Amazing Church: A Catholic Theologian Remembers a Half-Century of Change
A Catholic Theologian Remembers a Half-Century of Change
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9782895075707
- Publish Date
- Jun 2005
- List Price
- $5.99
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Gregory Baum shows the "extraordinary evolution" of Catholic Social Teaching over the past half century. He writes: "I am convinced that what has emerged in the Church's official teaching is a new form of Catholicism that finds expression in the first sentence of Gaudium et spes, the conciliar document on the Church in the Modern World: "The joys and hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the people of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these too are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ."Baum challenges those Catholics today who lament the indifference of the ecclesiastical bureaucracy to a number of urgent pastoral problems. For Baum, inconsistencies in the hierarchical church are not reason enough to mute his admiration of the "wonderful" development of the Church's official teaching: a Catholicism truly at the service of humanity.
About the author
GREGORY BAUM served as an expert for the Vatican Council II from 1960 to 1965. For 28 years, he taught theology at St. Michael's College in Toronto and, from 1986 on, was a professor of religious studies at McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of many books and articles on ecumenism, the theology of the Christian life, Catholic social teaching and the sociology of religion. Baum was the founding editor of The Ecumenist: A Journal of Theology, Culture and Society.
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