Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I. Conversations with Modernity: The Catholic Encyclical Tradition prior to Vatican II; the Second Vatican Council and Postconciliar Debates
Chapter 2. Democracy and the Catholic Encyclical Tradition prior to Vatican II
Chapter 3. The Contested Meaning of Freedom in Modernity: The Second Vatican Council and Postconciliar Debates
Chapter 4. Joseph Ratzinger’s Critique of Modernity’s Misconceived Freedom: Diagnosis and Etiology of an Intellectual Virus
Part II. Habermas, Catholicism, and the Public Sphere
Chapter 5. Jürgen Habermas and Religion before 9/11: From Dogmatic Atheism to Self-Questioning Skepticism
Chapter 6. Habermas’s Fin de Siècle “Postsecular” Turn
Part III. Prospects for Détente? Catholics in Contemporary Liberal Democracy
Chapter 7. Catholics in the Public Sphere: Two Case Studies
Chapter 8. Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index