Believing scholars [[electronic resource] ] : ten Catholic intellectuals / / edited by James L. Heft

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451637103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2005
• ISBN: 0-8232-3658-7; 0-8232-4698-1; 1-282-69866-4; 9786612698668; 0-8232-3737-0; 0-8232-2527-5; 1-4294-7888-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HeftJames
• Disciplina: 230/.2
• Soggetti: RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-171) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A Catholic modernity? / Charles Taylor -- The poor and the third millennium / Gustavo Gutiérrez -- Forms of divine disclosure / David Tracy -- Memoirs and meaning / Jill Ker Conway -- Catholic and intellectual : conjunction or disjunction? / Marcia L. Colish -- Catholicism and human rights / Mary Ann Glendon -- A feeling for hierarchy / Mary Douglas -- My life as a "woman" : editing the world / Margaret O'Brien Steinfels -- Liberal Catholicism reexamined / Peter Steinfels -- The faith of a theologian / Avery Cardinal Dulles.
• Sommario/riassunto: How do Catholic intellectuals draw on faith in their work? And how does their work as scholars influence their lives as people of faith?For more than a generation, the University of Dayton has invited a prominent Catholic intellectual to present the annual Marianist Award Lecture on the general theme of the encounter of faith and profession. Over the years, the lectures have become central to the Catholic conversation about church, culture, and society.In this book, ten leading figures explore the connections in their own lives between the private realms ; of faith and their public calling as teachers, scholars, and intellectuals.This last decade of Marianist Lectures brings together theologians and philosophers, historians, anthropologists, academic scholars, and lay intellectuals and critics.Here are Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., on the tensions between faith and theology in his career; Jill Ker Conway on the spiritual dimensions of memory and personal narrative; Mary Ann Glendon on the roots of human rights in Catholic social teaching; Mary Douglas on the fruitful dialogue between religion and anthropology in her own life; Peter Steinfels on what it really means to be a “liberal Catholic”; and Margaret O’Brien Steinfels on the complicated history of women in today’s church. From Charles Taylor and David Tracy on the fractured relationship between Catholicism and modernity to Gustavo Gutiérrez on the enduring call of the poor and Marcia Colish on the historic links between the church and intellectual freedom, these essays track a decade of provocative, illuminating, and essential thought. James L. Heft, S.M., is President and Founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies and University Professor of Faith and Culture and Chancellor, University of Dayton. He has edited Beyond Violence: Religious Sources for Social Transformation in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Fordham).