Finding the Treasure: Locating Catholic Religious Life in a New Ecclesial and Cultural ContextPaulist Press, 2000 - 450 pagina's Does religious life still make sense today? Controversial author Sandra Schneiders asks the question, does being a religious still make sense in today's world? Her answer is yes, that religious life has a future full of hope but that it must be rethought and remodeled within the radically new context of post-Vatican-II postmodernism. Situating religious life both within a historical-cultural setting and within the Catholic Church, Schneiders addresses major questions of meaning, identity, and boundaries that have arisen over the past decades. With tremendous cohesion, she examines issues about celibacy, permanent commitment, formation, community, vows, and prayer, as well as issues of particular concern to women: patriarchy, feminism, the role of women in the Church, and female ordination. The years since Vatican II, she says, have been a "Dark Night of the Soul" for religious life; she uses this paradigm to make sense of what has happened, the purification and transformation of religious life from dinosaur to songbird. Schneiders' book is both deeply exciting and genuinely consoling for North American Roman Catholic women religious. Yet this sweeping multidisciplinary work has a crucial message as well for brothers, women religious in other countries or denominations, and anyone interested in the state of the church today. + |
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Religious Life as a Human Phenomenon among the Worlds Religions Monastics Virgins Virtuosi | 3 |
Religious Life as an Organic Lifeform Getting It Together | 41 |
Religious Life in a Postmodern Context Faith and Fidelity against the Grain | 99 |
Locating Religious Life in Its Ecclesial Context | 121 |
Religious Life as a Theological Reality in the Church Consecrated Celibacy and the Vocation to Prophecy | 123 |
Religious Life in Spiritual Transformation I Vatican II and Renewal an Active Dark Night? | 153 |
Religious Life in Spiritual Transformation II Enlightenment and Postmodernity a Passive Dark Night? | 183 |
Religious Life as an Ecclesiastical Reality I Where and with Whom? | 210 |
Religious Life as Charism I ManyLeveled Gift in Many Forms | 282 |
Religious Life as Charism II Prophets in Their Own Country | 313 |
Conclusion | 359 |
John of the Crosss Spiritual Theology and Transformation of Religious Life | 365 |
Notes | 367 |
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Religious Life as an Ecclesiastical Reality II Who and Why? | 242 |
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