[PDF] The Thomas Verner Moore Memorial Lecture eBook

Author : Alberto Camplani
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042918320

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The volume offers the acts of a meeting held at the University of Turin on the foundations of power and the conflicts of authority as documented by the monastic sources of East and West in Late Antiquity, with special reference to Max Weber's analysis of these notions. The issue is here examined from a variety of perspectives: the different meanings of power and authority in ancient monastic sources; the criteria by which authority is established within the monastic organizations; the kind of power and authority exercised towards outsiders; the relationship between monks and other authorities, especially the Church; the monks and their economic activity; the strategies for the solution of conflicts. The wide range of historical and cultural problems raised by these questions is what the present volume tries to illuminate through individual studies of a number of specific phenomena, events, and figures (from Shenute to John Cassian, from Abraham of Kashkar to Maxim the Confessor), paying particular attention to monasticism in Egypt, Palestine, Africa, and Persia.

Author : Derek Beales
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521021890

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Essays by distinguished historians in honour of the just-retired Regius Professor of Modern History.

Author : Michael C. Banner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 35,2 MB
Release : 1999-09-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521625548

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This book addresses such key ethical issues as euthanasia, the environment, biotechnology, abortion, the family, sexual ethics, and the distribution of health care resources. Michael Banner argues that the task of Christian ethics is to understand the world and humankind in the light of the credal affirmations of the Christian faith, and to explicate this understanding in its significance for human action through a critical engagement with the concerns, claims and problems of other ethics. He illustrates both the distinctiveness of Christian convictions in relation to the above issues and also the critical dialogue with practices based on other convictions which this sense of distinctiveness motivates but does not prevent. The book's importance lies in its attempt to show the crucial difference which Christian belief makes to an understanding of these issues, whilst at the same time demonstrating some of the weaknesses and confusions of certain popular approaches to them.

Author : Esther De Waal
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1848253621

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A new edition of this contemporary spirtitual classic in which the ancient and gentle wisdom of the Rule of St Benedict is explored in realtion to the demands of modern living and the importance of balance between prayer, work and study.