Catholicism and modernity has proven to be a volatile mix. Illustrations are legion, and perhaps as tiresome as they are inescapable in the daily lives of Catholics. The two Vatican Councils present very different equations for the relationship. Today the church can be understood as a constant negotiation toward a grammar and syntax for the church and the modern world. Theodore (...)
November 06, 2009
Books
The Unquenchable Thirst
Modes of FaithSecular Surrogates for Lost Religious BeliefTheodore ZiolkowskiThe University of Chicago Press, $35, 296 pp.
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