Flawed Expectations by Whitehead & Wrenn (original) (raw)
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MONSIGNOR MICHAEL J. WRENN KENNETH D. WHITEHEAD
Flawed Expectations
The Reception of the
Catechism of the Catholic Church
IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO
To His EMINENCE
JOHN JOSEPH CARDINAL O'CONNOR, D.D., PH.D.
ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK
On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination to the sacred priesthood, December 15, 1945; and in gratitude for his own commentary on the Catechism of the Catholic Church entitled A Moment of Grace.
Cover design by Roxanne Mei Lum
©1996 Ignatius Press, San Francisco
All rights reserved
ISBN 0-89870-591-6
Library of Congress catalogue number 96-83633
Printed in the United States of America
Please note the use of the page numbering system. For example 38. This number is the same as the page number in the original book. The text from the previous page number 37 (on this webpage) up to 38 is the same as the text of page 38 in the original book.
I must apologize for any typos in the text. These were not in the original book but were introduced during the scanning process which took me a vaste amount of time. In the coming months when time permits, I will try and do the necessary corrections to the book online text.
I have prepared a new corrected version of chapter 2 which can be downloaded as a PDF file and used for widespread distribution. Please use this LINK
Please click on the RED hyperlinks below to take you to the required book section.
Contents, Foreword and Preface
Chapter 1 Why the Church Needed a New Catechism
Chapter 2 How the New Catechism Came About
Chapter 3 The Initial Reception of the Catechism
Chapter 4 The English Translation of the Catechism
Chapter 5 A Catechetical Establishment Response to the Catechism
Chapter 6 A Theological Establishment Response to the Catechism
Chapter 7 Can Such Things Be?
Chapter 8 A New 'Local","Inculturated" Catechism?
Chapter 9 "What Shall We Do?" (Acts 2:37)
Appendix 1The Translation of the Catechism
Appendix 2 The Catechism in English:The Art (or Artifice?) of Translation
Appendix 3 Comparative Translations
This above book has been discontinued by Ignatius Press and is being reproduced with the permission of Ignatius Press and the copyright holders. It is hoped to remove typos in the coming months.
Copyright ©; Kenneth D. Whitehead and the family of the late Msgr. Michael J. Wrenn. 1996 & 2009.
Version: 10th May 2009
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