I had recently read Roots of the Reformation by Fr. Karl Adam who was a German Catholic theologian. I had heard many good things about this book and found it very insightful and an excellent read. Thus I moved on to another book of his The Spirit Of Catholicism.
This was unbelievably good with a unique viewpoint. As a general canvas of the Church and her doctrines while it has some apologetic tone to it, mostly it has a theological viewpoint that looks at the Church on a deeper level. It was one of those books I was tempted to highlight every page. If I hadn’t read the ebook version I could have saved myself time by just dipping the book in highlighter yellow. I just so enjoyed how he wrote on the papacy and it’s connection to love or how the Church is permeated with Christ and united to him. Just such a rich book with much to reflect on.
I found this book on EWTN’s document library.
Since I created an eBook from the text on EWTN’s site I provide it here:
Update: Due to a request here is a copy of “Roots of the Reformation” which was also available in EWTN’s document library.
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Jeffrey – thanks so much for this! I, too, have just discovered these two books by Adam. I work at a University and the library has both in dead-tree format, but I saw them both on EWTN. I am downloading the one you converted to Kindle format; do you think, since you clearly know what you are doing, you could do the same for the “Roots of the Reformation” one?
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Hmm… The link called “Kindle” above is still to the .epub version. I am using the Windows app for Kindle. Can’t see how to use it to open the .epub version. Do you have a .mobi version?
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Thank you for this.
Thank you