Apr 13, 2021

Dr. John Rao begins by showing that Pluralism is not really a new phenomenon, and that it always suffers from similar problems in whatever age it appears. The ancient "Hellenistic" world, the world that followed Alexander the Great's conquests and whose culture expanded into the Roman Empire was also pluralist - and...

Apr 13, 2021

But what were the problems of this world? Dr. John Rao shows that they involved an effort to build multicultural unity on the basis of submission to a divinized state. They involved worshipping a "success" which was supported by rhetorical "word merchants" and which tried to suppress serious philosophical discussions....

Apr 13, 2021

The problem for Catholics from the very beginning of Church History is that they have to work with nature and accept the fact that all aspects of nature have something good about them. How do Catholics sort out the good from the bad? How can they be open to everything valuable coming from the ancient world...

Apr 13, 2021

The modern resurrection of the ancient world, with its bad as well as its good aspects, ultimately ended, after World War II, with the option to accept either Marxism or Americanist Pluralism. Dr. John Rao develops his discussion at the 2000 Symposium on the dilemma that this creates for Catholics who must reject both....

Apr 13, 2021

Dr. John Rao discusses the so-called New Theology developed the modernist, vitalist, and personalist ideas that came from earlier in the century. Its concern to "dive into" and help fulfill energetic modern movements, and tailor the liturgy to each of them, was used for both Marxist and Pluralist purposes. Its...