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"HUMAN
ENCOUNTER
IN THE SALESIAN TRADITION"
Collected Essays Commemorating the 4th Centenary
of the Initial Encounter of
St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantal
Human Encounter in the Salesian Tradition, scheduled for release by the ICSS in December 2007, includes essays by Salesian scholars from throughout the world that explore manifold and various aspects of the theme of human encounter in the Salesian tradition, from its Biblical foundations to its roots in the Christian humanism of the mystics of the Low Countries to contemporary pastoral care and ecumenism. Twenty essays are grouped into five thematic sections:
I. Theological Foundations of Encounter
“An Eternal Inclination to an Otherness”: The Mystery of Encounter in Christian Humanism from the Mystics of the Low Countries to Francis de Sales (R. Faesen, SJ)
Alterity: At the Heart of the Salesian Matrix (J. Cryan, OSFS)
“Rencontre” et “dialogue” dans la vie humaine selon François de Sales (H. Bordes)
Eucharist and the Theopoetics of Encounter According to St. Francis de Sales (T. Dailey, OSFS)
II. The Initial Encounter of Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal
The Encounter of Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal (D. Koster, OSFS)
The Flowering of a Friendship (M.-P. Burns, VHM†)
“God has given me to you”: Divine Action in the Friendship of Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal (D. Wisniewski, OSFS)
The Freedom to Love: A Close Reading of Francis de Sales’s Letter of 14 October 1604 to Jane de Chantal (A. Pocetto, OSFS)
III. Salesian Encounters with Other Traditions
St. Joseph in the Spirituality of Teresa of Ávila and Francis de Sales (J. Chorpenning, OSFS)
Picturing the Way of Perfection: Gregory Huret’s Engravings of St. Jane Frances de Chantal (1644) in Their Teresian Context (C. Wilson)
“True and Public Knowledge”: The Political, Religious, and Social Context of Jane de Chantal’s Testimony for the Canonization of François de Sales (W. Wright)
François de Sales et les Chartreux: Liens d’amitié et affinites spirituelles (V. Mellinghoff-Bourgerie)
IV. Encountering and Encounters in the Salesian Tradition
Gottes Wille ist immer Gottes Liebe: Wie Franz von Sales und Johanna Franziska von Chantal Sterben und Tod begegneten (H. Winklehner, OSFS)
La relation pédagogique chez François de Sales (P. Legros)
Figure de la sainteté salésienne par elle-même: Rencontrer saint François de Sales en texts et en images (A. Guiderdoni-Bruslé)
Mère Marie de Sales Chappuis—Abbé Louis Brisson— Léonie Françoise de Sales Aviat (A.-T. Furian, OSFS)
Youthful Holiness: The Encounter between Dominic Savio and Don Bosco (J. Boenzi, SDB)
V. Salesian Ministry as Encounter
Sinnzentriert und salesianisch: Geistliche Begleitung im Geist des hl. Franz von Sales in der Begegnung mit Viktor E. Frankls Logotherapie (R. Fobes)
“Winning Hearts”: Ministering in a Salesian Manner (L. Fiorelli, OSFS)
Ecumenical Relationships and Dialogue Today: Insights from the Salesian Tradition (J. Crossin, OSFS)
Paper over board | 436 pp. | 19 illustrations | US$35.00, plus handling and postage
Distributed for the ICSS by
De Sales Resources & Ministries, 4421 Lower River Road, Stella Niagara, NY 14144, USA
E-mail: desales@desalesresource.org; website: www.desalesresource.org
Franz-Sales-Verlag, Rosental 1, D-85072 Eichstätt, Germany
E-mail: info@franz-sales-verlag.de; website: www.franz-sales-verlag.de
Further Informations :
Joseph F. Chorpenning, OSFS (Chairman, ICSS),
Saint Joseph’s University Press,
5600 City Avenue, Philadelphia,
PA 19131-1395, USA.
Correspondence and submissions may also be sent electronically
to:
Joseph F. Chorpenning, OSFS
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