The Debate on Modernity

Geffre, Claude & Jean-Pierre Jossua

ISBN 10: 033403017X / ISBN 13: 9780334030171

Published by Concilium, London, 1992

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130 pages. Solid with light wear on the covers and the interior is unmarked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Debate on Modernity
• Publisher: Concilium, London
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 033403017X
• ISBN 13: 9780334030171
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Towards a theological interpretation of modernity / Claude Geffré and Jean-Pierre Jossua -- The historical destiny of modernity -- Modernity: A sociological perspective / Gregory Baum -- Catholicism and modernity: A process of mutual exclusion / Emile Poulat -- The philosophical critique of modernity / Helmut Peukert -- Attempts at reconciling modernity and religion in Catholic and Protestant theology / Christoph Theobald -- Postmodernity: its seductions-and a critique -- The end of enlightenment: Post-modern or post-secular? / John Milbank -- Between praxis and theory: theology in a crisis over orientation / Werner Jeanrond -- The reciprocal exclusiveness of modernity and religion among contemporary thinkers: Jürgen Habermas and Marcel Gauchet / Anne Fortin-Melkevik -- The crisis of modernity and the Church's attitudes -- What is Christian about Europe? / Rudolf von Thadden -- The debate about modernity in the North Atlantic world and the Third World / Juan Carlos Scannone -- The attitude of the Church to the modern world at and after Vatican II / Giovanni Turbanti.