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Catholicism contending with modernity
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ISBN: 0521770718 9780521770712 9780511520136 9780521175029 052117502X 0511520131 051183960X Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This book is a case study in the ongoing struggle of Christianity to define its relationship to modernity, examining representative Roman Catholic Modernists and anti-Modernists, exploring their relationship to their own historical context. Its aim is to counteract the tendency to lift the proposals made by the Modernists out of their setting and define them as a coherent, timeless philosophical/theological outlook, which should be avoided. The book seeks to correct the proclivity of some contemporary proponents of Modernist ideas to de-contextualize those ideas and recommend their endorsement without a critical reconsideration of historical changes. It sketches the nineteenth-century background of the Modernist crisis, identifying the problems that the church was facing at the beginning of the twentieth century; and offers a fresh perspective on the Modernist crisis, a perspective arising from the pioneering work undertaken by the Roman Catholic Modernism Working Group of the American Academy of Religion.

The modernist enterprise : French elites and the threat of modernity, 1900-1940
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ISBN: 0804735115 Year: 1999 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.): Stanford university press

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In a departure from existing views of modernity, Marjorie Beale looks at the ways ideas were transmitted within the French e;lite of the early twentieth century, and how they were deformed to suit the needs of their users. Studying individuals from outside the precincts of official high culture and the Parisian avant-garde, she analyzes the e;lites' response to various challenges to the old order: the establishment of mass democracy, the new role of workers and the middle classes in shaping public opinion, new technology, and the rise of American-style consumer capitalism. Focusing on the growth of scientific management, the development of state planning and industrial rationalization, and the evolution of mass communication such as advertising and the press, the author shows how business and commercial e;lites tried to appropriate and divert these new forces, balancing tradition with a cautious acceptance of various elements of modernity.

Acton and history
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ISBN: 0521570743 0521893186 0511585233 0511004877 9780521570749 9780511004872 9780511585234 9780521893183 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge University press

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This is an edited collection of Owen Chadwick's principal writings on Lord Acton, the distinguished Victorian historian and founder of The Cambridge Modern History. Some of the pieces are no longer readily available, while one has never before appeared in English. All have been revised, sometimes extensively. Acton (1834-1902) was born in Naples, the grandson of the Neapolitan prime minister Sir John Acton. Educated at Munich University, he sat as a Liberal MP 1859-64, was created a baron in 1869, and in 1895 was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. This book explains the important aspects of Acton's complex mind and his great contribution to historical studies. Professor Chadwick, himself a former holder of Acton's Regius Chair, is the leading senior authority both on Acton and on matters of church and state in the nineteenth century.

Lord Acton
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ISBN: 0300129807 9780300129809 9780300079562 0300079567 Year: 2000 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."-Lord Acton, 1887Lord Acton (1834-1902), numbered among the most esteemed Victorian historical thinkers, was much respected for his vast learning, his ideas on politics and religion, and his lifelong preoccupation with human freedom. Yet Acton was in many ways an outsider. He stood apart from his contemporaries, doubting the notion of unlimited progress and the blessings of nationalism and democracy. He differed from fellow members of the English upper class, holding to his Catholic faith. And he angered other Catholic believers by fiercely opposing the doctrine of papal infallibility. In this remarkable biography, Roland Hill is the first to make full use of the vast collection of books, documents, and private papers in the Acton archives to tell the story of the enigmatic Lord Acton. The book describes Acton's extended family of European aristocrats, his cosmopolitan upbringing, and his disrupted education. Drawing a lively picture of politics and religion at the time, Hill discusses Acton's brief career as a Liberal member of Parliament, his work as editor and owner of learned Catholic journals, his battles for freedom for and in the Catholic Church, his friendship with William E. Gladstone, and his seven years as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. Though unable to complete The Cambridge Modern History series he envisaged, Acton transformed historical study and left a legacy of ideas that continues to influence historians today.


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The politics of heresy : the modernist crisis in Roman catholicism
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ISBN: 0520055373 Year: 1986 Publisher: Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press

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