LEADER 04766nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910450695903321 005 20210616222419.0 010 $a1-322-35345-X 010 $a0-231-50687-2 024 7 $a10.7312/wood13186 035 $a(CKB)1000000000445345 035 $a(EBL)908230 035 $a(OCoLC)818855817 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000122144 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11135479 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122144 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10111577 035 $a(PQKB)10421194 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908230 035 $a(DE-B1597)462956 035 $a(OCoLC)979573432 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231506878 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908230 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183400 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL666627 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000445345 100 $a20031024d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe church confronts modernity$b[electronic resource] $eCatholic intellectuals and the progressive era /$fThomas E. Woods, Jr 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (243 p.) 225 1 $aReligion and American culture 300 $aRevision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University. 311 0 $a0-231-13187-9 311 0 $a0-231-13186-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-219) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. The Stage is Set --$t2. The Challenge of Pragmatism --$t3. Sociology and The Study of Man --$t4. Assimilation and Resistance: Catholics and Progressive Education --$t5. Economics and The Social Question --$t6. Against Syncretism --$tEpilogue. Into The Future --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aAs the twentieth century opened, American intellectuals grew increasingly sympathetic to Pragmatism and empirical methods in the social sciences. The Progressive program as a whole--in the form of Pragmatism, education, modern sociology, and nationalism--seemed to be in agreement on one thing: everything was in flux. The dogma and "absolute truth" of the Church were archaisms, unsuited to modern American citizenship and at odds with the new public philosophy being forged by such intellectuals as John Dewey, William James, and the New Republic magazine. Catholics saw this new public philosophy as at least partly an attack on them. Focusing on the Catholic intellectual critique of modernity during the period immediately before and after the turn of the twentieth century, this provocative and original book examines how the Catholic Church attempted to retain its identity in an age of pluralism. It shows a Church fundamentally united on major issues--quite unlike the present-day Catholic Church, which has been the site of a low-intensity civil war since the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965. Defenders of the faith opposed James, Dewey, and other representatives of Pragmatism as it played out in ethics, education, and nationalism. Their goals were to found an economic and political philosophy based on natural law, to appropriate what good they could find in Progressivism to the benefit of the Church, and to make America a Catholic country. The Church Confronts Modernity explores how the decidedly nonpluralistic institution of Christianity responded to an increasingly pluralistic intellectual environment. In a culture whose chief value was pluralism, they insisted on the uniqueness of the Church and the need for making value judgments based on what they considered a sound philosophy of humanity. In neither capitulating to the new creed nor retreating into a self-righteous isolation, American Catholic intellectuals thus laid the groundwork for a half-century of intellectual vitality. 410 0$aReligion and American culture (New York, N.Y.) 606 $aChristianity and culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aCivilization, Modern$y19th century 606 $aChristianity and culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCivilization, Modern$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xChurch history$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xChurch history$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChristianity and culture$xHistory 615 0$aCivilization, Modern 615 0$aChristianity and culture$xHistory 615 0$aCivilization, Modern 676 $a282/.73/09034 700 $aWoods$b Thomas E$0597607 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450695903321 996 $aThe church confronts modernity$92491195 997 $aUNINA