Catholicism category: 4667 books
by Andrew M. Greeley
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
What might one expect to learn from a probability sample study of the Archdiocese of Chicago? Can one form a national portrait of Catholics in the United States from data about Chicago? Certainly, Chicago is unique in its judgments about its clergy. As the eminent Catholic sociologist Andrew M. Greeley...
Who is Jesus?
An Introduction to Christology
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Who is Jesus? This is the fundamental question for christology. The earliest Christians used various titles, most of them drawn from the Old Testament or Hebrew Scriptures, to express their faith in Jesus. They called him prophet, teacher, Messiah, Son of David, Son of Man, Lord, Son of God, Word...
Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching
Contemporary Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching: Contemporary Theory and Research contains essays by key scholars in the territory where Catholic social thought and secular sociology meet, and offers a much needed alternative to the relativism and individualism that so often characterize social scientific...
The Ethical Being
A Catholic Guide to Contemporary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Recognizing the tension between Catholicism’s rich tradition of moral thought in a society that has largely rejected the foundations from which it came, Kline seeks to provide Catholics with the tools to critically consider difficult issues in ethics. It is his belief that “Catholics have something...
by Alice von Hildebrand
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Alice von Hildebrand is a household name to many who know her from her countless EWTN appearances, her books, and her extensive articles and essays. What is little known is the story of her life, notably the thirty-seven years she spent at Hunter College in New York City. There, despite systematic...
Ecclesiology and Postmodernity
Questions for the Church in Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
What in the world is postmodernity? Is it the dominant reality today? If it is, what does it mean to be a church in a postmodern world? It seems that the church had a difficult time coming to terms with a modern world, an era ruled by the claims of scientific certainty. Having done so, more or less,...
by Dorian Llywelyn
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Nationality continues to be an important part of how people identify themselves and others. 'Who am I?' is inseparable from the question 'Who and what are we?' Historically, many nations have made use of the Bible and Christian notions to understand themselves and to justify their political ambitions....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The Blessed Virgin Mary is uniquely associated with Catholicism, and the century preceding the Second Vatican Council was arguably the most fertile era for Catholic Marian studies. In 1964, Pope John Paul VI published the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, or Lumen Gentium (LG), the eighth chapter...
Catholics in the American Century
Recasting Narratives of U.S. History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Over the course of the twentieth century, Catholics, who make up a quarter of the population of the United States, made significant contributions to American culture, politics, and society. They built powerful political machines in Chicago, Boston, and New York; led influential labor unions; created...
American Catholics
Gender, Generation, and Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2001
How much do American Catholics still identify with the Catholic Church? Do they agree with the Church's teachings, and how often do they participate in its sacraments? What do they think it takes to be a good Catholic? What do they consider to be the Church's core teachings? How do they believe issues...
Believing Scholars
Ten Catholic Intellectuals
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
How do Catholic intellectuals draw on faith in their work? And how does their work as scholars influence their lives as people of faith?
For more than a generation, the University of Dayton has invited a prominent Catholic intellectual to present the annual Marianist Award Lecture on the general...
Incompatible with God's Design
A History of the Women's Ordination Movement in the U.S. Roman Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Incompatible with God’s Design is the first comprehensive history of the Roman Catholic women’s ordination movement in the United States. Mary Jeremy Daigler explores how the focus on ordination, and not merely “increased participation” in the life and ministries of the church, has come to...
by William V. D'Antonio, Michele Dillon, Mary L. Gautier
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
American Catholics in Transition reports on five surveys carried out at six year intervals over a period of 25 years, from 1987 to 2011. The surveys are national probability samples of American Catholics, age 18 and older, now including four generations of Catholics. Over these twenty five years,...
Paul Hanly Furfey
Priest, Scientist, Social Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Nicholas Rademacher’s book is meticulously researched and clearly written, shedding new light on Monsignor Paul Hanly Furfey’s life by drawing on Furfey’s copious published material and substantial archival deposit. Paul Hanly Furfey (1896–1992) is one of U.S. Catholicism’s greatest champions...