Ebook: Human rights, virtue and the common good: untimely meditations on religion and politics
Author: Father Ernest L. Fortin
- Tags: Christianity and politics, Christianity and politics--History, RELIGION--Christian Life--Social Issues, RELIGION--Christianity--General, History, Electronic books, Christianity and politics -- History, RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues, RELIGION -- Christianity -- General
- Year: 1996
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- City: Lanham
- Language: English
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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.;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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