Religious Life in a New Millennium, Volume 1: Finding the Treasure: Locating Catholic Religious Life in a New Ecclesial and Cultural Context

Contents

Preface to Religious Life in a New Millennium
Abbreviations
Introduction

Part One: Locating Religious Life in Its Human Context
-- 1. Religious Life as a Human Phenomenon among the World's Religions: Monastics, Virgins, Virtuosi
-- 2. Religious Life as an Organic Lifeform: Getting It Together
-- 3. Religious Life in a Postmodern Context: Faith and Fidelity against the Grain

Part Two: Locating Religious Life in Its Ecclesial Context
-- 4. Religious Life as a Theological Reality in the Church: Consecrated Celibacy and the Vocation to Prophecy
-- 5. Religious Life in Spiritual Transformation I: Vatican II and Renewal, an Active Dark Night?
-- 6. Religious Life in Spiritual Transformation II: Enlightenment and Postmodernity, a Passive Dark Night?
-- 7. Religious Life as an Ecclesiastical Reality I: Where and with Whom?
-- 8. Religious Life as an Ecclesiastical Reality II: Who and Why?
-- 9. Religious Life as Charism I: Many-Leveled Gift in Many Forms
-- 10. Religious Life as Charism II: Prophets in Their Own Country

Conclusion
Appendix (John of the Cross's Spiritual Theology and Transformation of Religious Life)
Notes
Works Cited
Index