Finding the Treasure: Locating Catholic Religious Life in a New Ecclesial and Cultural Context (Religious Life in a New Millennium)

Schneiders IHM, Sandra M.

ISBN 10: 0809139618 / ISBN 13: 9780809139613

Published by Paulist Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Finding the Treasure: Locating Catholic Religious Life in a New Ecclesial and Cultural Context (Religious Life in a New Millennium)
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809139618
• ISBN 13: 9780809139613
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 23 ounces

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Synopsis

Does religious life still make sense today? Controversial author Sandra Schneiders asks the question, does being a religious still make sense in today's world? Her answer is yes, that religious life has a future full of hope but that it must be rethought and remodeled within the radically new context of post-Vatican-II postmodernism. Situating religious life both within a historical-cultural setting and within the Catholic Church, Schneiders addresses major questions of meaning, identity, and boundaries that have arisen over the past decades. With tremendous cohesion, she examines issues about celibacy, permanent commitment, formation, community, vows, and prayer, as well as issues of particular concern to women: patriarchy, feminism, the role of women in the Church, and female ordination. The years since Vatican II, she says, have been a "Dark Night of the Soul" for religious life; she uses this paradigm to make sense of what has happened, the purification and transformation of religious life from dinosaur to songbird. Schneiders' book is both deeply exciting and genuinely consoling for North American Roman Catholic women religious. Yet this sweeping multidisciplinary work has a crucial message as well for brothers, women religious in other countries or denominations, and anyone interested in the state of the church today. †

About the Author

Sandra M. Schneiders, I.H.M., teaches at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, California. She's the well-known author of The Revelatory Text: Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture and of Paulist Press's New Wineskins: Re-Imagining a Religious Life Today and Beyond Patching: Faith and Feminism in the Catholic Church.