Beschreibung
For centuries, the vow of obedience has been at the heart of religious
life. With the renewal efforts of Vatican II, the vow has been
dramatically restructured but not theologically re-envisioned. The
Evolution of a Vow: Obedience as Decision Making in Communion addresses
the changes in the vow and proposes a renewed theology that supports the
living out of obedience in the twenty-first century.
Obedience-in-communion, as a theological proposal, invites vowed religious
to create a pattern of limitless listening that everywhere seeks the call
of God to communion. Against the horizon of communion, obedience becomes
the singular thread of grace by which vowed religious become who they are
called to be.
