On the Road to Emmaus: The Catholic Dialogue with America and Modernity

Contents

contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part 1. Catholic Incarnational Humanism 1. The “Catholic Moment” and the Question of Inculturation 19 2. The Investiture Contest 51 3. Lay Spirituality ad majorem Dei gloriam 72 4. Christian Faith in a Neo-Pagan Society 81 5. Thy Kingdom Come on Earth as in Heaven: The Place of the Family in Creation 101 Part 2. The Encounter with American Political Culture 6. Separating Church and State 125 7. Religion, Politics, and America at the Millennium 145 8. America as an Enlightenment Culture 174 9. John Rawls and the Flight from Authority: The Quest for Equality as an Exercise in Primitivism 188 10. The Quest for a Public Philosophy in Twentieth-Century American Political Thought 211 vi Contents Part 3. The Encounter with Europe, Native Americans, and Modernity 11. Unity, Plurality, and Subsidiarity in Twentieth-Century Context 239 12. The Ethics of Conquest: The European Background of Spain’s Mission in the New World 254 Bibliography 271 Index 305 ...