Why Be a Catholic?
by Dooley, MarkFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-08-25
Publisher(s): Burns & Oates Ltd
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Summary
Mark Dooley lectures in Philosophy at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, and is a former Newman Scholar of Theology at University College Dublin where he taught for ten years. From 2003-2006, he wrote a controversial column on foreign affairs for the Sunday Independent. Since 2006, he has written for the Irish Daily Mail. Dooley is also a regular broadcaster on Irish radio and television, and has served as a political speech writer. He is author of The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard's Ethics of Responsibility (2001), The Philosophy of Derrida (2007), and Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach (2009). He is editor of Questioning Ethics (1999), Questioning God (2001), and A Passion for the Impossible (2003).
Author Biography
Mark Dooley has held lectureships at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and at University College Dublin where he was John Henry Newman Scholar of Theology. From 2003 to 2006, he wrote a controversial column on foreign affairs for the Sunday Independent. Since 2006, he has written for the Irish Daily Mail. Dooley is also a regular broadcaster on Irish radio and television, and has served as a political speech writer. He is author of The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard's Ethics of Responsibility (2001), The Philosophy of Derrida (2007) and Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach (2009). He is editor of Questioning Ethics (1999), Questioning God (2001), A Passion for the Impossible (2003) and The Roger Scruton Reader (2009).
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Flame of Faith | p. 11 |
| What Do We Believe? | p. 28 |
| Getting Back to Basics | p. 41 |
| From Boredom to Beauty | p. 56 |
| What It Means To Be a Priest | p. 73 |
| What It Means To Be a Parishioner | p. 93 |
| Solace in the Sacraments | p. 105 |
| Conclusion | p. 116 |
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