Generation of the Third Eye
Description:... “The present leadership of the Church in America – clerical and lay – is largely in the hands of men and women who lived through the Depression and World War II. by the year 2000 most of these leaders will be dead, and their places taken by a generation which was comparatively untouched by the events of even twenty-five years ago.What are they like? How do they view the pre-Conciliar Church of their youth? What do they expect of that post-Conciliar Church which will be the Church of their maturity? How do they regard themselves, this generation of unprecedented self-awareness, with an eye turned ever inward?These were some of the questions which prompted this book. Twenty-two Catholics on the sunny side of forty were asked to write of themselves in relation to the Church, to give a personal witness that might be of value and interest not only to their own generation but to those before and to those who follow after.The result is a mosaic of the “young” American Church – priests, housewives, professors, poets, doctors and nuns speak with disarming candor about their experiences as members of “the household of the faith.”What they say is, of course, as diverse as the individuals themselves; nevertheless, certain themes are set up by that orchestration of experiences which this book makes possible. The parish, for most, has not been a formative influence; the Catholic college is not yet a secure citadel of intellectual freedom; the demand for personal integrity within the structures of the Church is a “categorical imperative.”Some will, perhaps, be shocked by this book; some made frightened. But all will be enlightened as to what forms the Church in America may assume in that near future when the generation of the third eye will be wearing bi-focals and also holding the reins.”- Publisher
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