Research Catalog

Title

Consecrated religious life : the changing paradigms / Diarmuid O'Murchu.

Author

Ó Murchú, Diarmuid.

Publication

Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c2005.

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Details

Description

x, 267 p.; 22 cm.

Alternative Title

Changing paradigms

Subject

• Catholic Church > Clergy
• Monasticism and religious orders > Rules
• Monastic and religious life

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-267).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

What have paradigms got to do with religious life? -- Paradigms in decline -- The God-image of 2000 years -- Patriarchal religion -- The power of dualisms -- Ecclesiastical, canonical control -- Preoccupation with the sinful world -- The soul over the body -- Obedience unto death -- Paradigms in transition -- Catholicism in a new guise -- Spirituality vis-á-vis religion -- Flee the world -- Embrace creation -- Women's redemptive rage -- The church vis-á-vis the kingdom of God -- Consecration-communion-mission -- Mission vis-á-vis ministry -- New models of leadership -- Paradigms coming to birth -- The world is bigger than the church -- Liminality for the lay vocation -- Calling forth the adult -- Community for discernment -- Vowed commitment to erotic liberation -- Vowed commitment to justice-making -- Vowed commitment to right relating -- Contemplating new horizons of consciousness.

ISBN

1570756198 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2005003886

OCLC

57965959

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library