What Makes Us Catholic: Eight Gifts for Life by Thomas Groome

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What Makes Us Catholic: Eight Gifts for Life by Thomas Groome

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What Makes Us Catholic: Eight Gifts for Life by Thomas Groome



What is it that makes a Catholic a Catholic In this spirited volume, Thomas Groome, a leading expert on Catholic religious education, argues that even though Catholics span a spectrum of faith--from the devout to the lapsed--they all share eight distinctive qualities: sacramentality--finding the infinite in the finite; a sense of ultimate meaning; a feeling of community; an appreciation of human potential and fallibility; a concern for justice and the unfortunate; a reverance for tradition; faith vs. despair; and all-inclusiveness.

Even the millions of non-practicing Catholics possess a distinct Catholic sensibility that forever shapes their view of reality. What Makes Us Catholic probes that character and invites Catholics of all kinds to connect more deeply and wholeheartedly with their own culture and spirituality.

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Thomas H. Groome is senior professor of theology and religious education at Boston College, and is the long-serving director of its PhD in Theology and Education. His best known major books are Christian Religious Education, Sharing Faith, Educating for Life, What Makes Us Catholic, Will There be Faith?, and Faith for the Heart. He has made more than a thousand public presentations and has lectured widely throughout the world.
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ISBN 13 9780060633998
ISBN 10 0060633999
Title What Makes Us Catholic: Eight Gifts for Life
Author Thomas Groome
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published 2003-02-18
Number of pages 336
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