Living in the Gap: Religious Life and the Call to Communion - Softcover

Billy, Dennis J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565485831 ISBN 13: 9781565485839

Publisher: New City Press, 2026

Synopsis

This new Second Edition is prompted by the Church's celebration throughout 2015 of a Year for Consecrated Life to mark both the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council and the 50th anniversary of "The Decree on the Adaptation and Renewal of Religious Life." Living in the Gap wishes to raise awareness of the importance of the vocation to the consecrated life in the life of the Church and to help religious in their efforts towards the new evangelization.

The challenge before religious today and before all those called to the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty, and obedience is to do their best to narrow the gap between vision and reality. The question they should be asking themselves is not whether the gap between vision and reality exists in their lives, but whether it is getting larger or smaller.

About this title

About the Author

Author of numerous books and articles, Redemptorist Father Dennis Billy holds a Th.D. in Church History from Harvard Divinity School and a S.T.D. in spirituality from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas. He holds the John Cardinal Krol Chair of Moral Theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary and also serves as Karl Rahner Professor of Catholic Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation.

From the Back Cover

The challenge before religious today and before all those called to evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty, and obedience is to do their best to narrow the gap between vision and reality. The question they should be asking themselves is not whether the gap between vision and reality exists in their lives, but whether it is getting larger or smaller.

Edition details

• Publisher: New City Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565485831
• ISBN 13: 9781565485839
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 118