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Hardback. Zustand: Good. America has seen faith-based initiatives and the audacity of hope in twenty-first-century politics, but few participants in our political scene have invoked the other Christian virtue of charity as a guiding principle. Abraham Lincoln extolled the merit of loving thy neighbor as thyself, especially as a critique of the hypocrisy of slavery, but a discussion of Christian love is noticeably absent from today's debates about religion and democracy. In this provocative book, Grant Havers argues that charity is a central tenet of what Lincoln once called America's political religion. He explores the implications of making Christian love the highest moral standard for American democracy, showing how Lincoln's legacy demands that a true democracy be charitable toward all--and that only a people who lived according to such ideals could succeed in building democracy as Lincoln understood it. Havers argues that it is simplistic to conflate Lincoln's invocation of with charity for all with his abiding support for the ideal of human equality. The ethic of charity in his view also brought a uniquely Christian realism to the universalism of democracy. He also describes how, since World War I, intellectuals and political leaders have denied that there exists a necessary relation between democracy and Christian love, proposing that democracy is sufficiently ethical without reliance on a specific religious tradition. Today's neoconservatives and liberals instead posit a universal yearning for democracy that requires no foundation in the ethic of charity. Havers shows that this democratic universalism, espoused by those who believe a chosen people should uphold the natural rights of humanity, is alien to the sober thought of both the founders and Lincoln. This carefully argued work defends Lincoln's understanding of charity as essential to democracy while emphasizing the difficulty of fusing this ethic with the desire to spread democracy to people who do not share America's Christian heritage. In considering the prospect of America's leaders rediscovering a moral foreign policy based on charity rather than the costly idolization of democracy, Lincoln and the Politics of Christian Love makes a timely contribution to the wider debate over both the meaning of religion in American politics and the mission of America in the world--and opens a new window on Lincoln's lasting legacy.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. If you're unhappy because the Mass has become for you routine-or even boring and tedious-these pages are for you. They teach you eight simple ways to make your every Mass a joyful time of piety and intense devotion. Explaining the spiritual meanings behind the signs and symbols, words and actions of the Mass, author Christopher Carstens teaches you spiritually enriching ways to enter the church building, make the Sign of the Cross, pray the Opening Prayer, listen to the readings, prepare your soul at the Offertory, participate in the Eucharistic Prayer, receive Communion, and even respond to the Dismissal. Soon-with the help of Carstens' wise suggestions-you will be surprised to find each Eucharistic celebration a fountain of peace for you and a profound refreshment for your soul. Among other things, you'll learn from these pages: The meaning of the "sacramental principle": if you don't understand it, then Mass is almost surely flat for you, How each element of the Liturgy has a sacramental quality about it and can be a grace-filled encounter with Jesus, How to transform your prayers at Mass into a conversation with God, Why silence-both within the liturgy and outside of it-is a necessary element of that conversation with God, The proper spiritual way to make the Sign of the Cross, How the Creed can be for you the high point of the Liturgy of Word, Why, during the collection, you should also explicitly offer Christ your heart, The best way in the Mass to participate in Jesus' saving work: do you know what it is? What you should desire in order to receive the Eucharist most efficaciously (and what that desire presupposes in you), Coming and going through the church doors: what, each time, it should mean for you spiritually, Plus, at the end of each chapter, a list of action items for the next time you go to Mass, and much, much more to awaken in you the bright spirit of joyful devotion that we are all called to have at Mass.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. If you're unhappy because the Mass has become for you routine-or even boring and tedious-these pages are for you. They teach you eight simple ways to make your every Mass a joyful time of piety and intense devotion. Explaining the spiritual meanings behind the signs and symbols, words and actions of the Mass, author Christopher Carstens teaches you spiritually enriching ways to enter the church building, make the Sign of the Cross, pray the Opening Prayer, listen to the readings, prepare your soul at the Offertory, participate in the Eucharistic Prayer, receive Communion, and even respond to the Dismissal. Soon-with the help of Carstens' wise suggestions-you will be surprised to find each Eucharistic celebration a fountain of peace for you and a profound refreshment for your soul. Among other things, you'll learn from these pages: The meaning of the "sacramental principle": if you don't understand it, then Mass is almost surely flat for you, How each element of the Liturgy has a sacramental quality about it and can be a grace-filled encounter with Jesus, How to transform your prayers at Mass into a conversation with God, Why silence-both within the liturgy and outside of it-is a necessary element of that conversation with God, The proper spiritual way to make the Sign of the Cross, How the Creed can be for you the high point of the Liturgy of Word, Why, during the collection, you should also explicitly offer Christ your heart, The best way in the Mass to participate in Jesus' saving work: do you know what it is? What you should desire in order to receive the Eucharist most efficaciously (and what that desire presupposes in you), Coming and going through the church doors: what, each time, it should mean for you spiritually, Plus, at the end of each chapter, a list of action items for the next time you go to Mass, and much, much more to awaken in you the bright spirit of joyful devotion that we are all called to have at Mass.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Romano Guardini's The Spirit of the Liturgy helped us to rediscover the liturgy in all its beauty, hidden wealth, and time-transcending grandeur, to see it as the animating center of the Church, the very center of Christian life. We were now willing to see the liturgy as the prayer of the Church, a prayer moved and guided by the Holy Spirit himself, a prayer in which Christ unceasingly becomes contemporary with us, enters into our lives. -- Joseph Cardinal RatzingerIn the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council wrote that liturgical reform and renewal must accord with what they called the spirit of the liturgy. But what did they mean by this? Popes had written and spoken about this spirit in the decades before the council, but another important source is the 1918 book The Spirit of the Liturgy by Romano Guardini, which Pope Benedict XVI credits with sparking the liturgical movement in Germany.The Seven Gifts of The Spirit of the Liturgy is a study of Guardini's watershed text. With contributions from Bishop Arthur Serratelli, Cassian Folsom, O.S.B., Michon Matthiesen, David Fagerberg, Daniel Card , Bishop James Conley, Emery de Ga l, and Susan Benofy, as well as Christopher Carstens, it analyzes each of the seven core features of the liturgical spirit as Guardini defined it: objective, corporate, universal, symbolic, meaningful, beautiful, and logical.The Second Vatican Council saw each of these seven characteristics as integral to authentic liturgical reform. Too often they remain absent from liturgical celebrations even today, when subjectivism and individualism take the place of an objective, corporate spirit; when custom-made liturgies neglect the dimension of universality; when frivolous, anemic symbols stand in for a robust symbolism that truly manifests Christ; when beauty and seriousness fade into the background.We hold back the spirit of the liturgy if we don't know what it is, if we don't desire it, and if we don't work to let it animate liturgical prayer and practice. For this reason, nine experts on the liturgy recall in this book Guardini's key spiritual insights, showing how these can deepen our liturgical understanding and practice today.…

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