Birthing a living church /Virginia Hoffman ; foreword by Dennis Geaney.
Description
PART I : Questions pushing us toward birth. What -- or who -- is church? -- Isn't being church more than planning liturgies? -- Must ministry be dependent on power? -- Does it have to be this way? -- -- PART II : Can we get there from here? A birthing primer. Generating life -- Internal development : the rise of indigenous leadership -- Hard choices : inching toward a postclerical age -- Responsibility or co-dependence? -- Cutting the cord : restoring eucharist to the community -- Eucharist without clergy -- -- PART III : Life after birth. What will happen to "Mom"? : clerics in a postclerical church -- What about parishes? -- Beyond the confines of the womb -- The Catholic womb : hierarchical structure -- Birth versus inertia : the struggle of the undecided.
xiv, 183 pages ;23 cm
Book Details
Author
Hoffman, Virginia
Place Published
City
New York
Date Published
1988
Publication Subjects
Church renewal--Catholic Church.
Church renewal--Catholic Church.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01750789
Catholic Church--United States--Controversial literature.
Call No.
BX1406.2 .H57 1988
ISBN
0824509005, 9780824509002
LCCN
88018810
Notes
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