Mario Telò
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199594627
- eISBN:
- 9780191595738
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199594627.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union, Political Theory
Mario Telò focuses on the intellectual impetus for the rise of a large domestic consensus in favour of a federal European Union achieved in Italy during the First Republic (1947–1992), particularly ...
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Mario Telò focuses on the intellectual impetus for the rise of a large domestic consensus in favour of a federal European Union achieved in Italy during the First Republic (1947–1992), particularly in the 1989 referendum, and addresses the role of intellectuals in explaining the continuities and discontinuities found in ideas about Europe between the First and Second Republic (1992–2008). The main argument is that the current normalisation of a pro–European intellectual presence in Italy maintains national particularities which cannot be explained without what the French historian Fernand Braudel called a longue durée approach. To this end, Telò demonstrates how seminal figures such as Altiero Spinelli and Alcide De Gasperi, and Catholic intellectuals more generally, laid the foundations for contemporary Italian narratives on Europe. He argues that these are now moving towards bipartisan convergences on EU Treaty ratification and a decline of the classical Euro‐federalist approach that are moving Italy closer to a mainstream stance of pro‐Europeanism.Less
Mario Telò focuses on the intellectual impetus for the rise of a large domestic consensus in favour of a federal European Union achieved in Italy during the First Republic (1947–1992), particularly in the 1989 referendum, and addresses the role of intellectuals in explaining the continuities and discontinuities found in ideas about Europe between the First and Second Republic (1992–2008). The main argument is that the current normalisation of a pro–European intellectual presence in Italy maintains national particularities which cannot be explained without what the French historian Fernand Braudel called a longue durée approach. To this end, Telò demonstrates how seminal figures such as Altiero Spinelli and Alcide De Gasperi, and Catholic intellectuals more generally, laid the foundations for contemporary Italian narratives on Europe. He argues that these are now moving towards bipartisan convergences on EU Treaty ratification and a decline of the classical Euro‐federalist approach that are moving Italy closer to a mainstream stance of pro‐Europeanism.
James T. Fisher and Margaret M. McGuinness (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823234103
- eISBN:
- 9780823240906
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823234103.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This is a rare book in an emerging field that has neither a documented history nor a consensus as to what should be a normative methodology. Dividing this volume into five interrelated themes central ...
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This is a rare book in an emerging field that has neither a documented history nor a consensus as to what should be a normative methodology. Dividing this volume into five interrelated themes central to the practice and theory of Catholic Studies —Sources and Contexts, Traditions and Methods, Pedagogy and Practice, Ethnicity, Race, and Catholic Studies, and The Catholic Imagination—the editors provide readers with the opportunity to understand the great diversity within this area of study. Readers will find essays on the Catholic intellectual tradition and Catholic social teaching, as well as reflections on the arts and literature.Less
This is a rare book in an emerging field that has neither a documented history nor a consensus as to what should be a normative methodology. Dividing this volume into five interrelated themes central to the practice and theory of Catholic Studies —Sources and Contexts, Traditions and Methods, Pedagogy and Practice, Ethnicity, Race, and Catholic Studies, and The Catholic Imagination—the editors provide readers with the opportunity to understand the great diversity within this area of study. Readers will find essays on the Catholic intellectual tradition and Catholic social teaching, as well as reflections on the arts and literature.
John J. Piderit and Melanie M. Morey (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199795307
- eISBN:
- 9780199932894
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199795307.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The essential activity of Catholic colleges and universities at the undergraduate level is teaching material that is enlightened, contrasted, or highlighted by Catholic perspectives. Until about ...
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The essential activity of Catholic colleges and universities at the undergraduate level is teaching material that is enlightened, contrasted, or highlighted by Catholic perspectives. Until about forty years ago this task was carried out predominantly by priests, sisters, and brothers. Bound to the Catholic Church in a special way, these people are no longer represented in significant numbers at Catholic institutions of higher education, and laypeople are now responsible for teaching in the Catholic tradition. The challenge is that priests, nuns, and brothers received extensive training in how the Catholic faith is related to the specific academic discipline they taught. Laypeople need “Catholic resources” if, following in the footsteps of the sisters, brothers, and priests, they wish to share the Catholic intellectual tradition with their students. At a Catholic institution a layperson in a particular academic discipline is expected to address religious themes that amplify or nuance the normal material presented in the secular discipline. Theology and philosophy are central to Catholic institutions of higher education. But laypeople who are inclined to include religious themes in their usual undergraduate classes play a vital role in strengthening the Catholic mission, identity, and character of a Catholic institution. This book provides resources for faculty members at Catholic institutions who want to incorporate Christian religious themes in the academic disciplines in which they are specialists.Less
The essential activity of Catholic colleges and universities at the undergraduate level is teaching material that is enlightened, contrasted, or highlighted by Catholic perspectives. Until about forty years ago this task was carried out predominantly by priests, sisters, and brothers. Bound to the Catholic Church in a special way, these people are no longer represented in significant numbers at Catholic institutions of higher education, and laypeople are now responsible for teaching in the Catholic tradition. The challenge is that priests, nuns, and brothers received extensive training in how the Catholic faith is related to the specific academic discipline they taught. Laypeople need “Catholic resources” if, following in the footsteps of the sisters, brothers, and priests, they wish to share the Catholic intellectual tradition with their students. At a Catholic institution a layperson in a particular academic discipline is expected to address religious themes that amplify or nuance the normal material presented in the secular discipline. Theology and philosophy are central to Catholic institutions of higher education. But laypeople who are inclined to include religious themes in their usual undergraduate classes play a vital role in strengthening the Catholic mission, identity, and character of a Catholic institution. This book provides resources for faculty members at Catholic institutions who want to incorporate Christian religious themes in the academic disciplines in which they are specialists.
Brian Sudlow
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719083112
- eISBN:
- 9781781703137
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719083112.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
The secularisation of mentalities in France and England was denoted by the shift towards a more anthropocentric conceptualisation of humanity and by the way in which certain secular discourses came ...
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The secularisation of mentalities in France and England was denoted by the shift towards a more anthropocentric conceptualisation of humanity and by the way in which certain secular discourses came to dominate the public mind. This chapter addresses how the French and English Catholic writers seek to undermine what Owen Chadwick famously called the secularisation of the European mind. The chapter considers the critique of naturalistic readings of the material world, of mechanisation, scientism and the secularising influence of German thought. Such critiques exemplify the need they felt of being buffered against secular mentalities at large. It examines the views of intellectual and anti-intellectual Catholic writers about the proper methodology with which to attack secular thought. This study shifts through the ways in which they asserted meaning in the cosmos by re-establishing links between the material and the spiritual domains.Less
The secularisation of mentalities in France and England was denoted by the shift towards a more anthropocentric conceptualisation of humanity and by the way in which certain secular discourses came to dominate the public mind. This chapter addresses how the French and English Catholic writers seek to undermine what Owen Chadwick famously called the secularisation of the European mind. The chapter considers the critique of naturalistic readings of the material world, of mechanisation, scientism and the secularising influence of German thought. Such critiques exemplify the need they felt of being buffered against secular mentalities at large. It examines the views of intellectual and anti-intellectual Catholic writers about the proper methodology with which to attack secular thought. This study shifts through the ways in which they asserted meaning in the cosmos by re-establishing links between the material and the spiritual domains.
James L. Heft (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823225255
- eISBN:
- 9780823236589
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823225255.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
How do Catholic intellectuals draw on faith in their work? And how does their work as scholars influence their lives as people of faith? In this book, ten leading figures explore the connections in ...
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How do Catholic intellectuals draw on faith in their work? And how does their work as scholars influence their lives as people of faith? In this book, ten leading figures explore the connections in their own lives between the private realms of faith and their public calling as teachers, scholars, and intellectuals. This last decade of Marianist Lectures brings together theologians and philosophers, historians, anthropologists, academic scholars, and lay intellectuals and critics. Here are Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., on the tensions between faith and theology in his career; Jill Ker Conway on the spiritual dimensions of memory and personal narrative; Mary Ann Glendon on the roots of human rights in Catholic social teaching; Mary Douglas on the fruitful dialogue between religion and anthropology in her own life; Peter Steinfels on what it really means to be a "liberal Catholic"; and Margaret O'Brien Steinfels on the complicated history of women in today's church. From Charles Taylor and David Tracy on the fractured relationship between Catholicism and modernity to Gustavo Gutierrez on the enduring call of the poor and Marcia Colish on the historic links between the church and intellectual freedom, these essays track a decade of provocative, illuminating, and essential thought.Less
How do Catholic intellectuals draw on faith in their work? And how does their work as scholars influence their lives as people of faith? In this book, ten leading figures explore the connections in their own lives between the private realms of faith and their public calling as teachers, scholars, and intellectuals. This last decade of Marianist Lectures brings together theologians and philosophers, historians, anthropologists, academic scholars, and lay intellectuals and critics. Here are Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., on the tensions between faith and theology in his career; Jill Ker Conway on the spiritual dimensions of memory and personal narrative; Mary Ann Glendon on the roots of human rights in Catholic social teaching; Mary Douglas on the fruitful dialogue between religion and anthropology in her own life; Peter Steinfels on what it really means to be a "liberal Catholic"; and Margaret O'Brien Steinfels on the complicated history of women in today's church. From Charles Taylor and David Tracy on the fractured relationship between Catholicism and modernity to Gustavo Gutierrez on the enduring call of the poor and Marcia Colish on the historic links between the church and intellectual freedom, these essays track a decade of provocative, illuminating, and essential thought.
Paul J. Griffiths
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190280031
- eISBN:
- 9780190280062
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190280031.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Catholic “threnodists” lament the state of the contemporary pagan (i.e., nonaffiliated with Christian or Jewish tradition) university; “spoliasts” look for and find the goods evident there, eager to ...
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Catholic “threnodists” lament the state of the contemporary pagan (i.e., nonaffiliated with Christian or Jewish tradition) university; “spoliasts” look for and find the goods evident there, eager to discover resources that permit the Church to arrive at a fuller understanding of revelation. Pagan universities can inculcate intellectual virtues and certain moral habits, but they cannot offer students or represent to faculty any shared unitary idea of what intellectual work is or what it is for, because there is no agreement on such an idea. Catholic intellectual tradition can give an account of intellectual life and of how its various specialties relate one to another. Practitioners of Catholic intellectual tradition within the pagan university should celebrate and expropriate—spoliate—the genuine goods that are there.Less
Catholic “threnodists” lament the state of the contemporary pagan (i.e., nonaffiliated with Christian or Jewish tradition) university; “spoliasts” look for and find the goods evident there, eager to discover resources that permit the Church to arrive at a fuller understanding of revelation. Pagan universities can inculcate intellectual virtues and certain moral habits, but they cannot offer students or represent to faculty any shared unitary idea of what intellectual work is or what it is for, because there is no agreement on such an idea. Catholic intellectual tradition can give an account of intellectual life and of how its various specialties relate one to another. Practitioners of Catholic intellectual tradition within the pagan university should celebrate and expropriate—spoliate—the genuine goods that are there.
James L. Heft and Una M. Cadegan (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190280031
- eISBN:
- 9780190280062
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190280031.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This book contains chapters covering theology, history, law, and media studies of religion about the current situation and potential of Catholic intellectual life. Most of the chapters originated as ...
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This book contains chapters covering theology, history, law, and media studies of religion about the current situation and potential of Catholic intellectual life. Most of the chapters originated as presentations in a September 2013 conference but have been expanded and edited for this book. Their organizing idea is that Catholic intellectual work always occurs “in the lógos of love,” as described by Pope Benedict XVI in his 2009 encyclical, Caritas in Veritate. This description of truth opening and uniting minds offers rich possibilities for thinking about contemporary intellectual life. Topics include the place of Catholic intellectual tradition in professional education and in the secular university; emerging understandings of the role of women, especially in the study of gender and sexuality, but in many other areas as well; the relationship between the United States and the global church; and the role of the media in depicting Catholicism and in transforming what is necessary in handing on a tradition.Less
This book contains chapters covering theology, history, law, and media studies of religion about the current situation and potential of Catholic intellectual life. Most of the chapters originated as presentations in a September 2013 conference but have been expanded and edited for this book. Their organizing idea is that Catholic intellectual work always occurs “in the lógos of love,” as described by Pope Benedict XVI in his 2009 encyclical, Caritas in Veritate. This description of truth opening and uniting minds offers rich possibilities for thinking about contemporary intellectual life. Topics include the place of Catholic intellectual tradition in professional education and in the secular university; emerging understandings of the role of women, especially in the study of gender and sexuality, but in many other areas as well; the relationship between the United States and the global church; and the role of the media in depicting Catholicism and in transforming what is necessary in handing on a tradition.
Una M. Cadegan
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190280031
- eISBN:
- 9780190280062
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190280031.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Walker Percy suggested old confidence was gone but new beliefs had not emerged to replace it. One possibility—that love and truth go together (caritas in veritate) and mutually undergird intellectual ...
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Walker Percy suggested old confidence was gone but new beliefs had not emerged to replace it. One possibility—that love and truth go together (caritas in veritate) and mutually undergird intellectual work—seems like an ancient (even outdated) idea but has significant new possibilities. The history of the past 50 years of the Catholic academy needs to be reconsidered in light of preceding centuries. It could open the door to reconnecting theology to other disciplines (especially philosophy). Building on the tradition of modern Catholic social teaching, it could spur fresh reflection on the connection between the value-neutral ethos and intense specialization of the natural and social sciences and the clear need for academic and intellectual work to serve the human community. Ironically, it may be most useful to confront the future by mining the past, in approaching this question afresh. Despite crises internal and external to Catholicism, the resources of Catholic intellectual life are both more accessible and more urgently needed than ever before.Less
Walker Percy suggested old confidence was gone but new beliefs had not emerged to replace it. One possibility—that love and truth go together (caritas in veritate) and mutually undergird intellectual work—seems like an ancient (even outdated) idea but has significant new possibilities. The history of the past 50 years of the Catholic academy needs to be reconsidered in light of preceding centuries. It could open the door to reconnecting theology to other disciplines (especially philosophy). Building on the tradition of modern Catholic social teaching, it could spur fresh reflection on the connection between the value-neutral ethos and intense specialization of the natural and social sciences and the clear need for academic and intellectual work to serve the human community. Ironically, it may be most useful to confront the future by mining the past, in approaching this question afresh. Despite crises internal and external to Catholicism, the resources of Catholic intellectual life are both more accessible and more urgently needed than ever before.
Nicholas K. Rademacher
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823276769
- eISBN:
- 9780823277292
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823276769.003.0012
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Furfey’s legacy is considered. A succinct summary of Furfey’s professional accomplishments leads to a consideration of Furfey’s view on the role of the Catholic intellectual in society. He advises ...
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Furfey’s legacy is considered. A succinct summary of Furfey’s professional accomplishments leads to a consideration of Furfey’s view on the role of the Catholic intellectual in society. He advises that the Catholic intellectual should avoid the extremes of ultra-conservatism or ultra-liberalism. Instead, the intellectual must remain open to facts through intelligent study of social reality; she must reflect on that data through the sources of Christian revelation; she must act on that data to promote the common good. Reference is made to the University of Central America as an example of a university that has made a total commitment to participating in social change for social justice.Less
Furfey’s legacy is considered. A succinct summary of Furfey’s professional accomplishments leads to a consideration of Furfey’s view on the role of the Catholic intellectual in society. He advises that the Catholic intellectual should avoid the extremes of ultra-conservatism or ultra-liberalism. Instead, the intellectual must remain open to facts through intelligent study of social reality; she must reflect on that data through the sources of Christian revelation; she must act on that data to promote the common good. Reference is made to the University of Central America as an example of a university that has made a total commitment to participating in social change for social justice.
Scott Appleby
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190280031
- eISBN:
- 9780190280062
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190280031.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Catholic intellectual life in the United States has primarily been housed in Catholic colleges and universities. These institutions broadened their curricula, research, faculty, and students in the ...
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Catholic intellectual life in the United States has primarily been housed in Catholic colleges and universities. These institutions broadened their curricula, research, faculty, and students in the years surrounding Vatican II, while embracing Catholic social teaching as a resource for engagement beyond the Church. The current generation of Catholic students is both less formed by a Catholic subculture and less inclined toward intellectual life. How, then, will Catholic intellectual life be sustained? Expanding the horizon of Catholic social engagement and spirituality beyond the United States is a promising way to engage young adults and renew the American Church. The missionary roots of American Catholic globalization, as seen in the history of religious orders such as Maryknoll, have been succeeded by a generation of students and young people committed to a discourse of global justice. This new generation’s experience may help reinvigorate theology, Catholic intellectual life, and the Church itself.Less
Catholic intellectual life in the United States has primarily been housed in Catholic colleges and universities. These institutions broadened their curricula, research, faculty, and students in the years surrounding Vatican II, while embracing Catholic social teaching as a resource for engagement beyond the Church. The current generation of Catholic students is both less formed by a Catholic subculture and less inclined toward intellectual life. How, then, will Catholic intellectual life be sustained? Expanding the horizon of Catholic social engagement and spirituality beyond the United States is a promising way to engage young adults and renew the American Church. The missionary roots of American Catholic globalization, as seen in the history of religious orders such as Maryknoll, have been succeeded by a generation of students and young people committed to a discourse of global justice. This new generation’s experience may help reinvigorate theology, Catholic intellectual life, and the Church itself.
James L. Heft and Una M. Cadegan
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190280031
- eISBN:
- 9780190280062
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190280031.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This introduction describes the thinking and process behind the “in the lógos of love” conference held in September 2013, cosponsored by the University of Dayton and the Institute for Advanced ...
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This introduction describes the thinking and process behind the “in the lógos of love” conference held in September 2013, cosponsored by the University of Dayton and the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, exploring the current challenges and future possibilities of Catholic intellectual life. It identifies a number of factors, both positive and negative, that form the recent history and current context for intellectual work informed by Catholic tradition. It then briefly summarizes each of the nine essays included in the volume, along with a short description of possible audiences and uses for the essays, especially in faculty development at Catholic universities. It concludes with a short reflection on the themes of the originating conference’s keynote address, given by Richard Rodriguez.Less
This introduction describes the thinking and process behind the “in the lógos of love” conference held in September 2013, cosponsored by the University of Dayton and the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, exploring the current challenges and future possibilities of Catholic intellectual life. It identifies a number of factors, both positive and negative, that form the recent history and current context for intellectual work informed by Catholic tradition. It then briefly summarizes each of the nine essays included in the volume, along with a short description of possible audiences and uses for the essays, especially in faculty development at Catholic universities. It concludes with a short reflection on the themes of the originating conference’s keynote address, given by Richard Rodriguez.
