{"product_id":"married-priests-in-the-catholic-church-paperback-softback-9780268200107","title":"Married Priests in the Catholic Church (Paperback \/ softback) 9780268200107","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMarried Priests in the Catholic Church\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAdam A. J. DeVille (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780268200107\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 April 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMarried Priests in the Catholic Church\u003c\/em\u003e... provides a summary of the challenges that unsettle some of the simplisticcaricatures of some interpretive understandings amongst priests and Bishops.\" —\u003cem\u003eReviews in Religion \u0026amp; Theology\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The importance of this publication is that it will help members of both the Western Rite and the Eastern Rite of the Catholic Church realize that the very different disciplines relating to marriage and priesthood in the Eastern churches and their offshoots in our Western world is not some exotic remnant or historical accident, but an ideal that exalts marriage and, in consequence, priesthood, and is certainly more solidly based on tradition than the mainstream Catholic tradition of the West.\" —\u003ci\u003eJournal of Orthodox Christian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Adam A.J. DeVille has done a great service for the Catholic Church by editing the collection of essays that make up \u003ci\u003eMarried Priests in the Catholic Church\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . This book is a welcomed response to certain ideologies that view the Eastern Catholic churches and their married priesthood as a concession to be tolerated, at best, or a denigration of the priesthood of Christ, at worst.\" —\u003ci\u003eReading Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book is primarily concerned with the clergy of Eastern rites of the Catholic Church, which has a historic tradition of married as well as celibate clergy. . . . Clearly the issue of married clergy remains a stumbling block to East-West church reunification. Other contributors observe the joys and realities of married priests, their families, and their financial problems.\" —\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMarried Priests in the Catholic Church\u003c\/i\u003e makes an original contribution to the history of married and celibate clergy in North America, its pastoral implications, and, most importantly, the theological relationship between marriage and priesthood. I found it so captivating that I could not put it down.\" —Radu Bordeianu, author of \u003ci\u003eDumitru Staniloae: An Ecumenical Ecclesiology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese essays offer a historically rigorous dismantling of Western claims about the superiority of celibate priests.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlthough celibacy is often seen as a distinctive feature of the Catholic priesthood, both Catholic and Orthodox Churches in fact have rich and diverse traditions of married priests. The essays contained in \u003ci\u003eMarried Priests in the Catholic Church\u003c\/i\u003e offer the most comprehensive treatment of these traditions to date. These essays, written by a wide-ranging group that includes historians, pastors, theologians, canon lawyers, and the wives and children of married Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox priests, offer diverse perspectives from many countries and traditions on the subject, including personal, historical, theological, and canonical accounts. As a collection, these essays push especially against two tendencies in thinking about married priesthood today. Against the idea that a married priesthood would solve every problem in Catholic clerical culture, this collection deromanticizes and demythologizes the notion of married priesthood. At the same time, against distinctively modern theological trends that posit the superiority, apostolicity, and \"ontological\" necessity of celibate priests, this collection refutes the claim that priestly ordination and celibacy must be so closely linked.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn addressing the topic of married priesthood from both practical and theoretical angles, and by drawing on a variety of perspectives, \u003ci\u003eMarried Priests in the Catholic Church\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to a wide audience, including historians, theologians, canon lawyers, and seminary professors and formators, as well as pastors, parish leaders, and laypeople.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors: Adam A. J. DeVille, David G. Hunter, Dellas Oliver Herbel, James S. Dutko, Patrick Viscuso, Alexander M. Laschuk, John Hunwicke, Edwin Barnes, Peter Galadza, David Meinzen, Julian Hayda, Irene Galadza, Nicholas Denysenko, William C. Mills, Andrew Jarmus, Thomas J. Loya, Lawrence Cross, and Basilio Petrà.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction—Adam A. J. DeVille \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I. History Ancient and Modern\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Was Priestly Celibacy an Apostolic Tradition? The Theological Stakes of a Historical Argument—David G. Hunter \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. From Antioch to America via Smyrna: Rethinking Married Priesthood and Parish Life with Ignatius, Alexis, and Polycarp—D. O. Herbel \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Mandatory Celibacy among Eastern Catholics: A Church-Dividing Issue—James S. Dutko \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II. Canon Law East and West\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Recent Papal Pronouncements on the Admission of Married Eastern Catholic Men to the Priesthood: An Ecumenical Issue—Alexander Laschuk \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Canonical Reflections on Clergy and Marriage—Patrick Viscuso \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III. Ecumenical Considerations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Official Catholic Pronouncements Regarding Presbyteral Celibacy: Their Fate and the Implications for Catholic-Orthodox Relations—Peter Galadza \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Married Clergy in The Anglican Tradition—John Hunwicke \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Gift to the Church of Married Clergy—Edwin Barnes \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart IV. Pastoral-Familial Life\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Reflections on Two Vocations in Two Lungs of the One Church—David Meinzen \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Growing Up in a Rectory: Using Oikonomia to Answer the Tough Questions Posed by the Children of Priestly Families—Julian Hayda \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Joys and Crosses of Clerical Families—Nicholas Denysenko \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Marriage and Ministry: An Eastern Orthodox Perspective—William C. Mills \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. \"What Did You Expect?\": A Reflection on Married Clergy and Pastoral Ministry—Andrew Jarmus \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. The Vocation of the Presbytera: Icon of the Theotokos in the Midst of the Ministerial Priesthood—Irene Galadza \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart V. Theology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Celibacy and the Married Priesthood: Rediscovering the Spousal Mystery—Thomas J. Loya \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Married Priesthood: Some Theological \"Resonances\"—Basilio Petrà \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Married Priests: At the Heart of Tradition—Lawrence Cross and Basilio Petrà \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Conclusion: Toward a Theology of Married Priesthood—Adam A. J. DeVille \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix 1. The Toronto Tempest—Victor Pospishil\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix 2. Recent Views on the Origins of Clerical Celibacy: A Review of the Literature from 1980 to 1991—J. 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