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Catholicism In The Neonatal Context: Belief, Practice, Challenge, Hope, M. Therese Lysaught Phd
Catholicism In The Neonatal Context: Belief, Practice, Challenge, Hope, M. Therese Lysaught Phd
Institute of Pastoral Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Roman Catholics comprise the largest single denomination in the United States and are the nation’s largest group of not-for-profit healthcare providers. Yet, there is little or no available literature to assist neonatal caregivers in understanding how religious beliefs and values might influence parents’ responses to the challenges posed by their newborn’s care. Equally, there is little or no available literature on the academic or pastoral side addressing questions of neonatal medicine from a theological perspective. This chapter addresses how Roman Catholic teachings might affect the ways in which parents and caregivers make treatment decisions. It examines the neonatal context in …
The Cost Of Cheap Freedom And The Liberation Of Discipleship, Daniel Rhodes
The Cost Of Cheap Freedom And The Liberation Of Discipleship, Daniel Rhodes
Institute of Pastoral Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article argues that the freedom of the market has in turn become a new form of captivity. Describing the freedom associated with market relations, as conceived by F. A. Hayek, as a negative and cheap form of freedom primarily exercised in a freedom from outside interference, I discuss the cost of fully embracing this kind of freedom to the common life of a society and its constituents, identifying its true price in pervasive fragmentation, animosity, and injustice. I will then contrast this view of freedom with the positive freedom of discipleship described as the new way of life (κοινωνíα) …
Against The World: The Doctrine Of Separation Within The Political Context Of The Origins Of Swiss Anabaptism, Daniel Rhodes
Against The World: The Doctrine Of Separation Within The Political Context Of The Origins Of Swiss Anabaptism, Daniel Rhodes
Institute of Pastoral Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
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Equally Strange Fruit: Catholic Health Care And The Appropriation Of Residential Segregation, Cory D. Mitchell, M. Therese Lysaught
Equally Strange Fruit: Catholic Health Care And The Appropriation Of Residential Segregation, Cory D. Mitchell, M. Therese Lysaught
Institute of Pastoral Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
FROM THE EARLIEST BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIAN history and from the moment the Ursuline Sisters opened the first Catholic hospital in the United States in 1728, charity toward the poor and marginalized has been the chief identifying characteristic of Catholic health care.3 Again and again, small groups of in-trepid nuns sought out the poorest communities, set up hospitals, in-novated on reimbursement methods, raised donations, lived in solidarity with and dedicated their lives to caring for the health needs of the poor, needs often exacerbated by extraordinarily difficult living conditions.4