
Human Rights, Virtue and the Common Good
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- 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
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