Bright Promise, Failed Community

Catholics and the American Public Order

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

In Bright Promise, Failed Community, respected Catholic sociologist Joseph Varacalli describes how and why Catholic America has essentially failed to shape the American Republic in any significant way. American society has never experienced a "Catholic moment" —the closest it came was during the immediate post-World War II era—nor is it now close to approximating one. Varacalli identifies as the cause of the current situation the "failed community" of Catholic America: an ineffective and dissent-ridden set of organizational arrangements that has not succeeded in adequately communicating the social doctrine of the Church to Catholic Americans or to the key idea-generating sectors of American life.The "bright promise" of Catholic America lies in the long and still developing tradition of social Catholicism. With a revitalized, orthodox, sophisticated community to serve as the carrier of Catholic social doctrine, Varacalli sees trends of thought that would propose viable alternatives to philosophies and ideologies that currently dominate the American public sphere-ones that would thus have a formidable impact on American society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-07-30
Mått:155 x 228 x 13 mm
Vikt:249 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:150
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739102923

Utforska kategorier

Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Joseph A. Varacalli is Professor of Sociology and director for the Center of Catholic Studies at Nassau Community College-SUNY. He is the Cofounder of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists and was formerly Editor-in-Chief of the Catholic Social Science Review.

Recensioner i media

[A] sobering book. . . balanced by a look at the ways in which restorationism is already leading us toward a genuine 'catholic moment' in America.

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 Introduction: "What Hath Social Science to Do with Catholicism?": Tertullian RevisitedChapter 2 Catholics and "Success" in the Contemporary American Republic: All That Glitters Is Not GoldChapter 3 The Discrediting and Unraveling of the Contemporary American Public OrderChapter 4 The Pyrrhic Victory of Liberalism: The Exhaustion of an Inadequate IdeaChapter 5 The American Culture War and the Civil War within the Catholic Church of the United StatesChapter 6 Not Enough: The Insufficiency of Evangelical ProtestantismChapter 7 Reality Denied: On the Obsolescence of the Concept of the Natural LawChapter 8 Catholic Philosophical Vision, Catholic Historical Reality: The Need for a Catholic Plausibility StructureChapter 9 Post-World War II American Catholicism: Anticipating the Catholic MomentChapter 10 Secularization from Within: The Post-Vatican II Catholic Church in AmericaChapter 11 A Failure in Vision and Nerve: The Present Accommodation of "Americanist" Catholic LeadershipChapter 12 First Things First: Catholic Participation in Secular AmericaChapter 13 The Catholic Vision and American Populism: A Case of Elective Affinity?Chapter 14 John Paul II and the Restorationists: Picking Up the Pieces for a Real Catholic MomentChapter 15 Linking Heaven and Earth: The Catholic Contribution to Culture, Institutional Life, and the IndividualChapter 16 Conclusion: Staying the Course