Publisher's Synopsis
Karl Adam is perhaps the foremost Catholic theologian of the 20th Century. He wrote, not as an academic, but as a theologian of the people who sought to make the beauty of Catholicism vivid to laymen. The author of the world famous The Spirit of Catholicism, these are a collection of his works from the 1930s and 1940s which have never before been available in English to American readers. The problems of the Faith, from Church fatigue, to Marriage, to Unbelief are examined in light of Church history, dogma, and common sense. This is a book for our perilous times when a strong faith is needed as we seemingly witnessing the downfall of Christianity and the West.