Concilium 1992/6 The Debate on Modernity

Towards a theological interpretation of modernity / Claude Geffre and Jean-Pierre Jossua – The historical destiny of modernity – Modernity: A sociological perspective / Gregory Baum – Catholicism and modernity: A process of mutual exclusion / Emile Poulat – The philosophical critique of modernity / Helmut Peukert – Attempts at reconciling modernity and religion in Catholic and Protestant theology / Christoph Theobald – Postmodernity: its seductions-and a critique – The end of enlightenment: Post-modern or post-secular? / John Milbank – Between praxis and theory: theology in a crisis over orientation / Werner Jeanrond – The reciprocal exclusiveness of modernity and religion among contemporary thinkers: Ju rgen Habermas and Marcel Gauchet / Anne Fortin-Melkevik – The crisis of modernity and the Church’s attitudes – What is Christian about Europe? / Rudolf von Thadden – The debate about modernity in the North Atlantic world and the Third World / Juan Carlos Scannone – The attitude of the Church to the modern world at and after Vatican II / Giovanni Turbanti.