Church Alive! : Pilgrimages in Faith 1956 - 2006 / Greg Dening.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dening, Greg, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholics--Australia--New South Wales--History.

Catholics.

New South Wales--Church history.

New South Wales.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : University of New South Wales Press Ltd, [2006]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Here the author has turned his anthropological, theological, historical and philosophical education, as well as his personal experience, to writing the living history of three Jesuit parishes on the North Shore of Sydney Harbour for the years 1956 to 2006. This book is an ethnographic history of the prophetic imagination among ordinary believers in times of great religious change. It is a narrative about behaviour, symbols, rituals, sacred spaces, sacred times, that tells of the cultural system within them. The broader context of post-Vatican II Catholicism and a religion that led the communit

Contents:

Contents; A Prefatory Note; Prologue: The Spirit at Work; 1 Living History; 2 Triumph 1956; Reflection: On Religious Change; 3 Hopefulness; Mystery; 4 Breaking Bread; Believing; 5 Word and Song; Celebrating; 6 New Church, New Priest; Priestliness; 7 The Christ and Wo; Calling; 8 The Prophetic Imagination; Ministering; Epilogue: Pilgrim Parish; Acknowledgments; Notes; Notes on the artwork by Anne Kearney; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4294-5563-2

0-86840-050-5

OCLC:

171556285