AN INVITATION TO AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORY :: FREE Shipping

• Hardback book with Dust Jacket by Martin E. Marty
• Volume Four Basics of Christian Thought
• THE THOMAS MORE PRESS
• Copyright © 1986 by Martin E. Marty

" This highly readable and richly informative work is the first book-length study of American Catholic history to be written by a non-Catholic in almost 500 years. "

" Martin E. Marty, historian and National Book Award winning author, makes it worth the long wait. His view is comprehensive- beginning with the "official" discovery of the New World by a Catholic named Columbus, he moves through the ensuing centuries to the present with scholarly precision fleshed out with his broad ecumenical vision and spirited style. "

" "While Americans are often accused of having little sense of history," Dr. Marty writes in his foreword, "it must be said that Catholics especially neglect their rich history on this continent. Their professional historians are often lonely practitioners. They seem irrelevant to some of the Catholic diers and shapers. Their stories are too rich in contradiction for the simplicists. They are too expressive of human limits to satisfy the pious who would lead-case their Catholicism. Better days are ahead: we appear to be at a moment when Catholics are beginning to retrieve their past for the sake of their future. "

" "My interest is not to let this book be a mere curiosity that will inspire Catholics to 'see themselves as others see them.' Instead, I hope that my insider/outsider vantage will help Catholics find their identity just as it may help non-Catholics locate American Catholicism and deal with it. History aims to approach such things only very modestly. Yet the search through the past can be informative, reflective, even entertaining at times. "

" An Invitation to American Catholic History is all of that, and more. "

Contents includes:

" Foreword: An Invitation to American Catholic History

Chapter I. Beginnings: 1492-1607
Discovery
Crusading
Encounter
Conquest
Weeping
Mission
Settlement
Holy War
Folk Faith
Ritual

Chapter II. Add Two Traditions: 1608-1776
Coping
Fate
A New Age
Scientia
A Balance Sheet
Tolerance
Restriction
Loyalty

Chapter III. The Republic: 1776-1852
Church and State
Republicanism
Carrollism
Laity
Mercy
Saintliness
Revivalism
The West
Nativism

Chapter IV. Immigrant Peoples: 1852-1908
Newcomers
Conversions
Nationalism
Building
Conflict

Chapter V. Public Catholicism: 1908-1950
Backgrounds
Progressivism
Program
Complications
Achievement
Prosperity
Intellectuality

Chapter VI. The Pluralists: 1960-
Pluralism
Politics
Aggiornamento
Power
Theology
Women
Spirituality
Prospects

Index "

This book is in very good to excellent condition with some wear and tear to the dust jacket.
No torn or ripped pages.
No markings or writing.

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