On the road to Emmaus the Catholic dialogue with America and modernity / [electronic resource] :
Glenn W. Olsen.
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2012.
- 1 online resource (vii, 316 p.)
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.
Christianity and culture--History--United States--21st century. Church and state--History--United States--21st century. Christianity and politics--History--United States--21st century. RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues RELIGION / Christianity / General