In this book Catholic theologian Peter Phan addresses some of the most frequently asked questions about death, dying, and the realities associated with them, such as purgatory, judgment, reincarnation, heaven, hell, and universal salvation.

Responses to 101 Questions on Death and Eternal Life

History

Phan, Peter C.

World

Paulist Pr

This book is the first in Paulist Press's new Ethnic American Pastoral Spirituality series, which puts practical information at the fingertips of all who engage in pastoral ministry a way to better understand, appreciate, and thereby minister to the new immigrant groups that have changed the face of American Catholicism. This first volume explores religious and cultural traditions of Vietnamese-American Catholics. Peter Phan distills in eight chapters essential information: the history of Christianity in Vietnam, the condition of Vietnamese Catholics in America, their customs and feasts, the challenges facing Vietnamese Catholics and suggestions on how to meet them. Pastora1 strategies for assisting Vietnamese-American Catholics in becoming more active members of the Church are included, as are photographs and maps.

Vietnamese-American Catholics (Ethnic American Pastoral Spirituality)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Paulist Press

Christianity and the Wider Ecumenism

How has Christian tradition developed its understanding of the problem of salvation for non-Christians? How do the Christian churches appraise the spiritual values of those other religions whose members collectively make up the majority of mankind? Christianity and the Wider Ecumenism explores the growing shift from efforts toward unity within Christianity to broader, more far-reaching attempts at greater harmony among world religions (the "wider ecumenism"). Editor Peter Phan traces the trend back to the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) but notes that, in the last ten years or so, the movement has become pronounced. in addition to Vatican II, the World Council of Churches has established a Dialogue with People of Living Faiths and ideologies. Also, the growing number of courses on campus in comparative religions testifies to the critical importance of interfaith studies and dialogue in our religiously plural world. Despite resistance by some Christians to this new trend, there is a willingness on the part of others to support the "wider ecumenism," even to abandon any claim to Christ's/Christianity's uniqueness, definitiveness, absoluteness, and superiority. They rightly point to the need for faith in God as Absolute Mystery, to Christian praxis in favor of justice and freedom, and to the enormous historical suffering and conflicts, caused by the myth of Christian uniqueness. They add that we live today in a world village in which dialogue with other religionists and societies, as full equals, is imperative, perhaps for our very survival. Not mere contact but active cooperation and mutual understanding is required now more than ever to deal with urgent global issues involving mass poverty and starvation, religious fanaticism, the threat to the environment, and the omnipresent danger of nuclear destruction. These problems are far too important to be left to governments. The essays in this volume are the Product of fifty leading scholars, from across the Christian spectrum, seeking to clarify and to affirm the immense significance of interreligious dialogue for Christianity in our new planetary society.

Religion & Spirituality

Religious Studies

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Grace and the human condition (Message of the fathers of the church)

Grace and the Human Condition

Michael Glazier

Grace and the Human Condition (Message of the Fathers of the Church, Vol. 15)

Social Thought (Message of the Fathers of the Church #20)

Christian Books & Bibles

M. Glazier

Social Thought (Message of the Fathers of the Church)

Eternity in Time: A Study of Karl Rahner's Eschatology

Susquehanna Univ Pr

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