One and Holy - Paperback

by Karl Adam (Author), Cecily Hastings (Translator)

This is the first work published since the war by the author of The Spirit of Catholicism. It is, in effect, a discussion of the possibility of reunion between Catholics and Protestants, but it begins unusually but sensibly--in a historical examination of how the breach came about in the first place. He finds a large part of the cause in the open scandals afflicting the Church, dimming the mark of Holiness. The unity of Christendom was lost through the action of men who thought Holiness had been lost. There follows an examination of the major Reformation doctrines--as they were in Luther and as with the passage of time they became in his successors--to show just what of Catholicism is in them and how easily they might he brought to absorb more. Karl Adam's conclusion is not optimistic, but on reflection not hopeless either.

Author Biography

KARL ADAM was born in Bavaria in 1876 and was ordained at the age of 24. He did advanced work at the University of Munich and is emeritus professor of dogmatic theology at Tuebingen. His other books include The Spirit of Catholicism, Christ Our Brother and The Son of God. This present book grew out of the widespread interest in Europe in the possibility of a reunion between Catholicism and Protestantism.