24 topics, 25 minutes per topic.
Speaker:
- Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
- Director, Joan B. Kroc Institute
To understand the challenges that face the Church in
America today—and the options that are open for its future—you must first grasp
its history.
There is simply no substitute for this, which is why Now You Know Media asked
the distinguished Church historian and scholar of American Catholicism Scott
Appleby of Notre Dame to record this reflective, probing, and thoughtful
consideration of the Roman Catholic experience in the United States. He lays a
firm basis for your use of the series by starting all the way back at the
beginning, with Jesus Himself and the Church that He founded, confident that
“the real Jesus” always manages to shine through as His all-too-human followers
attempt to correlate Christ with culture.
24 information-packed talks on 8 handy audio CDs
But what makes these recordings special—and of use to those who already possess
a background in the topic and those for whom Church history is new—is Professor
Appleby’s careful and eminently fair-minded appraisal of what comes after this
mis-en-scène, namely, the story of the Church over the last two centuries or so
in the U.S.
See the New World through the eyes of its first Catholic explorers. Follow the
waves of Irish, German, Italian, Polish and other immigrants which each made
extraordinary contributions to American history.
Among many highlights of the series, Professor Appleby analyzes controversies
both older (the Americanist and Modernist crises) and more recent (the disputed
meaning of Vatican II, for example) with thoroughness and charity; evokes the
rich texture of parish life during the heyday of “immigrant Catholicism”;
provides memorable portraits of such towering figures as Archbishop John
Carroll, Cardinal Gibbons, and Dorothy Day; sheds light on such recent dark
passages as the recent clergy sexual-abuse scandals; and weighs both the signs
of the Church’s continuing vitality in American life and the problems that
threaten its ability to carry out the mission of spreading the Gospel of Christ
in the world’s most powerful nation.
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In short, these 24 talks form an invaluable guide to the triumphs, burdens,
achievements, and continuing struggles of Christ’s Church on American shores.
Don’t miss them—order your set today.
