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Author : Lawrence Cada
Publisher : Affirmation Books
ISBN 13 : 9780895710239
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Shaping the Coming Age of Religious Life written by Lawrence Cada and published by Affirmation Books. This book was released on 1985-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Harper San Francisco
ISBN 13 : 9780816422074
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Shaping the Coming Age of Religious Life written by and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1979 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lawrence Cada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816404254
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Shaping the Coming Age of Religious Life written by Lawrence Cada and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400831229
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book After the Baby Boomers written by Robert Wuthnow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the profound impact the post-World War II baby boomers had on American religion. But the lifestyles and beliefs of the generation that has followed--and the influence these younger Americans in their twenties and thirties are having on the face of religion--are not so well understood. It is this next wave of post-boomers that Robert Wuthnow examines in this illuminating book. What are their churchgoing habits and spiritual interests and needs? How does their faith affect their families, their communities, and their politics? Interpreting new evidence from scores of in-depth interviews and surveys, Wuthnow reveals a generation of younger adults who, unlike the baby boomers that preceded them, are taking their time establishing themselves in careers, getting married, starting families of their own, and settling down--resulting in an estimated six million fewer regular churchgoers. He shows how the recent growth in evangelicalism is tapering off, and traces how biblical literalism, while still popular, is becoming less dogmatic and more preoccupied with practical guidance. At the same time, Wuthnow explains how conflicts between religious liberals and conservatives continue--including among new immigrant groups such as Hispanics and Asians--and how in the absence of institutional support many post-boomers have taken a more individualistic, improvised approach to spirituality. Wuthnow's fascinating analysis also explores the impacts of the Internet and so-called virtual churches, and the appeal of megachurches. After the Baby Boomers offers us a tantalizing look at the future of American religion for decades to come.
Author : Maurice L. Monette
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9781556120701
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Kindred Spirits written by Maurice L. Monette and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1987 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kindred Spirits is a book for Christians who thirst for spiritual kinship in a vibrant commuity, sensible religion for everyday living, and commitment to the people around us that are hurting the most. It puts us in touch with a centuries old tradition of religious communal living and commitment to the poor.
Author : William Chris Hobgood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1566996651
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (669 download)
Download or read book The Once and Future Pastor written by William Chris Hobgood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hobgood examines new pressures on clergy that are emerging in the "post-Christendom era:" financial stresses; the effects of a conflicted and confrontational culture; the needs of an increasing number of people living broken or dependent lives; dysfunctional behavior on the part of pastors and parishioners; questions regarding clergy respect and job satisfaction. How is ministry being affected by these changes? What skills will clergy need as they enter the new century? An invaluable resource thoroughly grounded in research and full of practical observations for clergy, judicatory executives, seminary professors, and long-range planners.
Author : Maryanne Confoy
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 0809144549
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Religious Life and Priesthood written by Maryanne Confoy and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Religious Life and Priesthood reclaims the vision of Vatican II for contemporary priests, religious, and ecclesial ministers." "The book examines the historical context, the key players, and the implementation of Vatican II documents on the priesthood, the training of priests, and the religious life."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Thomas Gaunt, SJ
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190878177
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Pathways to Religious Life written by Thomas Gaunt, SJ and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of religious life in the Catholic Church has been filled with change: periods of membership growth and decline, shifts in the types of ministries, and changes in the ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds of the men and women who join. Today, as the numbers of new members diminish, some say that the very future of religious life is in jeopardy. What is the state of religious life in the United States today? Which institutes are increasing in membership and which are decreasing or ceasing to exist? From what ethnic and socioeconomic populations are they drawing their members? What new religious institutes and ecclesial movements are being founded and how successful are they? What influences a young man or woman to consider religious life today? How are religious from other countries shaping religious life here as they come to the US to minister? Many of these questions can be addressed by data from studies of religious life in the US which the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) has conducted over the last ten years. The impact of the individual's family dynamics and educational experience before their entrance into religious life is examined here, as well as the influence of an increasing number of Catholic volunteer programs. The emergence of lay associates in religious institutes and the birth of new religious institutes since Vatican Council II in the United States are investigated as new ways of living religious life. The increase in the number of sisters and priests studying and ministering in the United States from other countries is examined for its impact on religious life. The authors' findings yield valuable recommendations for religious institutes and vocation directors who wish to attract new members.
Author : Loan Le
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443896802
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Religious Life written by Loan Le and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Second Vatican Council, when each Religious Institute was encouraged to research its charism, some Institutes experienced a tension between their charism and their mission, or even difficulty identifying what their charism was. This book is a study of the theological understanding of charism and of mission in relation to Religious Life within the Catholic Church. While this topic has featured in much Roman Catholic theological literature since Vatican II, there appears to be a dearth of in-depth studies. This book addresses this apparent lacuna. It draws particularly on the work of two major theologians, Jean-Marie Roger Tillard OP and Sandra Marie Schneiders IHM, who have reflected at length on charism and mission in the period leading up to Vatican II and on the implementation of its documents with respect to Religious Life. The very significant contributions of Tillard and Schneiders on the topic provide Religious, as well as others who want to know and understand Religious Life, with an interesting and motivating insight into charism and mission in Religious Life. Within the Roman Catholic Church, a “Year of Consecrated Life” has just drawn to a close, and this book forms a background and a response to Pope Francis’ Apostolic Letter to “all Consecrated People on the occasion of the Year of Consecrated Life” (November 2014), which invited Religious to reflect on these aspects that are essential to the life they have chosen to live.
Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674986911
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book A Secular Age written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
Author : Judith A. Merkle
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814624654
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (246 download)
Download or read book A Different Touch written by Judith A. Merkle and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work speaks of the challenges of religious life today where the essentials of Christian living and union with God are sought with "a different touch." Reflecting on the history of religious life since the nineteenth century, Sister Judith comments on how each of the traditional vows shape the ongoing adult development of the religious, and she relates these vows to current cultural and sociopolitical issues. A Different Touch is addressed both to those in religious formation and to congregations that are engaged in theological renewal.
Author : Elizabeth Rapley
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802865887
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Lord as Their Portion written by Elizabeth Rapley and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guided tour through the fascinating history of Catholic religious orders From their monastic prehistory in the Egyptian desert through their political heyday in Medieval and Renaissance Europe to their present-day work of education, human care, and the pursuit of social justice, the Catholic religious orders have been a driving force in Western civilization. In The Lord as Their Portion Elizabeth Rapley paints a broad portrait of the full spectrum of religious orders spanning the vast canvas of their history. Rapley shows how religious orders led the way in learning and inventiveness throughout the early periods of Western civilization. She explores how religious orders contributed to Western politics and the global spread of Christianity. She examines the ways in which religious orders have championed the poor, marginalized, and disenfranchised throughout history and gives attention the ongoing work of religious orders today. More than simply highlighting the sweeping progress of monasticism s past and present, however, Rapley also takes time to share, in a clear and engaging fashion, the fascinating stories of many of the men and women who chose to take the Lord as their portion and whose piety, devotion, and energetic pursuit of a holy life profoundly shaped the course of history.
Author : Sandra M. Schneiders, I.H.M.
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 1616438355
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Religious Life in a New Millennium Volume One written by Sandra M. Schneiders, I.H.M. and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Jamison, OSB
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472558383
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book The Disciples' Call written by Christopher Jamison, OSB and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is currently no shared language of vocation among Catholics in the developed, post-modern world of Europe and North America. The decline in practice of the faith and a weakened understanding of Church teaching has led to reduced numbers of people entering into marriage, religious life and priesthood. Uniquely, this book traces the development of vocation from scriptural, patristic roots through Thomism and the Reformation to engage with the modern vocational crisis. How are these two approaches compatible? The universal call to holiness is expressed in Lumen Gentium has been read by some as meaning that any vocational choice has the same value as any other such choice; is some sense of a higher calling part of the Catholic theology of vocation or not? Some claim that the single life is a vocation on a par with marriage and religious life; what kind of a theology of vocation leads to that conclusion? And is the secular use of the word 'vocation' to describe certain profession helpful or misleading in the context of Catholic theology?
Author : Christian Smith
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195371798
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Souls in Transition written by Christian Smith and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on candid interviews with thousands of young people tracked over a five-year period, this book reveals how the religious practices of the teenagers portrayed in Soul Searching have been strengthened, challenged, and often changed as they have moved into adulthood.
Author : Michael Hornsby-Smith
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780304705276
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Catholics in England 1950-2000 written by Michael Hornsby-Smith and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2000 marks the 150th anniversary of the restoration of the Roman Catholic hierarchy of England and Wales, following the post-Reformation penal times. The centenary in 1950 was celebrated with much reflection, but what has happened in the momentous half-century since, which has witnessed the transformation of the Second Vatican Council? The book includes: Historical perspectives of the period; Testimonies by key participants in post-war institutional Catholicism, including the Papal Commission on Birth Control, World Congresses of the Laity in Rome and a variety of experiences in Catholic organizations and public life; Empirical studies of English Catholicism from sociological perspectives; Concluding reflections and prospects for the new millennium.
Author : Sandra Marie Schneiders
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809139736
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Selling All written by Sandra Marie Schneiders and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the internal reality of contemporary religious life, particularly that of ministerial women religious in the first world setting, through the focusing lenses of commitment, consecrated celibacy, and community.
