Philip Jenkins has produced an interesting work, Crucible of Faith: The Ancient Revolution that Made our Modern Religious World, Basic Books, NY (2017) His thesis is that: “So much of what we think […]
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Category: Reviews
Review: The Rise of the Occult, Slaying Dragons II
Review: Charles D. Fraune, Slaying Dragons II: The Rise of the Occult, Slaying Dragons Press, 2023, 355 pp. including references This is a good book, and an opportune one at […]
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Review: Taylor Marshall, Antichrist and Apocalypse
Taylor Marshall, Antichrist and Apocalypse, Saint John Press, 2022 (311 pages, including index) This a significant book, which seems to be part of a nascent movement within Christianity seeking to […]
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Changes Imposed on the Maronite Eucharistic Liturgy
This is the third in a series. The first two are the following: http://www.fryuhanna.com/2022/01/14/the-maronite-liturgy/ http://www.fryuhanna.com/2022/01/20/0-3-the-four-known-classes-of-ancient-maronite-liturgies/ We saw in the last post that the 1592-1594 Missal issued by Rome was actually […]
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St J.H. Newman’s University Sermon on Wisdom and Faith (pt. I)
One of the most highly regarded series of St John Henry Newman’s writings is his University Sermons, being fifteen of the most important sermons he preached when he was an […]
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Credibility and Behaviour: Mass Exodus
For Part One: http://www.fryuhanna.com/2021/11/03/stephen-bullivant-mass-exodus/ For Part Two: http://www.fryuhanna.com/2021/11/12/bullivant-mass-exodus-part-two/ I now come to a more theoretical side of Bullivant’s work. I am not in favour of the tendency to invent theories and then […]
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Why Do Catholic Children Leave the Faith? (Mass Exodus)
For Part One: http://www.fryuhanna.com/2021/11/03/stephen-bullivant-mass-exodus/ Part Two: http://www.fryuhanna.com/2021/11/12/bullivant-mass-exodus-part-two/ Why do children raised in good Catholic families today, leave or otherwise stop being part of the Church? This questions has a special poignancy when […]
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Bullivant, “Mass Exodus” Part Two
For Part One: http://www.fryuhanna.com/2021/11/03/stephen-bullivant-mass-exodus/ Having given an overall picture of Bullivant’s book, I now wish to provide a more detailed idea of its contents. First, he is well aware that there […]
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Stephen Bullivant, “Mass Exodus”
Stephen Bullivant, Mass Exodus: Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019 This valuable book examines why a lot of Catholics have abandoned their […]
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Benson on the Methodists
In chapter 5 of Part 2, Monsignor Benson deals with the Methodists. He notes that John Wesley (1703-1791) had not originally intended that those who followed his preaching and practices […]
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