Turmoil & Truth The Historical Roots of the Modern Crisis in the Catholic Church

by Trower, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780898709803
• ISBN10: 0898709806
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Ignatius Press

Summary

The Catholic Church in recent years, particularly in Europe, the USA and Australia, has suffered a series of crises. Catholics have been forced, whether willing or not, to perform collective examinations of conscience, and to investigate the causes of these problems. In the many books and articles written on this subject, authors have tried to point the blame one way or another. Turmoil and Truth takes a different approach. Drawing on his years of experience as a Catholic writer, Philip Trower offers a long view of how the Church arrived in its present situation. Whereas many analyses take the Second Vatican Council as their starting point, Trower turns his gaze back towards the previous centuries, searching out the roots of modern conflicts over authority within the Church, the nature of Scripture, the relationship with the secular world, and more. His central thesis is that the positive movement for reform, and the negative movements of rebellion against the Church's authority and elements of her teaching, grew up intertwined in the years preceding Vatican II, and that it was only really in the period following the Council that the division between the two became clearer. His analysis introduces the reader to a host of persons and movements who may be unfamiliar today, but whose legacy endures. Philip Trower's accessible style of writing and his attention to detail offer the reader a clear understanding of where the Church has come from in its recent past. Turmoil and Truth is essential reading for all who wish to understand the present and future direction of the Catholic Church Book jacket.

Author Biography

As well as reporting five episcopal synods and other events in Rome between 1980 and 1990, Philip Trower has lectured and had articles published in Catholic periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic

Table of Contents

PREFACE	5	(4)
PART I: A Bird's-Eye View
Chapter 1: Reform	9	(9)
Chapter 2: Rebellion	18	(9)
Chapter 3: The Reform Party -Two in One Flesh	27	(9)
Chapter 4: Names and Labels	36	(9)
PART II: A Backward Glance
Chapter 5: The Shepherds	45	(8)
Chapter 6: The Church Learnèd	53	(6)
Chapter 7: The Flock, part I	59	(6)
Chapter 8: The Flock, part II	65	(10)
PART III: The New Orientations
Chapter 9: The Church: From Perfect Society to Mystical Body	75	(7)
Chapter 10: Peter and the Twelve	82	(10)
Chapter 11: The Laity: Waking the Sleepy Giant	92	(9)
Chapter 12: The Church and Other Christians	101	(9)
Chapter 13: The Church and Other Religions	110	(7)
Chapter 14: The Church and our Work in this World	117	(14)
PART IV: Aggiornamento and the Rise of Modernism
Chapter 15: Beginnings	131	(6)
Chapter 16: First Signs of Trouble	137	(7)
Chapter 17: Enter Modernism	144	(10)
Chapter 18: Dramatis Personae	154	(6)
Chapter 19: Beliefs and Disbeliefs	160	(10)
Chapter 20: The Crisis	170	(8)
Chapter 21: Three Related Movements	178	(6)
Chapter 22: Aggiornamento 1918-1958	184	(8)
Chapter 23: What Does It All Mean? - An Interpretation	192	(9)
INDEX	201