9781565483965-1565483960-Ecclesial Movements and Communities: Origins, Significance and Issues

Ecclesial Movements and Communities: Origins, Significance and Issues

ISBN-13: 9781565483965
ISBN-10: 1565483960
Author: Brendan Leahy
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: New City Press
Format: Paperback 200 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781565483965
ISBN-10: 1565483960
Author: Brendan Leahy
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: New City Press
Format: Paperback 200 pages

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Ecclesial Movements and Communities: Origins, Significance and Issues (ISBN-13: 9781565483965 and ISBN-10: 1565483960), written by authors Brendan Leahy, was published by New City Press in 2011. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Ecclesial Movements and Communities: Origins, Significance and Issues (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.34.

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People on the lookout for trends in the Catholic Church will be very happy to discover Brendan Leahy's Ecclesial Movements and Communities. His overview of their rise and development over the last 50 years captures the unique qualities of Charismatic Renewal, Communion and Liberation, Cursillo, Focolare, L'Arche, Legion of Mary, the Neocatechumenal Way, Regnum Christi, Sant'Egidio, and others.

Leahy presents the movements as examples of the Church's charismatic dimension, a principle which Pope John Paul II described as 'co-essential' with the hierarchical-institutional dimension.

'The Holy Spirit is sort of the Harry Houdini of divinity, forever busting loose in seemingly impossible ways. In the Catholic Church, the 'new movements' are the most remarkable recent example -- an unplanned and dynamic form of life that's erupted in an age when secularization, scandal, and the weight of history is often a recipe for decline. Fr. Brendan Leahy provides a concise yet theologically profound reading of this great escape act by the Spirit, one that's especially commendable for being neither cynical nor overly romantic.' --John L. Allen Jr., author of The Future Church

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