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Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
213 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Greeley discusses the central themes of Catholic culture: sacrament, salvation, community, festival, hierarchy, erotic desire, and the mother love of God. Ranging widely from Bernini to Scorsese, Greeley's discourse distills these themes from the high arts of Catholic culture and asks: Do these values really influence people's lives? Using international survey data, he shows the counterintuitive ways in which Catholics are defined. He goes on to root...
Author
Publisher
Saint Vladimir's Seminary Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The most ancient name for Christianity, author Metropolitan Kallistos Ware reminds us, is 'the Way' (Acts 19:23;24:22), and it is precisely as the journey that this word implies that he presents the tradition of Orthodox Christianity, its teachings and its practices in this vital work. The result is not an abstract presentation of 'Orthodoxy,' an outside look at, or description of, its dogmatics, rituals, and ascetic disciplines, compared to and...
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