This study presents a contemporary understanding of Roman Catholicism, focusing on what it means to be an adult Catholic in terms of life, faith and practice. It draws upon the new Catechism of the Catholic Church, combining a faithful presentation of the tradition, as well as a critical theological reflection and interpretation of where the Church is today and where it might be moving.
This revised edition includes updated text from Rausch's Catholicism at the Dawn of the Third Millennium particularly the final chapter on "The Unfinished Agenda" of Vatican II. Each chapter concludes with focus questions developed by ...
Spirituality for Lay Christians: At the Dawn of the Third Millennium
"Ecclesiology which takes into account the Second Vatican Council, ecumenism, and globalization"--Provided by publisher.
This book originated in courses on Mary in ecumenical perspective.
This is not to say that Catholics in the United States did not welcome the changes of the Vatican Council . As Thomas Rausch states in Catholicism at the Dawn of the Third Millennium : " For the vast majority of Catholics throughout the ...
John Donahue observes that Jesus' parables were unlike the fables of the Greeks or the debates of the rabbis; “the raw material of Jesus' language was the everyday world of nature and human activity.”11 The parables are about seeds ...
Dulles, “Mary at the Dawn of the New Millennium,” 9. ... Calkins, “Mary Co-redemptrix,” 392 believes that “the Marian magisterium of the late Pope John Paul II may well constitute his greatest single legacy to the Catholic Church.” 10.
Rausch , Thomas P. Authority and Leadership in the Church : Past Directions and Future Possibilities . Wilmington , Delaware : Michael Glazier , 1989 . Catholicism : At the Dawn of the Third Millennium . Collegeville , Minnesota : The ...
Rausch , Thomas P. , Catholicism at the Dawn of the Third Millennium ( Collegeville , Minn .: Liturgical Press , 1996 ) A thorough , careful , and judicious examination of traditions , beliefs , and practices that covers Catholicism in ...
An introduction to the history of the Christian church in the modern period, beginning with the changing social, cultural, and religious context of Europe around the year 1500 and tracing...