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Liberalism at the Crossroads offers succinct, accessible, and
well-written surveys of the ideas of the leading participants in
the contemporary philosophical debate about liberalism. Christopher
Wolfe brings together analyses of leading liberal thinkers from
across the spectrum as well as influential critics of liberalism,
including John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Robert Nozick, Michael
Sandel, Richard Rorty, Joseph Raz, and William Galston. For the
second edition, each chapter has been thoroughly revised, and new
chapters on Susan Moller Okin, Richard Posner, and John Finnis have
been added to include representatives of liberal feminism, law and
economics, and natural law. The result is an invaluable overview of
contemporary political theory, ideal for both students and
scholars.
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Bioethics - A Culture War (Paperback, New)
Nicholas C Lund-Molfese, Michael L. Kelly; Contributions by Nicholas C Lund-Molfese, Michael Kelly, Francis Cardinal George, OMI, …
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R996
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The purpose of this valuable book is to consider recent cultural
trends in bioethics from a Catholic perspective. The first section
describes modern cultural notions of health and human suffering. It
examines the meaning of suffering in the contemporary world and
relates this discussion to the ethical issues surrounding abortion,
euthanasia, and the competing conceptions of health. The second
section discusses the philosophical origins of the culture war
through an examination of the problematic bases of various forms of
moral relativism and its inability to guide moral action. The third
section contextualizes this abstract discussion in the current
political and legal debate on biotechnology, marriage, and the
family. Bioethics is intended for a lay audience interested in
understanding bioethical issues from a Catholic perspective.
Catholic social teaching (CST) refers to the corpus of
authoritative ecclesiastical teaching, usually in the form of papal
encyclicals, on social matters, beginning with Pope Leo XIII's
Rerum Novarum (1891) and running through Pope Francis. CST is not a
social science and its texts are not pragmatic primers for social
activists. It is a normative exercise of Church teaching, a kind of
comprehensive applied - although far from systematic - social moral
theology. This volume is a scholarly engagement with this
130-year-old documentary tradition. Its twenty-three essays aim to
provide a constructive, historically sophisticated, critical
exegesis of all the major (and some of the minor) documents of CST.
The volume's appeal is not limited to Catholics, or even just to
those who embrace, or who are seriously interested in,
Christianity. Its appeal is to any scholar interested in the
history or content of modern CST.
Catholic social teaching (CST) refers to the corpus of
authoritative ecclesiastical teaching, usually in the form of papal
encyclicals, on social matters, beginning with Pope Leo XIII's
Rerum Novarum (1891) and running through Pope Francis. CST is not a
social science and its texts are not pragmatic primers for social
activists. It is a normative exercise of Church teaching, a kind of
comprehensive applied - although far from systematic - social moral
theology. This volume is a scholarly engagement with this
130-year-old documentary tradition. Its twenty-three essays aim to
provide a constructive, historically sophisticated, critical
exegesis of all the major (and some of the minor) documents of CST.
The volume's appeal is not limited to Catholics, or even just to
those who embrace, or who are seriously interested in,
Christianity. Its appeal is to any scholar interested in the
history or content of modern CST.
Almost everyone today affirms the importance and merit of religious
liberty. But religious liberty is being challenged by new questions
(for example, use of the niqab or church adoption services for
same-sex couples) and new forces (such as globalization and
Islamism). Combined, these make the meaning of religious liberty in
the twenty-first century uncertain. This collection of essays by
ten of the world's leading scholars on religious liberty takes aim
at these issues. The book is arranged around five specific
challenges to religious liberty today: the state's responsibility
to prevent coercion and intimidation of believers by others within
the same faith community; the US's basic moral responsibilities to
promote religious liberty abroad; how to understand and apply the
traditional right of conscientious objection in today's
circumstances; the distinctive problems presented by globalization;
and the viability today of an 'originalist' interpretation of the
First Amendment religion clauses.
Before the Second Vatican Council, America's Catholics operated
largely as a coherent voting bloc, usually in connection with the
Democratic Party. Their episcopal leaders generally spoke for
Catholics in political matters; at least, where America's bishops
asserted themselves in public affairs there was little audible
dissent from the faithful. More than occasionally, the immigrant
Church's eagerness to demonstrate its patriotic bona fides
furthered its tendency to speak with one voice about national
matters, and in line with the broader societal consensus. And,
notwithstanding the considerable conflict which Catholics
encountered, and generated, in American political life, there was
before the Council broad agreement in American culture about the
centrality of Biblical morality to the success of Americans'
experiment with republican government. In other words: before the
Council, American Catholics' relationship to the political common
good was mediated, somewhat uncritical, and insulated from conflict
(both within and without the Church) over such fundamental matters
as protection of innocent life, marriage and family life, and (to a
lesser extent) religious liberty. This has all changed since the
mid-1960s. For the first time in the Church's pilgrimage on these
shores, controversial questions about the basic moral requirements
of the political common good are front and center for America's
Catholics. These questions require Catholics to confront matters
which heretofore they either took for granted, read off from the
background culture, or which they left to the bishops to handle.
But the Council Fathers rightly recognized that Jesus calls upon a
formed and informed laity to act as leaven in the public realm, to
bring Gospel values to the temporal sphere. In this book of essays
touching upon Catholic social doctrine, the truth about human
equality and political liberty, and religious faith as it bears
upon public life and the public engagement of lay Catholics, Gerard
Bradley supplies indispensable aid to those seeking to answer
Jesus' call.
The most controversial foundational issue today in both legal
philosophy and constitutional law is the relationship between
objective moral norms and the positive law. Is it possible for the
state to be morally "neutral" about such matters as marriage, the
family, religion, religious liberty, and - as the Supreme Court
once famously phrased it - "the meaning of life"? If such
neutrality is possible, is it desirable? In this volume of essays
one of our country's leading constitutional lawyers answers "no" to
both questions. In the first three chapters, Gerard Bradley
investigates the central moral justification of punishment, the
morality of plea bargaining, and how the criminal justice system
should treat the family. These essays reflect both Bradley's
decades as a teacher of criminal law as well as his earlier
experience as a trial prosecutor in the Manhattan District
Attorney's Office. The second triptych of papers has to do with the
raging controversy over same-sex "marriage," and the broader
movement toward a socially sanctioned orthodoxy about sexual
orientation of which the "marriage" movement is one part. These
papers reflect the author's years of philosophical work on the
marriage question, as well as his more practical experience as a
popular debater and expert witness. Finally, Bradley takes up the
questions of religious liberty and how our democratic polity should
treat religion. These chapters cover the original meaning of the
First Amendment's Establishment Clause, the role of Catholicism in
the post-World War II controversies over movie censorship as they
played out in the Supreme Court, and emerging challenges to
religious liberty in the 21st century.
Why would a priest turn his back on his priesthood and walk away
from his religious vocation and its demanding responsibilities? Why
did he become a priest in the first place? And how do such men make
reparations for their defection? Both Sides of the Altar strives to
look at these questions through one such priest's life, that of
Frank Morgan. This book was a "Labor of Love" for Fr. John A.
Hardon, s.j., now deceased, who urged him to put pen to paper to
tell his story. It traces Frank's life during the seminary, his
life as a priest in the 1940s and 1950s, and as a layperson in the
years that follow. Through it Frank walks through his own thought
processes as he looks back over 60 years, evoking the raw emotion
and feelings of his decision to leave behind his priestly ways, and
enter the life of a Lay Person. It compares how he was treated both
with kindness and with disdain. His narrative shows his constant
persistence in trying to serve the Roman Catholic Church throughout
his entire life. Truly showing both sides of the altar as only a
man who lived it can tell. Insights into the current plights the
Catholic Church faces, as well as poignant observations on
solutions are presented in a loving and well told tale through his
own voice. Frank's underlying love of the Church and its teachings
are a constant theme as he shares his life story.
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