Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion

by Garry Wills

Overview

This 1972 book ruminates on the ruin and, perhaps on the restoration of the Church, surveying subjective milestones in the process of change in the Catholic establishment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587681929
Publication date:	04/20/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	375 KB

About the Author

Date of Birth:

May 22, 1934

Place of Birth:

Atlanta, GA

Education:

St. Louis University, B.A., 1957; Xavier University, M.A., 1958; Yale University, Ph.D., 1961

Table of Contents

Preface to the New Edition: "Bare Ruined Vatican: Looking Back after Forty Years" ix

Introduction: "The Catholic Seventies?" 1

I Changeless

1 Memories of a Catholic Boyhood 17

2 Fifties Catholicism: Gregorian Chant and Encyclicals 42

Appendix to Chapter Two: Catholic Nostalgia 63

3 The Liturgical Crisis 71

II Changing

4 The Two Johns: Rome and the Secular City 89

5 Omega, the New Frontier 109

6 The Two Jackies 132

III Doubting

7 Secular Incompetence 159

8 Paul in Chains 179

Appendix to Chapter Eight: The Early Encyclicals 193

9 Prisoners of Sex 197

IV Dying

10 Living and Partly Living 215

11 Time's Eunuchs 240

12 Church Against State 258

V Hoping

13 Church Against Church 285

14 Church Against World 300