111 results for 'Jesuit'

Speaking just months after the end of the First World War, Rudolf Steiner urges his audience to awaken to the practical relevance of spiritual knowledge. Serious engagement with contemporary...

England is close to war. Within days the axe could fall on the neck of Mary Queen of Scots, and Spain is already gathering a battle fleet to avenge her. Tensions in Elizabeth I s government are at...

Recognizing the significance of cross-cultural exchange across newly established frontiers, this edited volume explores the purpose and relevance of non-Japanese individuals who operated with or...

This book tells the story of the unprecedented suspension of the Portuguese Inquisition (1674-81), a negotiation that started with a request for a general pardon but quickly developed into a crisis...

On November 1, 1755 – All Saints' Day – a massive earthquake struck Europe's Iberian Peninsula and destroyed the city of Lisbon. Churches collapsed upon thousands of worshippers celebrating the holy...

The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime’s political agenda.As improbable as it may sound, an illuminating way to understand...

'A spiritual masterpiece’ Richard Rohr, OFMA magnificent, moving spiritual journey’ Amy-Jill Levine'Genius' Mary KarrThe bestselling author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything and Learning to...

'A spiritual masterpiece’ Richard Rohr, OFMA magnificent, moving spiritual journey’ Amy-Jill Levine'Genius' Mary KarrThe bestselling author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything and Learning to...

To live in truth, to wish to be true in one's whole being, will be the watchword of the future.' Rudolf Steiner  In the midst of the lies and propaganda of the Great War, Rudolf Steiner...

And however paradoxical it may seem today, the Grail mood is in the fullest sense to be found in Russia. And the future role that Russia will play in the sixth post-Atlantean epoch... rests firmly...

A fascinating account of the use and meaning of visual and spatial distortions in seventeenth-century art and architecture During the Catholic Reformation, patrons, artists, architects, and viewers,...

A bold and compassionate vision of what health care can become if we allow it to be shaped by our moral imagination. In a country where more than one in five hospital beds belong to religious...

This volume is the first attempt to assess the impact of both humanism and Protestantism on the education offered to a wide range of adolescents in the hundreds of grammar schools operating in...

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the greatest European writers, whose untrammelled imaginative capacity was matched by a huge base in learning embracing the science of his era. His texts also...

An initiatic novel based on ancient teachings and astrological wisdom from bestselling author Barbara Hand Clow Offers an in-depth experience of alchemical transmutation to cleanse old parts of the...