Description: The Catholic Church is entering a new era. Thecurtain is coming down on the Church defined by the sixteenth centurycounterreformation, and a new Catholicism is taking the stage: EvangelicalCatholicism, which confronts head-on the secular hostility of the postmodernage. Drawing on a century of reforms, eminent religious scholar George Weigelshows that the Church will flourish not by adapting to the reigning culture butrather by reshaping it. In the process, the Church must also reshape itself, byreevaluating religious orders, reinvigorating lay organizations, and demandingmore of its members.
Brief description:
George Weigel is one of the world's foremost authorities on the Catholic Church and the author of over a dozen books, including the international bestseller Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II. He is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, and a consultant on Vatican affairs for NBC News. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Review Quotes:
"A learned and lucid commentator on Catholicism...[Weigel] brings a keenly developed sense of the workings of the church to his analysis. But Evangelical Catholicism is a call to arms. Though written long before Benedict made his surprise announcement, the book is nonetheless a timely guide to the issues that the cardinals in conclave--and the next pope--must confront...[For many] Evangelical Catholicism may provide a desperately needed vision of the future of the church, imbued with the extraordinary hope that has always been at the heart of the Catholic faith."
-- "Wall Street Journal"