BOOKS
Towards adult faith : essays on believing

Publisher: Anvil Pub.,


Title Details
  • Towards adult faith :
Publishers
  • Mandaluyong City :Anvil Pub.,c2014
Descriptions
  • 216 pages
Isbn
    9789712729768
Subjects
  • Spiritual life -- Catholic Church
  • Christian life -- Catholic Church
Material Type
  • BK
  • Book
Location MAIN
Item Call Number BX 2350.7 M3 2014
Status Available
Barcode 17485
International Standard Book Number
  • International Standard Book Number - 9789712729768
Library Of Congress Call Number
  • Classification number - BX 2350.7 M3 2014
Main Entry
  • Personal name - Madamba, Asuncion David
Title Statement
  • Title - Towards adult faith :
  • Remainder of title - essays on believing /
  • Statement of responsibility, etc - Asuncion David Maramba
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint)
  • Place of publication, distribution, etc - Mandaluyong City :
  • Name of publisher, distributor, etc - Anvil Pub.,
  • Date of publication, distribution, etc - c2014
Physical Description
  • Extent - 216 pages
Formatted Contents Note
  • Formatted contents note - Chapter I: Walking out of the box: Traveling light and free -- The religious box -- Lent doesn't mean suffering -- "Never mind--we're very religious" -- Be kind to "sinners" -- Growing up or growing away -- "Cafeteria Catholics are serious Catholics'" -- Spiritual but not religious" -- Toast to conscience
  • Formatted contents note - Chapter II: Acts of faith: "Journey and arrival" -- "Viva La Virgen" -- Saints are real -- Why should miracles be impossible? -- Is the country being run by a "Spiritual government"? -- Holy week is a good time to withdraw -- Relax, go swimming -- How could Ayala forget? -- "To dwell within" -- Thank you, Mother Teresa -- For the soul, less is more -- The Holy Land--for tourist and pilgrim
  • Formatted contents note - Chapter III: This, we can handle ourselves: Who's "living an immoral life"? -- The family--ideal and real perspectives -- The U.S.--moral and traditional? -- Strange bedfellows for Wednesday group -- Surviving "the bend in the road" -- Dear bishops--hello and goodbye -- Humanae Vitae and cafeteria Catholics -- Cues from the U.S. -- An open letter to Bishop Socrates Villegas -- Not all is mystery -- Obey, decide or drift -- At last--a consensus bill on population -- Jueteng is now "black" -- Condoning the condom? -- Still hot news--the RH bill -- "The same yesterday, today and forever"
  • Formatted contents note - Chapter IV: The institutional church: ruling and commanding: Update from Catholic America -- "The kingdom of God" -- Again--is dialogue possible? -- Is the church listening? -- Sobriety as response to church controversy -- To use or not to use the pulpit -- A roller-coaster week of highs and lows -- Church no longer exempt from scrutiny
  • Formatted contents note - Chapter V: Priest, prelate, Pope: The changing church : from one moral question to another -- Service--"Gratis et amore" -- Lowland views of the Cordilleras -- Dear Pope -- Always a priest -- When a Pope asks forgiveness -- A writer's encounters with Cardinal Sin -- "Take care and God bless" -- Dear Pope, surprise us -- Bishop stands for morality all over -- Giant step for a priest -- Father Ed--challenge and dilemma -- Inspired recovery of the "lost" voice -- To my dear student-priests -- This one's for you, Father Ariel -- Priests who know who is "church" -- What do you think of Pope Francis?
  • Formatted contents note - Chapter VI: Liturgy : beyond ritual and royalty: "When war-time was peace-time" -- What's wrong with "formula prayers"? -- Christmas is for remembering -- We can sing, why don't we -- We're dressing too casually for mass -- The edifice complex--going, gone? -- A swing through Europe : images and impressions -- The religious, the profane and nature's grandeur -- The Latin mass--beyond the language -- The making of a statue--Teresa of Avila --We're cultic up to Santa -- The real test for Mideo Cruz -- Where is Jesus' seamless garment? -- Folk religiosity in the Catholic heartland
  • Formatted contents note - Chapter VII: Church and state: The last time with feeling -- There has to be church-state relationships -- Time to study the "separation principle" -- Is the church sensitive to scrutiny? -- Justice : the higher standard -- Will the church back off? -- In defense of our priests and bishops?
  • Formatted contents note - Chapter VIII: Another round for the laity: Two decades of SCA -- BEC : reaching out to all -- Inspiration from a new fellowship -- Has the time come for lay preachers? -- The church on a fast track -- "It is consummated."--the 6th word -- "Mansions" in the church -- Whatever happened to "communal action"? -- An active laity--real or imaginary -- Blessed John Paul II and "Sensus Fidelium" -- Dakilang alalay (but not for long?) -- "Pray-pay-obey" -- High hopes for the laity too? -- How will the CBCP handle this? -- Resourcement, rediscovery, revival
  • Formatted contents note - Chapter IX: Reactions as a pulse of the faithful: On calls for church reforms -- On truth and faith seekers -- On church trappings -- On hierarchic ambivalence and vacillation -- On an evolving church -- On women -- On Pope Francis -- Reactions as pulse of the faithful -- Cheers and jeers
  • Formatted contents note - Chapter X: On the cusp of change: The church : close-open -- A wake-up call for church reform -- Issues for church reform -- Limbo "closed," doors opened -- Public opinion within the church -- Is the church in crisis? -- Time to revisit Vatican II -- Refreshing Papal style makes sense -- Will Francis wave flow into our shores?
Subject Topical Term
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Spiritual life
  • General subdivision - Catholic Church
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Christian life
  • General subdivision - Catholic Church