Thomas, William Isaac
Thomas, William Isaac (1863–1947) A student, instructor, and ultimately an influential professor at the University of Chicago, who collaborated with Florian Znaniecki to produce
The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (1918), which pioneered the use of
personal documents and
life-histories. His theory of the ‘definition of the situation’ suggested that ‘when people define situations as real they become real in their consequences’. In 1927 he served as president of the American Sociological Association.
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Priest who warned bishops receives justice award. (Nation).(Thomas Doyle wins Isaac Hecker Award for Social Justice)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 2/14/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Community awarded its 2003 Isaac Hecker Award for Social Justice to Dominican Fr. Thomas Doyle, a long-time...Past recipients of the Isaac Hecker Award, which is named...included Dorothy Day, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, St. Joseph...
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Isaac Hecker: An American Catholic.
Magazine article from: International Bulletin of Missionary Research; 4/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-88), the son of German immigrants...American Catholicism, one indebted to Isaac Hecker's synthesis of religion and culture...first thoroughly erudite biography of Isaac Hecker. Informed by recent trends in ecclesiology...
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Sainthood cause opened for Paulist Isaac Hecker.(Signs of the Times)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: America; 2/11/2008; 530 words
; Isaac Thomas Hecker was "a real-life saint like you and...marked the opening of the cause for Father Hecker's canonization and the 150th anniversary...Cardinal Egan blessed the tomb of Father Hecker, which is inside the church at the northeast...
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The Towers of Babylon.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Babylon" (December 2005) is Isaac Thomas Hecker. The mission of Father Hecker...colleagues "Earnest the Seeker," Isaac Hecker associated intimately with the...Interestingly enough, Saint Thomas More three centuries before had...
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Of many things.(Column)
Magazine article from: America; 2/18/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...recent official opening of the cause for sainthood of Isaac Thomas Hecker, the founder of the Paulists, offers the possibility...influence might profit from David J. O'Brien's Isaac Hecker: An American Catholic.) My personal devotion to...
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Shameless: The Visionary Life of Mary Gove Nichols
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...along with her husband Thomas, were received into the...the era. Some, like Isaac Hecker and Orestes Brownson...s authority. Mary and Thomas belonged to the more wayward...pathbreaking in 1857; Hecker, Brownson, and others...
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Shameless: The Visionary Life of Mary Gove Nichols. (American).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...along with her husband Thomas, were received into the...the era. Some, like Isaac Hecker and Orestes Brownson...s authority. Mary and Thomas belonged to the more wayward...path-breaking in 1857; Hecker, Brownson, and others...
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U.S. Catholics of all walks make imprints on Rome. (World).(United States)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 2/15/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Methodist convert by the name of Isaac Hecker, was blamed for launching what Pope...pope overreacted, it is true that Hecker and the Paulists took a positive...never really ended, Paulist Fr. Thomas Lantry O'Neill, formerly a chaplain...
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Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...so doing resisted modern culture. Isaac Hecker, at first under Brownson's influence...resisting the contemporary world. Hecker founded the Paulists for that work...leftists (e.g., Graham Greene and Thomas Merton) sympathized with socialism...
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Orestes A. Brownson: American Religious Weathervane.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Catholics of his time such as his friend and student Isaac Hecker, was one that Brownson felt would meet the intellectual...earlier vision for the comfort of authority. Compared to Thomas R. Ryan, who authored the comprehensive Orestes A...
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Isaac Thomas Hecker
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Isaac Thomas Hecker Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-1888), American Catholic churchman, was the founder of the Congregation of Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, known as the Paulist Fathers. Isaac Thomas Hecker was born on Dec. 18...
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Hecker, Isaac Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Hecker, Isaac Thomas (1819–88), founder of the Paulists . He became a RC in 1844, entered the novitiate...Paulists’. It has been suggested that Leo XIII's condemnation of Americanism in 1899 had Hecker in mind.
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1850-1877: Religion: Publications
Book article from: American Eras
...Conference of Rabbis in Which, On Motion of the Rev. Dr. Isaac M. Wise of Cincinnati, The Following Platform Was...Baptist, not the Methodist faith is the true church; Isaac Thomas Hecker, Questions of the Soul (New York: Appleton, 1855...
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