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ERNEST L. FORTIN: COLLECTED ESSAYS
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FOREWORD - THE PROPAEDEUTIC THEOLOGY OF ERNEST L. FORTIN
ABOUT THIS VOLUME
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I - THE EARLY CHURCH AND THE WISDOM OF THE GREEKS
1 - THE REBIRTH OF PATRISTIC STUDIES
WHO ARE THE CHURCH FATHERS?
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE FATHERS
THE CAUSES OF THE PATRISTIC RENEWAL
FACES OF RENEWAL
NOTES
2 - THE CHURCH FATHERS AND THE TRANSMISSION OF THE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE
I
II
III
IV
NOTES
3 - THE NATURE OF THE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE
NOTES
4 - THE “RHETORIC” OF THE CHURCH FATHERS
ASSESSMENTS OF PATRISTIC LITERATURE
PAGAN RESISTANCE
PATRISTIC RESPONSES
SOCRATIC RHETORIC
SOCRATIC RHETORIC AND PATRISTIC LITERATURE
NOTES
5 - SAINT AUGUSTINE AND THE NEOPLATONIC DOCTRINE OF THE SOUL: LETTER 137.11
I
II
III
IV
NOTES
6 - THE CITY OF GOD
THE CRITIQUE OF PAGAN THOUGHT
THE TWO CITIES
AUGUSTINE’S MORAL IDEAL
THE PROBLEM OF POLITICAL AUGUSTINIANISM
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
II - PHILOSOPHICAL CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
7 - TRANSLATIO STUDII
NOTES
8 - THOMAS AQUINAS AS A POLITICAL THINKER
THE RECOVERY OF ARISTOTLE’S POLITICS AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE
THOMAS’ GENERAL MODE OF PROCEDURE: THE DEVIATIONS FROM ARISTOTLE
MODERN THOMISM AND POLITICS
NOTES
9 - DANTE AND AVERROISM
EVIDENCE OF AVERROISM?
THE CASE OF STATIUS
CONDITIONAL CONCLUSIONS
NOTES
III - BIBLICAL FAITH AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY
10 - THE NEW MORAL THEOLOGY: GENESIS AND PRESENT STATE
PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORAL THEOLOGY
ASSESSING THE “OLD” MORAL THEOLOGY
PROFILE OF THE NEW MORAL THEOLOGY
INFLUENCES ON THE NEW MORAL THEOLOGY
ASSESSING THE NEW MORAL THEOLOGY
NOTES
11 - CHRISTIANITY AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT: A FOREWORD
NOTES
12 - THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE CHURCH: THE CHANGING CONFIGURATIONS
ELLIS’ “AMERICAN CATHOLICS”
KOMONCHAK’S “CONSTRUCTION OF ROMAN CATHOLICISM”
GLEASON’S CONTENDING WITH MODERNITY
CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS
NOTES
13 - A TOCQUEVILLIAN PERSPECTIVE ON RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN REGIME
THE SECULAR ROOTS OF MODERN LIBERALISM
CHRISTIANITY AND THE POLITICAL ORDER
RELIGION AND THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC ETHOS
LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
NOTES
14 - HUMANAE VITAE’S SILVER JUBILEE: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER
NOTES
15 - MEN OF LETTERS: THE LITTLE-KNOWN CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LEO STRAUSS AND ERIC VOEGELIN
LITTLE MYSTERIES
SUBSTANTIVE DIFFERENCES
VOEGELIN’S VESTIGIAL MODERNITY
CONCLUSION
NOTES
IV - CATHOLIC EDUCATION: ITS PAST AND ITS FUTURE
16 - WHY I AM NOT A THOMIST
THOMISM IN THE FORTIES AND FIFTIES
THE ORIGINS AND NATURE OF MODERN THOMISM
THE DEMISE OF NEO-THOMISM
THOMISM TODAY
NOTES
17 - PHILOSOPHY AND DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION
PHILOSOPHY AND THE FEW
DEMOCRATIZING PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY IN CATHOLIC EDUCATION
PHILOSOPHY AS HANDMAID
NOTES
18 - THE NEW CATHOLIC COLLEGE
THE COLLEGE IN CRISIS
VATICAN II AND THE EMERGING COLLEGE
TYPES OF CATHOLIC COLLEGES
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE NEW CATHOLIC COLLEGE
NOTES
19 - AN ACADEMIC APPROACH TO THE TEACHING OF THEOLOGY
“OBJECTIVE” THEOLOGY
HOW TO TEACH THEOLOGY
NOTES
20 - MORAL VALUES
NOTES
V - ECUMENICAL DIALOGUE
21 - THE ANGUISH OF UNITY: A ROMAN CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE
THE POPULARITY OF ECUMENISM
THE CRISIS OF ECUMENISM
THE HIDDEN DIMENSION OF ECUMENISM
NOTES
22 - THE ECUMENICAL VENTURE
THE NEGATIVE SIDE
THE POSITIVE SIDE
ECUMENISM AS UNITY
ECUMENISM AS MISSION
CONCLUSION
NOTES
23 - HOLINESS OF THE CHURCH AND MINISTERIAL HOLINESS
THE HOLINESS OF THE CHURCH
MINISTERIAL HOLINESS
CONCLUSION
NOTES
24 - CHRISTIAN MISSION AND SPIRITUALITY: ROMAN CATHOLICS AND METHODISTS IN DIALOGUE
THE DIALOGUE IN CONTEXT
STAGES OF DIALOGUE
BIBLICAL HOLINESS
HOLINESS AND THE MODERN WORLD
NOTES
25 - ECUMENISM—WHERE DO WE Go FROM HERE?
VULGAR ECUMENISM AND INDIFFERENTISM
GENUINE ECUMENISM
THE ROLE OF THE THEOLOGIAN
CONCLUSION
NOTES
VI - SELECTED RESPONSES AND REMARKS
26 - PUBLIC THEOLOGY: A RESPONSE TO MAX STACKHOUSE
NOTES
27 - RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS: A RESPONSE TO ROBERT BELLAH
THE CRISIS OF THE PRESENT AGE
MYTH AND SCIENCE
THE RICHER LIFE
METHODOLOGY
NOTES
28 - THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND FREEDOM: CRITICAL REMARKS ON ERNEST VAN DEN HAAG’S “THE DESOLATION OF REALITY”
DISMISSING THE ENLIGHTENMENT
LIBERTY AND EQUALITY
THE STATE OF NATURE AND THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
HUMAN FREEDOM AND SCIENTIFIC DETERMINISM
RELIGION AS THE SOLUTION
NOTES
29 - RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN REGIME
NOTES
30 - COMMENT ON HUGHES REGARDING THE STRAUSS-VOEGELIN CORRESPONDENCE
NOTES
31 - ARISTOTLE AND THE SOCIOBIOLOGISTS: AN OLD CONTROVERSY REVIVED
NOTES
VII - SELECTED REVIEWS
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Augustine and the Limits of Politics. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995, 147 pp.
Harry A. Wolfson, The Philosophy of the Church Fathers. Volume I: Faith, Trinity, Incarnation. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1956, 665 pp.
Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100—600). Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971, 417 pp.
H.Y. Jung, The Crisis of Political Understanding: A Phenomenological Perspective in the Conduct of Political Inquiry. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1979, 283 pp.
Arthur Stephen McGrade, The Political Thought of William of Ockham: Personal and Institutional Principles. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974, 281 pp.
David Hollenbach, Justice, Peace and Human Rights: American Catholic Social Ethics in a Pluralistic World. New York: Crossroad, 1988, 260 pp.
NOTES
VIII - FACETIÆ FORTINIANÆ: THE WIT OF ERNEST FORTIN
PEP RALLIES
NOTES
EPILOGUE - AN INTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLISHED WORK OF ERNEST FORTIN
INDEX
ABOUT THE EDITOR
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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