For Everything a Season

For Everything a Season

Joan Chittister

Joan Chittister

The Way We Were: A Story of Conversion and Renewal

£14.99
Drawing on the story of her own monastic community, a best-selling author shoes how to redfine the essentials of faith in a time when old ways and formulas no longer serve.
Product Code
9781570757785
Among those affected by the renewal of Vatican II, none experienced the changes more than women religious. Habits were replaced by secular dress; separation behind the cloister gave way to service in the world. But the deepest changes were less visible-a new way of thinking and imagining the meaning of religious life. For communities that had seen little change in a hundred years, the impact was beyond imagining. "It did not feel like 'renewal' then," writes Joan Chittister. "It felt like disaster, like loss, like liberation, like life gone wild. And it felt like all of them all at once." This book is both a study of the way change happens and an example of it. It is an inspiring story, addressed to the wider church, about how to redefine the essentials of faith in a time when old ways and formulas no longer serve.
Additional Information
Isbn / Product Code 9781570757785
Dimensions 210 x 137 x 14
Printed Pages 256
Format Paperback
Year Of Publication 28/4/2008
Publisher Orbis Books (USA)
Author Chittister, Sister Joan