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This intriguing study of the conflict between Roman Catholicism and
American democracy begins with four lectures, originally published
in 1949, by Roman Catholic priest and Harvard professor of church
history George La Piana. A member of the Church himself, La Piana
became highly critical of its undemocratic aspects after
immigrating to the United States from Italy in 1914. A contributor
to Foreign Affairs and The Nation, La Piana was often consulted by
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter on church-state
issues.
Appended to La Piana's work is an extended afterword by
social-ethics activist John Swomley. He brings the ongoing
controversy concerning Vatican-U.S. relations up to date,
especially in regard to such issues as censorship and academic
freedom, abortion, population policy, and the Church as a political
lobby group.
For Catholics, non-Catholics, and all those concerned about the
future course of American democracy, this authoritative,
well-argued book presents much to ponder.
Forming Catholic Communities assesses the histories of Irish,
English and Scots colleges established abroad in the early-modern
period for Catholic students. The contributions provide a
co-ordinated series of case studies which reflect the most
up-to-date research on the colleges. The essays address
interactions with European states, international networking,
educational frameworks, financial challenges, print culture and
institutional survival into the nineteenth and early-twentieth
centuries. From these essays, the colleges emerge as unexpectedly
complex institutions. With their financial, pastoral, and
intellectual networks, they provided an educational infrastructure
that, whatever its short-comings, remained crucial to the domestic
and international communities they served during more than two
centuries.
In Glory of the Logos in the Flesh, Michael Waldstein helps readers
of Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body enter this masterwork
with clearer understanding. Part One, designed for entry-level
readers, is a map of John Paul's text, a summary of each paragraph
with an explanation of the order of the argument. Part Two reflects
on the breadth of reason (logos) in Plato's Republic, Aristotle's
Physics, and the Gospel of John, in contrast to the narrowing of
reason in Luther, Bacon, and Descartes. Part Three shows how this
breadth of reason is at work in John Paul's dialogue with Thomas
Aquinas, John of the Cross, Kant, and Scheler.
Karl Rahner SJ, (1904-1984) was a seminal figure in twentieth-century Roman Catholic theology, and believed that the most significant influence on his work was Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual Exercises. This book casts significant new light on Rahner's achievement by exploring that influence. It brings out the links between Rahner's theological creativity and the twentieth-century rediscovery of Ignatian spirituality led by his brother Hugo, and throws new light on the relationships in Rahner's thought between grace, christology, and ecclesiology. The study also offers a fresh and contemporary theological interpretation of Ignatian retreat-giving, illuminating the new departures this ministry has taken in the last thirty years, as well as contributing to the lively current debate regarding the relationships between spirituality and speculative theology.
This collaboration between a priest-sociologist and a
journalist-author trained in sociology is a natural history of the
Roman Catholic Church in America. The view of American Catholicism
is all-inclusive--"from classroom to church pew, from dinner table
to ballot box, from civil rights picket line to chancery office."
Thomas Aquinas's interpretation of Aristotle has formed the backbone of Catholic theology and teaching to this day. This book is an original new study of Aquinas's ideas in two key areas of ethical thought: the will and human action, with important new insights on a range of theological topics as well - including love, sin, and the moral virtues.
Quid est secretum? Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern
Europe, 1500-1700 is the companion volume to Intersections 65.1,
Quid est sacramentum? Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in
Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700. Whereas the latter volume focused
on sacramental mysteries, the current one examines a wider range of
secret subjects. The book examines how secret knowledge was
represented visually in ways that both revealed and concealed the
true nature of that knowledge, giving and yet impeding access to
it. In the early modern period, the discursive and symbolical sites
for the representation of secrets were closely related to epistemic
changes that transformed conceptions of the transmissibility of
knowledge. Contributors: Monika Biel, Alicja Bielak, C. Jean
Campbell, Tom Conley, Ralph Dekoninck, Peter G.F. Eversmann, Ingrid
Falque, Agnes Guiderdoni, Koenraad Jonckheere, Suzanne Karr
Schmidt, Stephanie Leitch, Carme Lopez Calderon, Mark A. Meadow,
Walter S. Melion, Eelco Nagelsmit, Lars Cyril Norgaard, Alexandra
Onuf, Bret L. Rothstein, Xavier Vert, Madeleine C. Viljoen, Mara R.
Wade, Lee Palmer Wandel, and Caecilie Weissert.
A distinguished group of international scholars from the
disciplines of history, philosophy, literature and art history
offer a reconsideration of the ideas and the impact of the abbe
Henri Gregoire, one of the most important figures of the French
Revolution and a contributor to the campaigns for Jewish
emancipation, rights for blacks, the reform of the Catholic Church
and many other causes
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