September 14, 2007

Books

Telling It Right

Handing on the FaithThe Church’s Mission and ChallengeEdited by Robert P. ImbelliHerder & Herder, $24.95, 240 pp.Passing on the FaithTransforming Traditions for the Next Generation of Jews, Christians, and MuslimsEdited by James L. Heft, SMFordham University Press, $22, 321 pp.

William Werpehowski

These collections are the fruit of two 2004 conferences held within a month of each other at Boston College and the University of Southern California. They cover generally the challenges and possibilities of communicating religious faith and identity from one generation of Americans to the next. In Handing on the Faith, the faith in question is Roman Catholicism; Passing on t (...)


 

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