A Realist's Church: Essays in Honor of Joseph A. P. Komonchak - Softcover

Komonchak, Joseph A; Denny, Christopher D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626981558 ISBN 13: 9781626981553

Publisher: Orbis Books, 2015

Synopsis

This festschrift honoring Joseph Komonchak includes numerous academic essays in which his colleagues and former students work to extend his scholarly work in a variety of directions. The book honors the achievements of Komonchak, but more importantly, it gathers well-known researchers to advance current scholarship on the transformations of the Roman Catholic Church in the twentieth century.

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher D. Denny is an associate professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at St. John's University, NY. He is the co-editor with Jeremy Bonner and Mary Beth Fraser Connolly, of Empowering the People of God: Catholic Action before and after Vatican II.

Patrick J. Hayes is the archivist for the Baltimore Province of the Redemptorists and author of A Catholic Brain Trust:The Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs, 1945-1965.

Nicholas Rademacher is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Cabrini College in Radnor, PA. His scholarship concentrates on traditions of American Catholic radicalism and socially engaged pedagogy. He is Associate Editor of the journal American Catholic Studies.

Review:

"The extraordinary reach and many insights of these scholarly articles are a well-deserved tribute to the teaching and pathbreaking scholarship of Joseph A. Komonchak.  In fascinatingly diverse ways, these scholars take up Komonchak's challenge to close the gaps between theology and the social sciences, between the different understandings of the church contending at Vatican II, and between the exalted language of ecclesiology and the experience of the 99 percent of us in the pews."  - Peter Steinfels, professor emeritus, Fordham University, and former religion columnist at the The New York Times

"This thoughtful collection of fine essays manifests the same kind of careful scholarship and theological acumen as that of Joseph Komonchak himself.  A fitting tribute to America's premier theologian of ecclesiology and leading scholar of Vatican II." - David Tracy, University of Chicago Divinity School

"Framed by the editors' cogent introduction, the essays in this volume offer fresh interpretations of the Second Vatican Council and the decades that preceded it. . . . This collection is certain to advance our understanding of the recent history of the Catholic Church." - Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame

About this edition

• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1626981558
• ISBN 13: 9781626981553
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304