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  • 4 - Seeking transcendence in the modern world

  • Edited by Darrell Jodock, Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota
  • Book:
    Catholicism Contending with Modernity
    Published online:
    30 October 2009
    Print publication:
    22 June 2000, pp 115-141

  • Summary

    In France, and to a lesser degree in Germany and Italy, philosopher Maurice Blondel (1861–1949) is considered a major figure in the revitalization within Roman Catholicism at the beginning of this century. An intellectual deeply committed to his faith, Blondel was convinced that contemporary experience demanded a rethinking of the problem of God. He found the prevailing patterns of rationalist philosophy indifferent to ultimate human destiny. He also regarded the static understanding which characterized the dominant Catholic theology of his day to be less well suited for expressing God's presence to human destiny than the historical character of life and thought, brought out by modern philosophy, psychology, and intellectual experience. Blondel's approach to transcendence in the modern world through his monumental study of action marked a significant shift in Catholic responses to modernity.

    His ideas on the openness of the human person to a supernatural destiny, many of which bore fruit in the Second Vatican Council, are no longer considered radical. In fact his influence within the Catholic world has been quietly unobtrusive. Yet as it engages the tension between philosophical reason and Catholic faith, Blondel's thought retains a certain boldness. This essay explores how the multiple contexts within which Blondel labored shed light on his contribution to modernity. They perhaps also illumine tensions among late twentieth-century Catholic Christians, as the church still struggles with the questions he raised.

  • “Reproducing the World”: Mary O'Brien's Theory of Reproductive Consciousness and Implications for Feminist Incarnational Theology

  • Phyllis H. Kaminski
  • Journal:
    Horizons / Volume 19 / Issue 2 / Fall 1992
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 September 2014, pp. 240-262
    Print publication:
    Fall 1992

  • Mary O'Brien has inspired a vigorous reexamination of the concept and practices of reproduction. Her philosophy of birth reclaims this central female experience from the existentialist category of unconscious immanence. This article sketches O'Brien's theory and suggests how her reappraisal of reproductive process sheds light on the contradictions in traditional messages about biological difference, the nature of women, and the meaning of motherhood. It illustrates its claim by reading one such message, John Paul II's Mulieris Dignitatem, in light of O'Brien's work, and argues that using the bio-social process of reproduction as an analytic tool helps overcome dualisms and can further feminist insights into incarnation as a dynamic principle of creation. It invites further reflection on embodiment, birth, and motherhood as theological concepts.