The Pilgrim Church

Tavard, George H.

Religion & Spirituality

Herder and Herder

Woman in Christian tradition

University of Notre Dame Press

With Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Theology of Beauty, George H. Tavard presents the first thorough investigation of the theology of the greatest Latin American poet before our own time. HIs program is all the more important because she was the first woman of this continent to assert the right of women to study to the full extent of their capacities. An intelligent and intellectual woman, Juana Inés was eager to live a life of scholarship and felt "a great aversion to matrimony," which directed her to enter the convent in 1667. Tavard provides a thought-provoking analysis both of the theological ideas that Juana Inés expressed in poetry and prose and of the conclusions, provisional or definitive, she may have reached about herself and about humanity.

Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Theology of Beauty: The First Mexican Theology (Two Liturgical Traditions; 1)

History

World

Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Theology of Beauty: The First Mexican Theology

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

This volume is unique in the field of Calvin studies. George Tavard introduces readers to Calvin’s little-known Psychopannychia, the first writing in which he spoke as a theologian. Tavard shows how this early work, generally neglected by Calvin scholars, serves as an essential starting point for understanding Calvin’s final theology found in the Institutes. Composed during Calvin’s sojourns around Angoulême and Orléans in 1534, Psychopannychia was aimed primarily against “heretics” like the anabaptists, who held that the soul “sleeps” after the death of the body. Tavard insists on the book’s importance for several reasons. First, it shows Calvin’s essential humanism against its Renaissance backdrop, along with his ambition to write the definitive work on the immortality of the soul. Second, it shows how Calvin departed from the standard methodology in a revolutionary way—complete dependence on analysis of Scripture and the testimonies of the early church. Third, it shows Calvin’s rootedness in the medieval mystic tradition and his deep catholicity, even as he took the steps that would define him as a Reformer. Finally, it shows the intricate relationship between Calvin’s earliest theological concerns and the themes he would later develop in his Institutes. The only study of Calvin’s Psychopannychia in English, Tavard’s work is essential to a full-orbed understanding of Calvin’s thought, including the “catholic” scope of his reforming intentions. As such, it will be equally valuable to students of theology, church history, and contemporary ecumenical dialogue.

The Starting Point of Calvin's Theology

Christian Books & Bibles

Eerdmans Pub.Co.

The purpose and intention of this book is to be and introduction to the mystical dimension of Catholic life and the elements involved in what constitutes the spiritual life, as experienced by mystics. As the reader will see, it was written for the benefit not only of students, but for anyone who wants to deepen their prayer life and grow in their daily encounters with the Lord.

The Inner Life: Foundations of Christian Mysticism

Paulist Press

Justification: An Ecumenical Study

Justification: An Ecumenical Study

Paulist Pr

Ecclesiology is now taken for granted as an area of theological research. Before the modern age, however, the Church felt no need to define itself. What Father Tavard presents in this work is a systematic organization of the essential Christian beliefs about what the Church has been, is, and ought to be. It focuses on the awareness of being" Church that is inseparable from the profession of the Christian faith. Keeping the present historical moment in mind, Tavard investigates the dogmatic or doctrinal nature and structure of the Church in an ecumenical spirit. A preliminary chapter asks if the Church can in some sense be said to have existed before the Christian faith or to exist outside it. Following this the book divides into three parts: Vision (how we see ourselves as Church), Tradition (how history has shaped our Vision), and Structures (how we have institutionalized that Vision).Both history and structure bring to light the Dialogue (part four) that is essential to being of the Church. Father Tavard concludes with insights into the nature and task of the post-Vatican II Church in an ecumenical world."

The Church, Community of Salvation: An Ecumenical Ecclesiology (New Theology Studies)

Michael Glazier

What Roman Catholic theology designates as "the problem of Anglican orders" is examined in light of new information gathered from the opening of the Vatican Archives by Pope John Paul II for the period when these ordinations were condemned by Pope Leo XIII. Both the history of their condemnation and the possibility for future recognition of Anglican orders by the Roman Catholic Church is explored.

A Review of Anglican Orders: The Problem and the Solution (Theology and Life Series)

Michael Glazier Books

Though Jeanne d'Arc could not write, her spirituality comes out clearly in her responses during her trial in Rouen. It is a total trust in God and in providential guidance in her life, and on the "cleansing of conscience" without which God's will cannot be discerned. Jeanne always trusted the Church as being the gate to the kingdom of Paradise, even when the church authorities were bent on having her burnt.

The Spiritual Way of St. Jeanne D'Arc

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Liturgical Pr

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