"Church and Age Unite!": The Modernist Impulse in American Catholicism

by R. Scott Appleby

Book Overview

This comprehensive study offers the first book-length examination of the influence of modernism on the intellectual life of the American Catholic community at the beginning of the twentieth century. R. Scott Appleby chronicles the story from 1895, when American Catholic priest John Zahm attempted to reconcile post-Darwinian theories of evolution with Catholic theism, to 1910, when former priest and radical Modernist William L. Sullivan published...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268007829
• ISBN13: 9780268007829
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"