What's Left: Liberal American Catholics

Book Overview

"What's Left? employs a thoroughly in-house approach in which self-identified liberal Catholics examine various facets of liberal Catholicism.... this book explores some of the most prominent threads of leftist Catholic aspiration and dissent." --Choice What's Left? is the most comprehensive study to date of liberal American Catholics in the generation following the second Vatican council (1962-65). The main features of liberal American Catholicism--feminist theology and practice, contested issues of sexual conduct, new social locations of academic theology, liturgy, spirituality, ministry, race and ethnicity, and public Catholicism--are presented here in their historical and social contexts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253213320
• ISBN13: 9780253213327
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Liberal Catholic is NOT an Oxymoron!

Editor Mary Jo Weaver has gathered a great group of prominent theologians, academicians and scholars to write about "hot button" issues facing liberal/progressive American Catholics. What she has produced is an outstanding collection of essays that give voice to that group. Each essay examines a different issue, such as birth control/abortion, the role of women in the church, the liturgy and many more. The essays are academic in nature yet accessible to all readers in its style and tone. If you're a liberal/progressive Catholic and want need some support for when people attack your views, this book is a must.