UNITED STATES
Bilgrimage
William D. Lindsey
Usually, when I discuss or recommend a book on this blog, I’ve already read it. In fact, I can’t think of an instance in which a book I’ve recommended here hasn’t been one I’ve yet read.
Today, I want, however, to tell readers about a book I haven’t yet read, but am planning to read. And I want, as well, to explain why I think this book will be very useful to me–asking, as I do so, whether any readers of this blog may already have read the book in question and if we might talk together about it as a dialogic community on this blog.
The book I’m intending to read is Fr. Emmett Coyne’s Theology of Fear. As this Amazon link to the book indicates, Fr. Coyne published the book this past May in conjunction with Amazon’s CreateSpace self-publishing program. As Fr. Coyne’s website also notes, profits from the sale of Theology of Fear are going to Partners in Health, to provide healthcare to those on the margins of society.
The website’s summary of the book notes that Fr. Coyne wrote it to foster “a dialogue of change in our understanding of doctrine, morality, and how the Roman Church ought to ‘seek first the Kingdom of God’ by reading the signs of the times.” It is, in other words, a direct reflection on the theology of Vatican II, which accentuated the concept derived from the theology of Cardinal Newman that doctrine develops, and that in the process of doctrinal development, the voice of the laity, our sensus fidelium, is critically important.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.