| Description |
xiv, 226 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Radical orthodoxy series |
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Radical orthodoxy series.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Part I -- Culture as a theological problem 9 -- 1 The treatment of culture in Gaudium et spes 11 -- Modernism and modernity 11 -- Modernity as a specific cultural formation 12 -- The Conciliar openness to modernity 14 -- 'Culture' in Gaudium et spes 17 -- The need for a theological hermeneutic of culture 20 -- The neglect of important pre-Conciliar scholarship 21 -- Specific examples of the problematic 22 -- The 'autonomy of culture' 27 -- Bernard Lambert's affirmation of'secularism' 29 -- The affirmation of the secular in Rahner and Maritain 30 -- Conclusion 32 -- 2 'Culture' within post-Conciliar magisterial thought 35 -- Introduction 35 -- The split between the gospel and culture 35 -- The Christocentrism ofJohn Paul II 37 -- The culture of death and the liberal tradition 39 -- The Greco-Latin heritage 45 -- Conclusion 49 -- Part Ii -- Modernity and the Thomist tradition 51 -- 3 The epistemic authority of 'experts' and the ethos of -- modern institutions 53 -- The bureaucratised self 54 -- The eclipse of prudential judgement 57 -- Plain persons and professional administrators 60 -- The 'onto-logic' of economic practices 63 -- The junction of 'Aristotelian Marxism' with Thomism 65 -- Conclusion 69 -- 4 'Mass culture' and the 'right to culture' 72 -- The Aristocratic and Bourgeois Liberal models 73 -- The Nietzschean model 76 -- The 'prototypical' classical Christian model 77 -- Memory and 'sapiential experience' 79 -- The problem of 'mass culture' 83 -- The possibility of a 'modern Catholic self' 84 -- Conclusion 89 -- 5 The logos of the Kultur of modernity 92 -- Invalidations of the secular 93 -- The logic of identities in relation 95 -- The mechanical form of the 'secular logic' 97 -- The 'culture of America' 100 -- The priority of doxology 105 -- The form of love 107 -- Conclusion 110 -- Part Iii -- A postmodern development of the tradition 113 -- 6 Culture and the rationality of the tradition 115 -- The influence of R. G. Collingwood 116 -- The concept of a narrative tradition 118 -- 'Smudging the boundaries' between philosophy and theology 125 -- Fides et ratio 127 -- Harmonising Aristotelian and Patristic elements 130 -- Certainty as 'rational coherence' 132 -- Conclusion 134 -- 7 Natural law and the culture of the tradition 136 -- MacIntyre's project and the New Natural Law theory 136 -- The absence of a narrative tradition 141 -- Religion as an 'infrastructural' and 'primary' good 144 -- The rhetoric of rights 148 -- Conclusion 157 -- 8 Conclusion 159 -- Three requirements of any satisfactory response 162 -- The ongoing challenge of postmodern Augustinian Thomism 165 |
| Summary |
"Thomism's influence upon the development of Catholicism is difficult to overestimate - but how secure is its grip on the challenges that face contemprary society? Culture and the Thomist Tradition Rexamines the crisis of Thomism today as thrown into relief by Vatican II, the 21st ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church. Following the Church's declarations on culture in the document Gaudium et spes - the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World - it was widely presumed that a mandate hade been given for transposing ecclesiastical culture into the idioms of modernity. But, says Tracey Rowland, such an understanding is not only based on a facile reading of the Conciliar documents, but is flawed by Thomism's own failure to demonstrate a workable theology of culture that might guide the Church through such transpositions."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-215) and index |
| Subject |
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
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Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
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| SUBJECT |
Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79084169
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Thomists -- History.
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Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
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Christianity and culture.
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| LC no. |
2002027546 |
| ISBN |
0415305268 hb |
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0415305276 paperback |
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