Divided into two volumes, "The Teachings of Modern Christianity
on Law, Politics, and Human Nature" offers a landmark collection of
writings from twenty Christian thinkers of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries and analyses of their work by leading
contemporary religious scholars.With selections from the works of
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, Vladimir Lossky,
and others, "Volume 2" illustrates the different venues, vectors,
and sometimes-conflicting visions of what a Christian understanding
of law, politics, and society entails. The collection includes
works by popes, pastors, nuns, activists, and theologians writing
from within the Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian
traditions. Addressing racism, totalitarianism, sexism, and other
issues, many of the figures in this volume were the victims of
church censure, exile, imprisonment, assassination, and death in
Nazi concentration camps. These writings amplify the long and
diverse tradition of modern Christian social thought and its
continuing relevance to contemporary pluralistic societies. The
volume speaks to questions regarding 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 first volume of "The Teachings of
Modern Christianity on Law Politics, and Human Nature" includes
essays by leading contemporary religious scholars, exploring the
ideas, influences, and intellectual and cultural contexts of the
figures from this volume.
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