The Modern Papacy [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Gregg Samuel
• Pubblicazione: London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Disciplina: 282.092/2; 282.0922
• Soggetto topico: Benedict XVI, Pope, 1927-; Catholic Church and philosophy; John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005; Modernism (Christian theology) -- Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century; Papacy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Contents; Other; Author's Preface; Series Editor's Preface; Copyright; Series; 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; 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; 3 Inside the Modern Areopagus; Restorationists, Accommodationists, and Liberationists ; Modernity Critics, New Natural Lawyers, and Catholic WhigsSecular Rejection, Secular Engagement; A New Terrain; 4 Paradoxes of Enlightenment; Enlightenment, Progress, and Ideologies of Evil; Benedict at Regensburg; A Wider Agenda; Twenty-First-Century Challenges; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the dawn of the Enlightenment, modernity and the Papacy have experienced a difficult though never severed relationship. 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-Cat
• Titolo autorizzato: The Modern Papacy
• ISBN: 1-62356-555-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463758903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers