|
August 25, 2020
IOTA Forum: Adam DeVille reviews The World as Sacrament: An Ecumenical Path toward a Worldly Spirituality, by Michael Plekon
"A new book by Michael Plekon is always a welcome event. I have often continued to think about, return to, and recommend to my students several of his earlier books, and this newest one is no different, parts of which I discussed this past semester in my class on sacraments. It is, like all his works, marked by a refreshing and gracious breadth and openness to a variety of sources.
"It is also, as the title will indicate, an entirely unapologetic refusal to allow such concepts as 'ecumenical' and 'worldly spirituality' to be distorted and denounced by self-styled (and often self-congratulating) 'traditionalists.'
"Ecumenism is in some ways in Plekon's blood, as it were, given his Catholic upbringing in both the Latin Church (including time in the Carmelites) and the Ukrainian Catholic Church..."
Read Adam DeVille's full review here.
|
