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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459180203321

Autore

Helmick Raymond G.

Titolo

Living Catholic faith in a contentious age / / Raymond G. Helmick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] : , : Continuum, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-282-87112-9

9786612871122

1-4411-0703-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Disciplina

234.23

Soggetti

Faith

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1 Catholic Faith: How We Relate to God and Church; 2 The Theologian's Task: Fides quaerens intellectum; 3 Orthodoxy: Fidelity to the Spirit's Leading; 4 Polarization in the Church: Quest for Power; 5 Facing the Sex-abuse Crisis: Call for a Council of the Church; 6 Practice of Faith, Expressed in Word and Sacrament; 7 Commitment to the Work of Reconciliation and Peace; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Catholics, especially in the U.S., are sharply divided over what constitutes faithful Catholicism: a quest for the relevance of their faith to the actualities of their lives or unquestioning obedience to the precepts of Church leadership.  Tension over these questions goes to such extremes that it has drastically reduced church-going and identification of Catholics with the institution within a remarkable brief period of time.  Writing in sharp, accessible language, Helmick attempts to focus these issues on the nature of faith.  To do so involves exploring the task of theologians, who are in t