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Signs of Contradiction: Religious Life in a Time of Change

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"~Much has been written on the religious life and the Council has inspired further discussion. Indeed, many religious, as individuals and as communities, are engaged in an agonizing reappraisal of their roles and their relevance in terms of the New Pentecost. Can a way of life reflecting its sixth, or thirteenth, or sixteenth century origins still be meaningful in the twentieth? Father Romb addresses himself to the question and replies with a resounding affirmative. Signs of Contradiction is, as its subtitle proclaims, a consideration of the religious life in our time of change. It is addressed to religious, young and old, men and women; to young people considering religious life; to all who must counsel youth; to anyone interested in the vital movement that has borne witness in the Church from the monks of the desert to the Little Brothers of the Poor. Not a manual, a catalogue of the forms of the religious life, or a recruiting pamphlet, Signs of Contradiction offers riches new and old. There are considerations of the traditional structure of the religious life: the vows (""A 'Sacramental' View'); obedience (""The Love of Service""); pov- erty (""Cast your care upon the Lord..."") and chastity (""Let him take it...""); mortification; the liturgy (""Public Prayers and Private Sentiments""); the parousia (""We proclaim the death of the Lord...""). To these classic considerations the author brings illumination from modern insights, psychological, sociological, and personalistic. He writes vigorously, with- out jargon, and in terms of present (and perennial) problems. Father Romb writes from a position of strength, for he has been, and is, where the action is. Born in Chicago, educated as a Conventual Franciscan in the Middle West and at the University of Southern California, he has served as pastor of a Spanish-language parish, as teacher in a co-institutional high school, as instructor in a preparatory seminary, as a domestic mission preacher. He is presently University Chaplain and Counselor at Loyola University in Chicago and is following graduate courses in psychology.~"

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248.8

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St. Louis, Missouri : B. Herder Book Co.., 1967

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Hardcover, 215 hlm, 13x21cm

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English

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B0006BP29M

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248.8

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Religion

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