{"product_id":"2940015582246","title":"When the Enlightenment Hit the Neighborhoods: The Waning of the Catholic Tradition - and Hope for Its Future","description":"Why has the traditional, authority-based way of doing faith collapsed? Faith and reason are in a fight, and faith is losing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly fifteen percent of young Catholics attend church regularly. If ex-Catholics were a religious denomination, they would be the third-largest in the U.S. The young, the quizzical, the semi-faithful, the somewhat churched, the unchurched, the agnostic, and the fallen away no longer look to faith for credible insight into how they should live their lives. Why is there such massive indifference to faith? And why, for those who continue to participate, is there such fragmentation of identity, with splits across the progressive\/conservative divide and splits across time, between the pre-Vatican II Church and the post-Vatican II Church?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her illustrated personal essay, author Jeanne Follman explores the reasons why faith is in such trouble today as she tells the story, and the backstory, of the fifty years since Vatican II, and challenges us to reclaim the experience of the sacred and modernize Church governance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollman argues three things: First, that the whole Catholic tradition needs to be excavated, rethought, and recreated, thoroughly and entirely, top to bottom, to create a new understanding that both makes sense in the modern world and fully celebrates the mysteries and traditions inherent in being Catholic. Second, Church governance needs to be reformed by the faithful, through the exercise of their knowledge, their voices, and their pocketbooks. Third, Catholics should look to the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas (primer included) for a way to make faith and reason play better together. His belief that the world is a holy place, that faith and reason are coherent, and that the truth can be found through free and open debate can be the touchstones Catholics use as they state anew the truths of their tradition and create governance structures that make sense in the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver 75 full-color images.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003ePART I. THE CIRCUMSTANCES\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Obliteration\u003cbr\u003eBeautiful Evidence\u003cbr\u003eThat Lost World\u003cbr\u003eReligion and the Sacred\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART II. THE STORY\u003cbr\u003eWhat's Been Going On for the Past Couple of Hundred Years\u003cbr\u003eHow Authority Collapsed\u003cbr\u003eOn Our Own Terms\u003cbr\u003eThe Taming of Catholicism\u003cbr\u003eAuthority in the Church\u003cbr\u003eThe Mess We're in Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART III. FAITH AND REASON\u003cbr\u003eThinking About Faith; Thinking About Reason\u003cbr\u003eWhy Aquinas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART IV. THE FUTURE\u003cbr\u003eRecreating Tradition: Belief\u003cbr\u003eRecreating Tradition: Morals\u003cbr\u003eRecreating Tradition: Liturgy\u003cbr\u003eReforming Church Authority\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRIMER ON AQUINAS: THE COOL BITS AND THE FRAMEWORK","brand":"Duomo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070979981552,"sku":"2940015582246","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015582246_p0.jpg?v=1763621565","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015582246","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}