Faith of Our Fathers

Reflections on Catholic Tradition
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8264-7665-4
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 211 g

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Distinguished scholar addresses the key issues an intelligent person needs to tackle in making sense of being a Catholic today.

'The richness of the Church's past is a liberation, not a straitjacket. It is a source of confidence in launching into an uncharted future.'

Eamon Duffy is both a practising Roman Catholic and a distinguished historian, whose writings have changed the course of English Reformation studies. In Faith of Our Fathers, Duffy brings the insights of history to the intellectual and pastoral challenges confronting Christianity in a post-modern world. In this lively and vivid book he considers the range of Catholic belief and practice, from prayer for the dead and veneration of the Eucharist, to the place of Mary or the authority of the Pope. In the process he explores the ways in which the practices of an ancient religious tradition can be a vital Christian resource in the turbulent modern world. Duffy argues that attentive engagement with the tradition is indispensable in deepening our understanding of the Gospel today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duffy, Eamon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity in the University of Cambridge and President of Magdalene College. His published books are few but always command very wide attention- notably The Stripping of the Altars (Yale UP)