Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II (Routledge Radical Orthodoxy),Used
Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II (Routledge Radical Orthodoxy),Used
Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II (Routledge Radical Orthodoxy),Used

Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II (Routledge Radical Orthodoxy),Used

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Thomism's influence upon the development of Catholicism is difficult to overestimate but how secure is its grip on the challenges that face contemporary society? Culture and the Thomist Tradition examines the crisis of Thomism today as thrown into relief by Vatican II, the twentyfirst ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church. Following the Church's declarations on culture in the document Gaudium et spes the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World it was widely presumed that a mandate had been given for transposing ecclesiastical culture into the idioms of modernity. But, says Tracey Rowland, such an understanding is not only based on a facile reading of the Conciliar documents, but was made possible by Thomism's own failure to demonstrate a workable theology of culture that might guide the Church through such transpositions.A Thomism that fails to specify the precise rle of culture in moral fomration is problematice in a multicultural age, where Christians are exposed to a complex matrix of institutions and traditions both theistic and secular. The ambivalence of the Thomist tradition to modernity, and modern conceptions of rationality, also impedes its ability to successfully engage with the arguments of rivial traditions. Must a genuinely progressive Thomism learn to accomodate modernity? In opposition to such a stance, and in support of those who have resisted the trend in postConciliarliturgy to mimic the modernistic forms of mass culture, Culture and the Thomist Tradition musters a synthesis of the theological critiques of modernity to be found in the works of Alasdair MacIntyre, scholars of the international 'Communio' project and the Radical Orthodoxy circle. This synthesis, intended as a postmodern Augustinian Thomism, provides an account of the rle of culture, memory and narrative tradition in the formation of intellectual and moral character. Reevaluating the outcome of Vatican II, and forming the basis of a muchneeded Thomist theology of culture, the book argues that the antibeauty orientation of mass culture acts as a barrier to the theological virtue of hope, and ultimately fosters despair and atheism.

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