What is Truth?
From the Academy to the Vatican
- Author: John M. Rist, University of Toronto
- Date Published: August 2008
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521717755
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This book studies the nature, growth and prospects of Roman Catholic culture, viewed as capable of appropriating all that is noble both from internal and external sources. John Rist tests his argument via a number of avenues: man's creation in the image of God and historical difficulties about incorporating women into that vision; the relationship between God's mercy and justice; the possibility of Christian aesthetics; the early development of the see of Rome as the source of an indispensable doctrinal unity for Christian culture; the search for the proper role of the Church in politics. He also argues that such an understanding of Catholic culture is necessary if contemporary assumptions about inalienable rights and the value of the human person are to be defended. The alternatives are a value-free, individualist universe on the one hand, and a fundamentalist denial of human nature and of history on the other.
Read more- A controversial and fascinating book addressing perennial religious and ethical questions
- Shows how Christian culture has something vital to offer humanity and much to learn from non-Christians
- Argues that Catholic culture is an essential foundation of modern civilisation, providing a way between fundamentalism and anarchy in its search for truth and goodness
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- Date Published: August 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521717755
- length: 376 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 152 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.6kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: partial and universal truth
1. The human race: or, how could women be created in the image and likeness of God?
2. Divine justice and man's 'genetic' flaw
3. Divine beauty: nature, art and humanity
4. The origin and early development of episcopacy at Rome
5. Caesaropapism, theocracy or neo-Augustinian politics?
6. The Catholic Church in 'modern' and 'post-modern' culture
7. Looking at hopes and fears in the rear mirror.
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