Deep down things : essays on Catholic culture / edited by Joseph A. Cirincione.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cirincione, Joseph A., 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian life--Catholic authors.

Christian life.

Physical Description:

xx, 185 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2008]

Summary:

Deep Down Things explores common threads that characterize Catholicism. The contributors look successively at Catholic culture and everyday life of the parish and of work, Catholic culture and the imaginative life of poets and fiction writers, and Catholic culture and post-modern life where individual conscience, skepticism, and relativism challenge Church authority and faith itself. They do so while looking for foundational components that persist and comprise a culture that Catholics recognize regardless of their diverse ethnicities, geographic locations, or historical epochs.

The authors of this collection have aimed to inspire both Catholics and non-Catholics alike, inside and outside the academic community, to deepen their own knowledge and appreciation of the Christian tradition generally and Catholic culture particularly. They hope to encourage sincere and open dialogue about Catholic culture (in the best tradition of Catholic thought) both to further the inquiry after truth and to enhance fruitful reflection upon Catholic culture and its contributions over time and across cultures.

Contents:

Introduction / Joseph. A. Cirincione

Catholic culture and everyday life

Catholic initiation or Christian initiation of adults / Paul Turner

The idea of the parish / Michael V. McDevitt

For the laborer is worthy of his hire / Gerald L. Miller

Catholic culture and the imaginative life

Writing as sacrament / Ron Hansen

Catholic poetry : an essay in definition / Patricia Cleary Miller

Chesterton's Catholic imagination / John C. Chalberg

The sacramental and twentieth-century French literature / M. Kathleen Madigan

Catholic culture and postmodern life

John Dryden's journey to Rome : church authority and Catholic culture / Joseph A. Cirincione

Today's ethicist and the development of Catholic moral doctrine / Wilfred LaCroix

Philosophy and the struggle for the soul of western culture / Curtis L. Hancock

Ultimate ends

Is there a Catholic culture? / Richard J. Janet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739123546

0739123548

OCLC:

226984611