Ethics of Catholicism and the Consecration of the Intellectual ISBN: 9780773566361 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: Philosophy;
Arguing that the religious values of a particular culture can account for differences in the role of intellectual elites, André Bélanger compares the very distinct traditions of French Catholicism and Anglo-Saxon Protestantism to demonstrate the strong relationship between the Catholic tradition and the emergence of an intellectual elite in secularized Catholic societies.