A True and Mature Obedience: Seminary Formation and Freedom Edited by James Keating

A True and Mature Obedience: Seminary Formation and Freedom

By James Keating

About the Book

The real fruitfulness in priestly ministry comes not from the effectiveness of a priest’s ministry and influence but through the Cross, the same way it did for Christ. And the Cross is the symbol of ministerial obedience. It is obedience that allows a priest’s ministry to be God’s ministry and not his own. The mystery of this obedience is explored in these essays, a mystery that first must be appropriated in clerical formation and then guarded throughout ordained life.

180 pages

About the Author

Deacon James Keating, Ph.D., is Director of Theological Formation for The Institute for Priestly Formation at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He also serves as Director of the Diaconate Office for the Archdiocese of Omaha. He has authored or edited twenty-one books and numerous articles in the field of moral and spiritual theology.