Way of Life
John Paul II and the Challenge of Liberal Modernity
Way of Life
John Paul II and the Challenge of Liberal Modernity
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Paperback / softback
£31.00
Publisher: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 9781932792966
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 30/06/2008
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
The passing of John Paul II provoked questions about the Pope, particularly in his relation to modernity. Was he opposed to the tenets of modernity, as some critics claimed? Or did he accommodate modernity in a way no Pope ever had, as his champions asserted? In The Way of Life, Carson Holloway examines the fundamental philosophers of modernity-from Hobbes to Toqueville-to suggest that John Paul II's critique of modernity is intended not to reject, but to improve. Thus, claims Holloway, it is appropriate for liberal modernity to attend to the Pope's thought, receiving it not as the attack of an enemy but as the criticism of a candid friend.
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Gospel of Life and the Culture of Death
- 3. Hobbes and the Origins of Liberal Modernity
- 4. Locke's Theistic Liberalism
- 5. Hume and the Morality of Sympathy
- 6. The Ambiguity of the American Founding
- 7. Tocqueville and the Moral Trajectory of Modern Democracy
- 8. Conclusion
- Bibliography
Holloway explicates how the late John Paul II profoundly understood the foundations of modern liberalism.
-David Novak, J. Richard and Dororthy Shiff Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Toronto
