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"During the past century, an enormous effervescence of events changed the sociopolitical configuration of the world. The interpretation of these facts helped further deepen the crisis in which modern thought already found itself--and it generated the uncertain and unstable environment in which we live today, the so-called postmodernity, late modernity, or hypermodernity. In this context, one of the most profound impacts is most certainly the one on religion. During the twentieth century, religion proved not to be banished from the human horizon as the masters of suspicion intended. Known as the godless century, the twentieth century saw also a resuscitation of the search for the sense of life and spirituality. With the crisis of modern reason, humankind turned toward consumerism and provisional and "light" practices. The last century represents not only the height of the postmodernization process but also the rescue of the transcendent and absolute, even if it is an absolute without face and identity. It is in this scenario that religious experiences, apparently exiled by modern rationality, begin to occur and multiply again. Mystical experiences will be, then, the basis for highlighting recurrent characteristics with universal import. But they will show a different configuration than before. One will be able to find them not in so-called sacred spaces but in very secular ones; not so much within institutions but at the borders, or even outside them; not configured by a specific tradition but in an interface that makes more than one tradition meet and dialogue."--

How rational is the heart? How natural is reason? How universal is faith? / Adriaan T. Peperzak -- Naturae desiderium : the desire of nature between history and theology / Peter J. Casarella -- Athens, Jerusalem, and-- : overcoming the exclusivist paradigms of the past / Kevin Corrigan -- Kant : boundaries, blind sports, and supplements / Cyril O'Regan -- On knowing God through loving Him : beyond "faith and reason" / Jean-Yves Lacoste -- Phenomenality and Christianity / Kevin Hart -- Making the resurrection reasonable, or reason "resurrectional"? / Anthony J. Kelly -- Habermas, religion, and a postsecular society / James Swindal -- "Transcendence from within" : Benedict XVI, Habermas, and Lonergan on reason and faith / Frederick G. Lawrence

Religion in the public realm: three forms of publicness / David Tracy -- Public reason and intercultural dialogue / Peter Casarella -- Catholicity, globalization, and post-secularity / Robert Schreiter -- The invention of the religious-secular distinction / William T. Cavanaugh -- The post-secular problematic / William A. Barbieri Jr. -- Media constructions of space, the disciplining of religious traditions, and the hidden threat of the post-secular / Vincent J. Miller -- Imagination, the body, and the transfiguration of limits / Anthony J. Godzieba -- Failth, autonomy, and the limits of agency in a secular age / Philip J. Rossi, S.J. -- Love and justice: engaging Benedict XVI on Christian discipleship in a secular age / Mary Doak -- Multiple belongings: the persistence of community amidst societal differentiation / Michele Dillon -- Engaging religious and secular humanisms / Slavica Jakelić -- Religions in a globalizing world / J. Paul Martin

What is the meaning of the word "tradition"? Are there live traditions today? Does tradition clash with innovation? Is it possible to love the proper tradition and look to innovation at the same time?This study brings together a number of insightful contributions that focus on the complexity of the relationship between tradition and innovation and on the forces that could emerge from it, if tradition is seen to represent the cornerstone for future. The volume is subdivided into four sections: I. Tradition: an historical background; II. Tradition and innovation: which future?; III. Law and tradition; and IV. Tradition: a theological point of view.Contributors: Enrico Berti, Nicoletta Scotti, Anthony Lisska, Elisa Grimi, Riccardo Pozzo, Rémi Brague, John O'Callaghan, Angelo Campodonico, Giovanni Turco, Salvatore Amato, Stamatios Tzitzis, Peter Casarella, John Milbank

Introduction / Helen M. Alvaré and Jeffrey B. Hammond -- New Testament on Conscience / Wendell Willis -- Conscience and Natural Law in Scripture : David VanDrunen -- Conscience in Early Christian Thought / John Anthony McGuckin -- Sensus Fidei, the Magisterium, and the Formation of Conscience / E. -- Christian Brugger -- Conscience in the Early Church Fathers / Alexis Torrance -- St. Thomas Aquinas on Conscience / Cajetan Cuddy, OP -- Reforming the Conscience : Magisterial Reformers on the Theory and -- Practice of Conscience / John L. Thompson -- Toward a Theology of a Redeemed Conscience / Jeffrey B. Hammond -- Pierre Bayle : An Enlightened Alternative to John Locke / Edward Andrew -- Freedom of Conscience and Its Right to Constitutional Protection : The Contribution of Roger Williams / David Little -- Jonathan Edwards on Conscience / Michael McClymond -- Obeying God Rather Than Men : Uneasy Evangelicals, Conscience, and -- Politics / Micah Watson -- Mormonism and Conscience / Rosalynde Welch and Nathan B. Oman -- Culture and Conscience in the Thought of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI / Peter J. Casarella -- Applied Topics in Law and Conscience -- Liberty of Conscience, Free Exercise of Religion, and the U.S. Constitution / Nathan S. Chapman -- Religious Conscience Protections in American State Constitutions / Michael J. DeBoer -- Forced Conformity or Accommodation? : How to Reconcile Conscience -- and Difference in a Pluralistic Democracy / Mark Rienzi -- Christian Conscience and Sexual Expression Rights / Helen M. Alvaré -- Conscience and War / Joseph Capizzi -- Institutional Conscience, Corporate Persons, and Hobby Lobby / Christopher Tollefsen -- Religion, Conscience, and the Law : Reasons, Bases, and Limits for -- Exemptions / R. Kent Greenawalt