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Believing Scholars
Ten Catholic Intellectuals
James L. Heft, S. M.
$22.00
ISBN: 9780823225262
Book (Paperback)
200 pages
October 2005
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"Leading figures explore the connections between their deep faith and their callings as teachers, scholars, and intellectuals."
—Publishers Weekly
"...Scholars of religion and other disciplines descripe how their Catholic faith and their academic life have influenced each other."—Reference and Research
"A scholarly collection of works depicting the connections of private lives of faith and public lives as teachers, students, and intellectuals told from the perspective of leading public figures."—Midwest Book Review
"To sit with this collection of lectures from Marianist Award recipients is to be exposed to the thrilling diversity that is the life of Catholic fides et ratio."—Books & Culture How do Catholic intellectuals draw on faith in their work? And how does
their work as scholars influence their lives as people of faith?
For more than a generation, the University of Dayton has invited a prominent
Catholic intellectual to present the annual Marianist Award Lecture on the
general theme of the encounter of faith and profession. Over the years, the
lectures have become central to the Catholic conversation about church,
culture, and society.
In this book, ten leading figures explore the connections in their own lives
between the private realms of faith and their public calling as teachers,
scholars, and intellectuals.
This last decade of Marianist Lectures brings together theologians and
philosophers, historians, anthropologists, academic scholars, and lay
intellectuals and critics.
Here are Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., on the tensions between faith and
theology in his career; Jill Ker Conway on the spiritual dimensions of memory
and personal narrative; Mary Ann Glendon on the roots of human rights in
Catholic social teaching; Mary Douglas on the fruitful dialogue between
religion and anthropology in her own life; Peter Steinfels on what it really
means to be a “liberal Catholic”; and Margaret O’Brien Steinfels on the
complicated history of women in today’s church. From Charles Taylor and
David Tracy on the fractured relationship between Catholicism and modernity
to Gustavo Gutiérrez on the enduring call of the poor and Marcia Colish on
the historic links between the church and intellectual freedom, these essays
track a decade of provocative, illuminating, and essential thought.
| James L. Heft, S.M., is President and Founding Director of the Institute
for Advanced Catholic Studies and University Professor of Faith and Culture
and Chancellor, University of Dayton. He has edited Beyond Violence:
Religious Sources for Social Transformation in Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam (Fordham). |
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