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Paul Hanly Furfey : Priest, Scientist, Social Reformer / Nicholas K. Rademacher.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Catholic Practice in North AmericaPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823276790
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 282.092
LOC classification:
  • BX4705.F9457
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Archives -- Introduction: Viewing Paul Hanly Furfey's Contribution against a Wide Horizon -- 1 Coming of Age in the Archdiocese of Boston -- 2 Learning Constructive Civic Engagement at the Catholic University of America -- 3 Engaging Debates Concerning Public Catholicism -- 4 Pursuing Salvation on the Playground -- 5 Reimagining Social Reform -- 6 Placing Social Justice at the Center of the Sociology Department -- 7 Encouraging Coreligionists in the Academy: "Let's Be Extremely Catholic and Extremely Scientific at Once" -- 8 Tending the Holy in Pursuit of Social Justice -- 9 Pursuing Social Justice in the Academy and Higher Education -- 10 Recapitulating the Just Society in a Word: "Love. Just Love." -- Epilogue: Identifying the Role of the Catholic Intellectual -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Nicholas Rademacher's book is meticulously researched and clearly written, shedding new light on Monsignor Paul Hanly Furfey's life by drawing on Furfey's copious published material and substantial archival deposit. Paul Hanly Furfey (1896-1992) is one of U.S. Catholicism's greatest champions of peace and social justice. He and his colleagues at The Catholic University of America offered a revolutionary view of the university as a center for social transformation, not only in training students to be agents for social change but also in establishing structures which would empower and transform the communities that surrounded the university. In part a response to the Great Depression, their social settlement model drew on the latest social scientific research and technique while at the same time incorporating principles they learned from radical Catholics like Dorothy Day and Catherine de Hueck Doherty. Likewise, through his academic scholarship and popular writings, Furfey offered an alternative vision of the social order and identified concrete steps to achieve that vision. Indeed, Furfey remains a compelling exemplar for anyone who pursues truth, beauty, and justice, especially within the context of higher education and the academy.Leaving behind an important legacy for Catholic sociology, Furfey demonstrated how to balance liberal, radical, and revolutionary social thought and practice to elicit new approaches to social reform.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Archives -- Introduction: Viewing Paul Hanly Furfey's Contribution against a Wide Horizon -- 1 Coming of Age in the Archdiocese of Boston -- 2 Learning Constructive Civic Engagement at the Catholic University of America -- 3 Engaging Debates Concerning Public Catholicism -- 4 Pursuing Salvation on the Playground -- 5 Reimagining Social Reform -- 6 Placing Social Justice at the Center of the Sociology Department -- 7 Encouraging Coreligionists in the Academy: "Let's Be Extremely Catholic and Extremely Scientific at Once" -- 8 Tending the Holy in Pursuit of Social Justice -- 9 Pursuing Social Justice in the Academy and Higher Education -- 10 Recapitulating the Just Society in a Word: "Love. Just Love." -- Epilogue: Identifying the Role of the Catholic Intellectual -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Nicholas Rademacher's book is meticulously researched and clearly written, shedding new light on Monsignor Paul Hanly Furfey's life by drawing on Furfey's copious published material and substantial archival deposit. Paul Hanly Furfey (1896-1992) is one of U.S. Catholicism's greatest champions of peace and social justice. He and his colleagues at The Catholic University of America offered a revolutionary view of the university as a center for social transformation, not only in training students to be agents for social change but also in establishing structures which would empower and transform the communities that surrounded the university. In part a response to the Great Depression, their social settlement model drew on the latest social scientific research and technique while at the same time incorporating principles they learned from radical Catholics like Dorothy Day and Catherine de Hueck Doherty. Likewise, through his academic scholarship and popular writings, Furfey offered an alternative vision of the social order and identified concrete steps to achieve that vision. Indeed, Furfey remains a compelling exemplar for anyone who pursues truth, beauty, and justice, especially within the context of higher education and the academy.Leaving behind an important legacy for Catholic sociology, Furfey demonstrated how to balance liberal, radical, and revolutionary social thought and practice to elicit new approaches to social reform.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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