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19th Century<\/a> | 20th Century<\/a>\u00a0| Ethics & Morality<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Art<\/a> | Literature<\/a><\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=””][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1459217880773{margin-bottom: -10px !important;}”][rev_slider_vc alias=”pathways”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” anchor=”19thcentury” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”75″ padding_bottom=”75″ css_animation=”” css=”.vc_custom_1470325788782{background-color: #ffffff !important;}” el_id=”19thcentury”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text el_class=”ttl”]<\/p>\n [vc_separator type=’small’ position=’right’ color=’#424242′ thickness=’2′ up=’16’ down=’16’][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]As well as authors of the neo-Scholastic revival, the student examines the various projects of such nineteenth-century Catholic thinkers as Chateaubriand, Schlegel, Ravaisson, Rosmini, Blondel, and Newman, all of whom stood in relations of creative tension with the Scholastic approach of the time.<\/p>\n The fundamental confrontation of theology with history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries \u00a0is traced through such protagonists as Newman, Mar\u00edn-Sola, Blondel, Rousselot, and de Lubac. Our guiding questions are: What does it mean to say that Christianity is an historical religion? How can history mediate the eternal truth of the Gospel? What are the scope and limits of doctrinal development?[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” anchor=”20thcentury” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”75″ padding_bottom=”75″ css_animation=”” css=”.vc_custom_1470325828754{background-color: #efefef !important;}” el_id=”20thcentury”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text el_class=”ttl”]<\/p>\n [vc_separator type=’small’ position=’right’ color=’#424242′ thickness=’2′ up=’16’ down=’16’][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Twentieth-century Catholic thought encompasses Maritain and Gilson\u2019s existential Thomism, Heidegger\u2019s departure from neo-Scholasticism, Gadamer\u2019s \u2018hermeneutics of tradition\u2019, Rahner\u2019s transcendental anthropology, Balthasar\u2019s \u2018metaphysics of love\u2019, Augusto Del Noce\u2019s \u2018Catholic modernity\u2019, Elizabeth Anscombe\u2019s action theory and virtue ethics, Ren\u00e9 Girard\u2019s mimetic theory, Charles Taylor\u2019s critique of rationalist epistemology, Robert Sokolowski\u2019s \u2018theology of disclosure\u2019, ressourcement Thomism, and the \u2018theological turn\u2019 imparted to French phenomenology by Emmanuel L\u00e9vinas, Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Yves Lacoste, Michel Henry, Jean Chr\u00e9tien, and the new generation of Claude Romano and Emmanuel Falque.<\/p>\n We examine the twentieth-century theological projects of Congar, de Lubac, Rahner, Lonergan, von Balthasar, Wojtyla, and Ratzinger with the intent of discerning the explicit and implicit philosophical commitments that underlie their theological thinking.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” anchor=”ethics” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”75″ padding_bottom=”75″ css_animation=”” css=”.vc_custom_1470325953574{background-color: #ffffff !important;}” el_id=”ethics”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text el_class=”ttl”]<\/p>\n [vc_separator type=’small’ position=’right’ color=’#424242′ thickness=’2′ up=’16’ down=’16’][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]The study of practical philosophy is customarily approached through ethics alone. But, as Aristotle saw, praxis <\/em>is comprised of an inherent political dimension, as well. We look at such cases of the influence of philosophy and theology on politics as the impact of phenomenology on social renewal in Central Europe (Husserl, Scheler, Pato\u010dka, Wojtyla); the elaboration of Christian democracy in the reconstruction of the West after World War II (Maritain, Simon, De Koninck); contemporary Catholic interrogations of culture, liberalism, and modernity (MacIntyre, Taylor, Caldecott; Manent, B\u00e9n\u00e9ton, Besan\u00e7on, Delsol, Brague, Nemo).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” anchor=”art” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”75″ padding_bottom=”75″ css_animation=”” css=”.vc_custom_1470325962990{background-color: #efefef !important;}” el_id=”art”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text el_class=”ttl”]<\/p>\n [vc_separator type=’small’ position=’right’ color=’#424242′ thickness=’2′ up=’16’ down=’16’][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]No program working within the Christian humanist tradition would be complete without a study of theological aesthetics in Christian art and architecture. Familiarity with the history of Christian art, from the catacombs to the great religious painters of the twentieth century, will equip students to face the question: what kind of images and spaces will draw men and women today to the mystery of Christ and his Church? What kind of art can sustain an encounter with the divine? Jean-Luc Marion\u2019s distinction between the ‘idol’ and the ‘icon’ (particularly in The Crossing of the Visible<\/em>) will guide our inquiry as we examine some of the monuments of Christian art.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” anchor=”literature” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”75″ css_animation=”” css=”.vc_custom_1470325973664{background-color: #ffffff !important;}” el_id=”literature”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text el_class=”ttl”]<\/p>\n [vc_separator type=’small’ position=’right’ color=’#424242′ thickness=’2′ up=’16’ down=’16’][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Our students study Shakespeare, who arguably gives us not only a late mediaeval, but an enduringly Catholic understanding of humanity. 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