Description:
DeLorenzo uses the ideas of many theological, philosophical, and literary figures to renew the Christian imagination of the concept of the communion of saints.
Brief description:
Leonard J. DeLorenzo is associate professional specialist and Director of Notre Dame Vision in the McGrath Institute for Church Life, and he also teaches in the department of theology at the University of Notre Dame.
Review Quotes:
"For Protestant readers, Work of Love is . . . a chance to experience the doctrine of the communion of saints in its Catholic fullness, to see how the veneration of one's forebears in the faith might attest to and not distract from a robust belief in Christ's Godhood. Most of all, though, the book is a work of love because it teaches us how to think about our own dead--that ever-lengthening mental list of people who, in their friendship or antagonism or both, give us bits of ourselves, then leave." --Christian Century