Robert Bireley (1933–2018)
Autore di The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700: A Reassessment of the Counter Reformation
Sull'Autore
Opere di Robert Bireley
The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700: A Reassessment of the Counter Reformation (1999) 101 copie
The Counter-Reformation prince : anti-Machiavellianism or Catholic statecraft in early modern Europe (1990) 6 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Bireley, Robert
- Nome legale
- Bireley, Robert
- Altri nomi
- Bireley SJ, Robert
- Data di nascita
- 1933-07-26
- Data di morte
- 2018-03-14
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- United States of America
- Luogo di nascita
- Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA
- Istruzione
- Loyola University Chicago
West Baden College
Sankt Georgen
Harvard University (Ph.D | History) - Attività lavorative
- priest
historian
professor
Professor at Loyola University Chicago - Organizzazioni
- Society of Jesus
Catholic Church
Loyola University Chicago
American Catholic Historical Association - Breve biografia
- Bireley was born in Evanston, Illinois, on July 26, 1933. He joined the Jesuits in 1951, making his final vows in 1974. He was ordained a priest in Germany in 1964.
He took degrees in Latin and History from Loyola University Chicago, in Philosophy from West Baden College in Indiana, and in Theology from Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt am Main. In 1972 he completed a doctorate in History at Harvard University. He taught at Loyola University Chicago for 45 years.
Bireley received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982. He served as president of the American Catholic Historical Association (2008) and on the editorial boards of the Catholic Historical Review (1979–85) and Renaissance Quarterly (2000-3).
He died on March 14, 2018, in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, aged 84.
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- ISBN
- 19
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Throughout its history, Christianity has adapted to contemporary society and culture in order to reach people effectively and have an impact on the world. This process often evokes controversy. Certainly this is the case in the current century, and so it was in the sixteenth. Robert Bireley argues that early modern Catholicism, the period known more traditionally as the Counter Reformation, was both shaped by and an active response to the profound changes of the sixteenth century―the growth of the state; economic expansion and social dislocation; European colonialism across the seas; the Renaissance; and, of course, the Protestant Reformation.
Bireley finds that there were two fundamental, contrasting desires that helped shape early modern Catholicism: the desire especially of a lay elite to lead a full Christian life in the world and the widespread desire for order and discipline after the upheavals of the long sixteenth century. He devotes particular attention to new methods of evangelization in the Old World and the New, education at the elementary, secondary, and university levels, the new active religious orders of women as well as men, and the effort to create a spirituality for the Christian living in the world.
This book will be of great value to all those studying the political, social, religious, and cultural history of the period.… (altro)