Title: The irony of modern Catholic history : how the Church rediscovered itself and challenged the modern world to reform /
Authors: Weigel, George, 1951-
Year: 2019
Subjects: Catholic Church History; Catholic Church History; Catholic Church History; Catholic Church; Modernism (Christian theology) Catholic Church History; Catholics Intellectual life
Abstract: "Throughout much of the nineteenth century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph of modernity would not only finish the Church as a consequential player in world history; it would also lead to the death of religious conviction. But today, the Catholic Church is far more vital and consequential than it was 200 years ago. Ironically, in its sometimes-bruising encounter with modernity Catholicism rediscovered its evangelical essence and developed intellectual tools capable of rescuing the imperiled modern project."--
Contents: Act one. Catholicism against modernity -- Act two. Catholicism explores modernity, gingerly -- Act three. Catholicism embracing modernity -- Act four. Catholicism critiques modernity from within -- Act five. Catholicism converting modernity.