Culture and the Thomist tradition : after Vatican II / Tracey Rowland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowland, Tracey, 1963-

Series:

Radical orthodoxy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and culture.

Catholic Church--Doctrines.

Catholic Church.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Physical Description:

xiv, 226 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

Thomist's influence upon the development of Catholicism is difficult to overestimate - but how secure is its grip on the challenges that face contemporary 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 had 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-215) and index.

ISBN:

0415305268

0415305276

OCLC:

50447700