Human Rights, Virtue and the Common Good
Untimely Meditations on Religion and Politics
1st Edition
Published on 19. December 1996
352 pages
978-1-4616-3752-3 (ISBN)
Description
Volume Three of Ernest Fortin: Collected Essays discusses the current state of Christianity-especially twentieth-century Catholic Christianity-and the problems with which it has had to wrestle in the midst of rapid scientific progress, profound social change, and growing moral anarchy. In this volume, Fortin discusses such topics as Christianity and the liberal democratic ethos; Christianity, science, and the arts; Ancients and Moderns; papal social thought; virtue and liberalism; pagan and Christian virtue; and the American Catholic church and politics.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4616-3752-3 (9781461637523)
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Father Ernest L. Fortin, one of the nation's foremost thinkers in the fields of philosophy and theology, is Professor of Theology at Boston College, and the author and editor of numerous books on ancient and medieval philosophy and religion.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- I. CHRISTIANITY AND THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC ETHOS
- 1. The Regime of Separatism: Theoretical Considerations on the Separation of Church and State
- 2. Human Rights and the Common Good
- 3. Christian Education and Modern Democracy
- 4. Is Liberal Democracy Really Christian?
- 5. Do We Need Catholic Universities?
- 6. Rome and the Theologians
- 7. In the Shadow of the Gallows: Crime and Punishment in Modern Society
- II. CHRISTIANITY, SCIENCE, AND THE ARTS
- 8. Augustine, the Arts, and Human Progress
- 9. Science as a Political Problem
- 10. The Bible Made Me Do It: Christianity, Science, and the Environment
- III. ANCIENTS AND MODERNS
- 11. Otherworldliness and Secularization in Early Christian Thought: A Note on Blumenberg
- 12. Thoughts on Modernity
- 13. Natural Law
- 14. Troeltsch and Christendom
- 15. Gadamer on Strauss: An Interview
- IV. PAPAL SOCIAL THOUGHT, VIRTUE, AND LIBERALISM
- 16. Sacred and Inviolable: Rerum Novarum and Natural Rights
- 17. From Rerum Novarum to Centesimus Annus: Continuity or Discontinuity?
- V. PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN VIRTUE
- 18. The Saga of Spiritedness: Christian Saints and Pagan Heroes
- 19. In Defense of Satan: Christian Perspectives on the Problem of Evil
- VI. THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND POLITICS
- 20. Social Activism and the Church's Mission
- 21. Church Activism in the 1980s: Politics in the Guise of Religion?
- 22. Theological Reflections on The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response, A Pastoral Letter on War and Peace (May 3, 1983)
- 23. Christianity and the Just-War Theory
- 24. Catholic Social Teaching and the Economy: Criteria for a Pastoral Letter
- 25. The Trouble with Catholic Social Thought
- 26. Friend and Teacher: Allan Bloom's Obsession with the Mystery of the Soul
- Index
- About the Author
- About the Editor
