Pierre Manent: The Empire of Modernity and the Church’s Response

Authors

Hayden Lukas, Concordia Seminary, St. LouisFollow

Document Type

Article

Keywords

nature, law, history, modernity, manent, church, christian man, catholic, politics, liberalism, aquinas, vatican

Submission Type

Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep

Abstract

Manent’s body of work often problematizes the modern conservative impulse to draw on the history of thought with modernity’s conception of history, and this essay will attempt to explain this dynamic. To do this, I will explain the basics of Manent’s account of modernity as a way of evaluating history, drawing on the work of other political philosophers to supplement Manent’s account. Then I will examine how the work of Manent and Emile Perreau-Saussine, with the Catholic response to the Enlightenment, can contribute to the Church’s strategy to engage with the puzzle of modernity. .

Disciplines

Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Submission Cost

Free

Submission Audience

Laity; Ministers; Scholars

People in this Resource (separated by commas)

Ralph C. Hancock, Pierre Manent, Aquinas, Rousseau,

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Lukas, Hayden (2023) "Pierre Manent: The Empire of Modernity and the Church’s Response," Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal: Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholar.csl.edu/grapho/vol5/iss1/4