Devotion to the Holy Spirit in American Catholicism / edited by Joseph P. Chinnici.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chinnici, Joseph P.

Series:

Sources of American spirituality

Sources of American spirituality.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holy Spirit.

Catholic Church--United States.

Catholic Church.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 227 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Paulist Press, 1985.

Summary:

Devotion to the Holy Spirit has played an important role in the social, political, and theological history of Catholics in the United States. In a major introduction to this volume Joseph P. Chinnici presents a detailed study of that devotion, tracing it from its European and Colonial American roots to its twentieth-century expression, including an analysis of the work of Thomas Scott Preston, John Keane, Otto Zardetti, and Isaac Hecker.

The text chosen to illustrate this devotion is a series of nine novena sermons delivered by an anonymous parish priest in New York and published in 1901. Novena of Sermons on the Holy Ghost in His Relationship to the World contains an introduction by James Cardinal Gibbons and three series of sermons. Series one traces the relationship of the Holy Ghost to the Blessed Virgin; series two, the relationship of the Holy Ghost to the Incarnate Word; and series three, the relationship of the Holy Ghost to the Written Word of God.

Those interested in the contemporary Charismatic piety, as well as those attempting to understand the history of spirituality in America will find this volume a unique and helpful guide.

Contents:

I. Post-Civil War Catholicism and the History of Spirituality 3

Spirituality, Politics and Community Identity 6

Spirituality and Controversy 10

II. The Search for a Spiritual Identity: European and American Origins of Devotion to the Holy Ghost 16

Henry Edward Manning: European Roots of Devotion 17

Isaac Thomas Hecker: Devotion in the United States 25

III. Devotion to the Holy Ghost and Pastoral Practice 35

John Joseph Keane: Devotion in Richmond 36

Thomas Scott Preston: Devotion in New York City 48

IV. The Transformation of the Devotion 57

Institutional Manifestations 57

Otto Zardetti: The Transformation of Devotion 64

Pope Leo XIII and the Holy Ghost 72

V. The Aftermath of Americanism 78

The Uneasy Synthesis of Joseph McSorley 78

The Final Witness: Sermons on the Holy Ghost 85

Texts

John Joseph Keane A Sodality Manual for the use of the Servants of the Holy Ghost 93

A Diocesan Priest [Thomas F. Hopkins] Novena of Sermons on the Holy Ghost in his Relationship to the World in Three Series of Three Sermons Each 115.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0809103664

OCLC:

13334610