Christian Spirituality and the Culture of Modernity: Essays in Conversation With Louis Dupre

by Peter J. Casarella (editor)

Not all thinkers have closed the book on modernity and opened a new one on "postmodernity." Louis Dupre continues steadfastly to hold out the hope that we may be able to reclaim fragments of the premodern and modern syntheses and reconstruct, from the epoch of high modernity now being left behind, a more mature but still modern culture. The fourteen scholars contributing to this volume all carry with them some measure of Dupre's hope, and they enter into conversation with his view of modern culture from a variety of philosophy, theology, the history of ideas, social ethics, and the study of mysticism. This substantial work constitutes both an excellent entree into Dupre's thought and a valuable resource for confronting today's rapid social changes.

352 pages, Hardcover

About the author

Peter J. Casarella, Ph.D. (Religious Studies, Yale University, 1992; M.A., Yale University, 1986; B.A., Religious Studies, Yale College, 1985) is Professor of Theology, specializing in systematic theology, world religions, world church at Duke Divinity School. Previously, he was associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame (2013–2020) and served as director of the Latin American North American Church Concerns (LANACC) project in the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and served as professor of Catholic Studies at DePaul University (2007–2013), where he was also the founding director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology.