By Eduardo J. Echeverria • Posted February 23, 2021
“A Church in Crisis: Pathways Forward.” by Ralph Martin. Emmaus Road Publishing (Steubenville, Ohio 2020). 536 pp., $22.18.
Ralph Martin, president of Renewal Ministries, director of graduate theology programs in evangelization and a professor of theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, has written an extraordinary book, “A Church in Crisis: Pathways Forward.” His analysis of this crisis, in a time of confusion and division, is comprehensive in scope, examining its ecclesial, doctrinal, and moral dimensions.
The book falls into two main parts: the first gives an in-depth analysis of these dimensions, and the second outlines pathways forward to attain “real and deep renewal in the Church.”