A future built on faith
Subtitle: religious life and the legacy of Vatican II
By: Gemma Simmonds, CJ, editor
Publisher: The Columba Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781782180999
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Ecclesiastical Vocation; Spirituality; Religious life; Spiritual life; Monastic and religious life; Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)
Description: After the success of its first publication, A Future Full of Hope? the Religious Life Institute celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council with a critical exploration of its influence on religious life. A Future Built on Faith: Religious Life and the Legacy of Vatican II is the work of an international group of religious and scholars, under the leadership of Redemptorist Archbishop Joseph Tobin, formerly Secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life.
Notes: "After the success of its first publication, A Future Full of Hope? the Religious Life Institute celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council with a critical exploration of its influence on religious life"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. How did we get here? The renewal of religious life in the Church since Vatican II / Joseph Tobin CSsR; title: 2. Consider your call : a theology of monastic life today (1978): a post-conciliar process of reflection on monastic identity / Mike Barrett OSB; title: 3. Some reflections on the religious brothers' vocation since Vatican II: its present and future / Benedict Foy FSC; title: 4. Aspects of mission in religious life since the Second Vatican Council / Vivienne keely CHF; title: 5. The challenge of community today / Patricia Rumsey PC; title: 6. Half way home: a reflection from a mendicant on religious as dialogue in honour of fifty years of Perfectae Caritatis / Brian Terry SA; title: 7. Religious 'praying daily' as Church / Thomas R. Whelan CSSp; title: 8. Epilogue I : Vatican II; title: whose inheritance? / Gemma Simmonds CJ; title: 9. Epilogue II : the challenge of history / Eric Varden OCSO.