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Critical belonging has been an essential feature of Christianity since its origin. This book shows how, by working collaboratively, the "people of God" can credibly meet past and present challenges together. In this way, the diversity and unity within the Christian community are acknowledged and affirmed.
List of contents
Introduction: Faithful and Free: Four Examples of Critical Belonging
I. The Roman Trinity: Religion, Tradition, and Authority
1. Toward a catholic Christianity
2. Athens and Jerusalem: Two Sources of Western Ethics
3. The Loss of Effective Authority: A Crisis of Trust and Credibility
II. The Old and the New: The Imperatives of Continuity and Innovation
4. Critical Christian Humanism
5. Seeking and Dwelling: Four Spiritual Journeys
6. The Common Good: An Exercise in Critical Retrieval
III. Reading the Signs of the Times
7. Intellectual Eros and the Quest for Understanding
8. Sexuality, Love, and Marriage
9. Practical Wisdom, Social Justice, and the Global Society
IV. Critical Aggiornamento: Renewing the Promise of Vatican II
10. Reforming the Church, Redeeming the World
11. To See Things Whole: Three Perspectives on a Catholic Modernity
12. Reflections on a Compassionate Papacy
Conclusion: A Closing Word
About the author
Michael Halpin McCarthy is professor emeritus of philosophy at Vassar College.
Summary
Critical belonging has been an essential feature of Christianity since its origin. This book shows how, by working collaboratively, the “people of God” can credibly meet past and present challenges together. In this way, the diversity and unity within the Christian community are acknowledged and affirmed.
