Catholicism Contending with Modernity: Roman Catholic Modernism and Anti-Modernism in Historical Context - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 052117502X ISBN 13: 9780521175029

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Riassunto

This book is a case study in the ongoing struggle of Christianity to define its relationship to modernity, examining representative Roman Catholic Modernists and anti-Modernists, exploring their relationship to their own historical context. Its aim is to counteract the tendency to lift the proposals made by the Modernists out of their setting and define them as a coherent, timeless philosophical/theological outlook, which should be avoided. The book seeks to correct the proclivity of some contemporary proponents of Modernist ideas to de-contextualize those ideas and recommend their endorsement without a critical reconsideration of historical changes. It sketches the nineteenth-century background of the Modernist crisis, identifying the problems that the church was facing at the beginning of the twentieth century; and offers a fresh perspective on the Modernist crisis, a perspective arising from the pioneering work undertaken by the Roman Catholic Modernism Working Group of the American Academy of Religion.

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Review of the hardback: 'This outstanding collections of essays will long remain essential reading for anyone interested in the history of twentieth-century Catholicism.' Michael Walsh, The Tablet

Descrizione del libro:

This book is a case study in the ongoing struggle of Christianity to define its relationship to modernity, examining representative Roman Catholic Modernists and anti-Modernists. It sketches the nineteenth-century background of the Modernist crisis, identifying the problems that the church was facing at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 052117502X
• ISBN 13: 9780521175029
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 360
• Redattore: Jodock Darrell