Overview
The hopeful yet realistic book that Catholics are hungry for: Lay people across the spectrum, from liberal to conservative, along with nuns, good and courageous priests (none of whom want to leave the Church) are leading the way toward a radical reformation that will open the way to married priests, more leadership roles for women, increased influence and authority on the part of lay people, increased democratization and decentralization, and less hierarchical and secret decision-making. This is a positive, optimistic, but clear-eyed assessment of where the Church needs to go from here, presenting both the challenges and opportunities the current crisis within the church offers. The lid has been blown off the dysfunctional clerical culture of the Church, and a new Reformation has begun that cannot be stopped, as people realize how little much of the Vatican hierarchy, clericalism, and dogmatism of the Roman Catholic Church have to do with the teaching of Jesus and the essence of Christianity.
Full Product Details
Author: David Gibson
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint: HarperOne
Dimensions:
Width: 15.40cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.442kg
ISBN: 9780060587208
ISBN 10: 0060587202
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 29 June 2004
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Gibson provides a refreshingly well-informed and judicious survey of American Catholic life... ranges widely without being shallow. --Christianity Today Gibson displays uncommon intelligence in The Coming Catholic Church ... this book has impressive range. --Chicago Tribune [A] delicately balanced work ... Honest, hopeful and challenging, this book is highly recommended. --Library Journal Gibson displays uncommon intelligence in The Coming Catholic Church ... this book has impressive range. --Chicago Tribune [A] delicately balanced work ... Honest, hopeful and challenging, this book is highly recommended. --Library Journal Gibson provides a refreshingly well-informed and judicious survey of American Catholic life... ranges widely without being shallow. --Christianity Today
Gibson displays uncommon intelligence in The Coming Catholic Church ... this book has impressive range. -- Chicago Tribune
"""Gibson provides a refreshingly well-informed and judicious survey of American Catholic life... ranges widely without being shallow."" -- Christianity Today ""Gibson displays uncommon intelligence in The Coming Catholic Church ... this book has impressive range."" -- Chicago Tribune ""[A] delicately balanced work ... Honest, hopeful and challenging, this book is highly recommended."" -- Library Journal"
Gibson displays uncommon intelligence in The Coming Catholic Church ... this book has impressive range. --Chicago Tribune Gibson provides a refreshingly well-informed and judicious survey of American Catholic life... ranges widely without being shallow. --Christianity Today [A] delicately balanced work ... Honest, hopeful and challenging, this book is highly recommended. --Library Journal Gibson provides a refreshingly well-informed and judicious survey of American Catholic life... ranges widely without being shallow. --Christianity Today Gibson displays uncommon intelligence in The Coming Catholic Church ... this book has impressive range. --Chicago Tribune [A] delicately balanced work ... Honest, hopeful and challenging, this book is highly recommended. --Library Journal
""Gibson provides a refreshingly well-informed and judicious survey of American Catholic life... ranges widely without being shallow."" -- Christianity Today ""Gibson displays uncommon intelligence in The Coming Catholic Church ... this book has impressive range."" -- Chicago Tribune ""[A] delicately balanced work ... Honest, hopeful and challenging, this book is highly recommended."" -- Library Journal
Author Information
David Gibson is an award-winning religion writer and a committed lay Catholic. He writes about Catholicism for various newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, Boston magazine, Fortune, Commonweal, and America. He was the religion writer for the The Star-Ledger of New Jersey. Gibson has worked in Rome for Vatican Radio and traveled frequently with Pope John Paul II. He has co-written several recent documentaries on Christianity for CNN.
