A Virtuous Church: Catholic Theology, Ethics, and Liturgy for the 21st Century - Softcover

Seasoltz, R. Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570759731 ISBN 13: 9781570759734

Publisher: Orbis Books, 2012

Synopsis

How can a church founded more than 2,000 years ago respond to the needs of the 21st century? Fr. Seasoltz begins by discussing the cultural sensibilities of today s multicultural and multi-traditioned world, showing how current trends affect the life of Christian churches. Such trends include globalization, the migration of peoples, the ecological crisis that, and the geographical shift in the center of Christianity from the North to the South.
Seasoltz then turns to the origins of moral teaching in the Bible, demonstrating that the key teaching is the need to practice virtue. The following review of the development of moral theology ranges from the early church Fathers through Bernard of Clairvaux, Thomas Aquinas, and others up to the work of Bernard Häring in the 20th century and the new emphasis on virtue morality.
The last three chapters clarify the meaning of virtue morality and then apply its practice to today s Roman Catholic Church in its celebration of the liturgy and the sacraments. The book concludes with a short summary, a select bibliography, and an index.

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About the Author

R. Kevin Seasoltz is a Benedictine monk of St. John s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. Before coming to Collegeville, he was on the faculty of the Catholic University in Washington for twenty-five years. He has been the editor of the liturgical journal Worship for twenty-six years. The journal was awarded the Michael Mathis award by the University of Notre Dame. In 2005 he was the recipient of the Berakah Award from the North American Academy of Liturgy, and in 2009 he received the Frederick McManus Award from the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions. His most recent books include A Sense of the Sacred: Theological Foundations of Christian Architecture and Art, which won first place for liturgy in the Catholic Press Associations Awards for 2006, and God s Gift Giving: In Christ and through the Spirit (2007).

Edition details

• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570759731
• ISBN 13: 9781570759734
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 249