Bright Promise, Failed Community: Catholics and the American Public Order
Autor Joseph A. Varacallien Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iul 2001
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780739102923
ISBN-10: 0739102923
Pagini: 150
Dimensiuni: 155 x 228 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Pbk.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0739102923
Pagini: 150
Dimensiuni: 155 x 228 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Pbk.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Cuprins
Part 1 Introduction: "What Hath Social Science to Do with Catholicism?": Tertullian Revisited
Chapter 2 Catholics and "Success" in the Contemporary American Republic: All That Glitters Is Not Gold
Chapter 3 The Discrediting and Unraveling of the Contemporary American Public Order
Chapter 4 The Pyrrhic Victory of Liberalism: The Exhaustion of an Inadequate Idea
Chapter 5 The American Culture War and the Civil War within the Catholic Church of the United States
Chapter 6 Not Enough: The Insufficiency of Evangelical Protestantism
Chapter 7 Reality Denied: On the Obsolescence of the Concept of the Natural Law
Chapter 8 Catholic Philosophical Vision, Catholic Historical Reality: The Need for a Catholic Plausibility Structure
Chapter 9 Post-World War II American Catholicism: Anticipating the Catholic Moment
Chapter 10 Secularization from Within: The Post-Vatican II Catholic Church in America
Chapter 11 A Failure in Vision and Nerve: The Present Accommodation of "Americanist" Catholic Leadership
Chapter 12 First Things First: Catholic Participation in Secular America
Chapter 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 Moment
Chapter 15 Linking Heaven and Earth: The Catholic Contribution to Culture, Institutional Life, and the Individual
Chapter 16 Conclusion: Staying the Course
Chapter 2 Catholics and "Success" in the Contemporary American Republic: All That Glitters Is Not Gold
Chapter 3 The Discrediting and Unraveling of the Contemporary American Public Order
Chapter 4 The Pyrrhic Victory of Liberalism: The Exhaustion of an Inadequate Idea
Chapter 5 The American Culture War and the Civil War within the Catholic Church of the United States
Chapter 6 Not Enough: The Insufficiency of Evangelical Protestantism
Chapter 7 Reality Denied: On the Obsolescence of the Concept of the Natural Law
Chapter 8 Catholic Philosophical Vision, Catholic Historical Reality: The Need for a Catholic Plausibility Structure
Chapter 9 Post-World War II American Catholicism: Anticipating the Catholic Moment
Chapter 10 Secularization from Within: The Post-Vatican II Catholic Church in America
Chapter 11 A Failure in Vision and Nerve: The Present Accommodation of "Americanist" Catholic Leadership
Chapter 12 First Things First: Catholic Participation in Secular America
Chapter 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 Moment
Chapter 15 Linking Heaven and Earth: The Catholic Contribution to Culture, Institutional Life, and the Individual
Chapter 16 Conclusion: Staying the Course
Recenzii
[A] sobering book. . . balanced by a look at the ways in which restorationism is already leading us toward a genuine 'catholic moment' in America.
One will look in vain for a more trenchant analysis of why Catholic America, often ridden with dissent, has until now failed, in Professor Varacalli's words, to 'shape the American Republic in any significant way.' . . . Bright Promise, Failed Community: Catholics and the American Public Order is sociology at its best!
I am genuinely impressed with the important matters [Varacalli] consider[s], critically important, I would say, for the Church and the American polity.
No one has defined as clearly as Varacalli, precisely why the American Church has been relatively ineffective in shaping American public life. The "bright promise" of Catholic America lies in the long and still developing tradition of social Catholicism. This book is a remarkable contribution.
In this lucidly written, physically attractive, intellectually lively, and politically provocative volume, author Joseph A. Varacalli offers his explanation as to why the 'bright promise' of Catholic social teaching hasn't been widely accepted and received favorably in the American Republic....Whether or not one agrees with Varacalli's analysis, he has put forth a serious intellectual, moral, and religious challenge to those who defend the present situation in the Catholic Church of the United States.'
I am very, very impressed with [this] work. I don't believe anybody has yet defined quite as clearly as Varacalli has, with supporting evidence, precisely why the apparently prosperous American Church and the huge number of Catholics here should prove to be so relatively irrelevant to American public life. Varacalli has succeeded in explaining and documenting why this is so.
Dr. Varacalli has provided his readers seeking to better understand the present 'Civil War' in American Culture and in American Catholicism, with an intellectual treat....This is a book which deserves to be seriously studied by every informed Catholic and, above all, by every Bishop concerned at the surrender to the 'spirit of the world' by so many professed Catholics.
The book is valuable both for its description of [the institutional weaknesses of Catholicism in America] and the abundant documentation supplied by the author. . . . [It] should be welcomed by all students of the Catholic situation in America
To date the most accomplished study on the subject has undoubtedly been The Catholic Moment by Fr. Richard John Neuhaus. . . . Yet since that outstanding book appeared in 1987, no other work has matched its intellectual depth and power. Until now. The publication of Bright Promise, Failed Community by Dr. Joseph Varacalli-considered by many to be the nation's leading Catholic social scientist-updates, complements, expands upon, and ultimately surpasses Fr. Neuhaus' seminal book.
Much has been said and written in the post-conciliar years about the contemporary 'crisis of faith,' of course; but Prof. Varacalli brings to his analysis of the situation the sharp tools and insights of the competent modern social scientist. The result is one of the best current treatments of the state of public Catholicism in America that has appeared.
Despite its scholarly content and tone, Bright Promise, Failed Community isn't just for specialists. It is for everyone who wants to understand what has gone wrong in this country so far, and how Catholicism can and must help things get better.
A perceptive, provocative book whose chief defect is a happy one-it is much too short.
Professor Varacalli is worth knowing and reading.
Varacalli, an unusually prolific and insightful observer of American Catholicism, is to be applauded for a bold, straightforward and uncompromising vision of what the Church in the United States could yet be.
Buy and read this book. . . . It may well serve as a catalyst for debate within Catholic circles for years to come.
Most orthodox Catholics would probably agree with the better part of Varacalli's analysis. Where some would differ is over the extent of Catholic institutional collapse (or corruption) and the degree to which America's prolems are due to a defective founding; and therefore whether changes - in the institutional Church or in American culture - need to be as sweeping as Varacalli proposes. No doubt these two areas will continue to be the center of debate among orthodox Catholics in America. Varacalli has made a notable contribution to his side of that debate.
Recommended highly!
It is right to refer to Varacalli as being among the most reputable in his field. Bright Promise, failed Community deserves a wide readership.
Bright Promise, Failed Community is one of the clearest expositions yet written of what happened to the [Catholic] church in the U.S. during the last four decades - and why.
A fine and provocative piece of work.
Anyone searching for a source of the devastating scandals currently plaguing the Catholic Church should look no further than Joseph Varacalli's brilliant book.
...will certainly aid [the] Pontifical Council's efforts to better understand the obstacles and difficulties that may hinder the promotion of Catholic Social Doctrine. The task for the Church in America is daunting, but [Varacalli's] book helps the reader examine the terms of the on-going debate on religion and public life, which is a necessary step in the right direction.
This is a book that deserves the widest readership, a little masterpiece of American religious sociology ranking with Herberg's classic Protestant, Catholic, Jew. Lexington Books should be commended for publishing it, and all Catholic scholars and advocates should read it.
Bright Promise is a painfully sharp diamond of a book-gripping, startling, to the point, and extraordinarily well written and argued.
One will look in vain for a more trenchant analysis of why Catholic America, often ridden with dissent, has until now failed, in Professor Varacalli's words, to 'shape the American Republic in any significant way.' . . . Bright Promise, Failed Community: Catholics and the American Public Order is sociology at its best!
I am genuinely impressed with the important matters [Varacalli] consider[s], critically important, I would say, for the Church and the American polity.
No one has defined as clearly as Varacalli, precisely why the American Church has been relatively ineffective in shaping American public life. The "bright promise" of Catholic America lies in the long and still developing tradition of social Catholicism. This book is a remarkable contribution.
In this lucidly written, physically attractive, intellectually lively, and politically provocative volume, author Joseph A. Varacalli offers his explanation as to why the 'bright promise' of Catholic social teaching hasn't been widely accepted and received favorably in the American Republic....Whether or not one agrees with Varacalli's analysis, he has put forth a serious intellectual, moral, and religious challenge to those who defend the present situation in the Catholic Church of the United States.'
I am very, very impressed with [this] work. I don't believe anybody has yet defined quite as clearly as Varacalli has, with supporting evidence, precisely why the apparently prosperous American Church and the huge number of Catholics here should prove to be so relatively irrelevant to American public life. Varacalli has succeeded in explaining and documenting why this is so.
Dr. Varacalli has provided his readers seeking to better understand the present 'Civil War' in American Culture and in American Catholicism, with an intellectual treat....This is a book which deserves to be seriously studied by every informed Catholic and, above all, by every Bishop concerned at the surrender to the 'spirit of the world' by so many professed Catholics.
The book is valuable both for its description of [the institutional weaknesses of Catholicism in America] and the abundant documentation supplied by the author. . . . [It] should be welcomed by all students of the Catholic situation in America
To date the most accomplished study on the subject has undoubtedly been The Catholic Moment by Fr. Richard John Neuhaus. . . . Yet since that outstanding book appeared in 1987, no other work has matched its intellectual depth and power. Until now. The publication of Bright Promise, Failed Community by Dr. Joseph Varacalli-considered by many to be the nation's leading Catholic social scientist-updates, complements, expands upon, and ultimately surpasses Fr. Neuhaus' seminal book.
Much has been said and written in the post-conciliar years about the contemporary 'crisis of faith,' of course; but Prof. Varacalli brings to his analysis of the situation the sharp tools and insights of the competent modern social scientist. The result is one of the best current treatments of the state of public Catholicism in America that has appeared.
Despite its scholarly content and tone, Bright Promise, Failed Community isn't just for specialists. It is for everyone who wants to understand what has gone wrong in this country so far, and how Catholicism can and must help things get better.
A perceptive, provocative book whose chief defect is a happy one-it is much too short.
Professor Varacalli is worth knowing and reading.
Varacalli, an unusually prolific and insightful observer of American Catholicism, is to be applauded for a bold, straightforward and uncompromising vision of what the Church in the United States could yet be.
Buy and read this book. . . . It may well serve as a catalyst for debate within Catholic circles for years to come.
Most orthodox Catholics would probably agree with the better part of Varacalli's analysis. Where some would differ is over the extent of Catholic institutional collapse (or corruption) and the degree to which America's prolems are due to a defective founding; and therefore whether changes - in the institutional Church or in American culture - need to be as sweeping as Varacalli proposes. No doubt these two areas will continue to be the center of debate among orthodox Catholics in America. Varacalli has made a notable contribution to his side of that debate.
Recommended highly!
It is right to refer to Varacalli as being among the most reputable in his field. Bright Promise, failed Community deserves a wide readership.
Bright Promise, Failed Community is one of the clearest expositions yet written of what happened to the [Catholic] church in the U.S. during the last four decades - and why.
A fine and provocative piece of work.
Anyone searching for a source of the devastating scandals currently plaguing the Catholic Church should look no further than Joseph Varacalli's brilliant book.
...will certainly aid [the] Pontifical Council's efforts to better understand the obstacles and difficulties that may hinder the promotion of Catholic Social Doctrine. The task for the Church in America is daunting, but [Varacalli's] book helps the reader examine the terms of the on-going debate on religion and public life, which is a necessary step in the right direction.
This is a book that deserves the widest readership, a little masterpiece of American religious sociology ranking with Herberg's classic Protestant, Catholic, Jew. Lexington Books should be commended for publishing it, and all Catholic scholars and advocates should read it.
Bright Promise is a painfully sharp diamond of a book-gripping, startling, to the point, and extraordinarily well written and argued.