Franciscan Legend of the Immaculate
Franciscan Legend of the Immaculate

Author: Fra Italo Cammi

Publisher: Academy of the Immaculate

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1601140258

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History of the origin and foundation of the Pontifical institute of the Franciscans of the Immaculate. This book spiritually chronicles the birth of the Franciscan-Marian religious community. Franciscan Legend of the Immaculate documents the history of the Franciscans of the Immaculate from their beginnings in an abandoned friary in Frigento, Italy, with two young priests in 1970, up to their erection as a Religious Institute of Pontifical Rite with around 600 friars and sisters throughout the world by 1998. It recounts the manifold goodness the Blessed Virgin has done to this religious order and the achievement the friars and sisters have accomplished for Our Lady. This inspiring story provides hope for the whole Church in these times of great difficulty.

Medieval Franciscan Approaches to the Virgin Mary
Medieval Franciscan Approaches to the Virgin Mary

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-08-12

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 9004408819

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This volume offers a sample of the many ways that medieval Franciscans wrote, represented in art, and preached about the ‘model of models’ of the medieval religious experience, the Virgin Mary. This is an extremely valuable collection of essays that highlight the significant role the Franciscans played in developing Mariology in the Middle Ages. Beginning with Francis, Clare, and Anthony, a number of significant theologians, spiritual writers, preachers, and artists are presented in their attempt to capture the significance and meaning of the Virgin Mary in the context of the late Middle Ages within the Franciscan movement. Contributors are Luciano Bertazzo, Michael W. Blastic, Rachel Fulton Brown, Leah Marie Buturain, Marzia Ceschia, Holly Flora, Alessia Francone, J. Isaac Goff, Darrelyn Gunzburg, Mary Beth Ingham, Christiaan Kappes, Steven J. McMichael, Pacelli Millane, Kimberly Rivers, Filippo Sedda, and Christopher J. Shorrock.

Franciscan Mariology--Francis, Clare, and Bonaventure
Franciscan Mariology--Francis, Clare, and Bonaventure

Author: Peter Damian Fehlner

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2023-08-14

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1532663838

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In this third volume of Collected Essays, Peter Damian Fehlner traces the Franciscan Marian-ecclesiological vision and mission back to its sources in Francis and Clare of Assisi. Fehlner shows how the quintessentially Franciscan theological themes and their elaboration down the centuries find their roots in the Poverello, the “Man totally Catholic and Apostolic,” as well as in Clare, the “imprint of the Mother of God.” In thoroughly Trinitarian fashion, Fehlner unveils Francis’s understanding of Mary—type and exemplar, mother and member of the church—as the firstborn daughter of the Father, Mother of the Son, and Spouse of the Holy Spirit. Mary is, therefore, primordially the Virgin-made-Church. Flowering out into the Franciscan theological tradition, this volume features two studies where Fehlner unpacks this Franciscan, Marian-ecclesiological tradition in systematic and mystical theology. Fehlner takes St. Francis Anthony Fasani, his Conventual predecessor, as his guide in the spiritual exegesis of Scripture and Catholic devotion, unveiling the ecclesiological and Marian implications of the Song of Songs. In systematics, Fehlner analyzes the love song of the Son for his church in his definitive study of Bonaventure’s understanding of charity and the divine missions in the church.

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Author: Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich

Publisher: TAN Books

Published: 2004-02

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1618909029

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Incredibly revealing and edifying background of Our Lady, her parents and ancestors, St. Joseph, plus other people who figured into the coming of Christ. Many facts described about the Nativity and early life of Our Lord, as well as the final days of the Blessed Mother–all from the visions of this great mystic.

Jesus in History, Legend, Scripture, and Tradition [2 volumes]
Jesus in History, Legend, Scripture, and Tradition [2 volumes]

Author: Leslie Houlden

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-06-23

Total Pages: 756

ISBN-13: 1610698045

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This multifaceted work contextualizes Jesus in religion and culture by bringing together articles on folklore, history, literature, philosophy, popular culture, and theology. Many books have been written about Jesus, but this two-volume work takes a different approach than most. What sets it apart is that it emphasizes Jesus' lasting impact on world history and his legacy in the imagination over 2,000 years. Written as an introduction, the encyclopedia is equally suitable for Christians who wish to better understand the history and philosophy of their religion and for non-Christians who wish to grasp Christianity in its historical and social contexts. Alphabetically arranged entries cover representations of Jesus in the bible and the writings of key theologians, examining the essentials of philosophical and religious views across history. The set also includes hundreds of entries that reflect on the role Jesus has played in popular culture and contemporary vernacular religion—perspectives that are not usually placed alongside theology. Through the encyclopedia, students will see how artists, writers, philosophers, church figures, and others have imagined Jesus and been influenced by their perceptions of him. At the same time, primary documents will encourage students to compare and contrast ideas and evaluate arguments that have arisen over 20 centuries.

Sacred Distance
Sacred Distance

Author: Rosemary Muir Wright

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2006-08-08

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9780719055454

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"This book ... is concerned to open up some of the conditioning factors which reveal the concerns of the ecclesiastical authorities for the formal representation of Marian teaching. The following chapters aim to show how the Marian altarpiece was responsive both to developments in dogma and to major stylistic changes in the course of the period 1320-1630. These changes were grounded in the visual strategies by which the spatial and lighting systems of the painting reflected those of the viewer, so as to impart to the painted image the convition of reality derived from sensory experience. The book makes a distinction between the theological and the cult image in order to isolate those aspects of Marian devotion which the Church embraced as doctrinally important."--Preface, p. xii.

The Mystical City of God (Annotated)
The Mystical City of God (Annotated)

Author: Mary Agreda

Publisher:

Published: 2014-03-15

Total Pages: 808

ISBN-13: 9781497345003

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Your special Annotated edition:+Over 1600 pages reduced into 1 volume!+Book Club questions+A full exclusive Biography of Ven. Mary of AgredaIn the 16th Century, at a time of Protestant persecution, The Blessed Virgin spoke to Ven. Mary of Agreda Mystical City of God is an amazing collection of four books of revelations about the life of Mary and the divine plan for creation and the salvation of souls that has been enthralling readers for centuries.The complete collection includes the Conception, Incarnation, Transfixion and Coronation. You will be taken on a journey like no other through through life of the Holy Virgin Mother of God and her Son our Saviour.(If you need a larger font size please search for our Kindle Version which is due to be published April 2014!)