Leaving Christendom for good : church-world dialogue in a secular age / James Gerard McEvoy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McEvoy, James Gerard, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and the world.

Church.

Mission of the church.

Christian life.

Vatican Council--(2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano). Constitutio pastoralis de ecclesia in mundo huius temporis.

Vatican Council.

Constitutio pastoralis de ecclesia in mundo huius temporis (Vatican Council).

Taylor, Charles, 1931- Secular age.

Taylor, Charles.

Secularism.

Physical Description:

xxi, 189 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland ; Plymouth, United Kingdom : Lexington Books, [2014]

Summary:

Leaving Christendom for Good: Church-World Dialogue in a Secular Age argues that the solution to some of the most troubling tensions in the life of the Catholic Church since Vatican II can be found in the council's document Gaudium et spes. This text's view of the church's mission and social relationships as dialogical has the capacity to liberate. Part one studies the contemporary place of religion-with particular reference to Charles Taylor's groundbreaking work, A Secular Age-and examines Gaudium et spes's dialogical view of the church-world relationship. Part two explores what true dialogue entails and how it is best understood theologically, engaging critically with Joseph Ratzinger's view of the church-world relationship. The book's final chapter considers two practical implications of its argument how evangelization can be best understood today, and how the church can best approach issues in the public sphere. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Church and World Today 1

1 Religion in a Secular Age: From the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century 3

2 Religion in a Secular Age: The Explosion into the Present 29

3 The Turn to Dialogue at Vatican II 57

II Dialogue and Its Challenges 91

4 Dialogue, Language, and the Other 93

5 God's Dialogue with Humanity: Word and Spirit in History and Narrative 125

6 A Different Voice: Joseph Ratzinger and the Corruptions of Modernity 143

7 The Church's Dialogue with the World 163.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739187326

0739187325

OCLC:

870098180