The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform by Weigel, George

The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780465094332)

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The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform by Weigel, George

The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform

$30.00
The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform by Weigel, George

The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform

$30.00
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectuals
Throughout much of the nineteenth century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph of modernity would not only finish the Church as a consequential player in world history; it would also lead to the death of religious conviction. But today, the Catholic Church is far more vital and consequential than it was 150 years ago. Ironically, in confronting modernity, the Catholic Church rediscovered its evangelical essence. In the process, Catholicism developed intellectual tools capable of rescuing the imperiled modern project.
A richly rendered, deeply learned, and powerfully argued account of two centuries of profound change in the church and the world, The Irony of Modern Catholic History reveals how Catholicism offers twenty-first century essential truths for our survival and flourishing.

Author: George Weigel
ISBN-10: 0465094333
ISBN-13: 9780465094332
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2019
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2019 pg. 85
By George Weigel
By George Weigel
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George Weigel is distinguished senior fellow of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center and one of America's leading public intellectuals. The first volume of his biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, was a New York Times bestseller, and his writing appears regularly in a variety of publications, including the Wall Street Journal. He lives in North Bethesda, Maryland.

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