Reid examines Riel's religious background, the mythic significance that has consciously been ascribed to him, and how these elements combined to influence Canada's search for a national identity. ...Reid's study provides a framework for rethinking the geopolitical significance of the modern Canadian state, the historic role of Confederation in establishing the country's collective self-image, and the narrative space through which Riel's voice speaks to these issues.
Louis 'David' Riel Flanagan, Thomas
Louis 'David' Riel,
c1996, 19961031, 1996, 1996-10-31
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A spiritual biography that takes Louis Riel seriously as a religious figure. Flanagan tells the story of Riel's career as a millenarian prophet and would-be religious reformer. This new edition takes ...advantage of a wealth of new primary sources.
This unprecedented comparison of the three most recent Catholic councils traverses more than 450 years and examines the church's most pressing and consistent concerns—issues of purpose, power, and ...relevance. John O'Malley addresses key questions councils raised. Who was in charge of the church? And what difference did the councils make?
Vatican I John W. O'Malley
2018, 2018-05-07, 2018-05-25
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The enduring influence of the Catholic Church has many sources—its spiritual and intellectual appeal, missionary achievements, wealth, diplomatic effectiveness, and stable hierarchy. But in the first ...half of the nineteenth century, the foundations upon which the church had rested for centuries were shaken. In the eyes of many thoughtful people, liberalism in the guise of liberty, equality, and fraternity was the quintessence of the evils that shook those foundations. At the Vatican Council of 1869–1870, the church made a dramatic effort to set things right by defining the doctrine of papal infallibility.In Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church, John W. O'Malley draws us into the bitter controversies over papal infallibility that at one point seemed destined to rend the church in two. Archbishop Henry Manning was the principal driving force for the definition, and Lord Acton was his brilliant counterpart on the other side. But they shrink in significance alongside Pope Pius IX, whose zeal for the definition was so notable that it raised questions about the very legitimacy of the council. Entering the fray were politicians such as Gladstone and Bismarck. The growing tension in the council played out within the larger drama of the seizure of the Papal States by Italian forces and its seemingly inevitable consequence, the conquest of Rome itself.Largely as a result of the council and its aftermath, the Catholic Church became more pope-centered than ever before. In the terminology of the period, it became ultramontane.
Aggiornamento? Schelkens, Karim; A. Dick, John; Mettepenningen, Jürgen
2013, 2013-05-03, Letnik:
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Fifty years after Vatican II, the time has arrived to relocate this council against a broad horizon. Therefore, this volume offers a survey of the evolution of Catholicism, from ca. 1830 to the ...present-day, tying together the renewals proposed by the first and the Second Vatican Councils.
The Pope and the Professor tells the neglected story of the German Catholic theologian and historian Ignaz von Döllinger (1799–1890), who fiercely opposed the dogma of Papal Infallibility at the time ...of the First Vatican Council (1869–70), convened by Pope Pius IX (r. 1846–78), among the most storied and controversial figures in the history of the papacy. Döllinger’s thought, his opposition to the Council, his high-profile excommunication in 1871, and the international sensation that this caused, provide a fascinating window into the intellectual and religious history of the nineteenth century. The book also examines Döllinger’s post-conciliar activities, including his pioneering work in ecumenism and his role in inspiring the “Old Catholic” movement in central Europe. Set against the backdrop of Italian and German national unification, and the rise of anticlericalism and ultramontanism after the French Revolution, the book is at once an endeavor of historical and theological inquiry. It provides nuanced historical contextualization of the events, topics, and personalities covered, while also raising abiding questions about the often fraught relationship between individual conscience and scholarly credentials, on the one hand, and church authority and tradition, on the other. Based on extensive archival research in Munich, Bonn, London, Cambridge, and Rome, this is the first major treatment of Döllinger in the English language.
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