Divided into two volumes, "The Teachings of Modern Christianity
on Law, Politics, and Human Nature" offers a landmark collection of
writings from twenty leading Christian thinkers of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries and analyses of their work by leading
contemporary religious scholars.
The first volume examines modern Christian thinkers' views on
the most pressing political, legal, and ethical questions of our
time. The essays present a vital new understanding of the diversity
and richness of modern Christian legal and political thought from
1880 to the present. The contributors reveal the theological roots
of modern legal systems as well as the relevance of modern
Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox thought to current debates about
the family, state, religion, and society.
Essays consider the ideas, influences, and intellectual and
cultural contexts of a variety of figures, including Jacques
Maritain, Gustavo Guti?rrez, Dorothy Day, Pope John Paul II, Susan
B. Anthony, Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Niebuhr,
Martin Luther King Jr., Nikolai Berdyaev, and Vladimir Lossky. The
contributors illuminate these thinkers' views on issues that
continue to affect modern pluralistic societies, including the
nature and purpose of law and authority, the limits of rule and
obedience, the care and nurture of the needy and innocent, the
rights and wrongs of war and violence, and the separation of church
and state. The historical focus and ecumenical breadth of this
collection fills an important scholarly gap and revives the role of
Christian social thought in legal and political theory.
The second volume of "The Teachings of Modern Christianity on
Law Politics, and Human Nature" is an annotated reader of works by
the figures discussed in this volume.
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