The Irony of Modern Catholic History
How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform
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The Irony of Modern Catholic History
Narrateur(s):
Rick Adamson
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Narrateur(s):
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Rick Adamson
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George Weigel
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Throughout much of the nineteenth century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph of modernity would not only finish the Church as a consequential player in world history; it would also lead to the death of religious conviction. But today, the Catholic Church is far more vital and consequential than it was 150 years ago. Ironically, in confronting modernity, the Catholic Church rediscovered its evangelical essence. In the process, Catholicism developed intellectual tools capable of rescuing the imperiled modern project.
A richly rendered, deeply learned, and powerfully argued account of two centuries of profound change in the church and the world, The Irony of Modern Catholic History reveals how Catholicism offers twenty-first century essential truths for our survival and flourishing.
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"As with all Weigel's writing, this story is well told-richly illustrated with lively anecdotes, cogent summaries of complex ideas, and revealing quotations."—National Review
"Weigel advances a bold but credible interpretation of almost 200 years of ecclesiastical history, tracing the Church's engagement with modernity from the 19th century through today.... Weigel's ideas are certainly worth serious examination. Highly recommended."—National Catholic Register
"A fascinating look at the Catholic Church's encounter with modernity...Weigel is at once highly intellectual and thoroughly accessible as a writer as well as balanced and opinionated...A must-read book for Catholics and devotees of religious history."—Kirkus (starred review)
"George Weigel is the most interesting and authoritative American scholar and analyst of the Roman Catholic Church...[His] book is intended to refute the common notion that Catholicism has resisted modernity consistently and mostly ineffectively and has suffered as a consequence of its stubborn refusal to 'change with the times.' The truth, Weigel shows, is much more complicated than that."—New York Journal of Books
"[An] important new work...St. Teresa of Avila had it right when she said that 'God writes straight with crooked lines.' George Weigel's The Irony of Modern Catholic History traces those crooked lines in modern church history."—Washington Times
"A comprehensive interpretation of the history of the Catholic Church's encounter with modernity...This story is well told."—First Things
"Weigel ranks among the leading Christian public intellectuals of the past four decades. Stylistically, The Irony of Modern Catholic History is a pleasure to read. But the easy style disguises the fact that it's also an exercise in superb historical scholarship, from the reactionary Pope Gregory XVI in the mid-19th century, through the Modernist crisis and Vatican II, to the present."—Crisis Magazine
"Compelling...Weigel has a great eye for facts that raise eyebrows and provoke reflection...[He] is also a high-calibre phrasemaker."—Catholic Herald (UK)
"Weigel ranks among the leading Christian public intellectuals of the past four decades. Stylistically, The Irony of Modern Catholic History is a pleasure to read. But the easy style disguises the fact that it's also an exercise in superb historical scholarship, from the reactionary Pope Gregory XVI in the mid-19th century, through the Modernist crisis and Vatican II, to the present."—Catholic Philly
Weigel manifests a great deal of wisdom and boldness. He does not shy away from denouncing a certain "bull-headed" attitude characterizing some 17th century pontiffs (towards, say, evangelization efforts in China or in the Roman Church' dealings with the Christian East) and which find their echo among some Latin traditionalists today (whose traditionalism is in fact no more ancient than the 16th century counter-Reformation). With equal clarity, he exposes the counterfeit message of the liberalizing forces that would see the Catholic Church relegate anything challenging that is found in Biblical revelation and the deposit of the Faith to the shelves. And refreshingly, he denounces forcefully the widespread corruption that has allowed the sex abuse scandals to proliferate.
If the Good News is of any value (and we have good reason to believe that it is), then it is specifically to challenge all men and all women -- and all of modernity -- to rediscover God's place in history and the meaning of human life, which transcends a one-dimensional materialist outlook.
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