Search Results - Commons.~

  1. 361
  2. 362
  3. 363
  4. 364
  5. 365
  6. 366

    Sisters and brothers of the common life : the Devotio Moderna and the world of the later Middle Ages / by Van Engen, John H.

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Devotio Moderna and modern history -- Converts in the Middle ages -- Conversion as a medieval form of life -- Converts in the Low Countries -- Circles of converts at Strassburg and Brussels -- Converts under suspicion : legislating against Beguines and free spirits -- Modern-day converts in the Low Countries -- The Low Countries -- Households of devout women -- Societies of devout men -- Modern-day conversion -- Suspicion and inquisition -- Suspicion of devout practices -- Charge and counter-charge in the mid-1390s -- Sisters under inquisition, 1396-1397 : Friar Eylard Schoneveld intervenes -- Resisting the inquisitor : legal tactics -- Awaiting the Bishop's decision, 1398-1401 -- From converts to communities : tertiaries, sisters, brothers, schoolboys, canons -- Tertiaries "living the common life" -- Sisters of the common life -- Brothers of the common life -- Schoolboys -- Windesheim canons and canonesses -- An option for enclosure : male canons and female tertiaries -- Inventing a communal household : goods, customs, labor, and "republican" harmony -- Living together without personal property -- House customs and personal exercises -- Obedience and humility in a voluntary community -- Labor : living from the work of their own hands -- Communal gatherings and a "republican" impulse -- Defending the modern-day Devout : expansion under scrutiny -- Women's houses and converting schoolboys : Burgher critics at Zwolle -- Friar Matthew Grabow and the Council of Constance -- The sisters and the aldermen in conflict at Deventer : the women's narrative -- Institutionalizing under scrutiny -- Proposing a theological rationale : the freedom of the "Christian religion" -- Place in society : taking on the "estate of the perfect" -- John Pupper of Goch (d. 1475) -- Gospel law and the freedom of the Christian religion -- Taking the spiritual offensive : caring for the self, examining the soul, progressing in virtue -- Reading, writing, and the lay tongue -- Exhortation in public and correction in private -- Spiritual guidance and mutual reproof -- Modern-day devotion : examining the self, making progress, experiencing peace -- Private gatherings and self-made societies in the fifteenth century -- The question of an afterlife.…”
    An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
    Electronic eBook
  7. 367

    In search of common ground on abortion : from culture war to reproductive justice /

    Published 2014
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Justin Murray, Meredith Esser and Robin West -- From choice to reproductive justice: de-constitutionalizing abortion rights / Robin West -- The price of pleasure / Shari Motro -- Abortion rhetoric and child custody laws for women who mother through rape / Shauna R. Prewitt -- Toward common ground on policies advancing reproductive justice / Dorothy Roberts -- Finding common ground in the disability rights critiques of selective abortions / Elizabeth Schiltz -- Supporting pregnant women and their families to reduce the abortion rate / Kristen Day -- Can a Catholic realist approach aid in the effort to find common ground in debates about abortion? …”
    An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
    Electronic eBook
  8. 368
  9. 369
  10. 370
  11. 371
  12. 372
  13. 373
  14. 374
  15. 375
  16. 376
  17. 377
  18. 378
  19. 379
  20. 380

    The quest for a common humanity human dignity and otherness in the religious traditions of the Mediterranean /

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Perceptions of a common humanity -- pt. 2. The other as neighbor, enemy and infidel -- pt. 3. …”
    An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
    Electronic eBook