Who Are We Now?: Christian Humanism and the Global Market from Hegel to Heaney

Boyles (German literary and intellectual history, U. of Cambridge) argues for a deep link among politics, religion, philosophy, and literature in an era when the dominant dichotomy is shifting from Christian democracy versus atheist Communist to diversity and pluralism versus global unification. He is generally optimistic about an emerging supra-national order, but wonders about whether we are more than consumers and producers, whether a Christian perspective is viable in such a secular world, and other questions. Four of the ten essays are revised from publication in the English Dominican journal New Blackfriars . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.