Professor Judith A. Merkle

Drawing on the work of Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, Sensing the Spirit examines how secular culture affects both the living of Christian discipleship today and impacts how religious congregations engage in their own renewal and future. It argues that religious communities can do more than improve and fix the out-of-date conditions they encountered in the renewal after Vatican II. Calling...

This book investigates religious vows, shedding light on the type of faith that can sustain humanity in secular times. It examines the personal impact of religious life as well as its potential to foster a sense of completeness within society at large. Unbelief in today’s society can be partially rooted in the shallowness of the sort of religion that the...