"Faith, since the earliest Christian theologians, has been regarded as the fundamental Christian virtue--the prerequisite for hope, charity, and good works. In this book, Avery Dulles examines the biblical foundations and history of theological reflection on faith, from the Greek and Latin fathers to such modern giants as Tillich, Rahner, and Lonergan. Further, Dulles presents his own systematic synthesis, reflecting on such topics as th ..."
"Avery Dulles, well-known for several previous works in ecclesiology, including Models of the Church, here surveys a theme that demands new treatment in the present global and ecumenical context. Nearly all Christians profess allegiance to the holy catholic church, but the meaning of the term "catholic" is widely disputed. This book investigates the historical use of the word and the various aspects of catholicity. Beginning with the w ..."
"And, Reflections on a Theological Journey Avery Dulles, Avery Robert Dulles.
enormous pressure from the media and from secular academia to conform to the
spirit of the times. Toward the end of my stay at The Catholic University I
published The Catholicity of the Church, the Martin C. D'Arcy Lectures I had
delivered at Oxford in 1983. The book is in many ways a complement to my
Models of the Church, more expressive of my own ecclesi ..."
"Avery Dulles's theological career has spanned one of the most creative and confusing periods in the history of the church. With the goal of integrating new information from philosophy and the sciences into a deeper understanding of the world and society, the many theological schools pursued independent agendas, with the net effect of a loss of coherence. It is Fr. Dulles's contention that theological schools have drifted so far apart th ..."
Church to Believe in by Avery. DullesSj. Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1984 by Crossroad Pub Co ISBN-13: 978-0-8245-0593-6, ISBN: 0-8245-0593-X
The Great Commission Models of Evangelization in American Catholicism by Timothy E. Byerley Paperback, 161 Pages, Published 2008 by Paulist Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8091-4558-4, ISBN: 0-8091-4558-8
"be that Catholics can not only speak very like evangelicals but can be
evangelical in the full sense of the term. Evangelicalism is not a ... In answering
the first question, I have to some extent answered the second. The same person
can be both ..."
"[People] sometimes complain that the Church is not up to the times, as though it had to be pursuing the latest theories and styles. It would be better to ask whether the world of nonbelief is still lagging far behind the revolutionary vision that Christ brought into our history. These pages are written primarily for Christian believers and for inquirers into Christianity. They are written from a Roman Catholic perspective, by an author ..."
"The past three decades have witnessed a decline in the number of Roman Catholic priests in Europe and North America, the result of resignations from the priesthood and of fewer people entering seminaries. A major cause contributing to this situation has been the ambiguity surrounding the role and identity of the priest in light of new theological paradigms. This book attempts to restore clarity to that matter by drawing primarily, altho ..."