Born to a Jewish mother and Protestant father in 1923 Berlin, Gregory Baum devoted his career to a humanistic approach to Catholicism. In The Oil Has Not Run Dry, Baum shares recollections about his lifelong commitment to theology, his atypical views, and his evolving understanding of the Catholic Church’s message. Baum reflects on his groundbreaking work with the Second Vatican Council (1962–65) and how it helped to open the Church to a new understanding of outsiders – one that advocated cooperation with world religions in support of peace and justice and respected secular philosophies committed to truth and social solidarity. Later embracing Latin Ameri- can liberation theology, he became a leading thinker of the Catholic Left in Canada, adopting radical positions that initially earned support from Canadian bishops in the 1970s. Diverging from of- ficial Catholic doctrines regarding women and sex- ual ethics, Baum eventually left the priesthood, but continued to teach theology and remained active in the Church. The Oil Has Not Run Dry also discusses the contrast between Catholicism in Quebec and Eng- lish-speaking North America, and the ways in which Baum sees Quebec’s culture as more marked by social solidarity. This significant difference has inspired his own writings, which present the origi- nal development of Catholic thought in Quebec to an English-speaking readership. Gregory Baum (1923–2017) was professor emeri- tus in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University and the author of Fernand Dumont: A Sociologist Turns to Theology and Truth and Relevance: Catholic Theology in French Quebec since the Quiet Revolution. 1 8 M Q U P F A L L 2 0 1 8 M E M O I R • T H E O L O G Y n e w i n pa p e r b a c k The Oil Has Not Run Dry The Story of My Theological Pathway gregory baum A Catholic theologian – praised by some and denounced by others – tells the story of his involvement in the renewal of the Catholic Church. S P E C I F I C AT I O N S H00r3stpr.Z6asta. September 2018 -i2l9lii87l7Siil,ZZ ucin-7NZbmU4Zucin-7NZA64Zgc9n--ZZ3o3as hZBZ-ZZcic33ZZZZZ a:00£ZoDot5oT5a