monasticism; then it provides hundreds of quotations describing three essential concerns of Benedictine life: "Ordering Time and Place," "Character," and "The Good Desired and Possessed." Concrete expressions of each concern are further organized into collections of quotations with headings such as "Hospitality," "Discernment," "Longing," and "Love," making Essential Monastic Wisdom an extremely useful resource for readers seeking inspiration and guidance in many essential aspects of spiritual life. In addition to the oft-heard voices in the monastic chorus--such as St. Anthony, Thomas Merton, and Hildegarde--this book introduces readers to a number of characters whose wisdom is more seldom heard. Among these are Amma Syncletica, a fifth-century nun who describes the suffering of women in childbirth, offering the still-valid observation that "towards women generally there is great hostility in the world"; and Peter of Celle, a 12th-century monk and biblical commentator who describes a room that contains nothing to read as "a hell without consolation ... a tomb without ventilation." --Michael Joseph Gross
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $7.94
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Manufacturer: Paulist Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ali Merad
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Publisher: Paulist Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.79
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Publication Date: 1999-12
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: In Christian Hermit in an Islamic World, distinguished Muslim scholar Ali Merad has fashioned a moving personal tribute to Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916), one of the most unusual Christian witnesses of this century. Born to a French aristocratic family, Foucauld entered the French army in Algiers and lived a dissolute life, until he was touched by God's grace through the example of the believing Arabs in his midst. Impressed by their religious spirit, he became a Trappist, then was ordained a priest. He spent the rest of his life in the desert in solitude, self-denial and hardship, displaying love and concern for his Arab neighbors. "Charles de Foucauld's image has become a source of radiance in the solitude and silence," writes Merad. "It reminds us of the 'monk's lamp' dear to the ancient Arab poets, with its glimmer that made the heart of the solitary traveler beat with gladness, at the thought that through the unfathomable desert night, this fragile light was like the joyful sign of a fraternal presence." His inspiring example will guide the way to a more honest and open dialogue between Christians and Muslims.
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Carole Slade
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 282.092
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Publication Date: 1995-07-15
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Reading Level: 238
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Description: With few exceptions, representations of Renaissance women were created by men. The Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), who chose to represent herself, was one of those exceptions. What prompted her to write Book of Her Life, Interior Castle, and other works? What does the self-portrait of this sixteenth-century nun, mystic, and founder of convents reveal about its author, the church, state, and role of women?
St. Teresa of Avila, an innovative analysis of Teresa's autobiographical writings, explores these and many other questions. Bringing to bear a knowledge of Inquisition studies, theory of autobiography, scriptural hermeneutics, and hagiography, Carole Slade defines Teresa's writings as a project of self-interpretation undertaken mainly as the result of the perceived, later realized, threat of an accusation of heresy. Being female and of paternal Jewish ancestry, Teresa was vulnerable to such a charge.
Teresa's writing project presented her with serious difficulties. Judicial confession, her prescribed genre, presumed the writer's guilt, while the subordinate female script precluded a defense against the suspicion that her mystical experiences came from the devil. Through careful textual analysis, Slade demonstrates that Teresa exploited the nuances of numerous genres--hagiography, New World chronicle, mystical theological treatise, and early novel--to create an innocent textual persona and depict herself in heroic terms.
A signal contribution to our understanding of Teresa's rhetorical and literary talent and life circumstances, this book will engage readers across a broad range of disciplines.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $4.26
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Manufacturer: Northeastern
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Nancy Lusignan Schultz
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Publisher: Northeastern
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Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 974.461
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Publication Date: 2002-04-11
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Reading Level: 317
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Description: In the midst of a deadly heat wave during the summer of 1834, a woman clawed her way over the wall of an Ursuline convent on Mount Benedict in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and escaped to the home of a neighbor, pleading for protection. When the bishop, Benedict Fenwick, persuaded her to return, vicious gossip began swirling through the Yankee community and in the press that she was being held at the convent against her will, and had even been murdered. The rumored fate of the "Mysterious Lady," as she became popularly known, ultimately led to the burning of the convent by an angry, drunken mob of Protestant men. The arsonists' ringleader, a brawny bricklayer named John Buzzell, became a folk hero. The nuns scattered, and their proud and feisty mother superior, Mary Anne Moffatt, who battled the working-class rioters and Church authorities, faded mysteriously into history. Nancy Lusignan Schultz brings alive this forgotten event, focusing her probing lens on a time when independent, educated women were feared as much as immigrants and Catholics, and anti-Papist diatribes were the stuff of bestsellers and standing-room-only lectures. She provides a glimpse into nineteenth-century Boston and into an elite boarding school for young women, mostly the daughters of wealthy Protestants, vividly dissecting the period's roiling tensions over class, gender, religion, ethnicity, and education. Winner of the New England American Studies Association's Lois Rudnick Book Prize
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