Long Have I Loved You:
A Theologian Reflects on His Church

By Walter J. Burghardt, S.J.
Orbis Books 2000

From cover:

" . . . This intellectual autobiography is an amazing display of erudition in the cause of edification--an ever-inquiring mind, capacious mind, capacious spirit, and creative imagination open to all the ways the Spirit builds up the Church . . . .  Here is a compleat Jesuit open to all the developments in academy and society that stretch the mind and mission of the church; the memoir is required reading for anyone who wishes to understand the theology lying behind Vatican II and carrying its vision forward."
----Monsignor Philip J. Murnion, director of National Pastoral Life Center
This life-work crystallizes and clarifies the major developments in Catholic thought and practice before and after Vatican II.  Each chapter focuses on an essential theme--theology, spirituality, scripture, social justice, ecumenism, priesthood, apostolate of the laity, women in the church, medicine and ethics, crisis in the church--and illuminates them through stories, experiences and insights.

 

This book can be ordered from the Woodstock Theological Center, or the publisher

Click here for an online print version of the order form.  The freely available Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view
and print this PDF file.

Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., was a Senior Research Fellow at Woodstock Theological Center in Washington, D.C. and founder of Preaching the Just Word, a center for homiletics and social justice. For 44 years he served as managing editor and editor-in-chief of the journal Theological Studies and during part of that time was Theologian in Residence at Georgetown University. Father Burghardt has written or edited more than twenty books and was named in Newsweek magazine as one of the twelve best preachers in the world.

See also: