Bright promise, failed community : Catholics and the American public order
In this title, Joseph Varacalli describes how and why Catholic America has essentially failed to shape the American Republic in any significant way. He sees trends of thought that would propose viable alternatives to philosophies and ideologies that currently dominate the American public sphere.
xv, 133 pages ; 23 cm
9780739102923, 0739102923
46991115
Introduction: "What Hath Social Science to Do with Catholicism?": Tertullian Revisited
Ch. 1. Catholics and "Success" in the Contemporary American Republic: All That Glitters Is Not Gold
Ch. 2. The Discrediting and Unraveling of the Contemporary American Public Order
Ch. 3. The Pyrrhic Victory of Liberalism: The Exhaustion of an Inadequate Idea
Ch. 4. The American Culture War and the Civil War within the Catholic Church of the United States
Ch. 5. Not Enough: The Insufficiency of Evangelical Protestantism
Ch. 6. Reality Danied: On the Obsolescence of the Concept of the Natural Law
Ch. 7. Catholic Philosophical Vision, Catholic Historical Reality: The Need for a Catholic Plausibility Structure
Ch. 8. Post-World War II American Catholicism: Anticipating the Catholic Moment
Ch. 9. Secularization from Within: The Post-Vatican II Catholic Church in America
Ch. 10. A Failure in Vision and Nerve: The Present Accommodation of "Americanist" Catholic Leadership
Ch. 11. First Things First: Catholic Participation in Secular America
Ch. 12. The Catholic Vision and American Populism: A Case of Elective Affinity?
Ch. 13. John Paul II and the Restorationists: Picking Up the Pieces for a Real Catholic Moment
Ch. 14. Linking Heaven and Earth: The Catholic Contribution to Culture, Institutional Life, and the Individual
Conclusion: Staying the Course