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Christianity and Civil Society - Catholic and Neo-Calvinist Perspectives (Hardcover): Jeanne Heffernan Schindler Christianity and Civil Society - Catholic and Neo-Calvinist Perspectives (Hardcover)
Jeanne Heffernan Schindler; Contributions by Stanley Carlson-Thies, Jonathan Chaplin, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Kenneth L. Grasso, …
R2,611 Discovery Miles 26 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Christianity and Civil Society responds to the crisis of American democracy as perceived by such diverse thinkers as Christopher Lasch, Michael Sandel, Mary Ann Glendon, and Robert Putnam. Despite their philosophical differences, these thinkers highlight a common theme: a decline in the institutions of civil society once held to be the vital center of the American polity. In place of these institutions-such as the family, neighborhood, church, and civic associations-one finds a disturbingly reduced socio-political stage, dominated by an abstract triumvirate of the individual, state, and market as prime actors. Whether taking their inspiration from the political theology of St. Thomas Aquinas and papal encyclicals or from John Calvin and his heirs in the Reformed traditions, the authors assembled here find the doctrinal resources of Christianity indispensable to defending the irreducible identity and value of the social institutions that serve as the connective tissue of a political community. By drawing upon a treasury of social thought little known to most Americans, Christianity and Civil Society offers a fresh vantage point from which to assess the crisis of our polity as well as the best prospects for its renewal.

Theology and Public Philosophy - Four Conversations (Paperback, New): Kenneth L. Grasso, Cecilia Rodriguez Castillo Theology and Public Philosophy - Four Conversations (Paperback, New)
Kenneth L. Grasso, Cecilia Rodriguez Castillo; Contributions by Charles Taylor, Fred Dallmayr, William Schweiker, …
R1,322 Discovery Miles 13 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume brings together eminent theologians, philosophers and political theorists to discuss the relevance of theology and theologically grounded moral reflection to contemporary America's public life and argument. Avoiding the focus on hot button issues, shrill polemics and sloganeering that so often dominate discussions of religion and public life, the authors address such questions as how religious understandings have shaped the moral landscape of contemporary culture; the possible contributions of theology and theologically informed moral argument to contemporary public life; the problem of religious and moral discourse in a pluralistic society; and the proper relationship between religion and culture. Indeed, in the conviction that serious conversation about the type of questions being explored in this volume is in short supply today, this volume is organized in a manner designed to foster authentic dialogue.Each of the book's four sections consists of an original essay by an eminent scholar focusing on a specific aspect of the problem that is the volume's focus followed by three responses that directly engage its argument or explore the broader problematic it addresses. The volume thus takes the form of a dialogue in which the analyses of four eminent scholars are each engaged by three interlocutors.

Theology and Public Philosophy - Four Conversations (Hardcover, New): Kenneth L. Grasso, Cecilia Rodriguez Castillo Theology and Public Philosophy - Four Conversations (Hardcover, New)
Kenneth L. Grasso, Cecilia Rodriguez Castillo; Contributions by Charles Taylor, Fred Dallmayr, William Schweiker, …
R2,584 Discovery Miles 25 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume brings together eminent theologians, philosophers and political theorists to discuss the relevance of theology and theologically grounded moral reflection to contemporary America's public life and argument. Avoiding the focus on hot-button issues, shrill polemics, and sloganeering that so often dominate discussions of religion and public life, the contributors address such subjects as how religious understandings have shaped the moral landscape of contemporary culture, the possible contributions of theologically-informed argument to contemporary public life, religious and moral discourse in a pluralistic society, and the proper relationship between religion and culture. Indeed, in the conviction that serious conversation about the type of questions being explored in this volume is in short supply today, this volume is organized in a manner designed to foster authentic dialogue. Each of the book's four sections consists of an original essay by an eminent scholar focusing on a specific aspect of the problem that is the volume's focus followed by three responses that directly engage its argument or explore the broader problematic it addresses. The volume thus takes the form of a dialogue in which the analyses of four eminent scholars are each engaged by three interlocutors.

A Robert Spaemann Reader - Philosophical Essays on Nature, God, and the Human Person (Hardcover): D.C. Schindler, Jeanne... A Robert Spaemann Reader - Philosophical Essays on Nature, God, and the Human Person (Hardcover)
D.C. Schindler, Jeanne Heffernan Schindler
R3,951 Discovery Miles 39 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The German philosopher Robert Spaemann is one of the most important living thinkers in Europe today. This volume presents a selection of essays that span his career, from his first published academic essay on the origin of sociology (1953) to his more recent work in anthropology and the philosophy of religion. Spaemann is best known for his work on topical questions in ethics, politics, and education, but the light he casts on these questions derives from his more fundamental studies in metaphysics, the philosophy of nature, anthropology, and the philosophy of religion. At the core of the essays contained in this book is the concept of nature and the notion of the human person. Both are best understood, according to Spaemann, in light of the metaphysics and anthropology found in the classical and Christian tradition, which provides an account of the intelligibility and integrity of things and beings in the world that safeguards their value against the modern threat of reductionism and fragmentation. A Robert Spaemann Reader shows that Spaemann's profound intellectual formation in this tradition yields penetrating insights into a wide range of subjects, including God, education, art, human action, freedom, evolution, politics, and human dignity.

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