In Bright Promise, Failed Community, respected Catholic sociologist Joseph Varacalli describes how and why Catholic America has essentially failed to shape the American Republic in any significant way. American society has never experienced a 'Catholic moment'-the closest it came was during the immediate post-World War II era-nor is it now close to approximating one. Varacalli identifies as the cause of the current situation the 'failed community' of Catholic America: an ineffective and dissent-ridden set of organizational arrangements that has not succeeded in adequately communicating the…mehr
In Bright Promise, Failed Community, respected Catholic sociologist Joseph Varacalli describes how and why Catholic America has essentially failed to shape the American Republic in any significant way. American society has never experienced a 'Catholic moment'-the closest it came was during the immediate post-World War II era-nor is it now close to approximating one. Varacalli identifies as the cause of the current situation the 'failed community' of Catholic America: an ineffective and dissent-ridden set of organizational arrangements that has not succeeded in adequately communicating the social doctrine of the Church to Catholic Americans or to the key idea-generating sectors of American life.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Joseph A. Varacalli, Ph.D., is S.U.N.Y. Distinguished Service Professor and Director of the Center for Catholic Studies at Nassau Community College-S.U.N.Y.
Inhaltsangabe
Part 1 Introduction: "What Hath Social Science to Do with Catholicism?": Tertullian Revisited Chapter 2 Catholics and "Success" in the Contemporary American Republic: All That Glitters Is Not Gold Chapter 3 The Discrediting and Unraveling of the Contemporary American Public Order Chapter 4 The Pyrrhic Victory of Liberalism: The Exhaustion of an Inadequate Idea Chapter 5 The American Culture War and the Civil War within the Catholic Church of the United States Chapter 6 Not Enough: The Insufficiency of Evangelical Protestantism Chapter 7 Reality Denied: On the Obsolescence of the Concept of the Natural Law Chapter 8 Catholic Philosophical Vision, Catholic Historical Reality: The Need for a Catholic Plausibility Structure Chapter 9 Post-World War II American Catholicism: Anticipating the Catholic Moment Chapter 10 Secularization from Within: The Post-Vatican II Catholic Church in America Chapter 11 A Failure in Vision and Nerve: The Present Accommodation of "Americanist" Catholic Leadership Chapter 12 First Things First: Catholic Participation in Secular America Chapter 13 The Catholic Vision and American Populism: A Case of Elective Affinity? Chapter 14 John Paul II and the Restorationists: Picking Up the Pieces for a Real Catholic Moment Chapter 15 Linking Heaven and Earth: The Catholic Contribution to Culture, Institutional Life, and the Individual Chapter 16 Conclusion: Staying the Course
Part 1 Introduction: "What Hath Social Science to Do with Catholicism?": Tertullian Revisited Chapter 2 Catholics and "Success" in the Contemporary American Republic: All That Glitters Is Not Gold Chapter 3 The Discrediting and Unraveling of the Contemporary American Public Order Chapter 4 The Pyrrhic Victory of Liberalism: The Exhaustion of an Inadequate Idea Chapter 5 The American Culture War and the Civil War within the Catholic Church of the United States Chapter 6 Not Enough: The Insufficiency of Evangelical Protestantism Chapter 7 Reality Denied: On the Obsolescence of the Concept of the Natural Law Chapter 8 Catholic Philosophical Vision, Catholic Historical Reality: The Need for a Catholic Plausibility Structure Chapter 9 Post-World War II American Catholicism: Anticipating the Catholic Moment Chapter 10 Secularization from Within: The Post-Vatican II Catholic Church in America Chapter 11 A Failure in Vision and Nerve: The Present Accommodation of "Americanist" Catholic Leadership Chapter 12 First Things First: Catholic Participation in Secular America Chapter 13 The Catholic Vision and American Populism: A Case of Elective Affinity? Chapter 14 John Paul II and the Restorationists: Picking Up the Pieces for a Real Catholic Moment Chapter 15 Linking Heaven and Earth: The Catholic Contribution to Culture, Institutional Life, and the Individual Chapter 16 Conclusion: Staying the Course
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