Baptism And Confirmation: The Vocation And Mission Of The Laity In The Writing Of Virgil Michel

by RB Calabretta

Overview

Dom Virgil Michel (1890-1938) was a Benedictine of the Midwest, U.S.A, who, under the pressure of being on time, was deeply aware that Catholic spirit had to express itself in everyday living if it were to be truly authentic. Virgil Michel faces the New Age with an apologetics for a renewed Catholic sacramental theology. While listening to him in his pre-Vatican II setting, this work enjoys the further advantage of observing the tenets of the Catholic faith within theological developments and philosophical currents of the final years of the Second Millennium. Virgil Michel's theology of Baptism and Confirmation presented both the intimate personal experience of supernatural life, but also the ecclesial experience of it, in the attempt of restoring vitality to Catholic worship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788876528095
Publisher:	Gregorian & Biblical Press
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Series:	Tesi Gregoriana: Teologia , #47
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	9.40(w) x 6.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Rose B. Calabretta was born in New York, she has studied as resident scholar and worked as social volunteer in Latin America, India and Pakistan. 1981 saw her first doctorate, in sociology, at Fordham University, Bronx, New York, where she taught for several years. In 1998, she obtained the doctorate in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University. Calabretta was a resident in Italy since 1984, dedicating her energies to humanistic and inter-faith dialogue with European youth and cultural circles. She has served three years as data analyst in the Pontifical Council for Healthcare Apostolate, two years as Central European Program Director in the International Jacques Maritain Institute, and since 1989 as faculty member at the Pontifical Institute Regina Mundi and the International Institute Camillianum for Theology of Healthcare Apostolate.