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Jesuit Father François Annat and his Role as Minister for Religious Affairs in 17th Century France
This book explores the tremendous impact of Jesuit Father François Annat (1590-1670), a French government appointee at Court. His religious superiors approved of his taking on this work for the Crown. He served as Minister for Religious Affairs, or Royal Confessor or ‘keeper of the king’s conscience’, for Louis XIV. During Annat’s confessorate of sixteen years, no internal conflict in the Gallican Church was so strong as the Jansenist controversy. Today everything seems different, as revisionist history has viewed Jansenism as an orthodox Augustinian alternative to explain the Catholic Faith, in contrast to the prevailing Spanish Molinism and Suarezianism, whose roots were in Thomism and Aristotle. There was intense internal struggle within the French Church to devise a legal formulary that might decrease the strength of Jansenism. The present work examines the life of Annat in all of its complexities, a life which may have been forgotten by history if not for the celebrated literary figure Blaise Pascal, who was a committed Jansenist and foe of François Annat.
The Townsend Family in the Emerging American West, 1856-1926
This book examines the life of the Townsend family and the events that occurred during the period of 1856–1926 that shaped an expanding American West. Bryant and Julia (Riley) Townsend and their three children were born into an age of rapid change and competing cultures. Witnesses to a century of events that shaped a nation, their lives define the complexities and challenges of incomers who arrived in an expanding American West. From the Gold Rush to the California oil boom, from slavery to female suffrage, from Indian Wars to World Wars, the Townsends lived through violent upheavals, outlasting cities, societal beliefs and entire ways of life. Married in a mining camp in Nevada and reloca...
Sur cette parole s'appuie ma confiance
Un jeune homme entre dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle portant en lui le désir de servir l'Evangile. Prière, liturgie, lecture et travail rythment ses jours dans l'atmosphère studieuse et intellectuellement stimulante d'un couvent dominicain. Formation dans l'écoute des maîtres, ordination. Surviennent les années soixante, la rencontre des étudiants, le bouillonnement de Mai 1968 et les premières fissures dans l'armature d'un religieux qui perçoit confusément que son cheminement intérieur l'emmène hors des sentiers tracés d'avance. Commence alors un nouvel itinéraire, moins balisé, à distance de l'Ordre dominicain. Une quête exigeante et rude vers plus de vérité. Mariage, apprentissage du métier d'avocat. Dans cette nouvelle vie, survient alors une série d'épreuves. Impuissance des mots. Au creux de ces blessures, désarmé mais soutenu par ses proches, surgit alors en lui une parole qui était enfouie. Une Parole venue de l'Evangile sur laquelle prend appui la confiance d'un homme qui a traversé un demi-siècle passionné et tourmenté.
