In 1548, ten members of the then recently founded Society of Jesus opened the first Jesuit school in Messina, Sicily. That event would have immense repercussions on the character of the Society of Jesus, but it was also a crucial event in the history of schooling within the Church and in western civilization. Jesuit education was founded on the Renaissance and humanist traditions, to which Igna…
Today we shall begin a new series of catecheses, on the theme of Christian hope. It is very important, because hope never disappoints. Optimism disappoints, but hope does not! We have such need, in these times which appear dark, in which we sometimes feel disoriented at the evil and violence which surrounds us, at the distress of so many of our brothers and sisters. We need hope! We feel d…
Brazil’s most famous outsider artist, Arthur Bispo do Rosário, spent fi ft y years in an asylum on the edge of Rio de Janeiro, diagnosed with schizophrenia. On the walls of his studio- cell as well as on objects therein, he created scores of works, many of them now displayed in museums. When, late in life, he gained public recognition, it caused …
How to think philosophically about religion? The separation of church and state takes form in the nineteenth century. In public universities in the Netherlands, systematic, church-related theology is replaced by philosophy of religion. As a window on academic thinking about faith, Willem B. Drees, Leiden University's last professor of philosophy of religion, reads the work of his predecessors. …
The debate between science and religion is never out of the news: emotions run high, fuelled by polemical bestsellers like The God Delusion and, at the other end of the spectrum, high-profile campaigns to teach "Intelligent Design" in schools. Yet there is much more to the debate than the clash of these extremes. As Thomas Dixon shows in this balanced and thought-provoking introduction, a whole…
Kisah pelayanan dan perjalanan hidup para Bruder Jesuit - Provindo. Panggilan menjadi bruder Jesuit adalah panggilan yang penuh rahmat dan perlu disyukuri setiap waktu. Dalam menghayati panggilan tersebut, para bruder diajauk untuk selalu mengarahkan diri kepada Allah. Bentuk karya dan pelayanan mereka bisa sangat beragam, namun pada intinya mereka selalu mendukung karya pelayanan Gereja di …
Dalam buku ini penulis membahas salah satu faktor yang berpengaruh dalam kehidupan keluarga, termasuk keluarga besar, yakni urutan kelahiran dalam keluarga asal, entah sebagai anak sulung, anak kedua, anak ketiga, anak bungsu, anak tunggal, atau anak kembar. Mungkin Anda adalah anak semata wayang yang direncanakan sebagai anak tunggal atau Anda mempunyai adik atau kakak kembar dari satu atau du…
Mencari bahagia DI Indonesia, nama Pastor James "Jim" Martin, S.J. mulai dikenal publik berkat buku-bukunya yang masuk dalam daftar best seller koran beken The New York Times. Antara lain, My Life With the Saints (2006), The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything (2010), Jesus: A Pilgrimage (2014). Sebelum buku-buku tersebut terbit, sudah lebih dulu ada beberapa buku tenar lain termasuk buku In…
Buku percikan kisah-kisah pendidikan yang berjudul "Mentari di Ufuk Timur" ini merupakan salah satu hasil refleksi siswa-siswi SMA YPPK Adhi Luhur, Kolese Le Cocq d'Armandville, Nabire, Papua yang pernah tergabung dalam anggota Ltihan Kepemimpinan Ignasian (LKI) 2013. Dalam karya ini, mereka menuturkan dan merefleksikan pengalaman pendidikan yang diterima dalam lingkungan keluarga, sekolah, mau…
Kualitas hubungan dengan ibu sangat menentukan perkembangan hidup seorang anak. Pola komunikasi yang dibangun, interaksi demi interaksi yang dirajut, lambat namun pasti akan membentuk dan memengaruhi perkembangan kepribadian si anak. Kerap kali hal-hal yang tak diduga, bahkan tak disadari, justru meninggalkan luka mendalam di hati anak, membentuk trauma yang menghambat perkembangannya hingga de…
Aku tidak memilih sendiri bapakku dan keluargaku. Tiba-tiba saja aku harus terlahir sebagai anak bungsu dari pasangan suami-istri dengan lima anak. Kadang aku bertanya pada diri sendiri, andai aku dilahirkan kembali dan boleh memilih sendiri siapa bapakku, ibuku, dan saudarasaudari kandungku, apakah aku mau memilih keluarga yang kumiliki saat ini? Beruntung, Sang Pengatur Hidup berpihak padaku.…
Seperti apakah seharusnya pria itu? Menjadi pria berarti harus taat pada janji, tegas dalam pendirian, dan mantap dalam perjuangan. Pria harus berani jujur, berjuang gigih untuk meraih yang terbaik, dan sekali waktu ia harus rela menahan rasa lapar dan rasa sakit. Pria harus juga belajar dan bekerja keras, dan menjawab sesuai keyakinannya. Buku mengupas enam ciri pokok kaum pria, yaitu sebagai…
Siapa tidak suka bergaul dengan anak kecil yang bersikap polos, lugu, dan lucu? Mata anak kecil itu bersih dan murni. Bagi kita orang dewasa masa kecil itu sudah lewat, dan anggapan umum berkata bahwa kini tinggal kenangan manis. Sekali waktu timbul kerinduan akan masa manis itu. Di kedalaman hati kita, anak dari masa kecil masih ada. Semua yang pernah kita alami, yang kita sukai dan yang kita …
Mimpi itu bualan belaka, mimpi adalah bunga tidur. Mimpi datang kepada setiap orang. Mengupas dan menafsir mimpi mengajak kita untuk mengenal dan bergaul akrab dengan mimpi sebagai bahasa hidup, mengungkapkan apa yang hidup di dalam diri kita: kerinduan, persoalan, harapan, dan tawaran-tawaran sekaligus peluang-peluang dalam perjalanan hidup untuk melangkah lebih maju. Mimpi bisa mengungkapkan …
Masyarakat modern ditandai dengan kemajuan peradaban ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi. Namun, di sisi lain, ternyata peradaban modern menghasilkan masyarakat yang menderita secara psikologis. Dunia modern ditandai oleh masyarakat yang impersonal, orang-orang yang kurang harapan, yang menderita kesepian, terasing, tercabut dari akar budaya maupun pribadinya, cemas dan gelisah, gampang lari dari ke…
Rachel berjumpa dengan Lopez tanpa gagasan apa pun sebelumnya tentang dia. Ia adalah orang asing baginya. Ia bahkan tidak berbagi latar belakang agamanya. Rachel, barangkali, seorang peziarah pascagereja, yang mencari bagi dirinya kebenaran terdalam dan berjuang dengan masalah-masalah hidupnya sendiri. Ia berjumpa dari hati ke hati dengan Lopez, melintasi keterpisahan lima abad sejarah dan keti…
Tuhan Yesus Kristus, bersatu dengan pujian-Mu kepada Bapa dalam kekelan-Nya, seraya menyampaikan pujian dan doa, aku memohon kepada-Mu, karena belas kasih-Mu yang tanpa batas, anugerahkanlah kepadaku hati yang mau menyesal dan berbakti kepada-Mu, hati yang rendah hati, percaya dan hangat untuk mencinta bagaikan Hati-Mu.
Buku Satu Abad Gereja Jago Ambarawa 1924 - 2024 ini berisi kisah-kisah syukur; yang ditulis ke dalam lima bagian utama: (1) Berjalan Bersama Tuhan, (2) Berjalan sebagai Saudara, (3) Berjalan Bersama Semesta, (4) Berjalan Diiringi Doa, serta (5) Berjalan dari Bulan ke Bulan. Dengan membaca buku ini kita diajak melihat miniatur dari dinamika perjalanan iman umat Gereja Jago bersama dengan Allah d…
A comprehensive, richly illustrated overview of the world's diverse religious faiths features more than four hundred full-color, captioned photographs and illustrations, along with profiles of key religious figures--from Jesus Christ and Mohammed to Buddha and Krishna--along with explanations of religious iconography, and a discussion of the rituals, practices, and beliefs of each faith.
The present work contains records of the Christian Arabic Bible translations and Bible commentaries that are kept at the Department of Asian and African Studies at the British Library. Many of these manuscripts have previously been described in various catalogues, yet with different levels of detail. The main problem, however, for those interested in the material is to navigate through all thes…
Like most people of my generation, I first came across Theo Hermans’s work when I read The Manipulation of Literature: Studies in Literary Translation, the widely celebrated and agenda-setting volume he edited in 1985. Routledge’s reprint of the volume in 2014 seems to be based on a scan of the original, which was typed by his late wife Marion, probably on an electric typewr…
The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, one of the great masterpieces of the Christian canon, today continues to offer some of the most accessible and insightful guidance for going on retreat -- whether as a part of a group or by oneself. Based on the rich fruit of St. Ignatius' own meditations and practice, this guide for spiritual perfection has been treasured and faithfully used for centuri…
The Koran has constituted a remarkably resilient core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its fifteenth century. In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Cook provides a lucid and direct account of the significance of the Koran both in the modern world and in that of traditional Islam. He gives vivid accounts of its role in Muslim civilization, illustrates the di…
There have been many studies of the women in the Gospels, but this is a new kind of book on the subject. Rather than offering a general overview of the Gospel women or focusing on a single theme, Richard Bauckham studies in great depth both the individual women who appear in the Gospels and the specific passages in which they appear. This unique approach reveals that there is much more to be…
As the founder of Islam, a religion with over one billion followers, Muhammad is beyond all doubt one of the most influential figures in world history. But learning about his life and understanding his importance has always proven difficult, as our only source of knowledge comes from the biography of him written by his followers, the reliability of which has been questioned by Western scholars.…
In recent years, the disciplines of biblical studies and systematic theology have grown apart and largely lost the means of effective communication with one another. Unfortunately, this relational disconnect affects more than just these particular fields of study; it impacts the life of the church as a whole. The first St. Andrews Conference on Scripture and Theology brought leading biblical sc…
Eminent biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan offers here a wide-ranging and stimulating exploration of the Old Testament, illuminating its importance as history, literature, and sacred text. Coogan explains the differences between the Bible of Jewish tradition (the "Hebrew Bible") and the Old Testament of Christianity, and also examines the different contents of the Bibles used by Roman Cathol…
Exploring the cultural and institutional dimensions of Christianity, and tracing its course over two millennia, Linda Woodhead provides a fresh, lively, and candid portrait of Christianity's past and present. Addressing topics including the competition for power between different forms of Christianity, the churches' use of power, and its struggles with modernity, this new edition includes up to…
Award-winning religious scholar Richard Bauckham here explores the historical figure of Jesus, evaluating the sources and showing that they provide us with good historical evidence for his life and teaching. To place Jesus in his proper historical context, as a Jew from Galilee in the early first century of our era, Bauckham looks at Jewish religion and society in the land of Israel under Roman…
The Church’s liturgical seasons are a study in change, especially during Lent and Easter. In this booklet, we focus on the dramatic changes in the life of Jesus—and on Lent’s insistent call to change our own lives. Jesus’ encounters with darkness and evil, including his betrayal and arrest and his death on the cross, attest to the reality of suffering in life, accepting what we must, an…
The authors comprehensively analyze all the available information regarding the ritual practices of Slavic pre-Christian religion that can be found in written medieval texts. After investigating every kind of reference to such practices, they offer a reconstruction of Slavic pre-Christian religion on the basis of these medieval testimonies. In doing so, they overcome the challenges presented by…
With the arrival of a so-called Christian emperor, Constantine the Great, Christian leaders gained the long-awaited tolerance of the empire. Christianity’s transition into the favored religious cult of the imperial household and Roman elite involved significant growing pains. The road to conformity was anything but smooth, as a series of controversial ecumenical councils demonstrated. I…
If you walk into the Ra?jara?j??varan ?iva temple in Ta?ipparamba, in the Ka???r district of northern Kerala, you will see many standard features: lush green lawns, old stone architecture, the occasional elephant munching on grass, low tiled roofs housing an array of deities that surround the main shrine. Having paid your respects to the various spirit…
International humanitarian law (IHL), now synonymous for many withjus inbello, is the branch of international law that governs the conduct of war. Eventhough the main instruments of IHL have been universally ratified, however,and IHL is perhaps the most effective means so far developed to limit theeffects of war, it is notoriously difficult to implement and enforce (Sassòli2007, 46–47; Bartl…
Cows—certain types ofbovinae—can evoke strong emotions among peo-ple, different emotions rooted in different worldviews. One worldview,which is arguably a galaxy of worldviews emerging over centuries in India,has come to be called “Hindu.” Some people who identify themselvesas Hindus have strong feelings about cows—feelings that tie into theirsense of conviction that cows are not just…
What is spirituality? What is the relationship between spirituality and religion? Are they inseparable or just coincidentally connected? Does spirituality need a reference to God or is true spirituality perhaps only possible without religion? How do different forms of spirituality affect the lives of individuals and society? This book is dedicated to these questions and thus comprehensively exp…
Ramon Harvey revisits the Muslim theologian Ab? Man??r al-M?tur?d? (d. 333/944) from Samarqand and puts his system, and that of the M?tur?d? school, into lively dialogue with modern thought.Combining rigorous study of Arabic M?tur?d? texts with insights from Husserl’s phenomenology and analytic theology, Harvey explores themes from epistemology and metaphysics to the nature of God and specifi…
The Details of Thomas Becket’s life and of the first fifty years or so of his cult are so well-known that they hardly bear retelling.1 For the fifteenthcentury monks who acted as custodians of his shrine there was a handy mnemonic for the most significant events of his path to sainthood—the Seven Wonderful Tuesdays—which they duly copied into the instructions written fo…
‘TheWalking Dead’in the title of the current study is of courseanod to the fa-moustelevision series, but it also hasamore serious meaningalludingtothefact that from an ancient Egyptian perspective,the deceased and other spiritualbeingswereactuallypart of the life of the living and interacted with them.Aflowery description of this worldview has been provided by Thomas Mannin his famousJoseph…
The debate between faith and science is an ongoing and quickly evolving field of study, which touches many areas of investigation. This collection of essays informs readers about some of the discourses and themes that are currently driving the faith-science debate. The aim is not to provide a uniform or exhaustive meta-narrative on faith and science nor to focus on micro…
In an age where there was broad recognition of the Christian religion and respect for the church as an institution in European culture on the one hand and immense human suffering on the other, the young German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was deeply concerned about Christianity. His concern sprung from the fact that a person who professes to be a Christian and…
The seventeenth-century philosopher Anne Conway (1631–1679) has received renewed attention from scholars of various fields during the last three decades. Preeminently, the historian of philosophy Sarah Hutton has contributed import-ant work to this scholarly development by publishing a re-edited version of the Viscountess’ correspondence, published in 1992, …
During the evenings of 01 and 02 November 1561, a package containing a defensive plea [Dutch: verweerschrift] and an accompanying anonymous letter landed within the walls of the Castle of Doornik (Tournai). However, such a document never simply ‘falls from the sky’. The author, Guido de Brès, threw it over the wall within specific circumsta…
Let us retreat for a brief moment to the era that preceded the Late Middle Ages. In so doing, we might notice that some historians who have researched the Christianisation of Central and Eastern European societies as a continuous pro-cess, unfolding over centuries, estimate that pagan belief systems expired in the twelfth century, at the latest. The eminent Polish medievalist Henry…
With so many religions in the world, it isn’t always easy to recall each faith’s key influences, spiritual figures, and dogmas. Written in easy-to-understand language, Religion 101 offers a fascinating—and memorable—glimpse at the sacred stories, traditions, and doctrines that have influenced today’s most popular religions. From Jesus and the Four Noble Truths to the Buddhist Wheel…
No Church is monolithic—this is the preliminary premise of this volume on the public place of religion in a representative number of post-communist countries. The studies confirm that within any religious organization we can expect to find fissures, factions, theological or ideological quarrels, and perhaps even competing interest groups, such as missionary workers, regular clergy versus secu…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rarely out of the news or the public imagination. Images of red-eyed Terminators illustrate press accounts of incremental advances in medical diagnosis, facial recognition, natural language processing, and robotics. Such advances are transforming society through measurable impacts on people’s decisions and opportunities. Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An…
These lines constitute the beginning and end of a letter, written on papyrus in a dialect of the Coptic Egyptian language and dating to the middle of the fourth century CE.2 The letter would not have been known today had it not been discovered by excavators at Ismant el-Kharab, now a sand-covered ruin in an oasis west in Egypt, once a prosperous…
Papyrus letters seem to convey close and personal information, directly from the mouth (or the pen) of an ancient author. Piene’s letter to his mother Maria accentuates a vivid sense of proximity and similarity. A boy, traveling far away from his mother, expresses his affection for her in a most elegant manner. How different is he from you and me?Intimate as it may feel, this passage may also…
Present- day Germany is a post- Christian nation. Religious pluralism, a decrease of ethical and religious convictions originating in Christianity, individualism, and secularization describe the cultural influences in Germany.1 Mainline churches have suffered from a drastic decline in membership for several decades and expect to lose half of their members by 2060.2 The average…