Desire and Denial : Celibacy and the Church.
Title:
Desire and Denial : Celibacy and the Church.
Author:
Thomas, Gordon.
ISBN:
9781497663411
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (872 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- The Pope's Celibates -- 1. The Lessons for Today -- Images Yesterday -- 2. A Way of Life -- Commitments -- 3. Once a Priest -- 4. Always a Priest -- 5. Illusions -- 6. Realities -- 7. Encounters -- 8. Proposals -- 9. A State of Perfection -- 10. An Attitude of Mind -- 11. Recollections -- 12. Discoveries -- Decisions -- 13. Into the Twilight -- 14. Beyond the Dawn -- 15. Revelations and Responses -- 16. Ministering -- 17. The Celibate Travelers -- 18. The Power to Be -- 19. A State of Grace -- Images Today -- 20. Certainties -- Selected Bibliography -- Copyright Page.
Abstract:
Desire and Denial confronts the fundamentals of Christian history, capturing the powerful interplay between the limits of sexuality within the Roman Catholic Church's priesthood and sisterhood and compassionate accounts of mystic forces that make many doubt their calling.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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