Religious Life for Our World

Religious Life for Our World
Author: Maria Cimperman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2020
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781626983809

This book brings together God's call, the cries of the world and of the earth today, and charisms in consecrated life in a way that dynamically engages the vows, prayer, community, and ministry for the particular time and contexts in which we live. Here is a valuable theological and pastoral resource for the conversion, transformation, and revitalization needed in consecrated life today.

In Our Own Words

In Our Own Words
Author: Juliet Mousseau
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2018
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814645208

Written by a diverse group of younger women religious from North America, In Our Own Words offers a collection of essays on issues central to apostolic religious life today. The thirteen authors represent different congregations, charisms, ministries, and histories. The topics and concerns that shape these chapters emerged naturally through a collaborative process of prayer and conversation. Essays focus on the vows and community life, individual identity and congregational charisms, and leadership among younger members leading into the future. The authors hope these chapters may form a springboard for further conversation on religious life, inviting others to share their experiences of religious life in today's world.

Buying the Field

Buying the Field
Author: Sandra Marie Schneiders
Publisher: Religious Life in a New Millen
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780809147885

Sandra Schneiders continues her rethinking of the traditional religious vows in the context of postmodernism, reaching back into the gospels for the meaning of ¿world¿ in order to discern the meaning of renunciation of the ¿world¿ by religious, examining, the vow of poverty both in its economic and spiritual sense as well as the vow of obedience.

Conversations at the Well

Conversations at the Well
Author: Jung Eun Sophia Park
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2019-08-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532649770

Are religious women in the United States disappearing and finally dying out? Or is there any new way of religious life emerging? Conversations at the Well tries to respond to this question. In the twenty-first century of the global world, newly emerging religious life would be rooted with the Jesus Movement and develop in the spirit of collaboration, networking, and intercultural living. As the liminal space, religious life is located at the margins, subverting the existing social order and creating a new vision for the world. This book explores an alternative meaning of religious life within the context of the apostolic mission. In this new religious life, the concept of community is not limited to living as a community in the convent, but extended into collaborating friendship. Primarily, the apostolic religious life is deeply related to social justice, delinking the global capitalism in which many people suffer from human trafficking, immigration, and exile. The new leader of religious women would require skill in handling uncertainty, amplifying resources, and opening to the new reality. In this new religious life, spirituality would be articulated as freedom and liberation to let go of the old frame, as well as letting the new life become reality. In this way, as radical disciples, religious women in the twenty-first century embody the Jesus Movement, building bridges between different cultures and people.

Priesthood in Religious Life

Priesthood in Religious Life
Author: Stephen Bevans
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2018-09-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814684785

This is the first book in English on priesthood in religious life to be published in twenty years. Its fourteen contributors search for new ways forward in the understanding of the distinct identity and ministry of religious men—committed to community, the prophetic lifestyle of vows or promises, and the particular charisms of their congregations—who have also answered the call to priesthood. Essays in this collection include reflections from a bishop, from the perspective of a lay theologian, from an expert in the social sciences, and on Pope Francis’s teachings on priesthood. Included as well are essays that are rooted in particular cultural traditions, in spirituality, and in canon law.

Discerning Religious Life

Discerning Religious Life
Author: Clare Matthiass
Publisher:
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2017-04-20
Genre: Discernment (Christian theology)
ISBN: 9780989621250

A guide to help Catholic women discover a vocation to religious life.

Religious Life in the 21st Century

Religious Life in the 21st Century
Author: O'Murchu, Diarmuid
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2016-08-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608336565

This seminal work surveys the historical rise and fall of religious orders and congregations and reveals an unfolding pattern that gives hope for the present and future.

The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life

The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life
Author: Roy Wallis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429678401

This book, first published in 1984, examines the whole range of new religious movements which appeared in the 1960s and 1970s in the West. It develops a wide-ranging theory of these new religions which explains many of their major characteristics. Some of the movements are well-known, such as Scientology, Krishna Consciousness, and the Unification Church. Others such as the Process, Meher Baba, and 3-HO are much less known. While some became international, others remained local; in other ways, too, such as style, belief, organisation, they exhibit enormous diversity. The movements studied here are classified under three ideal types, world-rejecting, world-affirming and world-accommodating, and from here the author develops a theory of the origins, recruitment base, characteristics, and development patterns which they display. The book offers a critical exploration of the theories of the new religions and analyses the highly contentious issue of whether they reflect the process of secularisation, or whether they are a countervailing trend marking the resurgence of religion in the West.

The Lord as Their Portion

The Lord as Their Portion
Author: Elizabeth Rapley
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2011-03-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802865887

A guided tour through the fascinating history of Catholic religious orders From their monastic prehistory in the Egyptian desert through their political heyday in Medieval and Renaissance Europe to their present-day work of education, human care, and the pursuit of social justice, the Catholic religious orders have been a driving force in Western civilization. In The Lord as Their Portion Elizabeth Rapley paints a broad portrait of the full spectrum of religious orders spanning the vast canvas of their history. Rapley shows how religious orders led the way in learning and inventiveness throughout the early periods of Western civilization. She explores how religious orders contributed to Western politics and the global spread of Christianity. She examines the ways in which religious orders have championed the poor, marginalized, and disenfranchised throughout history and gives attention the ongoing work of religious orders today. More than simply highlighting the sweeping progress of monasticism s past and present, however, Rapley also takes time to share, in a clear and engaging fashion, the fascinating stories of many of the men and women who chose to take the Lord as their portion and whose piety, devotion, and energetic pursuit of a holy life profoundly shaped the course of history.