Thomas Verner Moore: Psychiatrist, Educator and Monk
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (999 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0809139871 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Benedict Neenan, OSB, is a Benedictine monk of Conception Abbey in Conception, MO. He received his doctorate in church history at the Catholic University of America and currently serves as president/rector of Conception Seminary College
-- Social Thought. A helpful history through one person's life of how religion interacts with culture. -- New Theology ReviewA useful overview of intellectual American Catholicism in the first half of the twentieth century. -- The American Benedictine ReviewNeenan's biography of Moore presents a founding vision of religious life
Thomas Verner Moore (1877-1969)-priest, author, teacher and practical psychiatrist-was one of the first advocates of modern psychology among Roman Catholics in the United States. For example, Moore started out in his adult religious life as a member of one of the most progressive and distinctly American religious communities, the Paulists, and ended it as a member of one of the most traditional orders, the Carthusians.Besides detailing the life of this accomplished man, this work offers a glimpse into American Catholic life American social life in the first half of the twentieth century.. In this fascinating biography Benedict Neenan brings to life this man of staggering accomplishments and recounts the many twists and turns he took in the search for his professional and spiritual development.Skillfully intertwining the dramatic interaction between Moore's intense activism and his deeply felt need for contemplation and asceticism, Neenan points out the many paradoxes and tensions of his rich and eventful life
Across the Plains of History Desert Father Father Benedict has hit a home run with this captivating biography of Dom Thomas Verner Moore, Priest, Monk, Medical Doctor, Military Officer, and Psychologist.Moore was born in a border state within memory of the Civil War. He lived to see the parade of human history for nearly a century.In World War I, Moore served as both a Catholic Chaplain and a Medical Officer on the front lines near Verdun, France. He was a boiler-plate figure in the identification of "shell shock" which came to be known as "post traumatic stress syndrome." His experience of war precipitated his decision to leave the Paulist Fathers to enter the cloister o