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Book Unfailing Patience and Sound Teaching

Download or read book Unfailing Patience and Sound Teaching written by Rembert Weakland and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfailing Patience and Sound Teaching approaches the contemporary episcopacy from a variety of perspectives and theological disciplines, is appreciative of Vatican II while looking to the future, and pays tribute to Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B., a leader of the post-concillar church in the United States.

Book The Future of Catholicism in America

Download or read book The Future of Catholicism in America written by Mark Silk and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catholics constitute the largest religious community in the United States. Yet most American Catholics have never known a time when their church was not embroiled in controversies over liturgy, religious authority, cultural change, and gender and sexuality. Today, these arguments are taking place against the backdrop of Pope Francis’s progressive agenda and the resurgence of the clergy sexual abuse crisis. What is the future of Catholicism in America? This volume considers the prospects at a pivotal moment. Contributors—scholars from sociology, theology, religious studies, and history—look at the church’s evolving institutional structure, its increasing ethnic diversity, and its changing public presence. They explore the tensions among members of the hierarchy, between clergy and laity, and along lines of ethnicity, immigration status, class, generation, political affiliation, and degree of religious commitment. They conclude that American Catholicism’s future will be pluriform—reflecting the variety of cultural, political, ideological, and spiritual points of view that typify the multicultural, democratic society of which Catholics constitute so large a part.

Book The Catholic Ethicist in the Local Church  CTEWC Series

Download or read book The Catholic Ethicist in the Local Church CTEWC Series written by Autiero, Antonio and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women Shaping Theology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Ann Hinsdale
  • Publisher : Paulist Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 0809143100
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Women Shaping Theology written by Mary Ann Hinsdale and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the 2004 Madeleva Lecture, Mary Ann Hinsdale uses the lens of her own life experience to tell the story of how visionary and prophetic women set in motion the important institutional structures that have allowed women to shape Catholic theology in North America over the past fifty years. She pays particular attention to issues and problems facing women theologians in the Catholic Church today, such as the implications of the changing demographics of women theologians; women's impact on the "theological establishment"; the reception of feminism and feminist theology by the hierarchy; and the unmet intercultural challenges posed by those "on the margins," as well as women theologians' response to them. Coming at the beginning of a new papacy, Hinsdale's compelling narrative is especially timely for a consideration of the future of women in the Catholic Church."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Practices of Dialogue in the Roman Catholic Church

Download or read book Practices of Dialogue in the Roman Catholic Church written by Bradford E. Hinze and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Book Becoming a Bishop

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  • Author : Paul Avis
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2015-08-27
  • ISBN : 0567657299
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book Becoming a Bishop written by Paul Avis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Bishops? What's so special about Bishops? What are Bishops called to and how best can they do it? This book is the single resource of answers to all the questions one could conceivably have about what a Bishop is and their function and purpose in the Church. Paul Avis offers a fascinating account of the ministerial identity of the bishop, and in particular the tasks and roles of episcopal ministry. Placing the Bishop within his wider ecclesiological framework, Avis illuminates the role of the individual in episcopal ministry. The book sets the vital work of a Bishop within an ecclesiological framework: the Bishop in the Anglican Communion, within the Church of Christ, within the purposes of God.

Book Children  Consumerism  and the Common Good

Download or read book Children Consumerism and the Common Good written by Mary M. Doyle Roche and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children, Consumerism, and the Common Good explores the impact of consumer culture on the lives of children in the United States and globally, focusing on two phenomena: advertising to children and child labor. Christian communities have a critical role to play in securing the well-being of children and challenging the cultural trends that undermine that well-being. Exploring themes in the tradition of Catholic social teaching, Mary M. Doyle Roche argues that children have a claim on the fruits of our common life and should participate in that life according to their age and ability. Roche utilizes the principle of the common good to analyze children's participation in the market and suggests opportunities for resistance and transformation in the context of the consumerism that pervades everyday life. Book jacket.

Book Changing Churches

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  • Author : Mickey L. Mattox
  • Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • Release : 2012-02-27
  • ISBN : 0802866948
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Changing Churches written by Mickey L. Mattox and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharp controversies -- about biblical authority, the ordination of women, evangelical "worship styles," and the struggle for homosexual "inclusion" -- have rocked the Lutheran church in recent decades. In Changing Churches two men who once communed at the same Lutheran Eucharistic table explain their similar but different decisions to leave the Lutheran faith tradition -- one for Orthodoxy, the other for Roman Catholicism. Here Mickey L. Mattox and A. G. Roeber address the most difficult questions Protestants face when considering such a conversion, including views on justification, grace, divinization, the church and its authority, women and ministry, papal infallibility, the role of Mary, and homosexuality. They also discuss the long-standing ecumenical division between Rome and the Orthodox patriarchates, acknowledging the difficult issues that still confront those traditions from within and divide them from one another.

Book Complete Jewish Bible PR Cjb NIV

Download or read book Complete Jewish Bible PR Cjb NIV written by Hendrickson Publishers and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 2175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing an exciting volume featuring the Messianic Complete Jewish Bible and the newly-revised New International Version, side-by-side. For the first time, readers who seek to compare the Evangelical Christian and Messianic Jewish Bibles need not buy them separately. The CJB and the 2011 NIV version may both be read in this one-of-a-kind parallel Bible. Bible study and small group study participants will enjoy the particular characteristics of both translations. Special Features - The books of the CJB will appear in the same canonical order as the NIV - Features the new NIV 2011 - Presentation page - CJB Preface - NIV Preface

Book A Church with Open Doors

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  • Author : Richard R. Gaillardetz
  • Publisher : Liturgical Press
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0814683045
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book A Church with Open Doors written by Richard R. Gaillardetz and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catholic ecclesiology stands at the threshold of a new moment in the reception of the Second Vatican Council. The election of Pope Francis- coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the council-has inspired a fresh consideration of its teaching in such diverse areas as ecumenism, inculturation, missiology, and ministry. The chapters in this volume have their origin in a special symposium honoring the ecclesiological legacy of Thomas F. O'Meara, OP. The symposium called together over forty leading North American scholars in order to discuss the future of Catholic theological reflection on the church-a conversation that offers an entry into some of the most pressing issues in ecclesiology today.

Book Spirit Christology and Trinity in the Theology of David Coffey

Download or read book Spirit Christology and Trinity in the Theology of David Coffey written by Declan O'Byrne and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit Christology has emerged as an important focus in recent theology. It offers new perspectives on Christology and Pneumatology. Can these new perspectives lead to advances in trinitarian theology itself? The classical theologies of both East and West tended to express great reserve about moving too easily from the economy of salvation to ideas about God in se. In the twentieth century, Karl Rahner's argument that the 'economic' Trinity is the 'immanent' Trinity and vice versa helped lead to a significant erosion of this reserve, though not without controversy. The work of David Coffey represents a significant contribution to reflection on this nexus of questions. This book examines his treatment of the relation of Spirit Christology to Logos Christology, his reformulation of Rahner's axiom, and his suggestion that Spirit Christology offers an 'ascending' basis for a 'mutual love' Pneumatology, in the service of a renewed trinitarian theology. It presents an analysis of Coffey's achievement in its various contexts, historical and contemporary. It highlights his methodological balance and argues that his theology represents an important development within the tradition, casting new light on issues of pressing contemporary interest.

Book Scripture and Social Justice

Download or read book Scripture and Social Justice written by Anathea E. Portier-Young and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays gathered here provide a panoramic view of current thinking on biblical texts that play important roles in contemporary struggles for social justice – either as inspiration or impediment. Here, from the hands of an ecumenical array of leading biblical scholars, are fresh and compelling resources for thinking biblically about what justice is and what it demands. Individual essays treat key debates, themes, and texts, locating each within its historical and cultural settings while also linking them to the most pressing justice concerns of the twenty-first century. The volume aims to challenge academic and ecclesiastical complacency and highlight key avenues for future scholarship and action.

Book Francis A  Sullivan  S J  and Ecclesiological Hermeneutics

Download or read book Francis A Sullivan S J and Ecclesiological Hermeneutics written by Michael M. Canaris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Francis A. Sullivan, S.J. and Ecclesiological Hermeneutics Canaris explores the significant contributions made by Francis A. Sullivan, S.J. (b. 1922) to contemporary Catholic ecclesiology, especially when viewed through the lens of doctrinal hermeneutics.

Book Committed Worship

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donald L. Gelpi
  • Publisher : Liturgical Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780814658260
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Committed Worship written by Donald L. Gelpi and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sacraments

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  • Author : Robert Cabié
  • Publisher : Liturgical Press
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780814613658
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Sacraments written by Robert Cabié and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of Catholic worship from the apostolic Church to the present.

Book Church as Communion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip Kariatlis
  • Publisher : ATF Press
  • Release : 2020-03-20
  • ISBN : 1925612597
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Church as Communion written by Philip Kariatlis and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book innovatively explores the notion of koinonia for understanding the nature and function of the Church. Since the Scriptures assert that the Church is the Church of God, God's communal mode of existence is looked at namely, God who is a communion of three hypostases relating to one another in an interpenetrating koinonia of infinite love as a way of understanding the very being of the church as communion. Such a notion of koinonia, far from having anything to do with socio-political understandings, suggests that it is a foundational gift bestowed from above to the world as the solution par excellence to the impasse of isolationism. More often than not, however, such an ecclesiology of communion has not taken seriously the historical reality of the Church living within the fallen world along with its ceaseless temptations, divisions and even sins in history. In this way, it becomes apparent that a dialectic needs to be acknowledged in the notion of communion as both foundational gift from God, and yet one still to be fully realised. Accordingly, this work shows that the Church is not only as the gift of God's miraculous presence here on earth. The Church is also constantly striving to exist epicletically until such time as it will fully experience the final consummation in Gods eschatological kingdom. An examination of this double dimensionality of the Church is undertaken in order to assess if this is in line with the Scriptural witness of the ekklesia. Having established the gift-goal dialectic in the notion of koinonia in the New Testament Church, the study then traces the trajectory of this dynamic approach to koinonia in the Churchs worship and authoritative structures. This promises to cast both a deeper light on, and a more realistic solution to ecclesiological problems within the life of the Church today, allowing for the Churchs constant renewal.

Book Literary Evangelism  Beyond the Open Mic

Download or read book Literary Evangelism Beyond the Open Mic written by Theresa Harvard Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prophetic destiny of the literary arts minister runs far deeper than being booked for engagements or gaining a reputation for taking control of the stage. Whether you are a poet, spoken word artist, song writer, novelist, devotionalist, playwright or children's book writer, it is a call to walk out the creative apostolic vision of our Father for the redemption of mankind and the restoration of His everlasting Kingdom. We are perhaps Father's best kept secret weapons of influence and impact in this hour. Between the pages of this unique book, Holy Spirit takes worshipers on a journey into Father's heart concerning His original purpose & intent for literary evangelism in the earth as it has never been discussed before. You are standing the midst of a scribal revolution.