Charles Taylor's Marianist Award lecture, with responses by William M. Shea, Rosemary Luling Haughton, George Marsden, and Jean Bethke Elshtain /
edited by James L. Heft.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
1 online resource (ix, 130 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / James L. Heft -- 1. A Catholic Modernity? / Charles Taylor -- 2. "A Vote of Thanks to Voltaire" / William M. Shea -- 3. Transcendence and the Bewilderment of Being Modern / Rosemary Luling Haughton -- 4. Matteo Ricci and the Prodigal Culture / George Marsden -- 5. Augustine and Diversity / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- 6. Concluding Reflections and Comments / Charles Taylor.
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This text offers a series of reflections on the state of Christianity, and especially Catholicism, in the world today. The centrepiece of the volume is a lecture by the philosopher Charles Taylor, from which the title of the book is taken. The lecture, delivered at Dayton University in January 1996, offered Taylor the opportunity to speak about his theological views and his sense of the cultural placement of Catholicism, its history and trajectory. Four commentators on religion and society were invited to respond to Taylor's lecture: William M. Shea, George Marsden, Jean Bethke Elshtain and Rosemary Luling-Haughton. Their chapters offer a variety of reflections on the tensions between religion and modernity, and in particular on the role that Catholicism can and should play in contemporary society.