On the road to Emmaus [electronic resource] : the Catholic dialogue with America and modernity / Glenn W. Olsen.
Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2012.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 316 p.)ISBN:- 9780813219554 (electronic bk.)
- 0813219558 (electronic bk.)
- Christianity and culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Church and state -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Christianity and politics -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Catholic Church -- Doctrines
- RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues
- RELIGION / Christianity / General
- 261/.10973 23
- BR115.C8 O485 2012eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-303) and index.
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.
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