Mark S Massa S J

The American Catholic Revolution

How the Sixties Changed the Church Forever

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the current debates and tensions within American Catholicism, which are the result of the American Catholic confrontation with historical change that occurred between 1964 and 1974 and gave rise to the current division between liberals and conservatives in America's largest church.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 461g
• ISBN-13: 9780199734122
• ISBN-10: 0199734127
• Artikelnr.: 31083638

Autorenporträt

Mark S. Massa, SJ, is Karl Rahner Professor of Theology and Director of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies, at Fordham University, as well as the author of Anti-Catholicism in America and other books.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: ''Something Irreversible Has Happened''
1.: A Brief History of Catholic Time
2.: Frederick McManus and Worship in the United States
3.: Humanae Vitae in the United States
4.: The Charles Curran Affair
5.: The Dangers of History
6.: ''Death Shall Have No Dominion!''
7.: Avery Dulles and the Law of Unintended Consequences
8.: Things Change
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index