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Prophetic and Public - The Social Witness of U.S. Catholicism (Paperback)
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Prophetic and Public - The Social Witness of U.S. Catholicism (Paperback)
Series: Moral Traditions series
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The United States was founded on a commitment to religious
tolerance. Based on this commitment, it has become one of the most
religiously diverse and religiously observant liberal democracies
in the world. Inherent in this political reality is the question,
"What is the appropriate relationship between religious beliefs and
public life?" This is not a new question, but in contemporary US
politics it has become a particularly insistent one. In this
intelligent, wide-ranging book, Kristin Heyer provides new and
nuanced answers. Prophetic and Public employs the discourse of
public theology to consider what constitutes appropriate
religio-political engagement. According to Heyer, public theology
connects religious faith, concepts, and practices to their public
relevance for the wider society. Her use of public theology
concepts to address the appropriate possibilities and limits for
religio-political engagement in the United States is both useful
and enlightening. Heyer approaches the relationship between public
morality and religious commitment through the example of the
Catholic Church. She looks at two prominent Catholics-Michael
Baxter and Bryan Hehir-as a way of discussing norms for practice of
public theology. Heyer also analyzes case studies of three US
Catholic advocacy groups: The US Conference of Catholic Bishops,
NETWORK, and Pax Christi USA. Through her analysis she shows the
various ways that the organizations' Catholic identity impacts
their social and political efforts. From her investigations come
norms that define possibilities and limits for political actions
based on religious conviction. This deeply thoughtful book examines
what is truly fundamental and inescapable about public life and
private religious belief in the United States. In doing so, it
makes skillful use of the tools of theology, philosophy, law, and
advocacy to demonstrate that the Catholic Church reveals great
diversity in its public theology, providing legitimate options for
a faithful response to urgent political issues.
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