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Tables of Contents for Culture and the Thomist Tradition
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
ix
Foreword
xi
Introduction
1
8
PART I Culture as a theological problem
9
42
The treatment of culture in Gaudium et spes
11
24
Modernism and modernity
11
1
Modernity as a specific cultural formation
12
2
The Conciliar openness to modernity
14
3
`Culture' in Gaudium et spes
17
3
The need for a theological hermeneutic of culture
20
1
The neglect of important pre-Conciliar scholarship
21
1
Specific examples of the problematic
22
5
The `autonomy of culture'
27
2
Bernard Lambert's affirmation of `secularism'
29
1
The affirmation of the secular in Rahner and Maritain
30
2
Conclusion
32
3
`Culture' within post-Conciliar magisterial thought
35
16
Introduction
35
1
The split between the gospel and culture
35
2
The Christocentrism of JOhn Paul II
37
2
The culture of death and the liberal tradition
39
6
The Greco-Latin heritage
45
4
Conclusion
49
2
PART II Modernity and the Thomist tradition
51
62
The epistemic authority of `experts' and the ethos of modern institutions
53
19
The bureaucratised self
54
3
The eclipse of prudential judgment
57
3
Plain persons and professional administrators
60
3
The `onto-logic' of economic practices
63
2
The junction of `Aristotelian Marxism' with Thomism
65
4
Conclusion
69
3
`Mass culture' and the `right to culture'
72
20
The Aristocratic and Bourgeois Liberal models
73
3
The Nietzschean model
76
1
The `prototypical' classical Christian model
77
2
Memory and `sapiential experience'
79
4
The problem of `mass culture'
83
1
The possibility of a `modern Catholic self'
84
5
Conclusion
89
3
The logos of the Kultur of modernity
92
21
Invalidations of the secular
93
2
The logic of identities in relation
95
2
The mechanical form of the `secular logic'
97
3
The `culture of America'
100
5
The priority of doxology
105
2
The form of love
107
3
Conclusion
110
3
PART III A postmodern development of the tradition
113
56
Culture and the rationality of the tradition
115
21
The influence of R. G. Collingwood
116
2
The concept of a narrative tradition
118
7
`Smudging the boundaries' between philosophy and theology
125
2
Fides et ratio
127
3
Harmonising Aristotelian and Patristic elements
130
2
Certainty as `rational coherence'
132
2
Conclusion
134
2
Natural law and the culture of the tradition
136
23
MacIntyre's project and the New Natural Law theory
136
5
The absence of a narrative tradition
141
3
Religion as an `infrastructural' and `primary' good
144
4
The rhetoric of rights
148
9
Conclusion
157
2
Conclusion
159
10
Three requirements of any satisfactory response
162
3
The ongoing challenge of postmodern Augustinian Thomism
165
4
Notes
169
30
Abbreviations
199
3
Bibliography
202
14
Index
216