Politics for a Pilgrim Church: A Thomistic Theory of Civic Virtue
- ISBN-10
- 0802870902
- ISBN-13
- 9780802870902
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 296
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-09-01
- Publisher
- Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
- Author
- Thomas J. Bushlack
Description
"Presents an innovative, constructive alternative to Christian involvement in the "culture wars"" Church leaders and scholars have long wrestled with what should provide a guiding vision for Christian engagement in culture and politics. In this book Thomas Bushlack argues that a retrieval of Thomas Aquinas's understanding of civic virtue provides important resources for guiding this engagement today. Bushlack suggests that Aquinas's vision of the pilgrim church provides a fitting model for seeking the earthly common good of the political community, and he notes the features of a Thomistic account of justice and civic virtue that remain particularly salient for the twenty-first century. The book concludes with suggestions for cultivating a Christian rhetoric of the common good as an alternative to the predominant forms of discourse fostered within the culture wars that have been so divisive.
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