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Subject(s)

• Catholic Church—Doctrines [Browse]
• Habermas, Jürgen [Browse]
• Christianity and culture [Browse]
• Democracy [Browse]
• Liberalism [Browse]
• Social change [Browse]

Writer of foreword

• Rowland, Tracey, 1963- [Browse]

Summary note

"This book brings secular liberalism, as articulated by Jürgen Habermas, into conversation with the Catholic tradition. James Martin Carr explores three aspects of the Catholic tradition relevant to this debate: the Church's response to democracy from the nineteenth century up until the eve of the Second Vatican Council; the Council's engagement with modernity, in particular through Gaudium et spes and Dignitatis humanae; and Joseph Ratzinger's theology of politics as a particularly influential articulation of the Catholic tradition in this area. Jürgen Habermas's theorization of the place of religion in modern democracy, both in his earlier secularist phase and after his 'post-secular' turn, is evaluated. The adequacy of Habermas's recent attempts to accommodate religious citizens are critically examined and it is argued that developments in his later thought logically require a more thoroughgoing revision of his earlier theory. These developments, it is argued, create tantalizing openings for fruitful dialogue between Habermas and the Catholic tradition. Using analytical tools drawn from communications theory, the debates on same-sex marriage at Westminster and in the Irish referendum campaign are analyzed, assessing whether Catholic contributions to these debates comply with Habermasian rules of civic discourse. In light of this analysis, the prospects of, and impediments to, Catholic participation in public discourse are appraised"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Part I. Conversations with modernity: the Catholic encyclical tradition prior to Vatican II; the Second Vatican Council and postconciliar debates. Democracy and the Catholic encyclical tradition prior to Vatican II
• The contested meaning of freedom in modernity: the Second Vatican Council and postconciliar debates
• Joseph Ratzinger's critique of modernity's misconceived freedom: diagnosis and etiology of an intellectual virus
• Part II. Habermas, Catholicism, and the public sphere. Jürgen Habermas and religion before 9/11: from dogmatic atheism to self-questioning skepticism
• Habermas's fin de siècle "postsecular" turn
• Part III. Prospects for détente? Catholics in contemporary liberal democracy. Catholics in the public sphere: two case studies.

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ISBN

• 9780813235929 (hardcover)
• 0813235928 (hardcover)

LCCN

2022059498

OCLC

1329419711

Other standard number

• 40031680956

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