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A Failed Tradition
Viking Adult
February 2013
On Sale: February 12, 2013
320 pages
ISBN: 0670024872
EAN: 9780670024872
Kindle: B008EKMAKG
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Non-Fiction
In his most provocative book yet, Pulitzer Prize–winner
Garry Wills asks the radical question: Why do we need priests? Bestselling author of Papal Sin and Why I Am a Catholic,
Garry Wills spent five years as a young man at a Jesuit
seminary and nearly became a priest himself. But after a
lifetime of study and reflection, he now poses some
challenging questions: Why do we need priests at all? Why
did the priesthood arise in a religion that began without it
and opposed it? Would Christianity be stronger without the
priesthood, as it was at its outset? Meticulously researched, persuasively argued, and certain to
spark debate, Why Priests? asserts that the anonymous Letter
to Hebrews, a late addition to the New Testament canon,
helped inject the priesthood into a Christianity where it
did not exist, along with such concomitants as belief in an
apostolic succession, the real presence in the Eucharist,
the sacrificial interpretation of the Mass, and the ransom
theory of redemption. But Wills does not expect the
priesthood to fade entirely away. He just reminds us that
Christianity did without it in the time of Peter and Paul
with notable success. Wills concludes with a powerful statement of his own beliefs
in a book that will appeal to believers and nonbelievers
alike and stand for years to come as a towering achievement.
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