The Mass and Modernity: Walking to Heaven BackwardMany in the Church have accepted modernity in their effort to speak to the modern world, and not nearly enough attention has been given to trying to disentangle the complex of ideas and half-formulated convictions that constitute this mind-set which is in fact contrary to Christianity. "Fr. Robinson's book is a philosopher's gift to the Catholic liturgy. He provides a thoroughly lucid account of the climate of ideas which handicaps the celebration of Catholic worship in the modern world. This is a diagnosis which shows just how far reaching must be the cure." |
Contents
The Enlightenment Daring to Know | 55 |
Latitudinarianism Giving Up on Revelation | 63 |
Kant and Moral Religion Giving Up on the Church and the Sacraments | 76 |
Hume and Atheism Giving Up on God and Everlasting Life | 96 |
Hegel God Becomes the Community | 116 |
Comte Policing the Sublime | 147 |
The Night Battle | 165 |
Postmodernism Blowing It All Up | 171 |
The Lambs High Feast | 229 |
The Paschal Mystery | 239 |
With Desire I Have Desired | 266 |
From Communal Divinity to the Holy Community | 287 |
Mr Ryder Comes to Town | 297 |
Know What You Are Doing | 314 |
LEnvoi | 345 |
Bibliography | 347 |