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Pomp, circumstance, and unsolicited advice : commencement addresses and university lectures / George Weigel.
Van Pelt Library BX4705.W4148 A5 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weigel, George, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
- Lectures and lecturing.
- Catholic universities and colleges--Baccalaureate addresses.
- Catholic universities and colleges.
- Catholic Church--Doctrines.
- Catholic Church.
- Catholic Church--United States.
- Church and the world--Catholic Church.
- Church and the world.
- Christianity and culture.
- Theology--Methodology.
- Theology.
- College students--Religious life.
- College students.
- lectures.
- Physical Description:
- 258 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Ignatius Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "The Catholic Church invented what we know as the 'university,' including the cultural tradition of free and open debate on disputed questions. Catholic colleges and universities thus stand poised to help reform institutions of higher learning at a moment of crisis in academic life throughout the western world. In his commencement addresses to colleges and universities large and small, George Weigel challenges graduates to understand an academic degree as a summons to become the trustee of a great tradition. In his lectures to university audiences, Weigel addresses a host of issues in the contemporary Church and its interaction with the world with depth and insight. Written in the vivid, often bracing style characteristic of one of contemporary Catholicism's leading intellectuals, these addresses and lectures exemplify what Pope St. John Paul II called the Catholic 'diakonia of the truth'." -- Publisher, page four of cover.
- Contents:
- Part one: Commencement addresses.
- The vocation of theology
- Christian humanism vs. inhuman humanism
- No ordinary people
- Making your soul
- Defending religious freedom in full : a generation's challenge
- The truths about truth
- Agents of the new evangelization
- More than stardust
- Lawyering as a vocation
- Your own Westerplatte
- Twentieth-century witness and twenty-first-century mission : eastern Catholics and the universal church
- Part two: University lectures.
- Catholic matters.
- Ironies of modern Catholic history : the church and pluralism
- The Catholic university of the twenty-first century
- On beauty : the forgotten transcendental in a post-cultural world
- Voltaire confounded : the church in defense of reason
- Veritatis splendor : a gift to the church and the world
- John Paul II, the priority of culture, and the contemporary culture wars.
- Men of genius.
- John Paul II, doctor of the church?
- Benedict XVI : voice in the secular wilderness
- Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger and the future of the west : retrieving the truths within Christian ideas gone mad
- Lead, kindly light : John Henry Newman and us
- Michael Novak : an American Catholic achievement.
- Navigating the new world disorder.
- The national interest and the national purpose : moral reasoning and U.S. foreign policy
- The just war tradition and the world after September 11.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258)
- Other Format:
- Electronic version: Weigel, George. Pomp, circumstance, and unsolicited advice.
- ISBN:
- 9781621647911
- 1621647919
- OCLC:
- 1524916058
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