What are the fundamental attributes of the Catholic Church? What is the Catholic Church? What is the source from which is has drawn vigor and life through its two thousand years of life on earth? What are the secret sources of its incredible vitality in the world today?
Karl Adam brilliantly answers these and many other questions about the nature and structure of the Church. Writing with great force and clarity, he examines the essential nature of the Catholic Church from the basic premise that it was expressly founded by Christ, traces its historical development and analyzes its actual functioning through the ages.
The author has long been regarded as one of the world’s greatest theologian and The Spirit of Catholicism is his greatest work. It has been translated into a dozen languages, including Chinese and Japanese, and is without question the keenest analysis of the fundamental motive power of the Church that has been written in the century.