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The Catholic tradition

"In his Tradition and Authenticity in the Search for Ecumenic Wisdom, Thomas Langan argued that the close interaction of traditions in today's society calls for methodical critical appropriation of the beliefs fostered by the principal traditions. He also promised to demonstrate by example how such appropriation could be accomplished. In The Catholic Tradition, Langan successfully fulfills that vow by showing how a tradition - the Catholic - has shaped his own outlook." "In this comprehensive study, Langan examines the history of the Catholic Church and the origins of its teachings since the Church's conception. Although committed to the Catholic religion, Langan does not obscure the Church's failings as he lays out the fundamentals of the Catholic faith."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1998
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Mo., ©1998
535 pages ; 25 cm
9780826211835, 0826211836
39335416
Why and how "appropriate one's traditions"?: a philosophical foreword
The essential Catholic vision: a contemporary view
Who is this Jesus?: a deepening understanding of Christ through the christological and iconoclastic crisis
The nature of the early Church
The East-West crises: the great schism
The Western Church's search for a new synthesis
Medieval Catholicism: an incarnational religion
The fabric rent: the Protestant Revolt and the origins of modernity
The challenges of modernity
The Church's response to modernity
The "new anthropology" and the "new morality"
The Church's openness to other "ways": the challenge and perils of ecumenism
How can the tradition change, yet have an essence? How can truth be "eternal," yet unfold in history?
Authenticity and christic man
The Church in the world of today: seeking to dwell in the center
Index