RSLudlum
12-23-2008, 07:12 PM
Interesting interview about Woods' book on the Catholic church and progressivism in the 20th century.
http://www.seattlecatholic.com/article_20041124.html
Seattle Catholic (SC): The title of this book, The Church Confronts Modernity, identifies both a struggle and its primary participants. What was it that lay at the heart of this conflict?
Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (TW): I show in the book that American intellectuals during the Progressive Era were trying to construct a new American ethic, in which the citizen's primary loyalty was to the "national community" (by which they essentially meant the federal government) rather than to states and localities, and to a new non-dogmatic, non-denominational ethic instead of to any revealed religion.
http://www.seattlecatholic.com/article_20041124.html
Seattle Catholic (SC): The title of this book, The Church Confronts Modernity, identifies both a struggle and its primary participants. What was it that lay at the heart of this conflict?
Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (TW): I show in the book that American intellectuals during the Progressive Era were trying to construct a new American ethic, in which the citizen's primary loyalty was to the "national community" (by which they essentially meant the federal government) rather than to states and localities, and to a new non-dogmatic, non-denominational ethic instead of to any revealed religion.