Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Catholics and Continental Thought – a Curious Allegiance 1
5. 1. The Reception of Phenomenology and Existentialism by American Catholic Philosophers: Some Facts and Some Reasons 30
6. 2. Philosophy between the Old World and the New: Neoscholasticism, Continental Philosophy, and the Historical Subject 58
7. 3. Continental Philosophy and American Catholics: Then, Now, and Tomorrow 90
8. 4. Meaning, Concreteness, and Subjectivity: American Phenomenology, Catholic Philosophy, and Lonergan from an Institutional Perspective 114
9. 5. Catholicism and Continental Philosophy in French Canada: An Opening Followed by an Ungrateful Separation 127
10. 6. Phenomenology and Catholic Thought: Unfolding the logos of the Logos 146
11. 7. The Use of Philosophy in Critical Catholic Theology 178
12. 8. Continental Philosophy as a Source for Theology: The Case of the “Science–Religion” Debate 200
13. 9. How Continental Philosophy of Religion Came into Being and Where It Is Going 220
14. 10. Phenomenology, Catholic Thought, and the University: Lessons from the French Discussion 245
15. 11. Being True to Mystery and Metaxological Metaphysics 264
16. 12. Slavoj Žižek’s Theory: The Christian Tradition and the Catholic Intellectual 289
17. About the Authors 319
18. Index 325