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Bolstered by a wave of immigration in the early 20th century, a
polyglot American Catholic Church struggled to forge a secure
subculture in a society that regarded Catholics with suspicion. In
the decades that separated the Roaring Twenties from Vatican II,
Catholic Action inspired laypeople to participate in the work of
the Church's hierarchy. In endeavors that ranged from religious
education and liturgical renewal to labor activism and immigrant
outreach, this movement permitted the Church to maintain its
distinctiveness while simultaneously engaging with the wider
American culture. Contributors use archival research to describe
and interpret an array of lay movements across the United States
during the middle decades of the 20th century.
Hans Urs von Balthasar, one of the preeminent theologians of Roman
Catholic theology in the modern-era, constructed a theological
world suffused by the literary, a vision carried across over 16
volumes of his magnum opus. A Generous Symphony offers a balanced
appraisal of Balthasar's literary achievement and explicates
Balthasar's literary criticism as a distinctive theology of
revelation, which offers possibilities for understanding how divine
presence may be manifested outside the canonical boundaries of
Christian tradition. The structure of A Generous Symphony is a
chronological presentation of the Balthasarian canon of imaginative
literature, which allows readers to see how social and historical
interests guide Balthasar's readings in the pre-Christian,
medieval, and modern eras. Balthasar's deep investment in the
uniqueness of Christian revelation is underlined, while, at the
same time, his aesthetic sympathies cause him to invest literature
with 'quasi-sacramental' status.
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