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Memory and Identity : Personal Reflections
ISBN: 9780753820544 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A truly historical document that leaves for posterity the intellectual and spiritual teachings of His Holiness Pope John Paul II.
A truly historical document that leaves for posterity the intellectual and spiritual teachings of His Holiness Pope John Paul II.
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66,42 |
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Footprints of the Northern Saints
ISBN: 9780232521528 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents the late Cardinal's personal reflections on themes such as prayer, solitude, and living the Christian life today. A beautiful book with full colour photographs.
Presents the late Cardinal's personal reflections on themes such as prayer, solitude, and living the Christian life today. A beautiful book with full ...
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60,14 |
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Handbuch der Kardinäle: 1846-2012
ISBN: 9783110269444 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mit dem vorliegenden Band wird erstmals in deutscher Sprache ein Werk vorgelegt, das die Biographien der Kardinale seit dem Pontifikat von Pius IX. 1846 bis zum Ende des Pontifikats von Papst Benedikt XVI. bietet. Einfuhrungen in die Geschichte des Kardinalskollegiums, seine Aufgaben und seine Stellung in der romisch-katholischen Kirche runden den Band ab und machen ihn zu einem unverzichtbaren Standardwerk. Mit dem vorliegenden Band wird erstmals in deutscher Sprache ein Werk vorgelegt, das die Biographien der Kardinale seit dem Pontifikat von Pius IX.... |
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1104,83 |
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Niels Stensen, 1638-1686: The Scientist Who Was Beautied
ISBN: 9780852445839 / Angielski / Miękka / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Niels Stensen was born in Copenhagen in 1638. He lived for most of his adult life outside Denmark: principally in Italy, the Netherlands, France and Germany. His scholarship brought him an international reputation in the field of anatomy, and as a founder of the scientific study of both geology and paleontology. He is one of the greatest scientists of his age, itself the era of many of the giants of scientific discovery. In anatomy his pioneering work included the function of the glands, the heart and the brain. As the founder of modern geology he was the first to find out how... Niels Stensen was born in Copenhagen in 1638. He lived for most of his adult life outside Denmark: principally in Italy, the Netherlands, France an... |
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84,93 |
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The Pope in Winter : The Dark Face of John Paul II's Papacy
ISBN: 9780141020716 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Dark Face of John Paul's Papacy. John Cornwell reveals for the first time the hidden aspects of John Paul II's papacy in stark contrast to his growing reputation as the greatest pope in modern history. An explosive book which attracted huge media inter
The Dark Face of John Paul's Papacy. John Cornwell reveals for the first time the hidden aspects of John Paul II's papacy in stark contrast to his gro...
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97,10 |
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Catholic Trivia
ISBN: 9780852445594 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Illustrated throughout by the well-known Catholic artist and cartoonist John Ryan (inventor of Captain Pugwash), Catholic Trivia sets itself to reclaim the hidden history of Catholicism in Britain. Many common words and expressions, place names, pub signs, diseases and customs betray the deep influence of the Catholic Church on our national consciousness, despite every attempt to root it out. Not without a gleam in the eye, Mark Elvins reveals the origins of saluting the quarter deck and kissing the papal toe, of Charing Cross and Covent Garden, of kicking the bucket and going on the dole....
Illustrated throughout by the well-known Catholic artist and cartoonist John Ryan (inventor of Captain Pugwash), Catholic Trivia sets itself to reclai...
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55,13 |
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Hitler's Pope : The Secret History of Pius XII
ISBN: 9780140266818 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This biography discusses Pope Pius XIII's wartime silence over the Holocaust and exposes the patent anti-Semitism that led to his fateful concordance with Hitler - a partnership that smoothed the Nazis' path to power and saw the Vatican immensely enriched, financially and politically.
This biography discusses Pope Pius XIII's wartime silence over the Holocaust and exposes the patent anti-Semitism that led to his fateful concordance ...
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86,88 |
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One Corner of London: A History of St. Bede's, Clapham Park
ISBN: 9780852445792 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, published to mark the anniversary of St Bede's Catholic church, Clapham Park tells the story of these hundred years in the parish - an extraordinary blend of human achievement, family links, buildings and bombings, joys, sorrows, disappointments, bureaucracy and real spiritual growth, all mixed up together From the days when this corenr of London was a place of horse-drawn vehicles and children in sailor suits or dark dresses and white pinafores, to today's traffic-filled streets and denim-jeaned families, this is a record of human life centred round a little church where God is...
This book, published to mark the anniversary of St Bede's Catholic church, Clapham Park tells the story of these hundred years in the parish - an extr...
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50,87 |
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Priests, Prelates and People: A History of European Catholicism, 1750 to the Present
ISBN: 9781860646652 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Catholic Church has always been a major player in European and world history. Whether it has enjoyed a religious dominance or existed as a minority religion, Catholicism has never been diverted from political life. Priests, Prelates and People records the Church struggling to adapt to the new political landscape ushered in by the French Revolution, and shows how the formation of nation states and identities was both helped and hindered by the Catholic establishment. It portrays the Vatican increasingly out of step in the wake of world war, Cold War and the massive expansion of the...
The Catholic Church has always been a major player in European and world history. Whether it has enjoyed a religious dominance or existed as a minorit...
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664,76 |
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Catholicism and Liberalism: Contributions to American Public Policy
ISBN: 9780521445283 / Angielski / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Liberalism and Catholicism are two of the most important forces shaping the contemporary political culture of the United States. This book explores what is at stake as they encounter each other in new contexts today and what a fresh conversation between them promises for the future of American public life. It is based on the conviction that both traditions continue to have much to learn from each other and that both would contribute more constructively to the resolution of the problems facing the nation if they were to do so.
Liberalism and Catholicism are two of the most important forces shaping the contemporary political culture of the United States. This book explores wh...
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507,94 |
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Catholic Revival in the Age of the Baroque
ISBN: 9780521780445 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book seeks to explain the origins of the Catholic identity of the population of southwest Germany between 1550 and 1750. Many studies of this subject credit rulers and church leaders with creating and enforcing religious identity in Germany "from above." In contrast, this study argues that there were important local and religious reasons why people came to consider themselves loyal Catholics; and in order to understand the origins of Catholic identity, it examines the nature of "Baroque Catholicism"--including the significance of pilgrimages, processions, confraternities, and other...
This book seeks to explain the origins of the Catholic identity of the population of southwest Germany between 1550 and 1750. Many studies of this sub...
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420,49 |
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The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity
ISBN: 9780521585088 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores one of the most dramatic contemporary interactions between religion and politics: the development of progressive Catholicism in Latin America. From the late 1960s this religious movement sought to transform the church and society. In the 1980s, however, the popular appeal of liberation theology was threatened. Focusing on a Brazilian community, Manuel Vasquez' incisive book examines the fate of progressive Catholicism amid changes in the Vatican and in the economy, and a wider crisis of modernity and humanistic thought.
This study explores one of the most dramatic contemporary interactions between religion and politics: the development of progressive Catholicism in La...
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429,65 |
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The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540 1770
ISBN: 9780521841542 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second edition features an updated synthesis of the vast scholarship on the history 0f Catholicism from the Council of Trent in the middle of the sixteenth century to the suppression of the Society of Jesus in the eighteenth century. The book covers the doctrinal and ecclesiastical renewal after Trent and the progress of Catholic reconquest in various lands. It also analyses the social composition of the Tridentine clergy and the papal curia and studies the making of early modern sainthood and the enclosure of religious women. An additional chapter on The Catholic Book as well as an...
This second edition features an updated synthesis of the vast scholarship on the history 0f Catholicism from the Council of Trent in the middle of the...
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323,85 |
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Roman Catholic Beliefs in England: Customary Catholicism and Transformations of Religious Authority
ISBN: 9780521363273 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michael Hornsby-Smith examines the religious transformations that have occurred among English Catholics since the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65. He explores the meanings English Catholics attach to being Roman Catholic and to Catholic beliefs over a range of concerns from doctrinal matters to questions of personal and social morality. He also examines the legitimacy accorded by English Catholics to both papal authority and religious authority in general. This study is based on a wealth of interviews with members of the Catholic Church. From his evidence, Michael Hornsby-Smith convincingly...
Michael Hornsby-Smith examines the religious transformations that have occurred among English Catholics since the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65. H...
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420,49 |
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Clemens Saga: The Life of St Clement of Rome
ISBN: 9780903521673 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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38,86 |
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The Power and The Glory
ISBN: 9781845296735 / Angielski / Miękka / 770 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents the true history of the papacy of John Paul II. This book explores the continued financial scandal involving the Vatican bank, the mafia, Freemasonry, illegal money laundering and arms sales. It also tells John Paul II's real involvement in the fa
Presents the true history of the papacy of John Paul II. This book explores the continued financial scandal involving the Vatican bank, the mafia, Fre...
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237,55 |
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Catholicism in Modern Italy: Religion, Society and Politics Since 1861
ISBN: 9780415238359 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Pollard's book surveys the relationship between Catholicism and the process of change in Italy from Unification to the present day. Central to the book is the complex set of relationships between traditional religion and the forces of change. In a broad sweep, Catholicism in Modern Italy looks at the cultural, social, political and economic aspects of the Catholic church and its relationship to the different experiences across Italy over this dramatic period of change and 'modernisation'. John Pollard's book surveys the relationship between Catholicism and the process of change in Italy from Unification to the present day. Central to... |
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728,68 |
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Catholic Culture in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780268022945 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays explores the survival of Catholic culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England a time of Protestant domination and sometimes persecution. Contributors examine not only devotional, political, autobiographical, and other written texts, but also material objects such as church vestments, architecture, and symbolic spaces. Among the topics discussed in this volume are the influence of Latin culture on Catholic women, Marian devotion, the activities of Catholics in continental seminaries and convents, the international context of English Catholicism, and the... This collection of essays explores the survival of Catholic culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England a time of Protestant domination a... |
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155,45 |
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Apologia Pro Vita Sua
ISBN: 9781602068162 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A classic of Christian apologetics, this 1865 spiritual biography of the vicar who stunned the Church of England when he abandoned it for Roman Catholicism plumbs the depths of the faith that Catholicism inspires. Structured as a response to one of his greatest public critics, it remains a beloved work to this day. First published in the mid 19th century, this is a replica of the 1908 edition, and features the authors thoughts o his religions opinions throughout his life as well as sermons and other addresses and correspondence with other clergy and religious philosophers. British theologian...
A classic of Christian apologetics, this 1865 spiritual biography of the vicar who stunned the Church of England when he abandoned it for Roman Cathol...
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131,93 |
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Suffering Saints : Jansenists & Convulsionnaires in France, 1640-1799
ISBN: 9781845192457 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive survey of Jansenism and Convulsionism in France places the Jansenist movement in the context of French political, social, economic, religious, and intellectual developments in the 17th and 18th centuries. With biographical sketches of its key leaders and an analysis of their major writings, this work highlights both the movement s internal conflicts and its struggles against church and state persecution. From letters, diaries, books, and speeches, author Brian Strayer explains such important Jansenist themes as suffering, saintliness, truth, conflict, passive resistance,...
This comprehensive survey of Jansenism and Convulsionism in France places the Jansenist movement in the context of French political, social, economic,...
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565,05 |