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Ten years ago there were no faith-based units in prisons outside South America. Today, they are spreading all over the world, including the United States, Europe and the Commonwealth. My Brother's Keeper is the first major study of a global phenomenon. Exploring the roots of faith-based units in South America, it explains why the Prison Service of England and Wales set up the first Christian-based unit in the western world in 1997 - and its rapid expansion. It also explains how, at exactly the same time, the United States introduced Christian-based units - and why they were complimented by interfaith and multifaith initiatives. At the heart of My Brother's Keeper is an interior account of li...
Eduardo Bonnín. An Apprentice Christian ( USA spelling) Over ten million people have discovered the love of God through the experience lived in Cursillo, a Movement founded by the Spanish layman Eduardo Bonnín. Through these pages, Bonnín accurately and concisely uncovers the meaning of Cursillo and the “Secret” of the methodology of this mature Charism that has changed the lives of so many. The founder explains the origins of this spirituality directed to today’s people and its expansion throughout the world, as well as outlining the pedagogy of the Cursillo.
The internationally growing Cursillo movement, or "short course in Christianity," founded in 1944 by Spanish Catholic lay practitioners, has become popular among American Catholics and Protestants alike. This lay-led weekend experience helps participants recommit to and live their faith. Emphasizing how American Christians have privileged the individual religious experience and downplayed denominational and theological differences in favor of a common identity as renewed people of faith, Kristy Nabhan-Warren focuses on cursillistas--those who have completed a Cursillo weekend--to show how their experiences are a touchstone for understanding these trends in post-1960s American Christianity. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork as well as historical research, Nabhan-Warren shows the importance of Latino Catholics in the spread of the Cursillo movement. Cursillistas' stories, she argues, guide us toward a new understanding of contemporary Christian identities, inside and outside U.S. borders, and of the importance of globalizing American religious boundaries.
Combining ethnographic research with theological analysis, this book explores how the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR), one of the largest new movements within the global Catholic Church, has developed in contemporary Britain and Northern Ireland. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, this study analyses the beliefs, behaviour, and worldviews of CCR members and considers how these relate to key theological themes in the movement’s unique encounter between Pentecostalism and Catholicism. The author explores the extent to which the CCR has been integrated into the mainstream of the Catholic Church, and how the movement’s members have adapted their theology over time. Painting a picture of a diverse community, this book enriches understanding of the CCR and contemporary Christianity in Britain.
Mi testamento espiritual A través de estas páginas se descubre el Carisma Fundacional del Movimiento de Cursillos de Cristiandad. Línea a línea se va contemplando el recorrido del “agua viva” de ese Carisma. Después de 67 años el agua sigue transparente y viva por auténtica y veraz. Es un carisma que anima a las personas a encontrarse con Cristo en la normalidad de su vida sin abandonar el lugar donde el Señor le ha situado descubriendo a Cristo vivo, normal y cercano, en sí mismo y en las personas de su entorno. En este testamento se explicitan las ideas fuerza de la Esencia, Finalidad, y Mentalidad de Cursillos de Cristiandad destacando que su método es la amistad. Esta es la publicación póstuma del testamento espiritual del autor, que quiso transmitir los hechos y sus motivaciones desde los inicios del Movimiento de Cursillos de Cristiandad con vocación de permanencia. Quiso también transmitirla mediante documento notarial para que no cupiera duda alguna sobre su origen y autenticidad.
This book is about Catholic spirituality, which the author christens it as ‘Catholic Christian Spirituality’, which introduces this spirituality to those who dream about knowing it clearly and observing it validly and fruitfully but not fully realized their dream yet. It is a compilation of the Catholic Christian Spirituality’s Scriptural foundations, its historical explications of the Church, its multi-dimensional applications, and its inner and outer dynamics. Definitely the sole difference of this book from others, as the author writes, is the fact that “it is a book written with my red and warm blood as a personal journal of my experiential spirituality as a cradle New Age Cathol...
Eduardo confeccionó muchas fichas para su uso personal, que frecuentemente utilizaba como guión cuando hablaba. Algunas de ellas contienen un solo pensamiento, pero hay otras que constituyen verdaderos esquemas, más o menos complicados, de difícil interpretación para el que no sea el propio autor. Como en dichas fichas se expone una parte importante de su pensamiento, se pensó que se podían volver a escribir en una versión que fuera fácilmente asequible para todos, intentando en todo momento reproducir sus ideas con la máxima fidelidad, aunque era inevitable que se perdiera, al menos en parte, su peculiar y muy personal manera de expresarse.. La dificultad aumentaba por el hecho de...