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Chargement... An introduction to Catholicismpar Lawrence S. Cunningham
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The Vatican. The Inquisition. Contraception. Celibacy. Apparitions and miracles. Plots and scandals. The Catholic Church is seldom out of the news. But what do its one billion adherents really believe, and how do they put their beliefs into practice in worship, the family, and society? This down-to-earth account goes back to the early Christian creeds to uncover the roots of modern Catholic thinking. It avoids getting bogged down in theological technicalities, and throws light on aspects of the Church's institutional structure and liturgical practice that even Catholics can find baffling: why go to confession? How are people made saints? What is 'infallible' about the Pope? Topics addressed include: • scripture and tradition • sacraments and prayer • popular piety • personal and social morality • reform, mission, and interreligious dialogue Lawrence Cunningham, a theologian, prize-winning writer and university teacher, provides an overview of Catholicism today which will be indispensable for undergraduates and lay study groups. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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"current writers on spirituality have been keen to deny that an interest in Christian spirituality is not to be construed as involving only and exclusively personal growth in holiness."
the grammatically incomprehensible (there's no subject in this sentence):
"By giving women alternatives to cloistered seclusion or the traditional path of marriage and motherhood, women were able to use their intelligence... in a wide range of activities earlier closed off to them."
and the presumably unintentionally comedic:
"It is on the basis of the above belief that Catholic morality insists that people must take seriously duties as members of the human community and, in addition, must give due recognition to human rights of all people while, at the same time, resisting the notion that certain classes, races or other human cultural characteristics that differentiate by the fact of that difference have the right to discriminate or lessen fundamental human rights due to every person."
I, too, hate stuff that differentiates because of differences and makes you think you can discriminate. But boy, a bit of discrimination on the part of the author with regards to sentence structure wouldn't go astray.
No doubt this seems petty, but consider that at the end of the day he wants you, dear reader, to take his religion seriously. And how seriously can you take the religion of a man who can write such barbarisms as "It is always a challenge to rise up to the challenges of the legitimate need for reform while attempting to balance that need against the task of fidelity to the past"?
Challenging challenges, those. ( )