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What happens to the Bible when it is used in worship? What does music, choreography, the stringing together of texts, and the architectural setting itself, do to our sense of what the Bible means-and how does that influence our reading of it outside of worship? In Liturgy and Biblical Interpretation, Sebastian Selven answers questions concerning how the Hebrew Bible is used in Jewish and Christian liturgical traditions and the impact this then has on biblical studies. This work addresses the neglect of liturgy and ritual in reception studies and makes the case that liturgy is one of the major influential forms of biblical reception. The case text is Isaiah 6:3 and its journey through the history of worship. By looking at the Qedushah liturgies in Ashkenazi Judaism and the Sanctus in three church traditions-(pre-1969) Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism (the Church of England), and Lutheranism (Martin Luther, and the Church of Sweden)-influential lines of reception are followed through history. Because the focus is on lived liturgy, not only are worship manuals and prayer books investigated but also architecture, music, and choreography. With an eye to modern-day uses, Selven traces the historical developments of liturgical traditions. To do this, he has used methodological frameworks from the realm of anthropology. Liturgy, this study argues, plays a significant role in how scholars, clergy, and lay people receive the Bible, and how we understand the way it is to be read and sometimes even edited. Liturgy and Biblical Interpretation will interest scholars of the Bible, liturgy, and church history, as well as Jewish and Christian clergy.
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• Introduction
• Nadine Amsler, Andreea Badea, Bernard Heyberger and Christian Windler
• Part I: Missionaries at Princely Courts
• 1 Between Convent and Court Life: Missionaries in Isfahan and New Djulfa
• Christian Windler
• 2 "The Habit that Hides the Monk": Missionary Fashion Strategies in Late Imperial Chinese Society and Court Culture
• Eugenio Menegon
• 3 Between Mogor and Salsete: Rodolfo Acquaviva's Error
• Ines G. Zupanov
• Part II: Missionaries in Cities
• 4 Urban Residences and Rural Missions: Patronage and Catholic Evangelization in Late Imperial China
• Ronnie Po-chia Hsia
• 5 The Post-Tridentine Parish System in the Port City of Nagasaki
• Carla Tronu
• 6 Conflicting Views: Catholic Missionaries in Ottoman Cities between Accommodation and Latinization
• Cesare Santus
• Part III: Missionaries in the Countryside
• 7 Funding the Mission: The Jesuits' Economic Integration in the Japanese Countryside
• Helene Vu Thanh
• 8 Trading Religious and Daily Goods: Franciscans in Semi-Rural Palestine (Seventeenth Century)
• Felicita Tramontana
• 9 Rural Tibet in the Early Modern Missions
• Trent Pomplun
• Part IV: Missionaries and Households
• 10 Holy Households: Jesuits, Women and Domestic Catholicism in China Nadine Amsler
• 11 Women, Households, and the Transformation of Christianity into the Kirishitan Religion
• Haruko Nawata Ward
• 12 Missionaries and Womena. Domestic Catholicism in the Middle East
• Bernard Heyberger
• Afterword
• Nicolas Standaert
• Afterword
• Birgit Emich
• Abbrevations
• Bibliography
• List of contributors
• Index.
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Over recent decades, historians have become increasingly interested in early modern Catholic missions in Asia as laboratories of cultural contact. This book builds on recent ground-breaking research on early modern Catholic missions, which has shown that missionaries in Asia cooperated with and accommodated the needs of local agents rather than being uncompromising promoters of post-Tridentine doctrine and devotion. Bringing together some of the most renowned and innovative researchers from Anglophone countries and continental Europe, this volume investigates how missionaries' entanglements with local societies across Asia contributed to processes of localization within the early modern Catholic church. The focus of the volume is on missionaries' adaptation to four ideal-typical social settings that played an eminent role in early modern Asian missions: (1) the symbolically loaded princely court; (2) the city as a space of especially dense communication; (3) the countryside, where missionary presence was only rarely permanent; (4) and the household - a central arena of conversion in early modern Asian societies. Shining a fresh light onto the history of early modern Catholic missions and the early modern Eurasian cultural exchange, this will be an important book for any scholar of religious history, history of cultural contact/global history and early modern history in Asia.
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• Vorwort
• Einleitung / Andreas Krass, Matthias Standke
• Geistliche Liederdichterinnen? Mechthild von Magdeburg, Mechthild von Hackeborn, Gertrud von Helfta / Jessica Ammer
• Leich und Sequenz : Walther von der Vogelweide als geistlicher Liederdichter / Andreas Krass
• Die Gebetsstrophen des Kanzlers im Goldenen Ton : ein 'geistliches Sangspruchlied'? / Sophie Knapp
• Ein 'volles Lied' : Übertragung und Klang am Beispiel der geistlichen Lieder des Mönchs von Salzburg / David Murray
• Kann denn Minne Sünde sein? Poetische Gratwanderungen zwischen Marien-und Frauenverehrung bei Hugo von Montfort und Oswald von Wolkenstein / Wernfried Hofmeister
• Die Performanz des Schmerzes : Poetische Inszenierungsstrategien von passio und compassio bei Oswald von Wolkenstein / Eva Rothenberger
• Das Ich im Fokus : Sprecher-Inszenierungen in den geistlichen Liedern Oswalds von Wolkenstein / Britta Bussmann
• Muscatblut, trefflich gut? : Zur Konventionalität als Interpretament mittelhochdeutscher Lyrik am Beispiel von Muskatbluts Marienlied Na lust reit ich (Groote 18) / Alexander Rudolph
• Kanonische Texte in poetischer Form : Zur Versifikation von Evangelienabschnitten im Berliner Hans Sachs-Autograph / Johannes Janota
• Geschichten über Lucifer im anonymen Meistergesang des fünfzehnten und sechzehnten Jahrhunderts : Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Lieder in Regenbogens 'Langem Ton' / Judith Lange
• Ars memorativa und Strategien der Heilssicherung in lyrischen Texten Heinrich Laufenbergs : Drei exemplarische Lektüren / Pavlina Kulagina, Franziska Lallinger
• Sebastian Brants Übertragung des Mariengrusses Ave, salve, gaude, vale und ihre Aneignung durch den Basler Kartäuser Ludwig Moser / Lydia Wegener
• Autorschaft im frühen Druckhymnar : Zum Selbstverständnis von Petrus Tritonius und Leonhard Kethner / Matthias Standke
• Index
• Abkürzungsverzeichnis
• Autorenverzeichnis

• 1 Introduction2 Irish Clergy in Rome in the Early Seventeenth Century3 The Beginning: The Founding of St. Isidore's and of the Irish College4 Forging the Missionary Links between the "Urbs" and "Hibernia"5 A New Dimension to the Irish Mission: The West Indies6 Missionary Supply in Crisis Years: The Colleges and Ireland7 The Colleges in Transition8 "Ten Thousand Irish Catholics extremely Oppressed by the English Heretics": Rome, and the Irish Missions in the West Indies during the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century9 Conclusion
• Appendix I: List of students admitted to the Irish College of Rome, 1628-64
• Appendix II: List of students admitted to St. Isidore's, 1625-54Bibliography.
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This book reconstructs the efforts that were made to establish a missionary network between the two Irish Colleges of Rome, Ireland, and the West Indies during the seventeenth century. It analyses the process which brought the Irish clergy to establish two dedicated colleges in the epicenter of early modern Catholicism and to develop a series of missionary initiatives in the English islands of the West Indies. During a period of great political change in Ireland, continental Europe and the Atlantic region, the book traces how and through which key figures and institutions this clerical channel was established, while at the same time identifying the main obstacles to its development. .
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• St. Francis Xavier's gift to Japan
• Francis Xavier's passion for Japan
• Responding to Xavier's prophecy
• Aimé Villion's dedication to modern Japan
• Sauveur Candau's enchantment with the Japanese people
• Hermann Heuvers' poetic evangelization
• Georges Neyrans's unconventional preaching
• Missionary contributions to Japanese culture

"This book reveals how St. Francis Xavier's (1506-1552) dream of evangelizing Japan has been realized by four Catholic missionaries: Aimé Villion (1843-1932), Sauveur Candau (1897-1955), Hermann Heuvers (1890-1977), and Georges Neyrand (1920-2011). All of them lived in Japan until death, and wrote and published widely in Japanese for the populace. Their writings are testimony to their endeavors to learn the language, understand the people, and enrich Japanese culture with Christianity. This book re-examines Xavier's proficiency in Japanese, investigates his influence on missionaries who followed his footsteps to Japan, and explores modern missionaries' observations of Japan from their insider-outsider perspectives. Their works have fascinated millions of Japanese for their insightful interpretations of Japan and enlightening advice. The literature penned by these missionaries not only enhances our understanding of the five-century long dialogue between Europe and Japan, but also enables us to recognize and appreciate the extremely important role that Christianity has played in shaping today's Japanese culture"-- Back cover

• Einleitung
• Leonhard Haller (1500-1570) : Predigten in einer Zeit der Umbrüche
• Georg Scherer (1540-1605) : Predigten in Zeiten der konfessionellen Dynamisierung
• Zwei Prediger und ihre Predigtmodi : ein Fazit in vier Vergleichen
• Quellen und Anhänge

"Wie wurde im Katholizismus des 16. Jahrhunderts gepredigt? Noch dazu, wenn die Prediger religiöse, soziale oder gesellschaftliche Bedrohungen in ihrem jeweiligen Lebensraum wahrnahmen und in ihren Predigten von der Kanzel sowie in schriftlicher Form kommunizierten? Anhand der volkssprachlichen Verkündigung des Eichstätter Weihbischofs Leonhard Haller (1500-1570) und des Jesuiten Georg Scherer (1540-1605) werden in dieser Studie exemplarisch Predigtmodi mit ihren Strategien und Zielen angesichts verschiedener Bedrohungen analysiert. Durch die biographische und homiletische Analyse der beiden Prediger entsteht ein theologie-, liturgie- und sozialgeschichtliches Panorama, das Einblicke in die verschiedenen Phasen des vortridentinischen und konfessionell-katholischen Umgangs mit den Herausforderungen der Reformation gibt. Dabei entsteht ein kontrastreiches Bild, wie die gesellschaftlichen, sozialen und politischen Bedrohungen von den beiden Predigern wahrgenommen wurden. Zudem wird dadurch die Transformation homiletischer Praxis im frühneuzeitlichen Katholizismus greifbar, kann im Gesamtgefüge nachreformatorischer Kirchenpolitik und Pastoral- und Liturgiegeschichte verortet werden und liefert einen spezifischen Beitrag zu gegenwärtigen Debatten der Konfessionalisierungsforschung." --back cover

In an era in which the internet has made pornography readily accessible, Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart offers a theological critique of pornography and retrieves from the Christian tradition an alternative visual culture. This visual culture is constituted by both the character of the images we behold and the manner in which we see. Contributors include psychologists William M. Struthers and Jill Manning, who address the neurological effects of pornography and its influences on personal, familial, and social life. Their professional analysis is complemented by the testimony of a young man in recovery from pornography addiction. In an exposition of Christian visual culture, Orthodox iconographer Randi Sider-Rose describes the spiritual discipline of icon writing, Danielle M. Peters, S.T.D., surveys the iconography and art of Marian traditions, and art historian Dianne Phillips elucidates the meaning of divine desire as evident in Catholic visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods. Catholic theologians Ann W. Astell, Nathanial Peters, Boyd Taylor Coolman, and Nicolas Ogle discuss specific practices and dimensions of the Catholic tradition that can contribute to the cultivation of sacramental vision, and David W. Fagerberg, Kimberly Hope Belcher, Jennifer Newsome Martin, and John C. Cavadini offer reflections on sacramental imagination and the healing of vision. Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart is a work of scholarship composed with pastoral care and concern, and it will be serviceable to both classroom teachers and pastoral ministers. A special feature of the book is an inset of seventy-two full-color plates featuring both classic and contemporary works of Christian iconography and art. The essays and images invite readers to behold in beauty the truth that we are created by the triune God not for sexual objectification but with a sacramental vocation to deification through Christ and the Holy Spirit of love.
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• Orientations
• Beginnings
• Women's ministry in the New Testament
• Ordained women in the first millennium --Women's ordination in the Middle Ages
• New answers to a new question
• A theology whose time has come

Women's Ordination in the Catholic Church argues that women can be validly ordained to ministerial office. O'Brien shows that claims by Roman dicasteries for an unbroken chain of authoritative tradition on the non-ordainability of women--a novel rather than traditional argument--are not historically supported. In the primitive Church, with the offices of deacon, presbyter, and bishop in process of development, women exercised ministries later understood as pertaining to those offices. The sub-apostolic period downplayed women's ministry for reasons of cultural adaptation, not because it was thought that fidelity to Christ required it. Furthermore, extensive epigraphical evidence, from a wide geographical area, references women deacons and presbyters during the first millennium. Restrictive developments in the concept of ordination from the twelfth century onwards do not negate how, before that, women were validly ordained according to contemporary ecclesial understanding. Repeated canonical prohibitions on ordaining women show both that women were being ordained and how those bans were very selectively implemented. These canons were a cultural practice in search of a theology, and the subsequent theological justifications for restricting ordination to men appealed to supposed female inferiority against the background of priesthood as eminence rather than service. O'Brien shows that the assertion of women's non-ordainability is a matter of canon law rather than doctrine. As such, that law can be reformed

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• Introduction - Chapter One: From Literary Dialogue to Cultural Dialogism - Chapter Two: Aleni, Fujian Mission, and Kouduo richao - Chapter Three: Practical Investigations of Heaven and Earth - Chapter Four: Spiritual and Moral Cultivation of Man - Chapter Five: Salvation before the Eyes: Objects, Images, and Liturgies - Conclusion - Appendices - Bibliography - Index and Glossary - Chinese Summary.
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Christian dialogic writings flourished in the Catholic missions in late Ming China. This study focuses on the mission work of the Italian Jesuit Giulio Aleni (Ai Rulue , 1582-1649) in Fujian and the unique text Kouduo richao (Diary of Oral Admonitions, 1630-1640) that records the religious and intellectual conversations among the Jesuits and local converts. By examining the mechanisms of dialogue in Kouduo richao and other Christian works distinguished by a certain dialogue form, the author of the present work aims to reveal the formation of a hybrid Christian-Confucian identity in late Ming Chinese religious experience. By offering the new approach of dialogic hybridization, the book not only treats dialogue as an important yet underestimated genre in late Ming Christian literature, but it also uncovers a self-other identity complex in the dialogic exchanges of the Jesuits and Chinese scholars. Giulio Aleni, Kouduo richao, and Christian-Confucian Dialogism in Late Ming Fujian is a multi-faceted investigation of the religious, philosophical, ethical, scientific, and artistic topics discussed among the Jesuits and late Ming scholars. This comprehensive research echoes what the distinguished Sinologist Erik Zurcher (1928-2008) said about the richness and diversity of Chinese Christian texts produced in the 17th and 18th centuries. Following Zurcher's careful study and annotated full translation of Kouduo richao (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series, LVI/1-2), the present work features a set of new findings beyond the endeavours of Zurcher and other scholars. With the key concept of Christian-Confucian dialogism, it tells the intriguing story of Aleni's mission work and the thriving Christian communities in late Ming Fujian.
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This ground-breaking volume explores the relatively new academic field of Bnei Anousim studies (also referred to as descendants of New Christians, Conversos, or Marranos), whose Jewish ancestors in Iberia were forcibly converted to Catholicism from 1391 through to the fifteenth century. Chronologically, this book focuses on the eighteenth century, a later period of Inquisition activity marked by the Portuguese Inquisition's relentless attacks against the Jewish "heresy" and the resultant mass exodus of New Christians from Portugal to Brazil. Several chapters concern the contemporary phenomenon of descendants of these New Christians seeking their Jewish roots. However, among a population that has retained almost no memory of their origins, how authentic are their Jewish roots? After the passage of hundreds of years, how much of what they perceive as "Jewish" is truly a lost Sefardi heritage? This volume addresses these questions from the perspectives of history, demography, genealogy, anthropology, and genetics.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction. #MishLife: Millennial, Catholic, and Proud
• Chapter 1. The Making of Twenty-First Century Catholic Evangelization
• Chapter 2. "Hanging out with Jesus:" Becoming Millennial Missionaries
• Chapter 3. "Be Saints!" Remixing Devotionalism
• Chapter 4. "Feminine Genius" and "Authentic Masculinity:" Cultivating Habits of Catholic Gender
• Chapter 5. "Guard Your Heart!" Embodying Catholic Romance
• Chapter 6. "Party On:" Creating a Dynamically Orthodox Catholic Culture Conclusion."'Go, Set the World on Fire!'" FOCUS and U.S. Catholicism Bibliography.
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Millennials in the U.S. have been characterized as uninterested in religion, as defectors from religious institutions, and as agnostic about the role of religious identity in their culture. Amid the rise of so-called "nones, " though, there has also been a countervailing trend: an increase in religious piety among some millennial Catholics. The Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), which began evangelizing college students on American university campuses in 1998, hires recent college graduates to evangelize college students and promote an attractive and culturally savvy Catholicism. These millennial Catholics have personal relationships with Jesus, attend Mass daily, and know and defend papal teachings, while also being immersed in U.S. popular culture. With their skinny jeans, devotional tattoos, and large-framed glasses, FOCUS missionaries embody a hip, attractive style of Catholicism. They promote a faith that interweaves distinctly Catholic identity with outreach methods of twentieth-century evangelical Protestants and the anxieties of middle-class emerging adulthood. Though this new generation of missionaries lives according to strict gender essentialism prescribed by papal teachings-including the notions that men lead while women follow and that biology dictates gender roles-they also support stay-at-home fatherhood and women earning MBAs. Millennial Missionaries examines how these young people navigate their Catholic and American identities in the twenty-first century. Illuminating the ways missionaries are reshaping American Catholic identity, Katherine Dugan explores the contemporary U.S. religious landscape from the perspective of millennials who proudly proclaim "I am Catholic"-and devote years of their lives to convincing others to do the same.
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• Revisiting John of Wales's role in the creation of the Manipulus florum / Chris L. Nighman
• The place of the Glossa ordinaria in the Manipulus florum / Mark Zier
• Quels mots pour exprimer l'émotion dans le Manipulus florum? Ce qu'ils nous disent sur son public et sa fonction / Xavier Biron-Ouellet
• Patience in the Manipulus florum / Robin Waugh
• Âme et corps dans le Manipulus florum de Thomas d'Irlande / Iolanda Ventura
• Thomas of Ireland's construction of Angelus and Diabolus and the usefulness of mis Manipulus florum / Louis Shwartz
• From the University to the Cloister: the Manipulus florum and William of Pagula's Speculum religiosorum / Tristan Sharp
• The Lemmata amor, Caritas, and Dilectio in Thomas of Ireland's Manipulus florum and their influence on Renaissance mysticism / Alan Vincelette
• What a Calvinist edition of the Manipulus florum provided to French protestants: a reading of the Lemma Ecclesia in Stoer's 1593 edition / Nicholas Must
• Les manuscrits du Manipulus florum conservés dans les bibliothèques espagnoles / María José Muñoz

"The Manipulus florum, composed in 1306 by Thomas of Ireland, is a compilation of nearly six thousand excerpts, organized under 266 alphabetically ordered lemmata, from dozens of authors, including doctors and fathers of the Latin and Greek churches, medieval writers, and classical authors. It was one of the most prominent works of reference from its creation until the seventeenth century, and is a work of interest to philologists, philosophers, and historians not only of the medieval world, but also, given its wide diffusion and reception, of the Renaissance and of humanism. The ten essays that comprise this collection join the tradition of studies on the Manipulus florum begun by Richard and Mary Rouse in 1979, and include close analyses of specific lemmata as well as broader studies that should appeal to students and scholars in various fields."-- Provided by publisher