New Hope for Divorced Catholics: A Concerned Pastor Offers Alternatives to Annulment [Hardcover]

Barry Brunsman (Author)

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Brunsman, a priest and marriage tribunal advocate, offers a historical perspective on the attitude of the Roman Catholic Church toward the indissolubility of marriage. He outlines four viewpoints which tolerate divorce and remarriage and which are consistent with Scripture. Brunsman urges church leaders and divorced Catholics for whom annulment is not appropriate to pursue "pastoral" solutions, and he justifies this approach theologically. However, better documentation of sources would have made this volume a more useful handbook for pastors. Nevertheless, it is a helpful and "hopeful" companion to Joseph P. Zwack's Annulment (LJ 1/84). Myriel Crowley Eykamp, formerly with MIT Libs.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins; 1st edition (December 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060611472
• ISBN-13: 978-0060611477
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,523,299 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Compassion without compromise, March 15, 2001

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Jennifer M. Macleod "yiddishe supermama" (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Hope for Divorced Catholics: A Concerned Pastor Offers Alternatives to Annulment (Hardcover)

Brunsman's vision of Catholicism is no more compromising than the Pope's. He offers a tantalizing glimpse of the Catholicism that could be, and leaves readers wondering where they can find more clergy like him.

His logic is straightforward and lucid and flows in a straight line from the Christianity of history, inspired by a clearly deep sense of Catholic faith.

The only problem with Brunsman's vision is that real life doesn't always run the way we wish it would. But even in our imperfect world, this book can serve many Catholics as they search their conscience for a way back into the sacramental life of the Church.