Research Catalog

Title

The Catholic tradition / Thomas Langan.

Author

Langan, Thomas.

Publication

Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c1998.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description

535 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"In his Tradition and Authenticity in the Search for Ecumenic Wisdom, Thomas Langan argued that the close interaction of traditions in today's society calls for methodical critical appropriation of the beliefs fostered by the principal traditions. He also promised to demonstrate by example how such appropriation could be accomplished. In The Catholic Tradition, Langan successfully fulfills that vow by showing how a tradition - the Catholic - has shaped his own outlook." "In this comprehensive study, Langan examines the history of the Catholic Church and the origins of its teachings since the Church's conception. Although committed to the Catholic religion, Langan does not obscure the Church's failings as he lays out the fundamentals of the Catholic faith."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Catholic Church > Doctrines
• Tradition (Theology)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Why and how "appropriate one's traditions"?: a philosophical foreword -- The essential Catholic vision: a contemporary view -- Who is this Jesus?: a deepening understanding of Christ through the christological and iconoclastic crises -- The nature of the early Church -- The East-West crises: the great schism -- The Western Church's search for a new synthesis -- Medieval Catholocism: an incarnational religion -- The fabric rent: the Protestant Revolt and the origins of modernity -- The challenges of modernity -- The Church's response to modernity -- The "new anthropology" and the "new morality" -- The Church's openness to other "ways": the challenge and perils of ecumenism -- How can the tradition change, yet have an essence? How can truth be "eternal," yet unfold in history? -- Authencity and christic man -- The Church in the world of today: seeking to dwell in the center -- Index.

ISBN

0826211836 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98027053^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library