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A CATHOLIC MODERNITY? This page intentionally left blank A CATHOLIC MODERNITY? Charles Taylor's Marianist Award Lecture • • • W I T H R E S P O N S E S BY W I L L I A M M . SHEA ROSEMARY LULING HAUGHTON GEORGE M A R S D E N JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN Edited and with an Introduction by JAMES L. HEFT, S.M. NewYork Oxford Oxford University Press 1999 Oxford University Press Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Buenos Aires Calcutta Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Paris Sao Paulo Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Copyright © 1999 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New york, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No Part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A Catholic modernity? Charles Taylor's Marianist Award Lecture, with Responses by William M. Shea, Rosemary Luling Haughton, George Marsden, and Jean Bethke Elshtain / edited by James L. Heft. p. cm. ISBN 0-19-513161-4 1. Catholic Church—Doctrines. 2. Civilization, Modern. I. Heft, James. BXI75I.2.C3466 1999 282—DC21i 98-54133 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Contents Contributors VII Introduction JAMES 3 L. HEFT, S.M. 1 A Catholic Modernity? 13 CHARLES TAYLO R 2 "A Vote of Thanks to Voltaire" 39 WILLIAM M. SHEA 3 Transcendence and the Bewilderment of Being Modern ROSEMARY LULING HAUGHTON 4 Matteo Ricci and the Prodigal Culture 83 GEORGE MARSDEN 5 Augustine and Diversity JEAN BETHKE 95 ELSHTAIN 6 Concluding Reflections and Comments CHARLES TAYLOR Index 127 105 65 This page intentionally left blank Contributors J E A N B E T H K E E L S H T A I N is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago. She is the author of many books, including Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought; Meditations on Modern Political Thought; Power Trips and Other Journeys; Women and War; Democracy on Trial; and Augustine and the Limits of Politics. She is the editor of The Family in Political Thought; coauthor of But Was It Just? Reflections on the Morality of the Persian Gulf War; editor of Politics and the Human Body; and editor of Just War Theory. Elshtain is also the author of more than two hundred articles and essays in scholarly journals and journals of civic opinion. In 1996, she was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She also writes a regular column for the New Republic. R O S E M A R Y L U L I N G H A U G H T O N is half British, half American. She was born in England and as a young girl traveled widely throughout Europe. She studied art for a time at the Slade School in London and also in Paris. Her later studies in theology have earned her a high place among modern theologians. In April 1981, Rosemary Luling Haughton and six companions bought Wellspring House and established it as a refuge and place of healing for the homeless. She is the author of more than thirty-five books, including The Catholic Thing and her most recent work, Images for Change: The Transformation of Society. Currently,