In the Lógos of Love (eBook, ePUB)

Promise and Predicament in Catholic Intellectual Life
Redaktion: Heft, James L. SM; Cadegan, Una M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together scholars of theology, history, law, and media studies of religion, who explore the Catholic intellectual tradition from the perspectives of these disciplines. Each essay explores both the promise of Catholic intellectual life and its contemporary predicaments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190606527
• Artikelnr.: 44052054

Autorenporträt

Fr. James L. Heft, SM (Marianist) is the Alton Brooks Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California. He is the author or editor of twelve books and over 170 scholarly articles, and currently serves as the president of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC. His recent research has focused on the mission of Catholic education and inter-religious dialogue. Una M. Cadegan is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Dayton. She is a cultural historian of US Catholicism, and the author of All Good Books Are Catholic Books: Print Culture, Censorship, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century America.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Contributors
* Introduction
* James L. Heft, SM, and Una M. Cadegan
* Chapter 1- The Cliff and the Tower: Reflections on the Past
Half-Century in Light of the Past Half-Millennium (Or So)
* Una M. Cadegan
* Chapter 2-Bridges: Truth, the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, and
Building Cultural Relationships in the Image of God
* Miguel H. Diaz
* Chapter 3-Threnody or Spoliation? Responding to the Place of the
Catholic Intellectual in the Pagan University
* Paul J. Griffiths
* Chapter 4-Professional Education and the Paschal Mystery
* Amelia J. Uelmen
* Chapter 5-Breaking the Silence: Sex, Gender, and the Parameters of
Catholic Intellectual Life
* Leslie Woodcock Tentler
* Chapter 6-Sex and Gender and Sexuality: Competing Claims? A Catholic
Response
* Nancy Dallavalle
* Chapter 7-Changing Media, Changing Problems: Catholic Intellectual
Life, Identity, and Fragmentation
* Vincent J. Miller
* Chapter 8-"Shame, Fear, Conflict, and Compassion": Media Coverage of
Catholicism During The First Decade Of the AIDS Crisis
* Diane Winston
* Chapter 9-A Global Agenda for American Catholicism: The Promise and
Predicament of Catholic Intellectual Life Today
* Scott Appleby
* Index