Catholicism in the Third Millennium

by Thomas P. Rausch, Catherine E. Clifford, THOMAS P. RAUSCH SJ

Book Overview

What is Catholicism? And where is the Catholic Church headed in the third millennium? These two questions provide the structure for Thomas Rausch's Catholicism in the Third Millennium. Here Rausch combines a faithful presentation of the tradition with a critical theological reflection and interpretation of where the Church is today and where it might be moving.

Catholicism in the Third Millennium offers an appreciation of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814658997
• ISBN13: 9780814658994
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Michael Glazier Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good and Insightful Book

I first encountered this book in a causal theology discussion group and found it to be a nice read. While it is hardly original, I do believe that it provides a good foundation for a discussion about Catholicism, Religiosity and secularity in the modern world. I have not read the older version of this book, so cannot comment on the changes in this edition. I would recommend this book for anyone engaged in religious education or the professional or casual study of Christian theology.

Good but not much changed

This book is a new edition of Catholicism: At The Dawn Of The Third Millennium. It is a great book for one raised in the Catholic tradition or someone who is curious about it. It looks back over the past thirty-odd years at the goals of Vatican Council II, and how the church is doing at living up to the expectations from that event. This revised edition does not, at first look, appear that different. Yet the few differences make it well worth it. There is major revision of chapter 2, section two, which has gone from being `The People of God' to `God and God's People'. There are also discussion questions at the end of each chapter. That will help the reader digest the material, or help a group study the book together. All in all, in a new edition written seven years after the first, I was hoping for much more. There was an expectation of newer and fresher analysis of the material. Yet, even with that letdown, the book is worth an examination by a member of the catholic community or the casual scholar.