Each chapter in Christianity and Political Philosophy addresses a
philosophical problem generated by history. Frederick D. Wilhelmsen
discusses the limits of natural law; Cicero and the politics of the
public orthodoxy; the problem of political power and the forces of
darkness; Sir John Fortescue and the English tradition; Donoso
Cortes and the meaning of political power; the natural law
tradition and the American political experience; Eric Voegelin and
the Christian tradition; and Jaffa, the School of Strauss, and the
Christian tradition. Wilhelmsen is convinced that mainstream
philosophy's suppression of the Christian experience, or its
reduction of Christianity to myths, deprives both Christianity and
philosophy. He argues that Christianity opened up an entirely new
range of philosophical questions and speculation that today are
part and parcel of the intellectual tradition of the West.
Wilhelmsen remains relevant because political philosophy in America
today is following the historic cycle of political philosophy's
importance: as things get worse for the nation because it is
internally riven by ideological and spiritual conflicts, there is a
greater need for the political philosopher to raise and explore
profound questions and reassert forgotten truths about man and
society, the soul and God, and good and evil, as well as the ground
of political order. This is the latest book in Transaction's
esteemed Library of Conservative Thought series.
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