The Church in the Flesh
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The Church in the Flesh is a book written by Ida Friederike Görres in 1950. It was translated from German into English by Jennifer S. Bryson and published in 2023 by Cluny Media.[1] Görres, a Catholic author, first published the book in German as Die leibhaftige Kirche: Gespräch unter Laien.[2]
Themes
The book consists of six "letters." These are essays written in the form of engaging letters from Görres to laypeople, mostly to women. Her interlocutors are Catholics who are confused and disoriented in their Catholic faith; they are trying to follow the zeitgeist and are unsure how or even whether the Catholic Church is compatible with being modern.
The six letters address the following topics: 1. Material manifestations of faith, 2. What the Church is, 3. The nature of belief, 4. Morality, 5. Why Christ is King (not just a nice guy who helps people), 6. The saints and the significance of sanctity.
English Edition
The English edition includes a biographical essay about Ida Friederike Görres by Alfons Rosenberg in 1961, translated here for the first time into English.[3] The cover of the 2023 English edition features the painting "The Christening" from 1920 by Gonzalo Bilbao.[4]
The English edition has a Foreword by German theologian Leo Scheffczyk, which he wrote for the German edition of 1994.[5]
References
- ↑ Görres, Ida Friederike (2023). The Church in the Flesh. Translated by Bryson, Jennifer S. Providence, RI: Cluny Media. ISBN 978-1685952501.
- ↑ Görres, Ida Friederike (1950). Die leibhaftige Kirche: Gespräch unter Laien (in Deutsch). Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Josef Knecht.
- ↑ This biographical essay was first published in German as Alfons Rosenberg, “Panoramische Betrachtung” in Wanderwege. Festschrift Zum 60. Geburtstag von Ida Friederike Görres, ed. Alfons Rosenberg, 25–33. Zürich; München; Paderborn printed: Thomas Verlag, 1961.
- ↑ "The Christening".
- ↑ This was first published in German as Leo Scheffczyk, “Ein Nachwort,” in Die Leibhaftige Kirche: Gespräch unter Laien by Ida Friederike Görres, 281–85. Einsiedeln, Switzerland: Johannes Verlag, 1994.
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