| To Hold and Teach the Catholic Faith
Author: Kelly Bowring, STD
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The command to make disciples of all the nations and to teach people everywhere all that He had taught His first followers was, from the very beginning, taken very seriously by the Church. The faithful down through the ages have always aspired to know, profess, practice, safeguard and transmit Christ's message to others. History has shown that methods for doing so have enjoyed varying degrees of success along the way. This has certainly been true in our own day and age. Because of a certain de-emphasis on doctrine since Vatican II along with a corresponding decline of emphasis on obedience and holiness of life, we find ourselves witnessing today a great hunger on the part of many for holy wisdom, divine charity, and the Truth that will truly set them free. This book provides an analysis of the issue and provides a theological solution, based on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, to handing on the truths of the Faith with unwavering fidelity in the third millennium. |
Dr. Kelly Bowring, S.T.D.,
married and father of six, received a Bachelors Degree in Sociology from Texas A&M University; an MA in Theology and Christian
Ministry from Franciscan University in Steubenville; a Licentiate in Dogmatic and Moral Theology from the Dominican House of
Studies and the John Paul II Institute on Marriage and Family, Washington, DC, while working for the USCCB Office of the
Jubilee 2000; and a Pontifical Doctorate in Systematic Theology from the University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in
Rome. He initiated the theology program at St. Mary's College of Ave Maria University, Michigan, and is presently the Dean
of Spiritual Mission and Associate Professor of Sacred Theology at Southern Catholic College in Dawsonville, Georgia. He has
dedicated years of service to parish ministry and Catholic school education, and he is likewise the author of various
published theology articles and catechetical books.
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