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Recovering American Catholic Inculturation - John England's Jacksonian Populism and Romanticist Adaptation (Hardcover)
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Recovering American Catholic Inculturation - John England's Jacksonian Populism and Romanticist Adaptation (Hardcover)
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In Recovering American Catholic Inculturation, McNeil follows the
case of Bishop John England, who chose to govern the Diocese of
Charleston with a Constitution that assigned rights and
responsibilities to the church's membership. He argues that this
was not a case of simple accommodation to Enlightenment rationality
and autonomous individuality. Bishop England's adaptation of
Catholicism should be understood as both a retrieval and an
application of theoretical thinking to the practical judgment of
specific contexts on the basis of reason and pragmatic esthetics.
Social conflicts of interest are resolved through the allowance of
an exercise of faith and reason within contexts wherein we
understand and experience the truth of the situation is never final
and that "good" and the "better" are not private, subjective,
static nor simply progressive. Contemporary critics have often
resorted more to static categories and political projections onto
the earlier American experience than is warranted by a close study
of the original texts of the founders of the American Republic or,
particularly for this study, a personage such as John England. The
study concludes that a re-embarkation on the road of inculturation
is long overdue for American Catholicism. This book holds appeal
for American historians, philosophers interested in the liberal
tradition and autonomous individualism, epistemologists exploring
rationality, aesthetics, and knowledge, Catholic theologians and
Church historians, and all educated Catholics.
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