Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Historical Overview
- Part II Catholic Life and Culture
- 4 Catholic Worship
- 5 Catholic Intellectual Life
- 6 Catholic Education
- 7 Social Welfare and Social Reform
- 8 Women Religious
- 9 Catholics and Politics
- 10 Arts and Culture
- 11 Anti-Catholicism in the United States
- 12 Gender and Sexuality
- 13 American Catholics in a Global Context
- Part III The Many Faces of Catholicism
- Part IV Conclusion
- Index
- Series page
- References
5 - Catholic Intellectual Life
from Part II - Catholic Life and Culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2021
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Historical Overview
- Part II Catholic Life and Culture
- 4 Catholic Worship
- 5 Catholic Intellectual Life
- 6 Catholic Education
- 7 Social Welfare and Social Reform
- 8 Women Religious
- 9 Catholics and Politics
- 10 Arts and Culture
- 11 Anti-Catholicism in the United States
- 12 Gender and Sexuality
- 13 American Catholics in a Global Context
- Part III The Many Faces of Catholicism
- Part IV Conclusion
- Index
- Series page
- References
Summary
Few New York theatergoers who pass Father Francis Duffy’s statue in Times Square know that the beloved chaplain to New York’s “Fighting 69th” regiment was also a leading turn of the century Catholic intellectual. In 1905, Duffy (1871–1932) and colleagues sought to join “the ancient faith and modern thought” in their new journal, The New York Review, arguably the boldest American expression of Catholic intellectual life of its own or any time.1 He and The Review’s other founders hoped to encourage a homegrown Catholic intellectual culture among the nation’s growing body of upwardly mobile Catholics.
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- The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism , pp. 86 - 104Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
Further Reading
Appleby, R. Scott, Byrne, Patricia, and Portier, William L., eds. Creative Fidelity: American Catholic Intellectual Traditions. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004.Google Scholar
Carey, Patrick W. American Catholic Religious Thought: The Shaping of a Theological and Social Tradition. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Holifield, E. Brooks. Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Gleason, Philip. Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.Google Scholar
McGreevy, John T. Catholicism and American Freedom: A History. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.Google Scholar
Reher, Margaret M. Catholic Intellectual Life in America: A Historical Study of Persons and Movements. New York: Macmillan, 1989.Google Scholar
Sparr, Arnold. To Promote, Defend, and Redeem: The Catholic Literary Revival and the Cultural Transformation of American Catholicism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990.Google Scholar