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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: James L. Heft (University Professor of Faith and Culture, University Professor of Faith and Culture, University of Dayton)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 14.70cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.308kg ISBN: 9780195131611ISBN 10: 0195131614 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 21 October 1999 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"1: Charles Taylor: A Catholic Modernity? 2: William M. Shea: ""A Vote of Thanks to Voltaire"" 3: Rosemary Luling-Haughton: Transcendence and the Bewilderment of Being Modern 4: George Marsden: Matteo Ricci and the Prodigal Culture 5: Jean Bethke Elshtain: Augustine and Diversity 6: Charles Taylor: Concluding Reflections and Comments"ReviewsContains a remarkably succinct and explicit statement of Taylor's most basic religious commitments, responses by fellow Catholic scholars, and Taylor's concluding reflections and comments. * Commonweal * <br> Contains a remarkably succinct and explicit statement of [Taylor's] most basic religious commitments, responses by fellow Catholic scholars, and Taylor's concluding reflections and comments. --Commonweal<p><br> A very little but very important book....Taylor's lecture and the discussion surrounding it offer an occasion of rare grace and lucidity in trying to understand how to be Christian in a culture whose intellectual elites have, for the most part, decided that Christianity is either irrelevant or threatening. --First Things<p><br> Each of the book's eleven chapters is widely informed, and Heft has a gift for articulately summarizing and sharing the literature he reviews... I was impressed andw by this book which deserves a readership wider than its title implies... This book is highly recommended for all libraries. --American Catholic Studies<p><br> """Contains a remarkably succinct and explicit statement of [Taylor's] most basic religious commitments, responses by fellow Catholic scholars, and Taylor's concluding reflections and comments.""--Commonweal ""A very little but very important book....Taylor's lecture and the discussion surrounding it offer an occasion of rare grace and lucidity in trying to understand how to be Christian in a culture whose intellectual elites have, for the most part, decided that Christianity is either irrelevant or threatening.""--First Things ""Each of the book's eleven chapters is widely informed, and Heft has a gift for articulately summarizing and sharing the literature he reviews... I was impressed andw by this book which deserves a readership wider than its title implies... This book is highly recommended for all libraries."" --American Catholic Studies" Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |