God's Representative in Our Midst
Toward a History of the Catholic Diocesan Clergy in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3839848 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leslie Woodcock Tentler (University of Michigan–Dearborn, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 326-349 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3169764 |
| OpenAlex | W2146823360 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 7 |
From a historian's point of view, the Catholic diocesan clergy in the United States look rather like forgotten men. As a group, they have never figured prominently in the scholarly literature. American Catholic history may have had an emphatically clerical bias as late as the 1950s, but the focus then was mainly on the chancery. The parish clergy were almost as neglected as the famously docile laity. The laity have moved in recent years to the forefront of Catholic historical consciousness, and won for themselves a less docile image in the process. But priests have not enjoyed equivalent attention-indeed, in the eyes of at least some practitioners, priests are today mildly suspect as subjects of research. We do not, after all, want a return to the bad old days of "clerical" history. The predictable consequence is a major hole in our church-historical knowledge. Despite the new vitality in American Catholic historical scholarship, we know very little about the history of diocesan priests in the United States-who they were, how they lived and worked, what they thought about their ministry or the people they served
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2020 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |