Julie Thorpe

Aquinas Academy 1945-2015 (eBook, ePUB)

A Very Personal Australian Story

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the stories of women and men of the Aquinas Academy, a centre of adult education in Sydney founded in 1945 by an Australian Marist priest, Austin Woodbury. The book places the personal narratives within the social, cultural and intellectual landscape of Australian Catholicism spanning seven decades. Chapters trace the founding vision of the academy as a Catholic institution of higher education affiliated with Saint Thomas Aquinas's university in Rome, the expansion of programmes of adult spirituality across the eastern Australian states and the growing place of contemplative and mystical prayer in a church rediscovering its spiritual core. Combining archival research and conversations with former students and staff about childhood, war, family and the struggles to make sense of losses and loves, the Aquinas Academy is a story ultimately about adults learning to grow up.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ATF Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781925486162
• Artikelnr.: 45970200

Autorenporträt

As a mother of three and an educational associate, Julie Thorpe has experienced more than a few sock princesses, and even princes. In fact, there are even some adults who can relate to the importance of getting their socks right! She has written poems and stories all her life for the enjoyment of herself and family, but the story of the sock princess is too universal not to share!