Essential Catholicism: Dynamics of Faith and Belief
Thomas Bokenkotter, Image Books/Doubleday, 1986
Reviewer: John Kane

(A good companion text to the earlier Bokenkotter text.) This latter text covers the basics of Catholic faith, worship, and morality in a way that is informed by the historical perspective (as the subtitle word "dynamics" suggests). It takes a "liberal" approach, but gives a fair sense of recent (post-Vatican II) debate on fundamental issues

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