Life of Father Hecker
Author: Walter Elliott
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Published: 2019-09-25
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 3734060567
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Author: Walter Elliott
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2019-09-25
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 3734060567
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Author: Walter Elliott
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 464
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 504
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Published: 2024-05
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David J. O'Brien
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780809103973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIsaac Thomas Hecker was the prototype nineteenth-century American. He was an idealist and a visionary, a believer in the "rightness" of the American experiment. A utopian at heart, Hecker sampled life in New England's transcendentalist communes, later entering the Catholic Church where he began a new community that was founded on the ideals of freedom and personal initiative. He had all the virtues and all the flaws of his era, being optimistic, passionate, energetic, far-sighted, naive. Yet Hecker was also profoundly counter-cultural. He was a mystic in an age of pragmatism. He proclaimed the value of the collective to a generation of Americans who already were falling under the influence of laissez-faire individualism. Within his adopted Catholic community he championed personalism to an unreceptive audience; Rome and its hierarchy were in a defensive posture that favored obedience and conformity. In the end Rome assailed "Americanism" as a threat to its good order. David J. O'Brien has written the first, full life of Isaac Hecker to appear in a hundred years. In the process he enables us to see Hecker's great significance for American religious and social history. Hecker was well-known in his own day--a friend of Thoreau, Emerson and Alcott, popular speaker, best-selling author--but soon after his death he slipped into semi-obscurity. To Catholic intransigents he was an embarrassment, to American pragmatists he was a curiosity. But the present age has witnessed a renewal of spiritual seeking that characterized Hecker's own journey, and the church he swore allegiance to has begun to see things the way he did. The time is ripe for this honest and comprehensive account of Isaac Hecker'sfascinating story.
Author: Walter Elliott
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
Author: George Zurcher
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 504
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter Elliott
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-11
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781494284572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe life of the founder of the Paulist Order. Isaac Thomas Hecker lives to-day, and with added years he will live more fully than he does to-day. His influence for good remains, and with a better understanding of his plans and ideals, which is sure to come, his influence will widen and deepen among laymen and priests of the Church in America. The writing of his biography is a tribute to his memory which the love and esteem of his spiritual children could not refuse; it is, also, a most important service to generations present and unborn, in whose deeds will be seen the fruits of inspirations gathered from it. We are thankful that this biography has been written by one who from closest converse and most intimate friendship knew Father Hecker so thoroughly. He has given us in his book what we need to know of Father Hecker. We care very little, except so far as details may accentuate the great lines of a life and make them sensible to our obtuse touch, where or when a man was born, what places he happened to visit, what houses he built, or in what circumstances of malady or in what surroundings he died. These things can be said of the ten thousand. We want to know the thoughts and the resolves of the soul which made him a marked man above his fellows and which begot strong influences for good and great works, and if none such can be unfolded then drop the man out of sight, with a "Requiescant in pace" engraven upon his tombstone. Few deserve a biography, and to the undeserving none should be given.
Author: John Farina
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780809125555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFive essays offering analysis of Hecker's thought from the perspectives of church history, political science, theology, and psychology. +
Author: Isaac Thomas Hecker
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Published: 1857
Total Pages: 372
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