From Christendom to Americanism and beyond
Subtitle: the long, jagged trail to a postmodern world
By: Thomas Storck ; foreword by Joseph Pearce
Contributors: Pearce, Joseph
Publisher: Angelico Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Kettering, OH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781621381440
Subjects: History; Christianity and culture; Histoire; Christianisme et civilisation; Catholic Church; Église catholique
Description: From Christendom to Americanism and Beyond describes the momentous changes that occurred in the European cultural orbit from the end of the Middle Ages until the mid 20th century. During this period the Catholic unity of the West--what rightly was called Christendom--was lost, and the social order came to be organized on an entirely new basis. Instead of a society that attempted to arrange all its activity and institutions in a hierarchy directed toward God, now politics could become merely a series of power grabs, economic activity an aimless and unabashed striving for riches, and the work of artists simply a means of self-expression. Not only were the institutions and customs that had previously sought to guide human activity to the glory of God and the common good destroyed, but this destruction was justified--even celebrated--in the new theories and philosophies that arose during this time. Readers who want to understand the broad trends and movements that underlie historical events will find this book an excellent guide to the rise of modernity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: What was Christendom?; title: Religion and life in Christendom; title: Liberalism's three assaults; title: Europe, Christendom, and the faith; title: Reason, traditionalism and the enlightenment; title: The social order as community; title: The dissolutions of modernity and the Catholic response; title: Seeking beauty in art: Some implications of a Thomistic statement about glass saws; title: The making and unmaking of the English Catholic Intellectual Community, 1910-1950; title: The world, modernity, and the church; title: Christendom or Europe?; title: Christendom or the west?; title: Post-modernism and the end of an age; title: The Catholic vocations of the Americas; title: Government, society, and the common good; title: John Locke, liberal totalitarianism, and the trivialization of religion; title: The Catholic failure to change America; title: The end of the new deal coalition and the transformation of American politics; title: What happened in the 1960s; title: Toward a Biblical theology of history; title: The apostasy of the Gentiles.