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Silvia Guerra / Translated by Jeannine Marie Pitas and Jesse Lee Kercheval

Silvia Guerra (1961, Maldonado, Uruguay) is among the most influential figures in Uruguayan poetry today. This translation, a panoramic selection of poems from nine books, presents Guerra as one of Latin America’s dauntless poets of language. This tour-de-force translation engages Guerra’s stunning range of forms and tendencies—neopastoral, neobarrocoand even a fictional biography of Lautréamont—while joining the poet as she courts complexity, opacity, nothingness, and the sublime.

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Publication date: September 15, 2023

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9798986353920
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ABBOT AELRED CARLYLE, CALDEY ISLAND, AND THE ANGLO-CATH. REVIVAL IN ENGLAND

ABBOT AELRED CARLYLE, CALDEY ISLAND, AND THE ANGLO-CATH. REVIVAL IN ENGLAND
$59.95
Drawing from a wealth of private papers, church records, and newspapers, this book documents the religious career of Abbot Aelred Carlyle (1874-1955). From his early popularity and the establishment of an Anglican Benedictine monastery on Caldey Island, South Wales, to his conversion to Roman Catholicism, Carlyle's life presents a forum of debate for numerous topics of Edwardian religion: the Anglo-Catholic movement, ritualism, lawless clergy, the power or lack of authority of the Anglican bishops, the influence of the religious press, the Anglican Church versus the Roman Church, and the issue of religious conversion. This study also questions the role Benedictine monasticism plays, if any, in the reunion of the Anglican and Roman Churches.
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0820424692
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ART NOURISHES LIFE: SELECTED WORKS FROM THE SAINT VINCENT ART & HERITAGE COLLECTIONS

ART NOURISHES LIFE: SELECTED WORKS FROM THE SAINT VINCENT ART & HERITAGE COLLECTIONS
$25.00

When the founder of Saint Vincent, Boniface Wimmer, OSB, arrived in Latrobe, Pennsylvania in 1846, he quickly set out to establish a monastery and school that would be immersed in the arts. Envisioning the arts as having the same status and support as science and religion, Wimmer immediately began to assemble artists, teach students, and collect art. Over the past 170 years Saint Vincent has been inspired by its founder's vision - continuing to collect art that edifies spaces on campus, provokes discussion, and engages diverse modes of thought and inquiry. "Art Nourishes Life: Selected Works from the Saint Vincent Art & Heritage Collections" traces a unique history of collecting back to the mid-19th century when artwork began arriving at the nascent community through the auspices of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. At the time of this publication, Saint Vincent counts some 4,000 works of art in its holdings ranging from ancient to contemporary in nearly all media. This full-color volume features over fifty works culled from Saint Vincent's impressive holdings. These works stand not only as a testament to Abbot Boniface and King Ludwig, but to the myriad of artists, educators, and benefactors whose determined efforts collectively acknowledge the power of art to transform its viewers and environment.

 About the Authors

 

 Andrew Julo serves as the director/curator at the Verostko Center for the Arts on the campus of Saint Vincent College in Latrobe. Before relocating to Pennsylvania, Julo was formerly as a member of the curatorial staff managing the corporate art collection of Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, Mo. Julo is a graduate of the University of Missouri - Kansas City (M.A.) and Saint John's University in Collegeville, Mn (B.A.).

 

A senior curator in the Word and Image Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Douglas Dodds is responsible for developing the Department's digital art collections, which range from early computer art to recent born-digital works. Dodds has curated a variety of exhibitions and displays at the V&A including: Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers (2018-); Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life (2013); and Digital Pioneers (2009-10) as well as an expanded version of the Barbara Nessim exhibition for the Bard Graduate Center in New York (2014). Other V&A projects include Deciphering Dickens, an initiate that makes the Victorian author's manuscripts more accessible online. In addition, Dodds leads efforts to digitize the Department's prints, drawings, paintings and photograph collections. Douglas is a Trustee of Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children's Books and chairs the associated Seven Stories Collection Trust.

 

A member of the Saint Vincent Archabbey monastic community, Br. Nathan Cochran, OSB, (1957 - 2014) served as the director of The Saint Vincent Gallery for over thirty years. Br. Nathan curated over sixty exhibitions, interpreting the art and history of Saint Vincent, including the 1986 seminal exhibition, "Gifts of a King: The Treasured Art of Saint Vincent Archabbey.

 

Roman Verostko, co-founder of the Algorists, identifies with first generation pioneers of computer art who create original algorithms for generating their art. Perennially interested in semiotics, philosophy, and cross- cultural exchange, Verostko's work exists at the nexus of creativity and technological innovation. Over the course of his career, Verostko's work has appeared in over a hundred exhibitions nationally and internationally, and to date, he has twenty-two published articles on subjects ranging from a 1964 paper on Abstract Liturgical art to his 1988 International Symposium on Electronic Art paper identifying the biological analogues to generative art. His work is in numerous international public and private collections.

 

Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Abzorb Design, Inc. specializes in print, digital, and environmental identity material. Meticulously attentive to client needs, Abzorb boasts an impressive marketing and design portfolio. Learn more at: www.abzorb.com

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9780578652658
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CIVIL RIGHTS & THE PARADOX OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY

CIVIL RIGHTS & THE PARADOX OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY
$68.00
In Civil Rights and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy, Bradley Watson demonstrates the paradox of liberal democracy: that its cornerstone principles of equality and freedom are principles inherently directed toward undermining it. Modernity, beyond bringing definition to political equality, unleashed a whirlwind of individualism, which feeds the soul's basic impulse to rule without limitation<\#209>including the limitation of consent. Here Watson begins his analysis of the foundations of liberalism, looking carefully and critically at the moral and political philosophies that justify modern civil rights litigation. He goes on to examine the judicial manifestations of the paradox of liberal democracy, seeking to bring a broad philosophical coherence to legal decision making in the United States and Canada. Finally, Watson illuminates the extent to which this decision making is in tension with liberal democracy, and outlines proposals for reform.
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0739100386
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CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & JUDICIAL SUPREMACY: JOHN RAWLS & THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS

CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & JUDICIAL SUPREMACY: JOHN RAWLS & THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS
$109.99
"The best books on politics offer us fresh insight into the way things are, and powerful arguments about how things ought to be. Jerome Foss's superb book accomplishes both of these ends, rescuing John Rawls's work from the dusty corners of overly abstract theorizing by emphasizing Rawls's dedication to a very practical reinvention of the American political experiment. This approach has the virtue not only of according with Rawls's mature interpretation of his work, but also of setting up a lively contrast between the constitutional republicanism of the framers and Rawls's constitutional democracy. This book is a trustworthy guide to the American constitutional tradition as well as Rawls's innovative alternative, offering a respectful treatment of the latter while providing an engaging and persuasive defense of the former." -Micah J. Watson, William Spoelhof Teacher-Scholar Chair in Political Science, Calvin College
"Foss's careful study of the transformative intention of Rawls's political theory brings extraordinary insights to our academic debates, and to the real causes of our polarized, dysfunctional politics. The analysis of Rawls's pragmatism reveals its breathtaking goal to elevate progressive-liberal judges as epitomes of public reason, seeking to construct a rationalist, egalitarian-minded democracy to replace the framers' complex republicanism. Rawls has partially succeeded; we increasingly are ruled by living judicialism rather than the rule of law, under novel power wielded by federal courts, law professors, and lawyers. Foss gives Rawls a fair hearing, but insists we confront the arbitrary and utopian bases of this radical project, and the costs of elevating equality and constructed theory at the expense of liberty, self-government, and natural rights. Those who care about the fate of constitutional self-government, and whether utopian theories produce sustainable polities or political-social disorder, must confront this book." -Paul Carrese, Professor of Political Science, U.S. Air Force Academy
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9781604979282
Publication Date: 
2016-05-31
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CONVERSATIO: A JOURNAL IN THE TRADITION OF CATHOLIC, BENEDICTINE & LIBERAL EDUCATION - VOLUME 1

CONVERSATIO: A JOURNAL IN THE TRADITION OF CATHOLIC, BENEDICTINE & LIBERAL EDUCATION - VOLUME 1
$14.95

I write with the exciting news that the Saint Vincent Center for Catholic Thought and Culture has published its first volume of Conversatio: A Journal in the Tradition of Catholic, Benedictine, and Liberal Education.

The idea of the journal is to provide a venue for Saint Vincent faculty to write for our community. The journal includes essays, poetry, and book reviews. As you can see from the contents below, the entries are academically serious and largely interdisciplinary in nature. They are the sorts of things one would expect a liberally educated person at a Catholic, Benedictine college in Latrobe to find informative, enriching, and—well—fun.  Authors come from all parts of campus. This has truly been a collaborative endeavor full of SVC charm. The journals contents include:

              Essays

Nathan Munsch, OSB – “Conversatio Morum: Hallmark of Benedictine Education or Invitation to a Way of Life

Jason Jividen – “Reading Xenophon’s Cyropaedia

Robert Bufalini – “A Commemoration of Dante Alighiere: Dante’s Encounter with Saint Benedict in Paradiso XXII”

Aaron J. Sams and Kelsey S. Sams – “The Mind of Dorothy Sayers”

Michael Robinson – “Beyond Strength: The Cosmology of C.S. Lewis”

Daniel J. Heisey – “Mister Rogers’ Miniature Neighborhood”

 

Symposium on E. F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful

Lucas Briola – “A New Society within the Shell of the Old: Reflections on Small is Beautiful and an Integral Ecology”

Justin Petrovich – “Uncertainty is Beautiful”

Zachary G. Davis – “Of Course People Matter: A Response to Small is Beautiful from a ‘Modern’ Economist”

 

Book Reviews

Patricia Sharbaugh – Leon R. Kass, Founding God’s Nation

Matthew A. Fisher – Luigi Gioia, O.S.B., Saint Benedict’s Wisdom: Monastic Spirituality and the Life of the Church

Edward Mazich, O.S.B. – John Henry Newman, A Benedictine Education: The Mission of Saint Benedict and the Benedictine Schools

Daniel Vanden Berk – Stephen M. Barr, Modern Physics and Ancient Faith

 

Reviews of Faculty Books

Steven Gravelle – Joseph Ogbonnaya and Lucas Briola, Everything is Interconnected: Towards a Globalization with a Human Face and an Integral Ecology

Sara Lindey – Jerome C. Foss, Flannery O’Connor and the Perils of Governing by Tenderness

Daniele Arcara – Michael P. Krom, Justice and Charity

Dana Winters – Eric J. Mohr and Holly k. Mohr, Mister Rogers and Philosophy: Wondering through the Neighborhood

Stacy Birmingham – Patricia Sharbaugh, Irrepressible Light: The Women of the New Testament

Ben Schachter – Bradley C.S. Watson, Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea

 

Poetry

Selected Poetry of Julia Snyder

 

Isabel Sicree, Nicole Fratrich, and Elizabeth Elin -  Winners of the 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr. Poetry Contest


 

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9798985161403
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CONVERSATIO: A JOURNAL IN THE TRADITION OF CATHOLIC, BENEDICTINE & LIBERAL EDUCATION - VOLUME 2

CONVERSATIO: A JOURNAL IN THE TRADITION OF CATHOLIC, BENEDICTINE & LIBERAL EDUCATION - VOLUME 2
$14.95

Conversatio is a publication of the Saint Vincent Center for Catholic Thought and Culture. It’s purpose is to provide members of the Saint Vincent community—monastery, college, and seminary—a means of sharing with one another academic essays, poetry, and book reviews related to our mission as a Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts institution. Essays focus on important books and works of art that have shaped the intellectual traditions that inform our mission. The book reviews look to recent research driven by those traditions, including books written by members of our own community. 

 

In Volume II of Conversatio, you will find:

 

Essays and Poetry

 

Augustine of Hippo on Conversion of the Restless Human Heart

Kimberly F. Baker

 

Hospitality, Psalms, and Silence in a Benedictine Classroom

Catherine Petrany Briola

 

Reading Gregory’s The Life of Saint Benedict

Jerome C. Foss

 

Benedictine Spiritual Direction in Michael Novak’s The Tiber Was Silver

Daniel J. Heisey

 

Learning for its Own Sake: Saint Bonaventure’s Reply

Carl A. Vater

 

Selected Poem

Benedict Janecko, O.S.B.

 

Student Symposium on Listening

 

Introduction

 

Listening, Liberation, and Eudaimonia

Michael Astfalk

 

Making Connections

Julianna Lott

 

Forms of Listening and Liberation at Saint Vincent College

Elizabeth Van Pilsum

 

Book Reviews

 

Jan-Heiner Tück A Gift of Presence: The Theology and Poetry of the Eucharist in Thomas Aquinas

Lucas Briola

 

Mary L. Hirschfeld, Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy

Zachary G. Davis

 

Margarita A. Mooney, The Love of Learning: Seven Dialogues on the Liberal Arts

Jennifer L. Koehl

 

Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life Koehl

Michael Krom

 

Bonnie B. Thurston, Shaped by the End You Live For: Thomas Merton’s Monastic Spirituality

Patricia Sharbaugh

 

Faculty Books

 

Jason R. Jividen, Claiming Lincoln: Progressivism, Equality, and the Battle for Lincoln’s Legacy in Presidential Rhetoric

John Aupperle

 

Elizabeth Lev, The Silent Knight: A History of St. Joseph as Depicted in Art

Boniface Hicks, O.S.B.

 

Timothy Kelly, The Transformation of American Catholicism: The Pittsburgh Laity and the Second Vatican Council, 1950-1972

Christopher McMahon

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9798985161410
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR & THE PERILS OF GOVERNING BY TENDERNESS

FLANNERY O'CONNOR & THE PERILS OF GOVERNING BY TENDERNESS
$100.00
Flannery O'Connor's fiction continues to haunt American readers, in part because of its uncanny ability to remind us who we are and what we need. Foss's book reveals the extent to which O'Connor was a serious reader of the history of political philosophy. She understood the ideas upon which the American regime rests, and she evaluated those ideas from the standpoint of both faith and reason. Foss's book explains why O'Connor feared that the modern habit to govern by tenderness would lead to terror. After a thorough account of her familiarity with the history of political philosophy, Foss shows how the works of Plato, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Locke, Rousseau, and Nietzsche inform O'Connor's stories. This does not mean that O'Connor was writing about politics in the narrow sense. Her vision was deeply theological, and she carefully avoided topical stories that promote social agendas. Her concern was with the health of the American regime more broadly, insofar as the manners of a regime affect citizens' attitudes toward religion. O'Connor does not present a political theory of her own, but as Foss argues, she was a political philosopher in the original sense of the word. Her stories give clear accounts of her political wisdom. Foss further shows the continued relevance of her wisdom in age dominated by abstract modern theories, such as that of John Rawls.
ISBN/SKU: 
9781498532594
Publication Date: 
2019-03-01
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR & THE PERILS OF GOVERNING BY TENDERNESS (P)

FLANNERY O'CONNOR & THE PERILS OF GOVERNING BY TENDERNESS (P)
$41.99
Flannery O'Connor's fiction continues to haunt American readers, in part because of its uncanny ability to remind us who we are and what we need. This book reveals the extent to which O'Connor was a serious reader of the history of political philosophy and why O'Connor feared that the habit to govern by tenderness would lead to terror.
ISBN/SKU: 
9781498532617
Publication Date: 
2020-10-19
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FLOWERS IN THE DESERT - SPIRITUALITY OF THE BIBLE

FLOWERS IN THE DESERT - SPIRITUALITY OF THE BIBLE
$12.95
Biblical Wisdom for Everyday Life.

The bible is, above all other things, a record of God's love for the human race. In its words and through its stories God reveals himself and calls those who hear the word into communion with him. When we first approach the bible, however, we encounter a variety of literary styles -- histories, poetry, sagas, moral advice and visionary productions. There is often a problem of discerning the simple theme of call-and-response in all these styles, or of finding a connection in the bible to our 20th century existence. This book opens the door to the deep message the bible conveys to individual Christians today. Putting aside for a moment questions of doctrine or historical interpretation, it concentrates on the spiritual teaching of the Old and New Testaments. It begins with God's call to humanity and to each of us individually. Then it considers the human adventure of our journey through life. Finally it looks at our ultimate homecoming to the Father. The many references to biblical passages and daily life make this an invaluable book for those who want to know about the bible -- but even more, who want to live it.

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9780970821607

FUNDAMENTALS OF STRENGTH

FUNDAMENTALS OF STRENGTH
$100.00
"The text includes an abundance of data and actual model correlations that support the model as well as examples of how the model has been implemented and used to understand the effects of new strengthening mechanisms"--
ISBN/SKU: 
9781118413418
Publication Date: 
2014-03-03
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GOD'S KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD

GOD'S KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD
$75.00

"God's Knowledge of the World examines theories of divine ideas from approximately 1250-1325 AD (St. Bonaventure through Ockham). It is the only work dedicated to categorizing and comparing the major theories of divine ideas in the Scholastic period. A theory of divine ideas was the standard Scholastic response to the question how does God know and produce the world? A theory was deemed to be successful only if it simultaneously upheld that God has perfect knowledge and that he is supremely simple and one. These questions cause the Scholastic authors to articulate clearly, among other things, their positions on the nature of knowledge, relation, exemplar causality, participation, infinity, and possibility. An author's theory of divine ideas, then, is the locus for him to test the coherence of his metaphysical, epistemological, and logical principles"--

ISBN/SKU: 
9780813235547
Publication Date: 
2022-08-25

LEADERSHIP IN MIDDLE-EARTH: THEORIES & APPLICATIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONS

LEADERSHIP IN MIDDLE-EARTH: THEORIES & APPLICATIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONS
$27.00
Part of the series Exploring Effective Leadership Practices through Popular Culture, Urick examines mentorship and learning, transformational and servant leadership, culture, bases of power, leader emergence, teams, motivation, and more.
Leadership in Middle-Earth explores J.R.R. Tolkien's exemplary leadership and management examples evident in his tales such as 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings', examining mentorship, team dynamics, mindfulness, servant leadership, influence and ethical leadership through solid academic theories and management practices. Readers will become familiar and comfortable with academically supported leadership concepts to adjust their own behaviors, becoming more successful in the process.
By examining leadership theories through the context of popular culture, the book encourages readers to think creatively about how they might adjust their own management approach. The series aims to bring examples, theory and methodology of leadership to life by analysing academic concepts through popular culture examples that will appeal to a broad range of readers.
ISBN/SKU: 
9781800715288
Publication Date: 
2021-05-25

MISTER ROGERS & PHILOSOPHY (P)

MISTER ROGERS & PHILOSOPHY (P)
$19.95

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which began as The Children's Corner in 1953 and terminated in 2001, left its mark on America.

The show's message of kindness, simplicity, and individual uniqueness made Rogers a beloved personality, while also provoking some criticism because, by arguing that everyone was special without having to do anything to earn it, the show supposedly created an entitled generation.

In Mister Rogers and Philosophy, thirty philosophers give their very different takes on the Neighborhood phenomenon.

● Rogers's way of communicating with children has a Socratic dimension, and is compared with other attempts to cultivate philosophy in children.

● Wonder is the origin of philosophy and science, and Mister Rogers always looked for wonder.

● Did Mister Rogers unwittingly create the Millennials by his message that everyone is special?

● What Martin Buber's I-Thou philosophy can tell us about Fred Rogers's attempt to rehabilitate children's television.

● X the Owl obsesses, Daniel Tiger regresses, Lady Elaine displaces anger, King Friday controls--how puppets can be used to teach us about feelings.

● Fred Rogers's indirect communication is key to the show, and most evident in the land of make-believe, where he doesn't make himself known.

● How Mister Rogers helps us see that the ordinary world is extraordinary, if we're willing to open ourselves up to it.

● How does Mister Rogers's method of teaching compare with Maria Montessori's?

● Fred Rogers and Carl Rogers have a lot in common: The Neighborhood is observed in the light of Rogerian therapy.

● Mister Rogers's view of evil is closer to Rousseau than to Voltaire.

● Fred Rogers gave a non-philosophical interpretation of the philosophical approach known as personalism.

● Daoism helps us understand how Fred Rogers, the antithesis of a stereotypical male, could achieve such success as a TV star.

● In the show and in his life, we can see how Rogers lived "the ethics of care."

● Puppets help children understand that persons are not isolated, but interconnected.

● Mister Rogers showed us that talking and singing about our feelings makes them more manageable.

ISBN/SKU: 
9780812694772
Publication Date: 
2019-10-15
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OR/AND: POEMS

OR/AND: POEMS
$21.00

In his famed treatise Either/Or, Christian existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard suggests that our basic human condition is one of choice and freedom. But what about when we struggle to discern the right path forward, when we stumble between contradictory desires, when we want everything? Such insatiability - which the ancient Greeks called pleonexia - leads to suffering and sorrow for ourselves and others, not to mention the earth we call home. But what about when "either/or" thinking becomes too rigid in its limits? What about those moments when we see scarcity instead of the many possibilities that abound, when fear keeps us from giving and receiving our full share?

This book of poetry is an exploration of those times when it is necessary to make either/or choices as well as other times when, even if only briefly, we are able to echo Richard Rohr in affirming, "Yes, And." It is a story of stumbling in darkness and seeking light, of succumbing to sinfulness and facing consequences, of desiring deeply and bumping up against limits. It's about addiction and recovery, justice and mercy, redemption found through friendship and community. It's about seeking ways to open doors and tear down walls. Ultimately, it is about the divine grace that occasionally manages to expand our possibilities, transforming us into vessels of boundless compassion.

ISBN/SKU: 
9781640607903
Publication Date: 
2023-03-01

PARLIAMENTARY POLITICS OF A COUNT AND ITS TOWN

PARLIAMENTARY POLITICS OF A COUNT AND ITS TOWN
$64.95

Based on archival sources, this study considers political activities in Suffolk's two main constituencies over the course of the 18th century. Mining the records of an unusually rich provincial press, Sommers addresses many key questions of Hanoverian political historiography: the press, popular political expressions, women in politics, deference, and elite behavior. She focuses primarily on the second half of the century, a time marked by an increasingly sophisticated electorate that left considerable documentary evidence, to determine how politics actually developed in East Anglia, as recorded in public and private documents.

In addition to a description of the variety and nature of Suffolk politics, the work elaborates upon a number of important collateral themes. These include the appearance of intense political awareness and enthusiastic participation in popular activities among those not possessing the vote, coupled with a political use of the press that grows dramatically in scope over the course of the century. Other sections detail the sustained development of the independence of the electorate and the connection between religious affiliation and partisan identification locally, as well as that between local and national parties.

ISBN/SKU: 
0275975134

PLACE IN THE SKY-A HISTORY OF THE ARNOLD PALMER REGIONAL AIRPORT

PLACE IN THE SKY-A HISTORY OF THE ARNOLD PALMER REGIONAL AIRPORT
$35.00
Book by Wilmes, David, Mogus, Mary Ann, Wissolik, Richard David
ISBN/SKU: 
1885851170

PRAYING THE SCRIPTURES

PRAYING THE SCRIPTURES
$24.95
ISBN/SKU: 
9780814629406

RENEWED EACH MORNING

RENEWED EACH MORNING
$15.95
A collection of reflections on the wisdom and grace that we need to lead healthy, happy lives rooted in the teaching of Jesus Christ. These stories from Father Philip M. Kanfush provide a framework for illustrating life's lessons and the opportunities for spiritual growth that can result from being attentive to the voice of God in the surprisingly ordinary moments of daily life. Beginning with the choices we make each day and progressing through brief essays on "coming home" to the Lord, the power of God's love working in our lives and more, these reflections provide practical wisdom, gleaned from both Scripture and contemporary life, which can be easily applied in our daily lives. Softcover, 262 pages.
ISBN/SKU: 
0970821646
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SAINT VINCENT SEMINARY FROM ITS ORIGINS TO THE PRESENT

SAINT VINCENT SEMINARY FROM ITS ORIGINS TO THE PRESENT
$12.95
ISBN/SKU: 
9780977390922
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SEX LOVE & FAMILIES

SEX, LOVE & FAMILIES: CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVES
$34.95

2021 Association of Catholic Publishers first place award in theology

2021 Catholic Media Association Award first place award in marriage and family living

Six years into the papacy of Pope Francis, Catholics are still figuring out how to respond to his image of the church as a field hospital --a church that goes into the streets rather than remaining locked up behind closed doors. Marriage and family are primary sites of the field hospital, called to meet people's need for healing and accompaniment with compassion and love. The authors of this collection --all lay, a mix of single and married, traditional and progressive Catholics --take up this work. They offer practical wisdom from and critical engagement with the Catholic tradition but avoid rehashing decades-old theological debates. Instead, their essays engage with and respond to realities shaping contemporary family life, like religious pluralism, technology, migration, racism, sex and gender, incarceration, consumerism, and the call to holiness. The result is a collection that envisions ways that families can be places of healing and love in and for the world.

List of contributors:

  • Jennifer Beste
  • Megan K. McCabe
  • Elizabeth Antus
  • Kathryn Lilla Cox
  • Kent Lasnoski
  • Hoon Choi
  • Cristina L. H. Traina
  • Craig A. Ford Jr.
  • Bridget Burke Ravizza
  • Julie Donovan Massey
  • Emily Reimer-Barry
  • Richard Gaillardetz
  • Timothy O'Malley
  • Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar
  • Kathryn Getek-Solis
  • Kari-Shane Davis Zimmerman
  • Jana Marguerite Bennett
  • Victor Carmona
  • Gemma Tulud Cruz
  • Daniel Olsen
  • Thomas Beaudoin
  • Christine Firer Hinze
  • David Cloutier
  • Marcus Mescher
  • Sue Muldoon
  • Timothy Muldoon
  • Mary M. Doyle-Roche
  • Jason King
  • Julie Rubio
  • ISBN/SKU: 
    9780814687949
    Publication Date: 
    2020-04-15
    Author: 
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    SIBLYS OF LONDON

    SIBLYS OF LONDON
    $99.00
    Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and a pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. The inventor of Dr. Sibly's Reanimating Solar Tincture, which
    claimed to restore the newly dead to life, Ebenezer himself died before he turned fifty and stayed that way despite being surrounded by bottles of the stuff. Asked to execute his will, which urged the continued manufacture of Solar Tincture, and left legacies for multiple and concurrent wives as
    well as an illegitimate son whose name the deceased could not recall, Manoah found his brother's record of financial and moral indiscretions so upsetting that he immediately resigned his executorship.

    Ebenezer's death brought a premature conclusion to a colorfully chaotic life, lived on the fringes of various interwoven esoteric subcultures. Drawing on such sources as ratebooks and pollbooks, personal letters and published sermons, burial registers and horoscopes, Susan Mitchell Sommers has woven
    together an engaging microhistory that offers useful revisions to scholarly accounts of Ebenezer and Manoah, while placing the entire Sibly family firmly in the esoteric byways of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Siblys of London provides fascinating insight into the lives of a
    family who lived just outside our usual historical range of vision.

    ISBN/SKU: 
    9780190687328
    Publication Date: 
    2018-05-23

    SO WE DO NOT LOSE HEART: BIBLICAL WISDOM FOR ALL OUR DAYS

    SO WE DO NOT LOSE HEART: BIBLICAL WISDOM FOR ALL OUR DAYS
    $12.95
    This book contains 83 short reflections on passages of scripture which address, from various perspectives, the perennial human problem of mortality. A prominent theme in these reflections is, therefore, an invitation to trust the goodness of God in situations where we experience loss of control and the consequent need to rely on a higher power for love and support. These reflections also remind us that reliance on the goodness of God need not be a desperate last resort but can in fact be a joyful discovery that will illuminate the whole landscape of our lives.
    ISBN/SKU: 
    9780977390915
    Publication Date: 
    2006-01-01

    SUNDAY HOMILIES: YEAR A BY FR. DEMETRIUS DUMM, O.S.B. & FR. CAMPION GAVALER, O.S.B.

    SUNDAY HOMILIES: YEAR A BY FR. DEMETRIUS DUMM, O.S.B. & FR. CAMPION GAVALER, O.S.B.
    $12.95
    Sunday homily reflections of Father Demetrius Dumm, O.S.B., and Father Campion Gavaler, O.S.B., are a collection of scholarly insights on the gospel that contain a beautiful simplicity. They are more than academic exercises. They are the result of both priests being immersed in monastic contemplation. Their commentaries go directly to the essence of the gospel message without useless details and distinctions that distract from its spirit. Their down-to-earth applications of the gospel to daily living also reveal that their profound understanding of it cannot but be the result of the powers of contemplation for comprehending the essence of life. -- Rev. Eugene Hemrick, National Institute for the Renewal of the Priesthood.
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    9780990685524
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    SUNDAY HOMILIES: YEAR B BY FR. DEMETRIUS DUMM, O.S.B. & FR. CAMPION GAVALER, O.S.B.

    SUNDAY HOMILIES: YEAR B BY FR. DEMETRIUS DUMM, O.S.B. & FR. CAMPION GAVALER, O.S.B.
    $12.95
    Sunday homily reflections of Father Demetrius Dumm, O.S.B., and Father Campion Gavaler, O.S.B., are a collection of scholarly insights on the gospel that contain a beautiful simplicity. They are more than academic exercises. They are the result of both priests being immersed in monastic contemplation. Their commentaries go directly to the essence of the gospel message without useless details and distinctions that distract from its spirit. Their down-to-earth applications of the gospel to daily living also reveal that their profound understanding of it cannot but be the result of the powers of contemplation for comprehending the essence of life. -- Rev. Eugene Hemrick, National Institute for the Renewal of the Priesthood.
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    9780977390991
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