The Wiley Blackwell companion to Catholicism /
"In his classic 1947 work, Catholicism, the Jesuit theologian Henri de Lubac sought to present a picture of Catholicism, not as a body of dogmas or a set of institutional structures, but as a living social organism that "grows under the action of a single life-force" and whose "s...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley Blackwell,
2024.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Wiley-Blackwell companions to religion.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "In his classic 1947 work, Catholicism, the Jesuit theologian Henri de Lubac sought to present a picture of Catholicism, not as a body of dogmas or a set of institutional structures, but as a living social organism that "grows under the action of a single life-force" and whose "scope remains God's secret" (de Lubac 1988, 47). Confronted with a Church grown defensive in the face of modern Western culture, a Church that deployed its doctrines and structures to fend off a hostile world, de Lubac sought to remind his readers that the doctrines and structures of the Church are not ends in themselves, much less weapons, but rather are part of a dynamic social process that we might call "being Catholic." This activity of being Catholic is the subject of the Companion"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781119754343 1119754348 9781119754350 1119754356 9781119754367 1119754364 |