Finding the Voice of the Church is written for a broad audience
interested in the challenges facing the contemporary Catholic
Church. These challenges are ones that should concern all
Christians, not only Catholics. Noted scholar and commentator
George Dennis O’Brien poses (and answers) three provocative
questions: What is the proper voice of the church? Is there a voice
of Christian faith? Can what is said about Christianity be
fundamentally distorted by how it is said? Through his clear and
relevant discussion of the basic content of Christianity, O’Brien
concludes that the primary voice of Catholic Christianity, the
papal teaching voice, must be radically “re-understood” if the
Church is to be the proper medium and voice of the gospel message.
O’Brien begins with the primary voice of the Church: baptism,
gospel, and Eucharist. He contends that too much official teaching
from the Roman magisterium to the local pulpit reverses the order
of the ancient formula lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of prayer
is the law of faith) and therefore misses its message. In the
second part of the book, he turns to specific consideration of the
papal voice as the teaching voice of the Church. O’Brien
concludes with a series of practical suggestions for how the
practices and institutions of the Church can again become the
authentic voice of faith. This is a book all concerned Christians
will want to read and discuss.
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