Catholic Identity: Balancing Reason, Faith, and Power

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 289pp. Index. Black cloth with bright gilt lettering to spine. Dillon investigates why pro-change Catholics continue to remain actively involved with the Church. Chapters include: 1. Pro-change Catholics: forging community out of diversity, 2. Doctrinal change in the Catholic Church, 3. Official Church teaching on homosexuality, women's ordination, abortion, and the role of the theologian, 4. Pro-change groups in the Catholic Church: dignity, the women's ordination conference, and Catholics for a free choice, 5. Gay and lesbian Catholics: 'owning the identity differently', 6. Using doctrine to critique doctrine, 7. Pluralism in community, 8. Reasoned theology: legitimating emancipatory possibilities, 9. The challenges of difference.' Pages are bright and clean (no writing, underlining, or highlighting). Binding is tight with no cracks or breaks. Boards are lightly scuffed. Covers have some very light rubbing to corners. Looks nice in protective mylar covering. This is not a remainder or ex-library. no previous owner markings. Very nice copy. . First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mylared.