Creed and Culture
Jesuit Studies of Pope John Paul II
Edited by Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., and John J. Conley, S.J.
In the late 1980s a group of American and Canadian Jesuit scholars founded the John Paul II Jesuit Symposium. Its purpose is to sponsor scholarly discussion on the rich teaching of John Paul II. The Symposium is interdisciplinary, welcoming Jesuits from a variety of fields of inquiry: theology, philosophy, law, social science, physical science, fine arts, history, and literature. It is also pluralist in that it encourages debate on different interpretations of the meaning and pastoral implications of the pope’s thought. The Symposium strives to place the scholarly resources of the Society of Jesus at the service of the papacy, which Jesuits have defended with particular fervor since their order’s birth in the Catholic Reformation.
The major work of the Symposium has been the sponsorship of a biennial conference devoted to John Paul II’s teaching. This volume is a collection of papers from two such conferences: that held in 1998 at Georgetown University on “Priesthood, Religion, and Culture in John Paul II,” and the conference that took place in 2000 at Xavier University in Cincinnati on “Pope John Paul II on Faith, Culture, and the New Evangelization.”
Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., is chair and associate professor, Department of Philosophy at Fordham University. John J. Conley, S.J., is professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. They are the editors of the book Prophecy and Diplomacy: The Moral Doctrine of John Paul II (Fordham University Press, 1999), a collection of papers from the 1994 and 1996 meetings of the John Paul II Jesuit Symposium held at Canisius College and Georgetown University, respectively.
Table of Contents
Creed and Culture: An Introduction
John J. Conley, S.J. (Fordham University)
1. The Enrichment and Transmission of Faith in the Theology of John Paul II
Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J. (Fordham University)
Response: John Michael McDermott, S.J. (Pontifical College Josephinum)
2. John Paul II the Countercultural Pope
Martin R. Tripoli S.J. (Saint Joseph’s University)
Response: William S. Kurz, S.J. (Marquette University)
3. The Distant Country of John Paul II
Raymond Gawronski, S.J. (Marquette University)
4. A Critical Reading of Pope John Paul II’s Understanding of Culture
John C. Haughey, S.J. (Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University)
5. The New Evangelization of American Intellectual Culture: Context, Resistances, and Strategies
Arthur R. Madigan, S.J. (LeMoyne College)
Response: Christopher M. Cullen, S.J. (Fordham University)
6. Pope John Paul II and the New Age Movement
Mitchell Pacwa, S.J. (Global Catholic Network, Birmingham AL)
7. John Paul II and Interreligious Dialogue
Joseph A. Bracken, S.J. (Xavier University)
Response: Earl Muller, S.J. (Sacred Heart Seminary, Detroit MI)
8. Karol Wojtyla, Artist; John Paul II, Theologian of Art
John J. Conley, S.J. (Fordham University)
Response: Dennis McNally, S.J. (Saint Joseph’s University)
9. John Paul II on the Priesthood
Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J. (Fordham University)
Response: Lucien Longtin, S.J. (Jesuit Center, Wernersville PA)
10. The Desire for Fulfillment: Comments on an Issue Raised in the
Letter to Families
Peter F. Ryan, S.J. (Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary, Emmitsburg MD)
11. Nature and Grace after the Baroque
Stephen Fields, S.J. (Georgetown University)
2004, 266 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-916101-45-9 (paper over board) $35.00