Los principios del cambio: La reforma carmelita de Teresa de Ávila y las ideas de la gestión del cambio

Kristina R. Olsen

Este libro se basa en los principios de gestión del cambio organizacional para examinar la reforma de la Orden Carmelita de Teresa de Ávila en el siglo XVI. Durante los últimos veinte años de su vida, Teresa abordó los problemas que vio en los monasterios carmelitas de su época, incluida la administración ineficaz, el hacinamiento y la laxitud en las prácticas espirituales. Al volver al propósito original y la Regla escrita de los fundadores carmelitas, Teresa lanzó una reforma de la Orden Carmelita utilizando principios similares a los que se aplican en la gestión del cambio y la adopción de tecnología de la información (TI) de la actualidad. Este libro examina su reforma a la luz de la teoría y la práctica de la gestión del cambio, con el fin de arrojar luz sobre lo que hizo que su reforma fuera exitosa y cómo se podría aplicar su enfoque a la gestión del cambio en las organizaciones espirituales y seculares de hoy.

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“Para contrarrestar la idea de que los santos y los místicos son ajenos a la vida cotidiana, la Dra. Kristina Olsen, en Principles of Change: Teresa of Avila’s Carmelite Reform and Insights from Change Management muestra a Teresa de Ávila muy implicada en el tratamiento de los problemas relacionales y la resistencia a la reforma en las comunidades carmelitas que fundó. La espiritualidad es una disciplina interdisciplinaria, pero Olsen lleva los estudios de espiritualidad en una nueva dirección al recurrir al campo de la administración de empresas. Lo que surge es una apreciación mucho más rica del talento de Teresa de Ávila, ya que Olsen destaca el talento de la mística para la gestión y la reforma de las organizaciones. La resonancia entre los esfuerzos contemporáneos para motivar a la gente a adoptar las nuevas tecnologías y el enfoque de Teresa para invitar a sus monjas a la reforma es sorprendente. Esta obra innovadora es una importante contribución a los estudios teresianos”. – Raymond Studzinski, O.S.B., Ph.D., Director, Programa de Doctorado en Espiritualidad, Escuela de Teología y Estudios Religiosos, Universidad Católica de América

“Este es un libro sorprendentemente oportuno que nos enseña cómo el conocimiento y la religión han convivido durante siglos. El libro describe convincentemente cómo Teresa utilizó lo que podríamos llamar ‘principios de cambio organizativo’ para realizar cambios importantes en los monasterios carmelitas. Teresa abordó problemas no muy diferentes a los nuestros hoy en día: gestión incompetente, moral laxa, falta de dirección clara. La Dra. Olsen muestra cómo las estrategias que empleó Teresa pueden utilizarse, y se utilizan, para animar a los trabajadores a adoptar y aceptar las nuevas tecnologías. Eso incluye fomentar una actitud favorable tanto a la tecnología como al cambio, viendo los beneficios de adoptar la nueva tecnología. La autora se basa en los estudios sobre el “comportamiento planificado”, la gestión de la resistencia, la innovación y la “aceptación”. La Dra. Olsen conoce su temática. Durante varios años, ha enseñado la espiritualidad carmelita y otras materias en el Colegio y Seminario de los Santos Apóstoles en Cromwell, CT. Sus estudios de Doctorado en Administración de Empresas culminaron con su disertación sobre “El papel de la actitud en la aceptación y adopción de la tecnología de la información”. Principles of Change muestra que el liderazgo, el conocimiento y la espiritualidad pueden ser compatibles. De hecho, pueden ser justo lo que la sociedad necesita hoy en día”. – James P. Gelatt, Ph.D., Profesor, Doctor en Administración de Empresas, Universidad de MD Global Campus

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The Wonder of the Eucharist: More Voices from the Twentieth Century

by Dennis Billy, C.Ss.R.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fr. Dennis J. Billy, C.Ss.R., is Professor Emeritus of the history of moral theology and Christian spirituality at the Alphonsian Academy of the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome and currently serves as The Robert F. Leavitt Distinguished Service Chair in Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore. An American Redemptorist of the Baltimore Province, Fr. Billy has advanced degrees from Harvard University, the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum), and the Graduate Theological Foundation. The author of numerous books and articles on a variety of religious topics, he is also active in his order’s retreat apostolate and in the ministry of spiritual direction.

A History of Western Civilization from the Three Earliest Civilizations to the Completion of the Reconquista: Western Civilization, Part 1

by Fr. Charles Bak, MSA

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OUR SEA / MARE NOSTRUM: “This book recalls ‘History is the story of God and of God’s love for Man.’ A significant part in nautical’s truly, history is HIS-STORY: Rome had no navy, with not even one ship! Yet, became the ‘undisputed master of the Mediterranean Sea.’” – (Rev.) Vincent A. Salamoni, LCDR, Chaplain Corps, US Navy (Retired), author of The Mercy Ocean

“Father Charles Bak’s textbook provides Christian contours of western history. In reading the book and reflecting on each of the chapter’s study questions, one is given a sense of being personally taught by Fr. Bak through the medium of his written word.” – Very Rev. Peter Samuel Kucer, MSA, President-Rector of Holy Apostles College & Seminary in Cromwell, CT, and author of Western Civilization: From Prehistorical Times to the Protestant Reformation, Western Civilization: From the End of the Renaissance to Modern Times, and Church History: Pre-Christian to Modern Times

“A useful and accessible survey of the history of Western Civilization in light of the Incarnation.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, author of Catholic Realism

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

​Born in Amityville, NY, on May 19, 1957, Father Charles Bak is Roman Catholic priest and a member of an Apostolic Society called the Society of the Missionaries of the Holy Apostles. The Society’s charism is to promote, form, and accompany vocations to the priesthood, religious life, and committed laity. Father Bak was ordained to the priesthood on October 3, 2009. Father earned his B.A. in Philosophy from Christendom College and his Master’s Degree in Moral Theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary. He has experience both in parish ministry and in teaching.

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Global Healing: Poverty, Migration and Refugees, Race and Religion, War, Morality

by Robin Arthur

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robin Arthur is a newspaper editor and a journalist who won the Pan-Asia Journalism award in 1995. This book is a sequel to Science and the God Elusion, which he released in June 2019. He has written several other books including Can the Poor Inherit the Earth, which is an opinion on Third World development paradigms and which won acclaim from UN organizations including UNESCO and UNDP. His first novel, The Island of Habarra, provides a glimpse into the sad narrative of expatriate workers who leave families and home behind to work in the oil-rich Persian Gulf. In Canada, Arthur worked to develop an appreciation of interfaith dialogue, and between 2011 and 2016 convened three very successfully staged Spiritual Diversity Conferences, paving the way for the establishment of an Interfaith Council in the city of Halifax.

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Paradoxes of Faith and Reason

by Dr. Shalina Stilley

Paradox it is at the very heart of the Gospel message. The Trinity, the Incarnation, the Cross and Resurrection, and the problem of evil are but a few examples of paradoxes of faith and reason. How can God be three in one? How can God be man? How can Jesus who is “the life” die on a Cross? How can we hold that God exists and is good when there is so much suffering in the world? This book seeks to resolve questions such as these, which can cause the would-be believer to reject the faith and even the most devout of believers to stumble into perplexity.

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“Dr. Shalina Stilley’s book about paradoxes in the Catholic faith is brilliant! I highly recommend it as a gift you could give to both faithful and doubting Catholics alike, illuminating, as it does, areas of the faith that may be puzzling. Written in a clear, concrete style, it is what I call ‘theology for everyone.'” – Dr. Ronda Chervin is a professor of philosophy, writer of numerous Catholic books and a Catholic Media Presenter

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Shalina Stilley was born and raised in Flagstaff, Arizona and converted to Catholicism in 1992 after reading the writings of St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila. She has a master’s in theology and a doctorate in philosophy. Her interests include Aquinas, Maritain, ethics, spiritual theology, and philosophy of religion. She has taught at Marquette University, Conception Seminary College, Beltei International University, Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia, and John Paul the Great Catholic University. She is a canonical consecrated virgin, occasional overseas missionary, human-trafficking abolitionist, and outdoor enthusiast.

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Rise and Fall of the American Empire

by Dr. Richard Bishirjian

In Rise and Fall of the American Empire, Dr. Richard Bishirjian writes that the country that was new in 1789, when its Constitutional order was ratified, no longer exists and that the Constitution intended to order and organize American politics has been challenged to a breaking point. Though specialists have observed the growth in power of the American presidency since the Great Depression, the first sign of an “imperial” Office of the President became visible on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Where before our Presidents were chosen to execute the powers of office, JFK’s assassination revealed that Americans had begun to seek Emperors to represent the imperial nation in history. Dr. Richard Bishirjian’s historical analysis walks us from a time when Americans consented to be governed in a limited Republic to the present day when Americans are ruled by an administrative state composed of  unelected experts.

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“Dr. Bishirjian tells the uncomfortable truth about today’s America in clear unvarnished form. It is sobering but compelling reading for all Americans.” – Richard K. Vedder, an American economist, historian, author, and columnist.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Richard J. Bishirjian was Founding President and Professor of Government at Yorktown University from 2000-2016. He earned a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in Government and International Studies from the University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Bishirjian was Gerhart Niemeyer’s teaching assistant at Notre Dame. He was an assistant professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Dallas in Texas, chairman of the Political Science Department at the College of New Rochelle in New York and founder of Yorktown University where he served as President and Professor of government from 2000-2016.

He served as a political appointee in the Reagan Administration and in the Administration of George H. W.  Bush.

He is the editor of A Public Philosophy Reader and author of three books, The Development of Political Theory, The Conservative Rebellion and The Coming Death and Future Resurrection of American Higher Education. His most recent work, “Coda,” is a novel published by En Route Books. His most recent three scholarly studies are Ennobling Encounters, Rise and Fall of the American Empire, and Conscience and Power. Ennobling Encounters was published by En Route Books in September, 2021.

Dr. Bishirjian’s essays have been published in Forbes, The Political Science Reviewer, Modern Age, Review of Politics, Chronicles, the American Spectator and The Imaginative Conservative.

For the full story, see Dick’s website.

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