This work examines how the modern Papacy, specifically John Paul II and Benedict XVI, have articulated a sophisticated critique of the post-Enlightenment world which acknowledges the real progess made in modernity while simultaneously highlighting its political and philosophical shortcomings.
This work examines how the modern Papacy, specifically John Paul II and Benedict XVI, have articulated a sophisticated critique of the post-Enlightenm...
Since the dawn of the Enlightenment, modernity and the Papacy have experienced a difficult though never severed relationship. Modern Papacy goes beyond the caricatures to demonstrate how the popes - specifically John Paul II and Benedict XVI - have articulated a sophisticated critique of the post-Enlightenment world, one that acknowledges the real progress made in modernity while simultaneously highlighting its political and philosophical shortcomings. Far from falling on deaf ears, the nature of their engagement with the modern world has sparked criticism and praise from Catholics and...
Since the dawn of the Enlightenment, modernity and the Papacy have experienced a difficult though never severed relationship. Modern Papacy goes be...
