The irony of modern Catholic history : how the Church rediscovered itself and challenged the modern world to reform / George Weigel.
"Throughout much of the nineteenth century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph of modernity would not only finish the Church as a consequential player in world history; it would also lead to the death of religious conviction. But today, the Catholic Church is far more vital and consequential than it was 200 years ago. Ironically, in its sometimes-bruising encounter with modernity Catholicism rediscovered its evangelical essence and developed intellectual tools capable of rescuing the imperiled modern project."-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780465094332
- ISBN: 0465094333
- Physical Description: ix, 322 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-299) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Act one. Catholicism against modernity -- Act two. Catholicism explores modernity, gingerly -- Act three. Catholicism embracing modernity -- Act four. Catholicism critiques modernity from within -- Act five. Catholicism converting modernity. |
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Genre: | History. |
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