Flying in the Face of Tradition: Listening to the Lived Experience of the Faithful

The current quandary that the Roman Catholic Church finds itself in right now is what Brother Louis DeThomasis calls a crisis of confidence in this insightful, provocative, and hopeful new book. He points to the way of unraveling the quandary by returning the church’s historic belief in tradition- the lived experience of the faithful - as a source of ongoing revelation and renewal. This is not an attack by someone intent on bringing down the church but rather a wake-up call for the church itself to recognize and embrace globalization, diversity, and democratization and begin to rebuild what DeThomasis calls koinonia or communio.