Explores how major themes of Catholic social teaching¿respect for the environment, sustainability, and service to the poor¿all positively affect engineering curricula and students.
Catholic high schools in the United States have been undergoing three major changes in recent years: the shift to lay leadership, a national culture that has become deeply consumerist and pluralist, and a more ethnically diverse student body. James Heft explains how these changes can be successfully navigated by teachers, administrations, and parents.
The Future of Catholic Higher Education advances a vision of the Catholic University that is neither a "closed circle" of only Catholics nor a "market place of ideas with no distinctive mission" but rather an "open circle, " one that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition by including scholars of many religions, rooting Catholic social thought in Catholic doctrine, defending academic freedom and the mandatum. Drawing upon his extensive ex...
Empty Churches studies the growing number of individuals who no longer affiliate with a religious tradition. Co-editors Jan E. Stets, a social psychologist, and James L. Heft, a historian of theology, bring together leading scholars across the humanities and social sciences, who explore the phenomenon of non-affiliation by drawing from each other's work to understand better the multi-faceted nature of non-affiliation today.
Empty Churches studies the growing number of individuals who no longer affiliate with a religious tradition. Co-editors Jan E. Stets, a social psychologist, and James L. Heft, a historian of theology, bring together leading scholars across the humanities and social sciences, who explore the phenomenon of non-affiliation by drawing from each other's work to understand better the multi-faceted nature of non-affiliation today.
This volume brings together scholars of theology, history, law, and media studies of religion, who explore the Catholic intellectual tradition from the perspectives of these disciplines. Each essay explores both the promise of Catholic intellectual life and its contemporary predicaments.
This book offers a series of reflections on the state of Christianity, and especially Catholicism, in the world today. The centerpiece of the volume is a lecture by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor, which offered him the opportunity to speak about the religious dimensions of his intellectual commitment. This is the only place where Taylor, a Roman Catholic, spells out his theological. views and his sense of the cultural placement of Cat...
How can the world's many religions overcome ideological differences and come together to promote understanding, justice and peace? In this groundbreaking volume, James L. Heft and fifteen other leading scholars of the world's major religions show how to answer this crucial question.
How can the world's many religions overcome ideological differences and come together to promote understanding, justice and peace? In this groundbreaking volume, James L. Heft and fifteen other leading scholars of the world's major religions show how to answer this crucial question.
Constructive interreligious dialogue is only a recent phenomenon. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, many branches of Christianity, not least the Catholic Church, are engaged in a world-wide constructive dialogue with Jews and also with Muslims, made all the more necessary by the terrorist attacks of September 11. The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies brought together an international group of sixteen Jewish, Catholic andMusli...
Constructive interreligious dialogue is only a recent phenomenon. Until the nineteenth century, most dialogue among believers was carried on as a debate aimed either to disprove the claims of the other, or to convert the other to one's own tradition. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many branches of Christianity, not least the Catholic Church, are engaged in a world-wide constructive dialogue with Jews and also with Muslims, ...
In an age of terrorism and other forms of violence committed in the name of religion, how can religion become a vehicle for peace, justice, and reconciliation? And in a world of bitter conflictsQmany rooted in religious differenceQhow can communities of faith understand one another?The essays in this important book take bold steps forward to answering these questions. The fruit of a historic conference of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scholars...
Engineering Education and Practice: Embracing a Catholic Vision is a collection of essays exploring how major themes of Catholic social teaching-respect for the environment, sustainability, technological design, and service to the poor-all positively affect engineering curricula, students, and faculty. Many engineering programs at American universities focus solely on developing technological sophistication without promoting ethical and humani...
How do Catholic intellectuals draw on faith in their work? And how does their work as scholars influence their lives as people of faith? For more than a generation, the University of Dayton has invited a prominent Catholic intellectual to present the annual Marianist Award Lecture on the general theme of the encounter of faith and profession. Over the years, the lectures have become central to the Catholic conversation about church, culture, a...
How do Catholic intellectuals draw on faith in their work? And how does their work as scholars influence their lives as people of faith? For more than a generation, the University of Dayton has invited a prominent Catholic intellectual to present the annual Marianist Award Lecture on the general theme of the encounter of faith and profession. Over the years, the lectures have become central to the Catholic conversation about church, culture, a...
This volume brings together scholars of theology, history, law, and media studies of religion, who explore the Catholic intellectual tradition from the perspectives of these disciplines. Each essay explores both the promise of Catholic intellectual life and its contemporary predicaments.
In an age of terrorism and other forms of violence committed in the name of religion, how can religion become a vehicle for peace, justice, and reconciliation? And in a world of bitter conflicts-many rooted in religious difference-how can communities of faith understand one another?The essays in this important book take bold steps forward to answering these questions. The fruit of a historic conference of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scholars...
From the beginning, the Abrahamic faiths?Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?have stressed the importance of transmitting religious identity from one generation to the next. Today, that sustaining mission has never been more challenged. Will young people have a faith to guide them? How can faith traditions anchor religious attachments in this secular, skeptical culture? Filled with real-world wisdom, Passing the Faith will be an essential resourc...
From the beginning, the Abrahamic faiths?Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?have stressed the importance of transmitting religious identity from one generation to the next. Today, that sustaining mission has never been more challenged. Will young people have a faith to guide them? How can faith traditions anchor religious attachments in this secular, skeptical culture? Filled with real-world wisdom, Passing the Faith will be an essential resourc...
10 Catholic scholars, all recipients of the University of Dayton's Marianist Award, explore how their faith as Catholics has influenced their scholarship and how, in turn, their scholarship has affected their faith. They reveal how they have bridged the gap between the two.
