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Many Faces, One Church - Cultural Diversity and the American Catholic Experience (Hardcover, New)
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Many Faces, One Church - Cultural Diversity and the American Catholic Experience (Hardcover, New)
Series: Catholic Studies
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Many Faces, One Church: Cultural Diversity and the American
Catholic Experience both captures and facilitates a seismic shift
in the who, what, where, when, why, and how of Catholic theology
today. Along with a diverse group of theologians who represent the
many faces of the church, editors Peter C. Phan and Diana Hayes
recast the story of the church in America by including immigrant
groups either forgotten or ignored and, in light of these new and
not-so-new voices, retooling the theological framework of
Catholicism itself. That the American Catholic Church is an
'immigrant church' is not news. What is news, however, is how
diverse the immigrant church really is and how much work there is
to be done to include their voices in theological discourse and
training. Beyond the German and Irish immigrants, what of other
European immigrant groups such as the Italians, Poles, Lithuanians,
Czechs, Slovaks, and Eastern-rite Catholics? Where are the stories
of the older presence of native Mexican, Native American, and
African-American Catholics in this country? And more recently, of
Asian-American Catholics, especially the Chinese, the Japanese, and
the Filipinos, of the nineteenth and early twentieth century? And
more recently still, Catholic immigrants have come from El
Salvador, Guatemala, Vietnam, Cambodia, Korea, India, and the
Pacific Islands. What impact are these immigrants having on
American society and religious groups? Many Faces, One Church is a
profound attempt to address these key questions and their
implications for the Catholic way of being church, worshipping, and
practicing theology. The result of three years of conferences
sponsored by Elms College exploring the 'new faces' of the American
Catholic Church, this thoughtful collection highlights
opportunities and challenges lying ahead as the American Church
tries to respond to the continuing presence of new immigrants in
its midst. Many Faces, One Church is a beginning of a long but
exciting journey in which the strangers welcomed today into the
bosom of the American Catholic Church will be themselves the hosts
to welcome, with equal warmth and generosity, the new strangers
into their midst so that hosts and guests are truly one.
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