Missionary with a Mike: the Bishop Sheen Story
Author: Daniel P. Noonan
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
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The Preaching of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Author: Timothy H. Sherwood
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011-11
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 0739142623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe greatness of America's most influential preachers of the twentieth century came from their significant contributions to both religious and secular society. Some names, like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Billy Graham, are universally recognized and typically thought of first by people today. Assorted reviews have also listed other notable names from various Christian denominations, but little recognition has been given to the Catholic contribution to preaching in the twentieth century. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is at least one Catholic name whose contributions belong with the top most influential American preachers of that era. Though many associate Sheen with his five years on prime time television in the 1950s, it was the decades he spent preaching that wrought a religious tone to the Cold War and led the way in a national renewal of religion. An epic battle was set between the forces of good and evil in Sheen's preaching, particularly in his Good Friday sermons. This rhetorical study seeks to understand how and why his preaching was so persuasive to the people of his day.
Reclaiming Catholicism
Author: Thomas H. Groome
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1608330486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is surely true that 'reclaimed' spiritual wisdom from the pre-Vatican II era can enrich the faith lives of Catholics today. The American Catholic community prior to the Second Vatican Council can be numbered among the most vital expressions of Catholicism in the history of the church. The contributors are a who's-who of the top theologians and spiritual writers today. other essays cover devotional practices, such as prayer to the saints, devotion to Mary, the Rosary, the Eucharistic Fast, and the Angelus, as well as profiles of figures such as Thomas Merton, Theodore Hesburth, Teilhard de Chardin, and Dorothy Day.
The Rhetorical Leadership of Fulton J. Sheen, Norman Vincent Peale, and Billy Graham in the Age of Extremes
Author: Timothy H. Sherwood
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2013-08-15
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 0739174312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFulton J. Sheen, Norman Vincent Peale, and Billy Graham were America’s most popular religious leaders during the mid-twentieth century period known as the golden years of the Age of Extremes. It was part of an era that encompassed polemic contrasts of good and evil on the world stage in political philosophies and international relations. The 1950s and early 1960s, in particular, were years of high anxiety, competing ideologies, and hero/villain mania in America. Sheen was the voice of reason who spoke against those conflicting ideologies which were hostile to religious faith and democracy; Peale preached the gospel of reassurance, self-assurance, and success despite ominous global threats; and Graham was the heroic model of faith whose message of conversion provided Americans an identity and direction opposite to atheistic communism. This study looks at how and why their rhetorical leadership, both separately and together, contributed to the climate of an extreme era and influenced a national religious revival.
Do Real Men Pray?
Author: Charles H. Lippy
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781572333581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhite male spirituality and the Christian man -- The dutiful patriarch -- The gentleman entrepreneur -- The courageous adventurer -- The efficient businessman -- The positive thinker -- The faithful leader -- Male spirituality in white Protestant America.
Historical Dictionary of the 1960s
Author: James S. Olson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1999-12-30
Total Pages: 557
ISBN-13: 0313001081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew eras in U.S. history have begun with more optimistic promise and ended in more pessimistic despair than the 1960s. When JFK became president in 1960, the U.S. was the hope of the world. Ten years later American power abroad seemed wasted in the jungles of Indochina, and critics at home cast doubt on whether the U.S. was really the land of the free and the home of the brave. This book takes an encyclopedic look at the decade—at the individuals who shaped the era, the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's movement, and the youth rebellion. It covers the political, military, social, cultural, religious, economic, and diplomatic topics that made the 1960s a unique decade in U.S. history.
The Mystical Body of Christ
Author: Fulton J. Sheen
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Published: 2015-03-09
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0870612956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mystical Body of Christ captures the theological precision and communicative genius of Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979), whose radio and television broadcasts, including Life Is Worth Living, have reached millions of homes since the 1950s. With more than thirty of his works still in print, Sheen is one of the most beloved Catholic evangelists of all time. This full-length and fully developed work on the Church as an extension of the Incarnation reveals Sheen’s accessible and theologically astute teaching style in the early years of his ministry. First published in 1935, the book’s themes of the Eucharist as a source of unity for the Mystical Body of Christ—the Church—and the link between the liturgy and works of social justice were echoed in the Second Vatican Council several decades later.
Historical Dictionary of the 1950s
Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2000-07-30
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0313032351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday, Americans look back nostalgically at the 1950s, an era when television and rock and roll revolutionized popular culture, and Vietnam, race riots, drug abuse, and protest movements were still in the future. With homes in the suburbs, new automobiles, and the latest electrical gadgets, many Americans believed they were the most prosperous people on earth. Yet the era was tainted by the fear of thermonuclear war with the Soviet Union, deepening racial tensions, and discontent with rigid roles for women and the demands of corporate conformity. A sense of rebellion had begun to brew behind the facade. It manifested itself in rock and roll, the budding civil rights movement, and the appearance of a youth culture, eventually exploding in the 1960s. Providing a comprehensive overview, this book includes entries on the prominent people, major events, issues, scandals, ideas, popular culture, and court cases of the decade that gave rise to the tensions of the 1960s.
The Rhetoric of Fulton J. Sheen
Author: Lino Evora Nicasio
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Spiritual Legacy of Henri Nouwen
Author: Deirdre LaNoue
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2000-10-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780826412836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1969, the year following the death of Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen published his first book. Who, reading Intimacy: Essays in Pastoral Psychology, at the time could have guessed that its 37 year old Dutch priest-author would become one of the most popular spiritual writers of the 20th-century?Unlike Merton, whose strictly spiritual writings appealed almost exclusively to Roman Catholics, Nouwen had an enormous following among Protestants as well as Catholics. What was it about this man and his work that so resonated with the American psyche over the past thirty years?In The Spiritual Legacy of Henri Nouwen, Deidre LaNoue analyzes Nouwen's voluminous writings in the context of his life and times, providing a key to his more than forty individual books as well as a cogent summary of his contribution to the spiritual lives of millions of people. The book includes a complete bibliography of Nouwen's writings as well as a Scripture index of his books.
