George Allan is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Dickinson College. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Patterns of the Present: Interpreting the Authority of Form, published by SUNY Press.

• Acknowledgments Series Introduction 1. Crumbling Cathedrals 2. Content Canonists 3. Procedural Canonists 4. Anti-Canonists 5. Relative Canonists 6. Canonical Dynamics 7. Canonical Dialectics 8. Pragmatic Canonists 9. Education for a Democracy 10. Religious Education 11. Education for Our Common Good 12. Cathedral Ruins 13. Constructive Pragmatics Works Cited Note on Supporting Center Index SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought

George Allan is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Dickinson College. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Patterns of the Present: Interpreting the Authority of Form, published by SUNY Press.

• Acknowledgments Series Introduction 1. Crumbling Cathedrals 2. Content Canonists 3. Procedural Canonists 4. Anti-Canonists 5. Relative Canonists 6. Canonical Dynamics 7. Canonical Dialectics 8. Pragmatic Canonists 9. Education for a Democracy 10. Religious Education 11. Education for Our Common Good 12. Cathedral Ruins 13. Constructive Pragmatics Works Cited Note on Supporting Center Index SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought