To Build the City of God
Living as Catholics in a Secular Age
Published on 31. July 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
310 pages
978-1-62138-073-3 (ISBN)
Description
Is man an isolated, voluntaristic, autonomous individual, as modernity would have him? Or is he subject to natural, social, and transcendent orders? Much has been written since Rerum Novarum in 1891 on the general outlines of Catholic social, economic, and political thought, but what Catholics need today is a sure guide to how to live out these principles in their daily lives. To this end, Brian McCall's To Build the City of God responds with chapters on marriage and the family, dress, education, profit and wealth, debt, politics in the age of Obama, and much more.
The modern world has erected a monstrous edifice on false principles, which, through its own intrinsic nilhilism, is hollow to the core. Given time, it must collapse, and so with clarity and insight the author points the way for Catholics to live always under the reign of Christ; and to bring His kingship to a world increasingly desperate for the only Way that can truly bind us in temporal solidarity and transcendent communion.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ranchos de Taos
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
506 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62138-073-3 (9781621380733)
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BRIAN M. MCCALL holds the Orpha and Maurice Merrill Chair in Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. With degrees from Yale, University of Pennsylvania, and Kings College University of London, he is the author of five other books-Contracts: Modern Pacts (Kindle, 2019); The Architecture of Law (Notre Dame University Press, 2018); La Corporación como Sociedad Imperfecta (Marcial Pons, 2015); To Build the City of God: Living as Catholics in a Secular Age (Angelico Press, 2014); and The Church and the Usurers: Unprofitable Lending for the Modern Economy (Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2013)-and dozens of articles. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Catholic Family News since 2018. He and his wife, Marie Elaina, have six children.