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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809580003321

Autore

Olsen Glenn W (Glenn Warren), <1938->

Titolo

On the road to Emmaus : the Catholic dialogue with America and modernity / / Glenn W. Olsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8132-1955-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

261/.10973

Soggetti

Christianity and culture - United States - History - 21st century

Church and state - United States - History - 21st century

Christianity and politics - United States - History - 21st century

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. 271-303) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The "Catholic moment" and the question of inculturation -- The investiture contest -- Lay spirituality ad majorem Dei gloriam -- Christian faith in a neo-pagan society -- Thy kingdom come on earth as in heaven : the place of the family in creation -- Separating church and state -- Religion, politics, and America at the millennium -- America as an Enlightenment culture -- John Rawls and the flight from authority : the quest for equality as an exercise in primitivism -- The quest for a public philosophy in twentieth-century American political thought -- Unity, plurality, and subsidiarity in twentieth-century context -- The ethics of conquest : the European background of Spain's mission in the New World.