Retrieving Origins and the Claim of Multiculturalism - Softcover

Lopez, Antonio; Prades, Javier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802869904 ISBN 13: 9780802869906

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2014

Synopsis

This book explores the philosophical, legal, and theological roots of Western multiculturalism, that is, the encounter and coexistence of different cultures within a liberal society. Rather than concerning themselves with the particulars of cultural dialogue, the authors of this volume go deeper and question the very reality of "multiculturalism" itself.

As a whole the volume devotes attention to the origins of human nature, arguing that regardless of how different another person or culture seems to be, universal human experience discloses what it means to be human and to relate to others and to God. The contributors represent different cultures and faith traditions but are united in friendship and in the conviction that the Christian faith enables an authentic approach to long-standing debates on multiculturalism.

Contributors:

• Massimo Borghesi
• Francesco Botturi
• Marta Cartabia
• Carmine Di Martino
• Pierpaolo Donati
• Costantino Esposito
• Stanley Hauerwas
• Antonio Lopez
• Francisco Javier Martínez Fernandez
• John Milbank
• Javier Prades
• David L. Schindler
• Angelo Cardinal Scola
• Lorenza Violini
• Joseph H. H. Weiler

About this title

About the Author

Antonio Lopez is provost and associate professor of theology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, Catholic University of America.

Javier Prades is professor of systematic theology at the Universidad Eclesiastica San Damaso, Madrid, Spain.

Angelo Cardinal Scola is Archbishop of Milan.

Review

Peter Casarella
-- University of Notre Dame
“Antonio López and Javier Prades merit high praise for this fascinating volume. . . . The distinguished contributors represent diverse Euro-American standpoints, but all wish to re-propose a transcendent and lasting vision of cultural diversity. Those who move quickly to defend or repudiate ‘multiculturalism’ will be forced to rethink their presuppositions. . . . I cannot think of a more necessary or creative project than the one undertaken in these pages.”

William L. Portier
-- University of Dayton
“Refreshing. . . . This volume deserves a wide readership and promises to provoke reappraisal of contemporary discourses of multiculturalism in church and academy.”

About this edition

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0802869904
• ISBN 13: 9780802869906
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224