Francis of Assisi - The Founder: Early Documents, vol. 2

Francis of Assisi - The Founder: Early Documents, vol. 2

Author: Regis J. Armstrong

Publisher: New City Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 832

ISBN-13: 1565481127

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The Founder is the second volume of the long-awaited and best-selling project Francis of Assisi: Early Documents. All three volumes contain helpful introductions to each section, colored maps, cross references, and extensive annotation. The Founder contains: The Beginning or the Founding of the Order and the Deeds of those Lesser Brothers who where the First Companions of Blessed Francis in Religion The Legend of the Three Companions The Assisi Compilation The Remembrance of the Desire of A Soul by Thomas of Celano The Treatise on the Miracles of Saint Francis by Thomas of Celano An Umbrian Choir Legend A Letter on the Passing of Saint Francis Attributed to Elias of Assisi The Legends and Sermons about Saint Francis by Bonaventure of Bagnoregio Related Documents


Mervelous Signals

Mervelous Signals

Author: Eugene Vance

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780803296084

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The investigation of language, of how (and what and why) signifiers signify, is prominent in modern critical work, but the questions being asked are by no means new. In Mervelous Signals, Eugene Vance asserts that "there is scarcely a term, practice, or concept in contemporary theory that does not have some rich antecedent in medieval thought." He goes on to illustrate the complexity and depth of medieval speculations about language and literature. Vance's study of the link between the poetics and semiotics of the Middle Ages takes both a critical and a historical view as he brings today's insights to bear on the contemporary perspectives of such works as St. Augustine's Confessions, the Chanson de Roland, Chrätien's Yvain, Aucassin and Nicolette, Spenser's The Faerie Queen, and certain aspects of the works of Dante and Chaucer and of French medieval theater.


A Companion to Marguerite Porete and The Mirror of Simple Souls

A Companion to Marguerite Porete and The Mirror of Simple Souls

Author: Robert Stauffer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-04-11

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 900433856X

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Even with growing popularity in the United States, there existed no English-language scholarly introduction to Marguerite Porete or her sole-surviving work Mirror of Simple Souls until now. The study of Marguerite and her work touches on so many disciplines – from religious and secular histories to theological and literary readings of her book – that the scholarship had often been lost in the divides between the disciplines. Our contributors are chosen from both sides of the Atlantic and from an array of disciplines in order to bridge this geographical and linguistic divide. The interdisciplinary nature of the interest in Marguerite and the Mirror and the implications her book has on medieval scholarship make a collection such as this companion ideal. Contributors are Marleen Cré, Imke De Gier, Dávid Falvay, Sean Field, Geneviève Hasenohr (with Zan Kocher), Jonathan Juilfs, Zan Kocher, Joanne Robinson, Elizabeth Scarborough, Robert Stauffer, Wendy R. Terry, and Justine Trombley.


The Theology of Hugh of St. Victor

The Theology of Hugh of St. Victor

Author: Boyd Taylor Coolman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-04-15

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0521886252

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A comprehensive study which highlights the practical nature of Hugh of St. Victor's pioneering program of spiritual reformation.


A Quick Look at Christian History

A Quick Look at Christian History

Author: George Kurian

Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Published: 2015-04-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0736953787

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A few weeks after Easter AD 33, the entire church fit in one upstairs room. In just decades, it exploded into a worldwide movement. What happened? Follow the action with this collection of the highs and lows of the people of God. Its twenty informative and fast-paced chapters are arranged by centuries. Each one begins with a summary of the most important statistics and influential Christians at that time. In the rest of each chapter, you'll find concise notes about the history of Christianity, including its... practices and beliefs denominations and movements institutions and traditions evangelism and persecution literature, art, and architecture You can also use the helpful index to read topically rather than chronologically. Follow the explosive spread of the gospel and discover your amazing heritage as a member of God's family.


The Shaman and the Heresiarch

The Shaman and the Heresiarch

Author: Gopal Sukhu

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-08-08

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 143844284X

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The Li sao (also known as Encountering Sorrow), attributed to the poet-statesman Qu Yuan (4th–3rd century BCE), is one of the cornerstones of the Chinese poetic tradition. It has long been studied as China's first extended allegory in poetic form, yet most scholars agree that there is very little in the two-thousand-year-old tradition of commentary on it that convincingly explains its supernatural flights, its complex floral imagery, or the gender ambiguity of its primary poetic persona. The Shaman and the Heresiarch is the first book-length study of the Li sao in English, offering new translations of both the Li sao and the Nine Songs. The book traces the shortcomings of the earliest extant commentary on those texts, that of Wang Yi, back to the quasi-divinatory methods of the highly politicized tradition of Chinese classical hermeneutics in general, and the political machinations of a Han dynasty empress dowager in particular. It also offers an entirely new interpretation of the Li sao, one based not on Qu Yuan hagiography but on what late Warring States period artifacts and texts, including recently unearthed texts, teach us about the cultural context that produced the poem. In that light we see in the Li sao not only a reflection of the era of the great classical Chinese philosophers, but also the breakdown of the political-religious order of the ancient state of Chu.


Meister Eckhart, Teacher and Preacher

Meister Eckhart, Teacher and Preacher

Author: Meister Eckhart

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780809128273

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"Bargains in books are rare today, but one would be hard put to find in American publishing anything superior to these in content and format." The Parish Visitor Meister Eckhart: Teacher and Preacher edited by Bernard McGinn with the collaboration of Frank Tobin and Elvira Borgstadt preface by Kenneth Northcott "When this temple is thus free of all obstacles, namely, possessiveness and ignorance, then it sparkles so beautifully and shines so purely and bright above everything that God created and through everything that God created that no one can be compared to it in brightness but the uncreated God alone...If the soul of a man still living in time were standing on the same level as the highest angel, this person could reach immeasurable higher in his free capability above the angel in ever 'now', new beyond number, that is, and beyond manner and above the manner of the angels and any created intellect." Meister Eckhart (c.1260-1327) Here are the texts that illustrate the diversity of one of the most enigmatic and influential mystics of the Western Christian tradition. Eckhart the teacher is represented by the Commentary on Exodus and by selections from six other commentaries, including the Commentary on Wisdom 7:14, the Commentary on Ecclesiasticus 24:29, and the Commentary on John 14:8. Eckhart's ministry as a preacher was an equally important part of the man, and thus his sermons, from both the Latin and the Middle High German manuscripts, are included. What emerges is a comprehensive picture of the works of this great speculative theologian. Together with Meister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries and Treatises, this work form the most extensive corpus of Eckhart's writings in English. +