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The Irony of Modern Catholic History - How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform (Hardcover)
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The Irony of Modern Catholic History - How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform (Hardcover)
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In The Irony of Modern Catholic History, acclaimed Catholic scholar
George Weigel offers a bold reinterpretation of the Church's
history since the nineteenth century, completely overturning
conventional wisdom about the relationship between Catholicism and
modernity. For much of the nineteenth century, both secular and
Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were
locked in a battle to the death. The triumph of secular
modernity-democracy, liberalism, mass education, religious
freedom-would finish the Church as a consequential player in world
history, and it would lead inevitably lead to the death of
religious conviction. But today the Catholic Church is far more
vital, and far more consequential, than it was 150 years ago, when
Pope Pius IX retreated into the Vatican, forced to surrender the
Italian lands the popes had ruled for centuries. And even in
today's modern world, secularism is the exception, not the rule. In
The Irony of Modern Catholic History, Weigel reveals how the
encounter with modernity, rather than killing Catholicism,
ultimately made the Church more coherent and less defensive. While
previous histories of Catholicism posit modernity as the sole
protagonist and Catholicism as a reactive force, Weigel asserts
that Catholicism was a protagonist in this drama in its own right.
He introduces readers to a remarkable cast of churchmen,
intellectuals, and public figures whose actions drive both
Catholicism and modernity forward - from the revolutionary Pope Leo
XIII (1878-1903) to the still-disputed work of the Second Vatican
Council to the close collaboration of Pope John Paul II and Pope
Benedict XVI. Weigel highlights two great ironies: the first is
that modernity has led Catholicism to rediscover its own
evangelical or missionary essence. And the second is that
Catholicism, long derided as the antithesis of the modern project,
has developed intellectual tools that can help rescue modernity
from deconstructing itself into an incoherence today. A richly
rendered, deeply learned, and powerfully argued account of two
centuries of profound change in the Church and the world, The Irony
of Modern Catholic History ultimately reveals how Catholicism
offers the twenty-first century truths-about the inherent dignity
and value of every human being, about our moral obligations and
responsibilities-essential for our survival and flourishing.
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