In this Book
- A Partisan Church: American Catholicism and the Rise of Neoconservative Catholics
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: The Catholic University of America Press
summary
In the wake of Vatican II and the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, disruption and disagreement rent the Catholic Church in America. Since then a diversity of opinions on a variety of political and religious questions found expression in the church, leading to a fragmented understanding of Catholic identity. Liberal, conservative, neoconservative and traditionalist Catholics competed to define what constituted an authentic Catholic worldview, thus making it nearly impossible to pinpoint a unique "Catholic position" on any given topic. A Partisan Church examines these controversies during the Reagan era and explores the way in which one group of intellectuals - well-known neoconservative Catholics such as George Weigel, Michael Novak, and Richard John Neuhaus - sought to reestablish a coherent and unified Catholic identity.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- 1. Both American and Catholic
- pp. 11-38
- 2. The Narrated Life
- pp. 39-73
- 3. From Abortion to Reagan
- pp. 74-96
- 4. A World Split Apart?
- pp. 97-136
- Conclusion
- pp. 220-222
- Bibliography
- pp. 223-240
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813227306
Related ISBN(s)
9780813227290
MARC Record
OCLC
908320850
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2015-05-02
Language
English
Open Access
No