American Catholic Dilemma An Inquiry into the Intellectual Life

includes index and biblioraphy

State of the Questions.17 The general Problem of the Intellectual ..............29 The role of the specialist: the Structure of Suspicion......36 Activism. The disvaluation of pure Knowledge.......39 THe role of the intellectual and the manifest content of catholic culture patterns .........39 Book Legislation : An important example.........46 Reason and Faith............51 The permanent tension...........53 THe abiding temptation .............59 The american catholic heritage ...69 The divided man.......71 Catholic defensiveness...73 Latent culture patterns of American catholicism........84 HOw important is the world ? is it dangerous .......85 Have we lost the sense of quest and the sense of mystery .............95 Lay christianity and American social Mobility ..99