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

Schneiders IHM, Sandra M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809139618 ISBN 13: 9780809139613

Publisher: Paulist Press, 2000

Synopsis

This book analyzes where religious life is going on the dawn of the next century and what elements remain since the profound changes that are a valuable basis for future growth.

About this title

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.

Review:

An invaluable resource. -- The Catholic Journalist

As a married Associate of a congregation I was moved by this book's ability to help clarify issues. -- Joann Wolski Conn, Professor, Christian Spirituality, Neumann College, Aston, PA

Dynamic. -- Elaine Wainwright Catholic Theological College Australia

I highly recommend this book and urge men Religious to read it, especially Religious Brothers. -- Cornelius Hubbuch, C.F.X. Vicar General, Xaverian Brothers

Recommended for academic libraries, particularly at Catholic institutions. -- Library Journal

Schneiders provides a framework within which the meaning of Religious Life emerges with clarity and a strong message of hope. -- Ethel M Bignell R.S.M., Sisters of Mercy, Aotearoa New Zealand

Schneiders pushes the best of theological analysis to new frontiers. -- Regina Siegfried, I.H.M., National Catholic Reporter

This book is an example of the prophetic charism of religious in the Church. It is challenging, thought-provoking, and hopeful. -- Theological Studies

This book leads us to ask the right questions and gives us the material to be able to answer them. -- Joan Chittister

This is a profound and very valuable book, carefully argued by one of the best theologians of religious life today. -- The Catholic Weekly (Australia)

About this edition

• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0809139618
• ISBN 13: 9780809139613
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480