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An insightful approach to contemporary Catholic literature. -- -Dennis Castillo * Christ the King Seminary * This groundbreaking book considers Catholic writers who have embraced the spirit of Vatian II and taken seriously the incarnational and sacramental identity of the body. * -Choice * Crucially, productively, and faithfully informed by attention to the work of the Catholic imagination. -- -Richard A. Rosengarten * The University of Chicago Divinity School * One of the first Catholic literary critics to focus on the role of the body in contemporary Catholic literature. -- -Susan Hill * University of Northern Iowa * John Waldmeir, Director of the Kucera Centre for Catholic Studies at Loras College, Dubuque, has done all those interested in Catholic literature a service by tracing the connection between the Vatican II conception of the Church as a ''body'' and the work of some contemporary American writers. * -The Irish Catholic * Studying a wide variety of genres from a wide variety of writers, Waldmeir presents a thoughtful description that helps uncover an increasingly complex, yet unified mosaic of literary writing of the 'body'. * -Catholic Library World * Explores the writing of Catholic authors whose work was influenced by the Second Vatican Council. * -Publishers Weekly *

One of the first Catholic literary critics to focus on the role of the body in contemporary Catholic literature. -- -Susan Hill * University of Northern Iowa * Studying a wide variety of genres from a wide variety of writers, Waldmeir presents a thoughtful description that helps uncover an increasingly complex, yet unified mosaic of literary writing of the 'body'. * -Catholic Library World * An insightful approach to contemporary Catholic literature. -- -Dennis Castillo * Christ the King Seminary * Crucially, productively, and faithfully informed by attention to the work of the Catholic imagination. -- -Richard A. Rosengarten * The University of Chicago Divinity School * Explores the writing of Catholic authors whose work was influenced by the Second Vatican Council. * -Publishers Weekly * John Waldmeir, Director of the Kucera Centre for Catholic Studies at Loras College, Dubuque, has done all those interested in Catholic literature a service by tracing the connection between the Vatican II conception of the Church as a ''body'' and the work of some contemporary American writers. * -The Irish Catholic * This groundbreaking book considers Catholic writers who have embraced the spirit of Vatian II and taken seriously the incarnational and sacramental identity of the body. * -Choice *

An insightful approach to contemporary Catholic literature. GCoDennis Castillo, Christ the King Seminary Studying a wide variety of genres from a wide variety of writers, Waldmeir presents a thoughtful description that helps uncover an increasingly complex, yet unified mosaic of literary writing of the 'body'.-Daniel Boyce John Waldmeir, Director of the Kucera Centre for Catholic Studies at Loras College, Dubuque, has done all those interested in Catholic literature a service by tracing the connection between the Vatican II conception of the Church as a body and the work of some contemporary American writers.-Eamon Maher This groundbreaking book considers Catholic writers who have embraced the spirit of Vatian II and taken seriously the incarnational and sacramental identity of the body.

Studying a wide variety of genres from a wide variety of writers, Waldmeir presents a thoughtful description that helps uncover an increasingly complex, yet unified mosaic of literary writing of the 'body'.-Daniel Boyce John Waldmeir, Director of the Kucera Centre for Catholic Studies at Loras College, Dubuque, has done all those interested in Catholic literature a service by tracing the connection between the Vatican II conception of the Church as a body and the work of some contemporary American writers.-Eamon Maher This groundbreaking book considers Catholic writers who have embraced the spirit of Vatian II and taken seriously the incarnational and sacramental identity of the body.

An insightful approach to contemporary Catholic literature. - Dennis Castillo, Christ the King Seminary Crucially, productively, and faithfully informed by attention to the work of the Catholic imagination. - Richard A. Rosengarten, The University of Chicago Divinity School

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JOHN C. WALDMEIR teaches at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, where he has directed the Archbishop Kucera Center for Catholic Studies and held the annual John Cardinal O'Connor Chair in Catholic Thought. Cathedrals of Bone is his fourth book.

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