You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The Other Quebec explores some of the complex ways that religious institutions and beliefs affected the rural societies in which the majority of Canadians still lived in the nineteenth century.
None
The unique insight and impressive scholarship of the eminent French theologian Cardinal Henri de Lubac are clearly evident in this volume of collected articles and essays. An article of great timeliness on the priesthood according to St. John Chrysostom as well as an important study of the long debate over the salvation of Origen are among the texts included in the first section, devoted to patristics and Christian humanism. The second section, comprised entirely of an unpublished work on tripartite anthropology tracing the body-soul-spirit distinction from St. Paul, the patristic tradition, St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, up to the modern period, will prove an invaluable guide for fur...
None
Searches for the man Blaise who has been shadowed into near invisibility by the hero Pascal, the 17th-century French scientist who underwent a conversion in midlife and became saintly. Knits the two halves of his life together by examining his upbringing and family relationships, finding in his love for God a substitute or at least compensation for the loss of his parents. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Suivez le parcours atypique de Catherine Théot, connue pour ses prédictions et incarcérée à la Bastille, jusqu'à l'aube de la Révolution française... Le destin de la Mère de Dieu est à la fois inattendu et étonnant. Née le 5 mars 1716 à Barenton en Normandie, Catherine Théot prétendit dès son adolescence être la Mère de Dieu. À Paris, elle est vite remarquée pour ses prédictions, notamment des persécutions religieuses... Réputée folle, elle est incarcérée à la Bastille en 1779, puis à la Salpêtrière. Elle sera libérée en 1788, guérie ! À sa sortie, Catherine Théot découvre un Paris où fourmillent des illuminés, des gourous, des prophètes. Elle va créer...