The Church Confronts Modernity
Subtitle: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era (Religion and American Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: November 10, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780231131872
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; c 1800 to c 1900; Religion - Classic Works; Religion; Religion - Catholicism; USA; Christianity - Catholic; Religion / General; Christianity - History - General; Christianity - Catholicism
First sentence: WHEN FATHER THOMAS J. GERRARD opened the July 1912 issue of the monthly Catholic World with a lengthy article titled "Modern Theories and Moral Disaster," he conveyed the unease felt by American Catholic thinkers as they surveyed their intellectual milieu in the early twentieth century.