Mary Dunn
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823267217
- eISBN:
- 9780823272327
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823267217.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
In 1631, Marie Guyart (later, Marie de l’Incarnation) stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, into the cloister and out of the world, leaving behind the family business, her ...
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In 1631, Marie Guyart (later, Marie de l’Incarnation) stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, into the cloister and out of the world, leaving behind the family business, her aging father and—what jars the modern reader—her eleven-year-old son. The Cruelest of All Mothers examines Marie’s confounding decision to abandon the young Claude, situating the event within the contexts of Marie’s own writings, family life in seventeenth-century France, the Christian tradition, and early modern French spirituality. This book takes up Marie’s decision to abandon Claude as an instance of human agency, arguing that the abandonment is best understood neither as an act of submission to the will of God nor as an act of resistance against the prevailing norms of seventeenth-century French family life, but rather as something in between. Taking its cue from Bourdieu’s understanding of human agency, this book argues that the abandonment is best understood as an event informed by what had been possible within the Christian tradition and inflected by what was likely within the context of seventeenth-century French Catholicism. The final chapter of the book draws on the work of Julia Kristeva to propose how, in another time and place, it might have been possible for Marie to imagine motherhood itself—and not its renunciation—as sacrifice in imitation of Christ.Less
In 1631, Marie Guyart (later, Marie de l’Incarnation) stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, into the cloister and out of the world, leaving behind the family business, her aging father and—what jars the modern reader—her eleven-year-old son. The Cruelest of All Mothers examines Marie’s confounding decision to abandon the young Claude, situating the event within the contexts of Marie’s own writings, family life in seventeenth-century France, the Christian tradition, and early modern French spirituality. This book takes up Marie’s decision to abandon Claude as an instance of human agency, arguing that the abandonment is best understood neither as an act of submission to the will of God nor as an act of resistance against the prevailing norms of seventeenth-century French family life, but rather as something in between. Taking its cue from Bourdieu’s understanding of human agency, this book argues that the abandonment is best understood as an event informed by what had been possible within the Christian tradition and inflected by what was likely within the context of seventeenth-century French Catholicism. The final chapter of the book draws on the work of Julia Kristeva to propose how, in another time and place, it might have been possible for Marie to imagine motherhood itself—and not its renunciation—as sacrifice in imitation of Christ.
Margaret M. McGuinness
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823239870
- eISBN:
- 9780823239917
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823239870.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Neighbors and Missionaries is a history of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine, a community of women religious founded by Marion Gurney (Mother Marianne of Jesus) in 1910. Believing that ...
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Neighbors and Missionaries is a history of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine, a community of women religious founded by Marion Gurney (Mother Marianne of Jesus) in 1910. Believing that she was not called to ministries that involved either parochial education or health care, Mother Marianne and the women who joined her worked with the urban poor in social settlements and staffed religious education classes for children attending public schools. The Sisters of Christian Doctrine established two settlements in New York City, and later expanded their work into South Carolina and Florida. The Horse Creek Valley Welfare Center in South Carolina essentially used the model of social settlements that had been developed for urban areas, but adapted it to the rural South. In addition to offering educational and social programs, the sisters taught catechism classes and prepared children and adults to receive the sacraments. Members of the community also served in a number of parishes where they ministered to black and white Catholics. By the 1960s, settlement houses had been replaced by other types of social welfare programs, and the numbers of American women religious were rapidly decreasing. The concluding chapters of Neighbors and Missionaries explore how the Sisters of Christian Doctrine adapted their ministries to reflect the changes taking place in both the Catholic Church and American society during the second half of the twentieth century.Less
Neighbors and Missionaries is a history of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine, a community of women religious founded by Marion Gurney (Mother Marianne of Jesus) in 1910. Believing that she was not called to ministries that involved either parochial education or health care, Mother Marianne and the women who joined her worked with the urban poor in social settlements and staffed religious education classes for children attending public schools. The Sisters of Christian Doctrine established two settlements in New York City, and later expanded their work into South Carolina and Florida. The Horse Creek Valley Welfare Center in South Carolina essentially used the model of social settlements that had been developed for urban areas, but adapted it to the rural South. In addition to offering educational and social programs, the sisters taught catechism classes and prepared children and adults to receive the sacraments. Members of the community also served in a number of parishes where they ministered to black and white Catholics. By the 1960s, settlement houses had been replaced by other types of social welfare programs, and the numbers of American women religious were rapidly decreasing. The concluding chapters of Neighbors and Missionaries explore how the Sisters of Christian Doctrine adapted their ministries to reflect the changes taking place in both the Catholic Church and American society during the second half of the twentieth century.
John M. McManamon, S.J.
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823245048
- eISBN:
- 9780823252787
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823245048.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Scholars now concur that the text Ignatius Loyola dictated late in life should not be labeled an autobiography: the existing text does not cover Ignatius's entire life, and he did not write it. ...
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Scholars now concur that the text Ignatius Loyola dictated late in life should not be labeled an autobiography: the existing text does not cover Ignatius's entire life, and he did not write it. Jerónimo Nadal (1507-80), Ignatius's most trusted Jesuit collaborator, urged that the text be titled Acts as the word is used in Luke's Acts of the Apostles. Recent monographs by Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle and John W. O’Malley have characterized Ignatius's Acts as a “mirror of vainglory” and “a mirror of apostolic religious life” respectively. This study argues that an appreciation of the two Lukan New Testament writings likewise helps interpret the theological perspectives of Ignatius. The geography of Luke's two writings and the theology that inspired Luke's redactional innovation assisted Ignatius in remembering and understanding the crucial acts of God in his own life. It also argues that one only appreciates the book by moving forward to Ignatius and his times through the Renaissance, not by viewing backwards through the Reformation. The world-affirming style of holiness to which Ignatius discerned God calling him had much in common with directions born in Italy during the Renaissance. Ignatius's commitment to education, appreciation for the Incarnation and desire for rebirth of the apostolic age reveal a dialogue with the world of Renaissance humanism. The meaning of Ignatius's Acts is best appreciated, then, in the context of the language that he dictated, the events that he chose to include or not include, and the cultures that helped to shape his expression and understanding.Less
Scholars now concur that the text Ignatius Loyola dictated late in life should not be labeled an autobiography: the existing text does not cover Ignatius's entire life, and he did not write it. Jerónimo Nadal (1507-80), Ignatius's most trusted Jesuit collaborator, urged that the text be titled Acts as the word is used in Luke's Acts of the Apostles. Recent monographs by Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle and John W. O’Malley have characterized Ignatius's Acts as a “mirror of vainglory” and “a mirror of apostolic religious life” respectively. This study argues that an appreciation of the two Lukan New Testament writings likewise helps interpret the theological perspectives of Ignatius. The geography of Luke's two writings and the theology that inspired Luke's redactional innovation assisted Ignatius in remembering and understanding the crucial acts of God in his own life. It also argues that one only appreciates the book by moving forward to Ignatius and his times through the Renaissance, not by viewing backwards through the Reformation. The world-affirming style of holiness to which Ignatius discerned God calling him had much in common with directions born in Italy during the Renaissance. Ignatius's commitment to education, appreciation for the Incarnation and desire for rebirth of the apostolic age reveal a dialogue with the world of Renaissance humanism. The meaning of Ignatius's Acts is best appreciated, then, in the context of the language that he dictated, the events that he chose to include or not include, and the cultures that helped to shape his expression and understanding.
Ecclesiastical Knights
Interdependence
Maps for a Fiesta
The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
After Fukushima
The Body of Property
Bruno Latour in Pieces
The Church of Greece under Axis Occupation
Dialogue of Love
