IN SEARCH OF THE SACRED

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• Herbert S. Heavenrich

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• 168 Seiten
• 6 Lesestunden

• Esoterik & Religion

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Dr. Eva Fleischner, Ph.D. became a world-class theologian after undergoing dramatic and traumatic turning points in her life. After a happy childhood in Vienna, and raised as a Catholic, life turned bitter as they fled from the Nazis because her father was born a Jew. After an English boarding school, she joined her family in the U.S. Eva graduated from Radcliffe College magna cum laude. She fell in love with an M.I.T. grad student to whom she was engaged for 3 happy years. On a Fulbright in Paris she encountered "the new Church." Whenher fianc arrived, she told him she could not marry; her life would be devoted to "God." She found her spiritual home at Grailville, a lay Catholic women's apostolic movement. At Marquette University, her Ph.D. dissertation became the foundation of her main mission in life. Eva became increasingly active and worldly prominent as a Holocaust scholar, lecturer, writer and member of important Boards and Commissions aimed at changes in Catholic teachings that had demonized the Jews for 19 centuries. The book Chronicles the exponential growth of serious Catholic/Christian-Jewish dialogue since WorldWar II, and relates this trend to global historic changes, the ingredients of mankind's continuing evolution.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Einband: Paperback