The Death of Religious Life - Softcover
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Recounting the development of religious life as the author, a redemptionist priest, experienced it from the time he entered the priesthood in the 1950s to the present day, this book suggests that the seeds of the present decline were already being sown early on, in the style and in the atmosphere of the times. Among other things, the centrality of total obedience to the understanding of the religious life led to many people developing in such a way that they were simply not capable of facing and overcoming the challenges of the dramatically changing world after the Vatican Council. As he sees it, apostolic religious life is now in terminal decline and very hard decisions must be faced by those involved in it. Given that the average age of members of apostolic religious orders is now approaching 60, is it not time for those orders to decide to stop taking in new recruits and to start a process of controlled disposal of property and of responsbilities which they will no longer be able to fulfil? The book asks if it is reasonable to assume that a new form of religious life will inevitably arise from the remnants of the present form?
Or is it more likely that the present form must die, and that a new form will then arise independently to replace it?"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherThe Columba Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1856071987
- ISBN 13 9781856071987
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages96
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