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Since the dawn of the Enlightenment, modernity and the Papacy have experienced a difficult though never severed relationship. The Modern Papacy goes beyond the caricatures to demonstrate how the popes - specifically John Paul II and Benedict XVI - have articulated a sophisticated critique of the post-Enlightenment world, one that acknowledges the real progress made in modernity while simultaneously highlighting its political and philosophical shortcomings. Far from falling on deaf ears, the nature of their engagement with the modern world has sparked criticism and praise from Catholics and non-Catholics alike - sometimes in surprising ways. Whether the subject is faith and reason, religion and the modern sciences, the roots and future of Europe, or the origin and ends of human freedom, John Paul II and Benedict XVI pose questions that simply cannot be ignored, regardless of whether one likes their answers.
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Preface
Author's Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Encountering Modernity
In Enlightenment's Wake
From 'Intransigence' to Critical Engagement
From Engagement to Crisis
A Philosopher from Kraków
A Theologian of Land Bayern
A New Papacy, A Distinct Agenda
Chapter 2. Against the Dissolution of Man
Restoring Wisdom to Reason, and Faith in Reason
A Crisis of Truth and Freedom
Returning Europe to Europe
Seeking Responses
Chapter 3. Inside the Modern Areopagus
Restorationists, Accomodationists, and Liberationists
Modernity Critics, New Natural Lawyers, and Catholic Whigs
Secular Rejection, Secular Engagement
A New Terrain
Chapter 4. Paradoxes of Enlightenment
Enlightenment, Progress, and Ideologies of Evil
Benedict at Regensburg
A Wider Agenda
Twenty-First Century Challenges
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 15 May 2009 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 176 |
| ISBN | 9781441130754 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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