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of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: St. Paul tells us that he was not sent to baptize, but to preach the Gospel; and that it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. In the tenth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, it is plainly stated, that faith cometh by hearing, and that we are saved by believing the word of faith which St. Paul preached. Although he did not baptize the Corinthians, he says that he is their Spiritual Father, and that he had begotten them through the Gospel, and he also says in his Epistle to Philemon that Onesimus icas begotten by himin his bonds. Now this new birth was not a conversion from heathenism to Christianity, which is effected by enlightening the mind. It was the conversion of the heart to God -- a being born again of the Spirit -- the selfsame change which all who are really justified, undergo. Moreover the object to which justifying faith is directed as we have repeatedly stated, is the fact that Jesus died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and this is the Gospel of our Salvation. It may seem to be a strange saying, that there must also be heresies among you, but certain it is, that in every age of the Church they have been the means of calling forth the clearest expositions and the noblest defences of the truth. There were heresies even in the days of the Apostles. We are indebted to the Judaising Christians for the Epistle to the Galatians, which gives us so lucid an exposition of evangelical truth. We are also indebted to the antinomianism of the scattered tribes for the admonitory and corrective Epistle ofSt. James. And in none of the Epistles have we a c...  (less)

4,700 priests since 1950 have been credibly accused of sexually victimizing minors. The Church has paid over one billion dollars to adults who claim to have been sexually abused by priests and there is no end in sight to these lawsuits. Celibacy, homosexuality in the priesthood, the infiltration into the priesthood of secular moral relativism, too much liberalism in the Church since Vatican II, damaging rollback of Vatican II reforms by conservative prelates--all have been suggested as causes for the crisis. This book, however, begins with the premise that, because the pattern of abuse and cover-up was so similar across the world, there is something fundamentally awry with Church traditions and power structures in relationship to sexuality and sexual abuse. Specifically, in chapters on suffering and sadomasochism, bodies and gender, desire and sexuality, celibacy and homosexuality, the author concludes that aspects of the Catholic theology of sexuality set the stage for the abuse of minors and its cover-up. Frawley-O'Dea also analyzes the American bishops' lack of pastoral care and tendency towards clerical narcissism--the belief that the needs of the hierarchy represent the needs of the wider Church--as central factors in the scandal. She balances this criticism with a discussion of the backgrounds of the bishops presiding over the crisis and the challenges they faced in their relationships with the Pope and Vatican officials. Drawing on twenty years ofclinical experience, she imagines the dynamics of sexual abuse both from the victim's point of view and from the priest's, and she probes why the Church hierarchy, fellow priests, and lay people were silent for so long. Finally, Frawley-O'Dea examines factors internal to the Church and outside of it that drew this scandal into the public square and kept it there.  (less)

A Blast from Beyond the North Wind; How the Republic Overcame Its Neighbors; An African Sirocco; The New Pushes the Old-Wars and Conquests; A Futile Effort at Reform; Social and Civil Wars; The Master-Spirits of This Age; Progress of the Great Pompey; How the Triumvirs Came to Untimely Ends; How the Republic Became an Empire; Some Manners and Customs of the Roman People; The Roman Reading and Writing; and The Roman Republicans Serious and Gay.  (less)

prisons were a timeless institution stretching from medieval stone dungeons to the current era of steel boxes. But centuries of development and debate lie behind the prison as we now know it--a rich history that reveals how our ideas of crime and practices of punishment have changed over time.brInemThe Oxford History of the Prison/em, a team of distinguished scholars offers a vivid account of the rise and development of this critical institution. Penalties other than incarceration were once much more common, from such bizarre death sentences as the Roman practice of drowning convicts in sacks filled with animals to a frequent reliance on the scaffold and on to forms of public shaming (such as the classic stocks of colonial America). The first decades of the nineteenth century saw the rise of the full-blown prison system--and along with it, the idea of prison reform. Alexis de Tocqueville originally came to America to write a report on its widely acclaimed prison system.brThe authors trace the persistent tension between the desire to punish and the hope for rehabilitation, recounting the institution's evolution from the rowdy and squalid English jails of the 1700s, in which prisoners and visitors ate and drank together; to the sober and stark nineteenth-century penitentiaries, whose inmates were forbidden to speak or even to see one another; and finally to the big houses of the current American prison system, in which prisoners are as overwhelmed by intense boredom as by the threat of violence. The text also provides a gripping and personal look at the social world of prisoners and their keepers over the centuries. In addition, thematic chapters explore in-depth a variety of special institutions and oth@:!G®záÿ¾Úx  (less)

Magdeburg, Mains, Salzburg and Trier over three decades: its primary focus is upon the use of provincial and diocesan synods, episcopal visitations, and general chapters for the regular clergy to the end that '...evils may be uprooted, virtues implanted, mistakes corrected, morals reformed, heresies extirpated, the faith strengthened, ... and salutary decrees enacted for the higher and lower clergy.' It examines the methods and the personalities involved, the relationships between the ecclesiastical leadership of Germany and the Roman Curia, and it assesses the impact of these efforts at a most opportune and critical point in the history of the medieval Church.  (less)

PART ONE. THE TEMPUS DSDE PROJECT: The DSDE Project: background, proposals, and outcomes; DSDE Report: the preparation and continuing development of teachers. PART TWO. THE DEVELOPMENT OF CDVU AT BRNO: Jitka Kazelleova. Our Centre and the TEMPUS Programme; Jitka Kazelleova & Jaroslava Tomancova. CDVU MU Activity and the Influence of the TEMPUS Programme; John Sayer. The Continuing Professional Development of Teachers and the Role of the University; Jan Beran & Jana Kohnova. Proposal for a Conception of In-service Teacher Education and Training; Jan Beran. Transformation of the Czech Educational System: the 'common school' project. PART THREE. ASPECTS OF THE TEMPUS PROGRAMME IN KRAKOW: Roman Dorczak & Andrzej Szyjewski. Where the Reform of the Polish Education System is Going: between ideology and economic limitations; Roman Dorczak. A New Model of Initial Teacher Training: chances for development of Polish schools; Grzegorz Chomicki. Does the Krakow Education System Need Democracy? Aleksandra Kwiecinska. Professional Career Development at a Time of Political and Economic Change; Dawid Friedmann. Students' Influence on Changes in Teachers' Attitudes and Methods of Work; Malgorzata Niemczynska. The Teacher's Authority and the Foundations of Students' Personality Development; Andrzej Mirski. Does the Polish School Teach Tolerance and Cultural Openness? PART FOUR. BILATERAL STUDIES: HOME AND SCHOOL: Milada Rabusicova. Influence of the Family on Educational Achievement; Milada Rabusicova. On Relationships Between the School and the Family; Tatyana Bourmina. Research and Development on Home-School Relations. PART FIVE. CITIZENSHIP AND VALUES: David Martin. Values and Assessment; Eva Foldes Travers. The Challenges  (less)