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Prayer: The Mission of the Church (Ressourcement: Retrieval & Renewal in Catholic Thought) - Softcover

Danielou, Jean

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9780802841056: Prayer: The Mission of the Church (Ressourcement: Retrieval & Renewal in Catholic Thought)
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ISBN 10: 0802841058 ISBN 13: 9780802841056
Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co, 1996

Synopsis

Jean Danielou devoted his life and scholarship to the question of Christianity and culture. He approached this question in the light of the full Catholic tradition, drawing from the rich resources of the early church fathers, whom he loved deeply. In Prayer: The Mission of the Church Danielou considers the centrality of prayer for the Christian layperson, developing the insight that the active, missionary dimension of the Christian life is in fact the "self-unfolding" of contemplation. There is clearly a trinitarian structure here, in line with both biblical and patristic thought. The spontaneous tone of these short but direct chapters brings out the affective presence of their author and places the issues within the existential context in which theology and spirituality converge.

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About the Author

Jean Danielou (1905-1974) was a French Jesuit, bishop, and cardinal who taught as a professor at the Institut Catholique in Paris.

Reviews

Danielou's collection of meditations on prayer is part of a series entitled Ressourcement: Retrieval and Renewal in Catholic Thought, which draws its inspiration from the mid-twentieth-century Ressourcement movement centered in France and associated with the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar, who wrote the foreword for this volume. The material in the collection was originally delivered as talks at days of recollection for the laity; its oral, popular, and devotional character are evident. The talks (as suggested by the subtitle) are as much exhortations to mission as meditations on prayer, and readers will learn a great deal about a theological attitude--permeated with tension between proclamation of uniqueness and exhortation to openness--that has shaped the Roman Catholic Church's attitude toward the larger world since Vatican II. Steve Schroeder

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Publisher
Eerdmans Pub Co
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0802841058
ISBN 13 
9780802841056
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
140
Rating
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