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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Christianity as a Vocation: The Rostrevor Benedictines and the Renewal of Faith in Ireland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This chapter explores how the Benedictine monks at Holy Cross Monastery in Rostrevor, Northern Ireland, have re-introduced the idea of vocation into the minds of a range of Christians on the island of Ireland.
Ganiel, Gladys; id_orcid
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Espace d’assistance, espace de pouvoir : les dispositifs d’accueil et d’hébergements dans quelques monastères bénédictins en Normandie aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles

open access: yesBulletin du Centre d’Études Médiévales d’Auxerre, 2015
En 2012, une étude du bâti sur l’aile ouest du cloître de l’abbaye de Jumièges (xiie siècle, Seine-Maritime) fut menée dans le cadre d’une thèse sur les structures d’accueil dans les abbayes bénédictines au Moyen Âge.
Mathilde Gardeux
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“Sweet Masters”: The Order of Saint Benedict and the “Good Treatment” of Slaves, Brazil, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

open access: yesHistoria Crítica, 2021
Objective/Context: This article aims to discuss the idea of “good treatment” given to slaves, as well as the concept of benevolence and paternalism in rural Brazilian properties, by using data on the Benedictine Congregation of Brazil, as it was the ...
Robson Pedrosa Costa
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Doing Justice to Life in All Its Dimensions: Nurturing Humanism as Aesthetic Existence in the Church as a Sphere of Freedom

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this essay the author examines what Dietrich Bonhoeffer meant when he wrote from prison to his friend Eberhard Bethge and said that he wanted to retrieve “aesthetic existence” in the life of the church as a sphere of freedom. This is related to what he also told Bethge, namely, that it is “only as we hold fast to Christ as cantus firmus ...
John W. de Gruchy
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Connection of farming and the landscape forming in the Benedictines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Where the orders settled, they began the landscape forming. The monks ensured their livelihoods, by forming the landscape, using it rationally. The settlement of the particular orders and during the following centuries, one aspect was to ensure their ...
Magyar Veronika
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The history of the Benedictines from Sieciechów after the dissolution of the monastery in 1819 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The article discusses the history of the last monks from the Sieciechów Benedictine monastery after its dissolution in 1819. The basic source material for this research included personal files of the monks and secular clergy, the records concerning the ...
Stępień, Robert
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The mission of Slavonic Benedictines in the Church of the Holy Cross in Krakow

open access: yesFolia Historica Cracoviensia, 1994
The article discusses the establishment of the Benedictine Church in the Slavonic rite (the Church of the Holy Cross).
Marian Kanior
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Dieu ou les hommes ? Vivre l’obéissance dans les couvents anglais en exil (1598-1688)

open access: yesE-REA, 2020
In the first half of the seventeenth century, more than sixty years after the dissolution of the monasteries in England, new English convents were founded on the Continent.
Laurence LUX-STERRITT
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Looking for Peace in Literary Novels: Imagination as a Tool to Counteract Violence for Peaceful Change?

open access: yesPeace &Change, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 233-243, October 2026.
ABSTRACT To investigate how imagination partakes in shaping the spaces in which we think and live, and what processes could help imagining social realities differently, the present work proposes an interweaving of peace and literature. The analysis of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Patrick Süskind's Perfume is founded upon an ...
Nikolena Nocheva
wiley   +1 more source

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