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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Penance."”.
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The persistence of penance : evangelical alternatives for the sacrament of penance.
… for the functions of the sacrament of penance. It makes use of normative documents that guided the medieval practice of penance, the theological writings of Protestant reformers, and legislation that governed church–state institutions of discipline. It follows the evolution of penance …
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The Future of the Sacrament of Penance: An African Reconciliatory Paradigm in the Light of Karl Rahner's Theology of Penance
… to the Council’s demand of adapting the Rite of Penance to the pastoral needs of individual regions, there seems to be a considerable degree of concurrence between the African concept of humanity or building a strong community life (ubuntu) and Karl Rahner’s notion of reconciliatio cum ecclesia. …
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The theology and pastoral practice of penance in Tertullian
… original meaning or intent. The sacrament of penance as practiced and understood today would not be recognisable to a primitive Christian from the early centuries, but does it reflect the same faith? This work hopes to offer the reader a closer look at two of Turtillian's work about penance …
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Penance and Penitential Intent within Religious Themed Works of Chaucer
The evolution of the concept of penance during the Middle Ages in England reflects the influence of many geopolitical sources, as well as the expanding influence/maturation of the Roman Catholic Church and the development of sacramental rituals during this period. One of these sacraments was …
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The virtue and the sacrament of penance in adolescent personality growth
Abstract not available.
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Models of Confession: Penitential Writing in Late Medieval England
… the medieval practice of the sacrament of penance and the innovative ways in which medieval literature engaged with the pastoral project of the Catholic church to provide the penitent with a way to deal with sin. Drawing from medieval literature, religious writing and theological sources, …
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Post-Conciliar Models of Sin and Reconciliation: Towards a Contemporary Paradigm
… post-Conciliar documents--the revised Rite of Penance (1973) and Pope John Paul II's Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Reconciliation and Penance (1984)--in light of three points made by Patrick McCormick in his book Sin As Addiction (1989). This examination yields three corresponding …
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Chaucer’s Lists and the Parson’s Priests: Heresy, Censorship, and The Parson's Tale
… <em>Parson’s Tale</em> is a sermon on penance told by a fictional late-fourteenth-century Parson in <em>The Canterbury Tales</em>. What the Parson preaches is incompletely aligned with Roman Catholic orthodox beliefs, as suggested both by accusations of Lollardy elsewhere in the …
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Ripening stories : Ripeness is all; the rest is silence -- Shakespeare
… to him. The stories are: "Crude Breakfast: A Penance," "Pickin' Apples," "The Free State," and "No Country for Old Men."
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Towards A Black Catholic Theology of Reconciliation-Tucker
… of sacramental history and understanding of penance and reconciliation.
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Tertullian’s conversion to Montanism as the root cause of the dispute between Cyprian and Novatian over the treatment and fate of the Lapsed
… reconciliation, though still making them perform penance. Cyprian and Novatian, both readers of Tertullian, took from the two distinct theologies Tertullian produced. Cyprian innovated upon Catholic Tertullian’s foundation and championed episcopal reform by using it. He also used Catholic …
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Record
… is revived over and over, as well as the idea of penance absorbed through my Catholic background.Since moving away from Mexico I have been using imagery related to the United States: rivers, mountains, and landscapes. But in the final drawings this subject matter remains distant to me; I connect …
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Learning to Love
… practice, particularly in the sacrament of penance.</p> <p>Chapter one considers <italic>Jacob's Well </italic>, a fifteenth-century penitential manual written by an anonymous author that uses architectural allegory to describes the penitential process. I argue that the author, a …
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CREATING SPACES OF THIRD GENDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NEW SPAIN: REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER IN PORTRAIT PRINTS OF MEXICAN COLONIAL NUNS
… their unholiness through prayer, reflection, and penance. This continual battle against feminine sin allowed nuns to take on roles considered traditionally-male in the Novohispanic era, such as leadership and scholarship. Because of the lack of unholy femininity and the “male” tasks these nuns …
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The Canterbury tales : a study of certain of the characters and their tales as an expression of Chaucer's concern regarding abuses among the priesthood and religious orders during the 14th century
… adopted by the Church as a form of canonical penance." John Norton-Smith sees a probable connection between the poet's Retractation and his choice of a pilgrimage-framework when he says: "the biologically based metaphor of the pilgrimage of life and the final spiritual resignation of the …
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A Study of Three Related Versions of the Medieval Exemplum "The Incestuous Daughter"
… from one text to another, the importance of penance versus the grace of god, and makes obvious the style in which the missing Ashmole lines were most likely written.
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Revealing otherness : a comparative examination of French and English medieval hagiographical romance
… the defining notions of otherness, exile and penance. In spite of appearances, this work shows that the French and English authors prove to have quite different takes on the same stories. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory, the chapters discuss the presence of otherness …
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The decline in representations of the Virgin as mother in early post-reformation iconography.
… same time using this physicality as a means of penance and suffering as in the traditions of imitatio Christi. The decline in the representation of Mary’s physical motherhood develops alongside a general growing rejection of the human body as imago Dei – and particularly the female body whose …
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My Education
… modeled after the Roman Catholic Sacrament of Penance. In this work, I confess a sin to correspond to each on the Ten Commandments. This numeric organization (1-10) mirrors the alphabetical organization (A-Z) of “Boyfriends.” This is a work of spiritual accounting. In it, I tally the wrongs I …
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