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The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era
The Church Confronts Modernity Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era Author:Thomas E. Woods Jr. This book discusses the Catholic intellectual critique of modernity during the period immediately before and after the turn of the nineteenth century. Defenders of the faith opposed William James, John Dewey, and other representatives of Pragmatism as it played out in ethics, education, and nationalism. Their goals were to found an economic and ... more »political philosophy based on natural law, to appropriate what good they could find in Progressivism to the benefit of the Church, and to make America a Catholic country. The book explores how the decidedly nonpluralistic institution of Christianity responded to an increasingly pluralistic intellectual environment.« less