What Is Truth?: From the Academy to the Vatican
This book studies the nature, growth and prospects of Roman Catholic culture, viewed as capable of appropriating all that is noble from both internal and external sources. John Rist tests his argument via a number of avenues: men's creation in the image of God and historical difficulties about incorporating women into that vision; the relationship between God's mercy and justice; the possibility of Christian aesthetics; the early development of the see of Rome as the source of an...
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Rist sets out a vision of constantly developing truth that incorporates all that is good.
Introduction Partial and universal truth 11 The human race, or how could women be created in the image and likeness of God? 182 Divine justice and man's "genetic" flaw 1043 Divine beauty: Nature, art and humanity 1434 The origin and early development of episcopacy at Rome 2015 Caesaropapism, theocracy or neo-Augustinian politics? 2336 The Catholic Church in "modern" and "post-modern" culture 2897 Looking at hopes and fears in the rear mirror 319Bibliography 342Index 355
