USED BOOK: From the Angel's Blackboard - The Best of Fulton J. Sheen

Used Hardback book in good condition. Dustjacket included.

About the Author
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979), one of the 20th century's best-known and loved Catholic prelates, was a lecturer, professor, philosopher, preacher, and writer. A radio and television personality, he is widely regarded as the original media luminary for the spiritual world. This former director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith leaves behind an enormous written and oral history. In addition to two weekly syndicated newspaper columns that ran for close to two decades, he authored scores of books.

This devotional collection, published to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Archbishop Sheen's birth, draws on material published over a 60-year span, from 1929 to 1989 (10 years after Sheen's death). Not surprisingly, the subject matter is varied, but much of it retains a surprisingly contemporary ring. The selections are short, practical, and down to earth. They give ample evidence of the style that made Sheen one of the first popular radio and television preachers as well as a best-selling author. The collection will certainly appeal to those who remember him and were part of his audience. It may serve the publisher's purpose of introducing Sheen to a new generation. It will, in any case, serve as a fitting centennial celebration of one of the most important shapers of popular religious thought in the twentieth century.