The Marginal Catholic
Author | : Joseph M. Champlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780877934066 |
Discusses how to respond to inactive or marginal Catholics who seek the services of the church.
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Author | : Joseph M. Champlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780877934066 |
Discusses how to respond to inactive or marginal Catholics who seek the services of the church.
Author | : Christopher D. Denny |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0823254011 |
The early 1960s were a heady time for Catholic laypeople. Pope Pius XII’s assurance “You do not belong to the Church. You are the Church” emboldened the laity to challenge Church authority in ways previously considered unthinkable. Empowering the People of God offers a fresh look at the Catholic laity and its relationship with the hierarchy in the period immediately preceding the Second Vatican Council and in the turbulent era that followed. This collection of essays explores a diverse assortment of manifestations of Catholic action, ranging from genteel reform to radical activism, and an equally wide variety of locales, apostolates, and movements.
Author | : Ivan Clutterbuck |
Publisher | : Gracewing Publishing |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780852442340 |
Author | : Richard P. McBrien |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 639 |
Release | : 1995-05-12 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0060653388 |
This encyclopedia has more than 4200 entries, 280 contributors, leading experts on all aspects of Catholicism. Tables of the liturgical calendar, eccumenical councils and all the Popes. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author | : James V. Schall, S.J. |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2013-09-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1586177877 |
The fact of pleasure is obvious to us, but its relation to reason is less understood. We are beings who laugh and run, sing and dance, but we too seldom reflect on why we do these things. Above all, we are beings who think and who want to know whether our lives make sense. In this thought-provoking study of the relationship between our reason and our experience of pleasure, popular professor and author Fr. James Schall shows how reason, religion and pleasure are not in conflict with one another. Religion has to do with how man relates to God. Catholicism is not so much a religion as a revelation. It records and recalls how God relates to man. The popular mood of our time is that neither religion nor revelation has much to do with real life. Yet when we look at things as having meaning and order, they fit together in surprising ways. This coherence should bring us joy, and teach us how reason, religion and pleasure can work together for our benefit. Schall shows us in this book why we have many reasons to think that our lives make sense, that our pleasures can be reasonable, and our reason itself is a pleasure. Ê
Author | : Maureen K. Day |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020-06-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1479851337 |
Uncovers why Catholic organizations fail to foster civic activism The American Catholic Church boasts a long history of teaching and activism on issues of social justice. In the face of declining religious and community involvement in the twenty-first century, many modern-day Catholic groups aspire to revive the faith as well as their connections to the larger world. Yet while thousands attend weekly meetings designed to instill religiosity and a commitment to civic engagement, these programs often fail to achieve their more large-scale goals. In Catholic Activism Today, Maureen K. Day sheds light on the impediments to successfully enacting social change. She argues that popular organizations such as JustFaith Ministries have embraced an approach to civic engagement that focuses on mobilizing Catholics as individuals rather than as collectives. There is reason to think this approach is effective—these organizations experience robust participation in their programs and garner reports of having had a transformative effect on their participants’ lives. Yet, Day shows that this approach encourages participants to make personal lifestyle changes rather than contend with structural social inequalities, thus failing to make real inroads in the pursuit of social justice. Moreover, the focus on the individual serves to undermine the institutional authority of the Catholic Church itself, shifting American Catholics’ perceptions of the Church from a hierarchy that controls the laity to one that simply influences it as they pursue their individual paths. Drawing on three years of interview, survey, and participant observation data, Catholic Activism Today offers a compelling new take on contemporary dynamics of Catholic civic engagement and its potential effect on the Church at large.
Author | : Anthony J. Blasi |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2008-10-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0739130587 |
Catholic Social Thought presents detailed commentary and response to the Vatican's 2005 Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, with contributions from outstanding American scholars. Addressing theology, social theory, the family, economy, government, labor, global society, gender, peace, and the environment, the various authors explore the core theology, explain the Compendium's themes and arguments, and apply their own intellectual powers to applications of its teachings. Some of the essays are largely expository, some more critical (in both positive and negative senses). Some operate from a standard of magisterial assent in conformity with Ad Tuendam Fidam, others do not. Together, the essays represent the range of Catholic thinking on social issues in the American Church today.
Author | : Peter Steinfels |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2004-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780743261449 |
In this national bestseller, the most influential layman in the United States reports that the Roman Catholic Church in America must either profoundly reform or lapse into permanent irrelevance.
Author | : Daniel C. Dennett |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2006-02-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 110121886X |
The New York Times bestseller – a “crystal-clear, constantly engaging” (Jared Diamond) exploration of the role that religious belief plays in our lives and our interactions For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask why—and how—it has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best way to live a moral life? Ranging through biology, history, and psychology, Daniel C. Dennett charts religion’s evolution from “wild” folk belief to “domesticated” dogma. Not an antireligious screed but an unblinking look beneath the veil of orthodoxy, Breaking the Spell will be read and debated by believers and skeptics alike.