The Catholic Revolution

Author : Andrew Greeley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520938779

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The Catholic Revolution by Andrew Greeley Pdf

How, a mere generation after Vatican Council II initiated the biggest reform since the Reformation, can the Catholic Church be in such deep trouble? The question resonates through this new book by Andrew Greeley, the most recognized, respected, and influential commentator on American Catholic life. A timely and much-needed review of forty years of Church history, The Catholic Revolution offers a genuinely new interpretation of the complex and radical shift in American Catholic attitudes since the second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Drawing on a wealth of data collected over the last thirty years, Greeley points to a rift between the higher and lower orders in the Church that began in the wake of Vatican Council II—when bishops, euphoric in their (temporary) freedom from the obstructions of the Roman Curia, introduced modest changes that nonetheless proved too much for still-rigid structures of Catholicism: the "new wine" burst the "old wineskins." As the Church leadership tried to reimpose the old order, clergy and the laity, newly persuaded that "unchangeable" Catholicism could in fact change, began to make their own reforms, sweeping away the old "rules" that no longer made sense. The revolution that Greeley describes brought about changes that continue to reverberate—in a chasm between leadership and laity, and in a whole generation of Catholics who have become Catholic on their own terms. Coming at a time of crisis and doubt for the Catholic Church, this richly detailed, deeply thoughtful analysis brings light and clarity to the years of turmoil that have shaken the foundations, if not the faith, of American Catholics.

Author : Michael Gauvreau
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0773528741

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Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970 by Michael Gauvreau Pdf

The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution challenges a versionof history central to modern Quebec's understanding of itself: that theQuiet Revolution began in the 1960s as a secular vision of state andsociety which rapidly displaced an obsolete, clericalized Catholicism.Michael Gauvreau argues that organizations such as Catholic youthmovements played a central role in formulating the Personalist Catholicideology that underlay the Quiet Revolution and that ordinaryQuebecers experienced the Quiet Revolution primarily through a seriesof transformations in the expression of their Catholic identity. In sodoing Gauvreau offers a new understanding of Catholicism's place intwentieth-century Quebec.

Author : Bonar L. Hernández Sandoval
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268104443

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Guatemala's Catholic Revolution by Bonar L. Hernández Sandoval Pdf

Guatemala’s Catholic Revolution is an account of the resurgence of Guatemalan Catholicism during the twentieth century. By the late 1960s, an increasing number of Mayan peasants had emerged as religious and social leaders in rural Guatemala. They assumed central roles within the Catholic Church: teaching the catechism, preaching the Gospel, and promoting Church-directed social projects. Influenced by their daily religious and social realities, the development initiatives of the Cold War, and the Second Vatican Council (1962–65), they became part of Latin America’s burgeoning progressive Catholic spirit. Hernández Sandoval examines the origins of this progressive trajectory in his fascinating new book. After researching previously untapped church archives in Guatemala and Vatican City, as well as mission records found in the United States, Hernández Sandoval analyzes popular visions of the Church, the interaction between indigenous Mayan communities and clerics, and the connection between religious and socioeconomic change. Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, the Guatemalan Catholic Church began to resurface as an institutional force after being greatly diminished by the anticlerical reforms of the nineteenth century. This revival, fueled by papal power, an increase in church-sponsored lay organizations, and the immigration of missionaries from the United States, prompted seismic changes within the rural church by the 1950s. The projects begun and developed by the missionaries with the support of Mayan parishioners, originally meant to expand sacramentalism, eventually became part of a national and international program of development that uplifted underdeveloped rural communities. Thus, by the end of the 1960s, these rural Catholic communities had become part of a “Catholic revolution,” a reformist, or progressive, trajectory whose proponents promoted rural development and the formation of a new generation of Mayan community leaders. This book will be of special interest to scholars of transnational Catholicism, popular religion, and religion and society during the Cold War in Latin America.

Author : Eilish Gregory
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275946

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Catholics During the English Revolution, 1642-1660 by Eilish Gregory Pdf

Examines the experiences of Catholics during the period when England was ruled by Puritan Protestants.

Author : Joseph F. Byrnes
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271064901

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Priests of the French Revolution by Joseph F. Byrnes Pdf

The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was especially true for those priests required at the very beginning of 1791 to take an oath of loyalty to the new government—and thereby accept the religious reforms promoted in a new Civil Constitution of the Clergy. More than half did so at the beginning, and those who were subsequently consecrated bishops became the new official hierarchy of France. In Priests of the French Revolution, Joseph Byrnes shows how these priests and bishops who embraced the Revolution creatively followed or destructively rejected traditional versions of priestly ministry. Their writings, public testimony, and recorded private confidences furnish the story of a national Catholic church. This is a history of the religious attitudes and psychological experiences underpinning the behavior of representative bishops and priests. Byrnes plays individual ideologies against group action, and religious teachings against political action, to produce a balanced story of saints and renegades within a Catholic tradition.

Author : Mark S. Massa, S.J.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199781386

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The American Catholic Revolution by Mark S. Massa, S.J. Pdf

In the 1960s, the Second Vatican Council enacted the most sweeping changes the Catholic Church had seen in centuries. In readable and compelling prose, Mark S. Massa tells the story of the cultural war these changes ignited in the United States - a war that is still being waged today. Suddenly, one Sunday, the mass as the faithful had always known it was different, and so was the Church they had believed was timeless and unchanging. Once the Church opened the door to change, Massa argues, it could not be closed again. Skirmishes broke out over the proper way to worship. Soon, Catholics were bitterly divided over birth control, abortion, celibacy, female priests, and the authority of the Church itself. As he narrates these turbulent events, Massa takes us beyond stereotypes of liberals and conservatives, offering new insights into the last fifty years of American Catholicism.

Author : Martin Luther
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9354946070

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Martin Luther's 95 Theses by Martin Luther Pdf

Author : Professor Alexandra Walsham
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472432537

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Catholic Reformation in Protestant Britain by Professor Alexandra Walsham Pdf

The survival and revival of Roman Catholicism in post-Reformation Britain remains the subject of lively debate. This volume examines key aspects of the evolution and experience of the Catholic communities of these Protestant kingdoms during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rejecting an earlier preoccupation with recusants and martyrs, it highlights the importance of those who exhibited varying degrees of conformity with the ecclesiastical establishment and explores the moral and political dilemmas that confronted the clergy and laity. It reassesses the significance of the Counter Reformation mission as an evangelical enterprise; analyses its communication strategies and its impact on popular piety; and illuminates how Catholic ritual life creatively adapted itself to a climate of repression. Reacting sharply against the insularity of many previous accounts, this book investigates developments in the British Isles in relation to wider international initiatives for the renewal of the Catholic faith in Europe and for its plantation overseas. It emphasises the reciprocal interaction between Catholicism and anti-Catholicism throughout the period and casts fresh light on the nature of interconfessional relations in a pluralistic society. It argues that persecution and suffering paradoxically both constrained and facilitated the resurgence of the Church of Rome. They presented challenges and fostered internal frictions, but they also catalysed the process of religious identity formation and imbued English, Welsh and Scottish Catholicism with peculiar dynamism. Prefaced by an extensive new historiographical overview, this collection brings together a selection of Alexandra Walsham's essays written over the last fifteen years, fully revised and updated to reflect recent research in this flourishing field. Collectively these make a major contribution to our understanding of minority Catholicism and the Counter Reformation in the era after the Council of Trent.

Author : Robert Bireley
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 081320951X

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The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700 by Robert Bireley Pdf

Placing the development of Catholicism in the context of both social and political changes as well as the Protestant Reformation, this comprehensive study incorporates new research and reflects the changing perspectives of the late 20th century.

Author : Lamin Sanneh,Michael McClymond
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781405153768

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Christianity by Lamin Sanneh,Michael McClymond Pdf

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity presents a collection of essays that explore a range of topics relating to the rise, spread, and influence of Christianity throughout the world. Features contributions from renowned scholars of history and religion from around the world Addresses the origins and global expansion of Christianity over the course of two millennia Covers a wide range of themes relating to Christianity, including women, worship, sacraments, music, visual arts, architecture, and many more Explores the development of Christian traditions over the past two centuries across several continents and the rise in secularization

Author : Pierre Janelle
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021228818

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The Catholic Reformation by Pierre Janelle Pdf

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the Catholic Reformation, the influential movement aimed at reforming the Catholic Church in the wake of the Protestant Reformation. The author examines the theological, political, and social dimensions of this complex and transformative period, shedding new light on Catholicism's response to the challenges of the Reformation. Engaging and informative, this work is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Christianity. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Edward Maslin Hulme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Renaissance the Protestant Revolution and the Catholic Reformation in Continental Europe by Edward Maslin Hulme Pdf

Author : John Frederick Schwaller
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814783603

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The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America by John Frederick Schwaller Pdf

One cannot understand Latin America without understanding the history of the Catholic Church in the region. Catholicism has been predominant in Latin America and it has played a definitive role in its development. It helped to spur the conquest of the New World with its emphasis on missions to the indigenous peoples, controlled many aspects of the colonial economy, and played key roles in the struggles for Independence. The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America offers a concise yet far-reaching synthesis of this institution’s role from the earliest contact between the Spanish and native tribes until the modern day, the first such historical overview available in English. John Frederick Schwaller looks broadly at the forces which formed the Church in Latin America and which caused it to develop in the unique manner in which it did. While the Church is often characterized as monolithic, the author carefully showcases its constituent parts—often in tension with one another—as well as its economic function and its role in the political conflicts within the Latin America republics. Organized in a chronological manner, the volume traces the changing dynamics within the Church as it moved from the period of the Reformation up through twentieth century arguments over Liberation Theology, offering a solid framework to approaching the massive literature on the Catholic Church in Latin America. Through his accessible prose, Schwaller offers a set of guideposts to lead the reader through this complex and fascinating history.

Author : Richard Butterwick
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199250332

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The Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788-1792 by Richard Butterwick Pdf

The Polish Revolution cast off the Russian hegemony that had kept the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth impotent for most of the eighteenth century. Before being overthrown by the armies of Catherine the Great, the Four Years' Parliament of 1788-92 passed wide-ranging reforms, culminating in Europe's first written constitution on 3 May 1791. In some respects its policies towards the Catholic Church of both rites (Latin and Ruthenian) were more radical than those of Joseph II, and comparable to some of those adopted in the early stages of the French Revolution. Policies included taxation of the Catholic clergy at more than double the rate of the lay nobility, the confiscation of episcopal estates, the equalization of dioceses, and controversial concessions to Orthodoxy. But the monastic clergy escaped almost unscathed. A method of explaining political decisions in a republican polity is developed in order to show how and why the Commonwealth went to the verge of schism with Rome in 1789-90, before drawing back. Pope Pius VI could then bless the 'mild revolution' of 3 May 1791, which Poland's clergy and monarch presented to the nobility as a miracle of Divine Providence. The stresses would be eclipsed by dechristianization in France, the dismemberment of the Commonwealth, and subsequent incarnations of unity between the Catholic Church and the Polish nation. Probing both 'high politics' and political culture', Richard Butterwick draws on diplomatic and political correspondence, speeches, pamphlets, sermons, pastoral letters, proclamations, records of local assemblies, and other sources to explore a volatile relationship between altar, throne, and nobility at the end of Europe's Ancien Régime.

Author : William Cobbett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Protestantism
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR59945087

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A History of the Protestant Reformation in England & Ireland by William Cobbett Pdf