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On the road to Emmaus : the Catholic dialogue with America and modernity / Glenn W. Olsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olsen, Glenn W. (Glenn Warren), 1938-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Doctrines.
- Catholic Church.
- Christianity and culture--United States--History--21st century.
- Christianity and culture.
- Church and state--United States--History--21st century.
- Church and state.
- Christianity and politics--United States--History--21st century.
- Christianity and politics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In distinctive voice and tone, cultural commentator Glenn W. Olsen presents his latest work on the place of Catholicism in American history. Here he clarifies the meaning of American modernity for Catholics and shows the conflicts and tensions confronting the religious person today.
- Contents:
- The "Catholic moment" and the question of inculturation
- The investiture contest
- Lay spirituality ad majorem Dei gloriam
- Christian faith in a neo-pagan society
- Thy kingdom come on earth as in heaven : the place of the family in creation
- Separating church and state
- Religion, politics, and America at the millennium
- America as an Enlightenment culture
- John Rawls and the flight from authority : the quest for equality as an exercise in primitivism
- The quest for a public philosophy in twentieth-century American political thought
- Unity, plurality, and subsidiarity in twentieth-century context
- The ethics of conquest : the European background of Spain's mission in the New World.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-303) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1955-8
- OCLC:
- 815281377
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