The Renewal of Civilization: Essays in Honor of Jacques Maritain (Publications of the American Maritain Association)

by: Gavin T. Colvert (Author),Gavin Colvert(Author)

Publisher: American Maritain Association

Publication Date: November 28, 2010

Language: English

Print Length: 292 pages

ISBN-10: 0966922697

ISBN-13: 9780966922691

Book Description

One of the twentieth century’s leading Catholic philosophers, Jacques Maritain uniquely wove together religious belief with the various cultural, intellectual, and political conces of his time. Toward the end of his life, the Vatican II document Gaudium et Spes (Joy and Hope): The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Mode World (1965) appeared and provided a blueprint for a new engagement between the Church and modeity. The challenge issued by this document was breathtaking in its scope and purpose. The Church, while “scrutinizing the signs of the times” and interpreting them in the light of the Gospel, must “respond to the perennial questions which men ask about the present life and the life to come, and about the relationship of the one to the other.” Surveying this situation, Maritain understood with clarity that Gaudium et Spes invited an inteal renewal within the Church that would also be the catalyst for a renewal of civilization. A true dialogue with modeity could not simply review traditional sources without striving for new insight in engagement with the new situation. Eteal truth could be applied to achieve true aggioamento in light of modeity’s deep and accelerating difficulties.In this collection of essays published by the American Maritain Association, leading philosophers address the project of civilizational renewal including its ethical, political, aesthetic, and religious dimensions. The authors provide a variety of perspectives, both critical and hopeful, conceing such questions as the common good, moral truth, the virtues, culture, art and the beautiful, Christian morality and metaphysics, and the vocation of a Christian intellectual. In addition to referencing the work of Jacques Maritain, the essays draw on traditional and contemporary philosophical and theological sources.The contributors are Joseph J. Califano, St. John’s University, New York; Carlos Casanova, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile; J. L. A. Garcia, Boston College; Marie I. George, St. John’s University; James G. Hanink, Loyola Marymount University; James M. Jacobs, Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans; Patrick Lee, Franciscan University of Steubenville; Alice M. Ramos, St. John’s University; James V. Schall, S.J., Georgetown University; Denis A. Scrandis, St. John’s University; Peter Simpson, CUNY ; Robert Sokolowski, Catholic University of America; Joseph M. de Torre, University of Asia and the Pacific; Michael D. Torre, University of San Francisco ; John G. Trapani Jr., Walsh University; and Coelia A. Tsakiridou, LaSalle University.
One of the twentieth century’s leading Catholic philosophers, Jacques Maritain uniquely wove together religious belief with the various cultural, intellectual, and political conces of his time. Toward the end of his life, the Vatican II document Gaudium et Spes (Joy and Hope): The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Mode World (1965) appeared and provided a blueprint for a new engagement between the Church and modeity. The challenge issued by this document was breathtaking in its scope and purpose. The Church, while “scrutinizing the signs of the times” and interpreting them in the light of the Gospel, must “respond to the perennial questions which men ask about the present life and the life to come, and about the relationship of the one to the other.” Surveying this situation, Maritain understood with clarity that Gaudium et Spes invited an inteal renewal within the Church that would also be the catalyst for a renewal of civilization. A true dialogue with modeity could not simply review traditional sources without striving for new insight in engagement with the new situation. Eteal truth could be applied to achieve true aggioamento in light of modeity’s deep and accelerating difficulties.In this collection of essays published by the American Maritain Association, leading philosophers address the project of civilizational renewal including its ethical, political, aesthetic, and religious dimensions. The authors provide a variety of perspectives, both critical and hopeful, conceing such questions as the common good, moral truth, the virtues, culture, art and the beautiful, Christian morality and metaphysics, and the vocation of a Christian intellectual. In addition to referencing the work of Jacques Maritain, the essays draw on traditional and contemporary philosophical and theological sources.The contributors are Joseph J. Califano, St. John’s University, New York; Carlos Casanova, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile; J. L. A. Garcia, Boston College; Marie I. George, St. John’s University; James G. Hanink, Loyola Marymount University; James M. Jacobs, Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans; Patrick Lee, Franciscan University of Steubenville; Alice M. Ramos, St. John’s University; James V. Schall, S.J., Georgetown University; Denis A. Scrandis, St. John’s University; Peter Simpson, CUNY ; Robert Sokolowski, Catholic University of America; Joseph M. de Torre, University of Asia and the Pacific; Michael D. Torre, University of San Francisco ; John G. Trapani Jr., Walsh University; and Coelia A. Tsakiridou, LaSalle University. Read more