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Re-thinking Missionary Catholicism for the Early Modern Era
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Revisiting sacred propaganda: the Holy Bishop in the seventeenth-century Jansenist quarrel
(Taylor & Francis, 2004)In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, prelates such as Borromeo of Milan and de Sales of Geneva, began to reinvigorate this hierarchical office, offering models of episcopal government, discipline and pastorate ... -
The search for justice: NGOs in Britain and Ireland and the New International Economic Order, 1968-82
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)The rapid expansion of the international humanitarian NGO community in the long 1970s brought with it much soul-searching on how NGOs could move beyond charity and towards genuine solidarity with the Third World. Drawing ... -
Slavery on the frontier: the report of a French missionary on mid-seventeenth-century Tunis
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)This document is a report sent in 1654 by Jean Le Vacher, member of the Congregation of the Mission, vicar apostolic of the Holy See and acting French consul in Tunis, to the cardinals of the Congregation for the Propagation ... -
“So that they may be able to live and die as good Christians”: The early history of the Nom de Jésus Hospital in Catholic Reformation Paris
(DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, 2021-11-16)The Hôpital de Nom de Jésus was an important establishment associated with Louise de Marillac, Vincent de Paul, and their communities. The Daughters of Charity were responsible for staffing this hospital beginning in1653, ... -
Speaking after the phenomenon: the promise of things and the future of phenomenology
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-01-17)Phenomenology speaks not directly of phenomena but rather of the appearing of phenomena. In so speaking it moves from the level of things with generic or proper names to the level of universal terms. In speaking and ... -
Specific informed consent for blood transfusion: the ethical considerations
(Department of Health, 2013)The Minister for Health, Dr. James Reilly T.D., established the National Advisory Committee on Bioethics in March 2012. The task of this Committee is to advise the Minister on the ethical and social implications of scientific ... -
A spiritual inheritance? Family spirit, virtue and vocation in the Vies of the Lamoignon dévots
(Oxford University Press, 2020-08-26)Members of the Parisian robe Lamoignon family were among the most prominent dévots of the French Catholic Reformation. This article explores the family’s religious engagement through six substantial biographies or vies ... -
Steven Crowell - Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger
(Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, 2013-09-21)Given the ubiquity of Husserl's influence in the twentieth century, it is often vexing to interpret the complicated appropriation of his vocabulary by later writers. In particular, his placement of phenomenology in the ... -
The struggle for control of the Irish mint, 1460-c. 1506
(RIA, 1978)Correlation of archaeological evidence with that from administrative records provides a comparatively large body of information about the operation of the Irish mint under the Yorkists and Henry VII. This ... -
Suicide in Early Modern and Modern Europe
(Cambridge University Press, 2006-09)This is a review of recent English- and German-language publications on suicide, both as an act and a subject of discourse, in the early and late modern periods. It argues that, while publications on the theme have increased ... -
Technologies to support community-dwelling persons with dementia: a position paper on issues regarding development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics
(JMIR Publications, 2017-01-16)Background: With the expected increase in the numbers of persons with dementia, providing timely, adequate, and affordable care and support is challenging. Assistive and health technologies may be a valuable contribution ... -
The temporality of violence: Destruction, dissolution and the construction of sense
(Palgrave and McMillan, 2019-11-24)Violence tends to the destruction of meaningful entities and of that in and through which such entities are meaningful. Not all violence is annihilating in its effects, but violence aims towards a nothingness in which is ...