Brian Thomas Mullady (Books)

Brian Thomas Mullady Books

Father Brian Thomas Becket Mullady O.P. is the son of an Air Force officer and was raised throughout the United States. He entered the Dominican Order in 1966 and was ordained in Oakland, California in 1972. He has served as a parish priest, high school teacher, retreat master, mission preacher, and university professor. He received his Doctorate in Sacred Theology (STD) from the Angelicum University in Rome, Italy, and was a professor there for six years. He has taught at several colleges, universities, and seminaries in the United States and is an academician of the Catholic Academy of Science. He is an adjunct professor at Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, CT, and preaches parish missions and retreats. Fr. Mullady has several series on EWTN, is the author of the Question and Answer column in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, and the Theological Consultant to the Institute on Religious Life.

Man's Desire for God

156 pages
6 hours of reading

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This book brings a Thomistic prospective and analysis to many of the post-Vatican II problems in Catholic theology. The unique contribution of this work is that is combines many of these post-Vatican II works with a searching and new analysis of certain Thomistic problems which have pervaded Catholic theology, both past and present. The author brings fresh perspective to a famous Thomist debate of the mid 20th Century concerning why man is called to union with God. He uses his solution to this problem as a springboard to launch an analysis of such contemporary issues the personalistic philosophy of Pope John Paul II, the malaise in Moral Theology which is at the root of the pedophilia crisis in the Church in the United States, the loss of fatherhood and true masculinity in the West, the problem of death and the nature of the Holy Eucharist. Each issue is examined from the perspective of faith seeking understanding and seeks to contribute a new understanding of both the positive and negative contributions of the Catholic theologians of the last 50 years.