The teachings of modern Roman Catholicism on law, politics, and human nature / edited by John Witte, Jr. and Frank S. Alexander ; introduction by Russell Hittinger.

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Other Authors: Witte, John, Jr., 1959-, Alexander, Frank S., 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to modern Catholicism / Russell Hittinger
  • Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903)
  • Commentary / Russell Hittinger
  • Original source materials
  • A twofold pedagogy
  • Law and liberty
  • Plural societies
  • Church and civil authority
  • Political "forms"
  • Belgium, France, and the United States
  • The rule of Christ and Christian virtue
  • Jacques Maritain (1882-1973)
  • Commentary / Patrick McKinley Brennan
  • Original source materials
  • Inaugural address to the second international conference of UNESCO
  • Redeeming the time
  • Man and the state
  • Church and state
  • God and the permission of evil
  • Natural law and moral law
  • The rights of man and natural law
  • Scholasticism and politics
  • Moral philosophy
  • John Courtney Murray, S.J. (1904-1967)
  • Commentary / Angela C. Carmella
  • Original source materials
  • On natural law
  • On america
  • On social conversation
  • On the public consensus
  • On historical consciousness
  • On the distinction between law and morality
  • On the limited efficacy of censorship statutes
  • Unity
  • On the church-state distinction
  • On the first amendment religion clauses
  • On coercion of conscience
  • On the scope of the right to religious freedom
  • On the human right to religious freedom
  • On the church's teachings on religious freedom
  • On Leo XIII
  • On the Vatican II declaration of religious freedom
  • Freedom and the secularity of the state
  • On the difficulties of Vatican II
  • On the church's tardy recognition of religious freedom
  • On John XXIII
  • Pope John XXIII (1881-1963)
  • Commentary / Leslie Griffin
  • Original source materials
  • Announcement of ecumenical council
  • Opening address to the council
  • Gustavo Guti & Edotirrez (b. 1928)
  • Commentary / Paul E. Sigmund
  • Original source materials
  • Notes for a theology of liberation
  • A theology of liberation : history, politics, and salvation
  • The power of the poor in history
  • Theology and the social sciences
  • On Job, God-talk, and the suffering of the innocent
  • A theology of liberation, revised edition
  • Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
  • Commentary / David Gregory
  • Original source materials
  • The Catholic worker collection
  • Dividing the workers
  • Unionizing the unemployed
  • Reasons for child labor law
  • Vigilantes mob sharecroppers' mass meeting
  • The Catholic worker and labor
  • Catholics in unions
  • The Catholic worker : 25th anniversary issue
  • Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
  • Commentary / Robert P. George and Gerard V. Bradley
  • Original source materials
  • "Dominus Jesus" : declaration on the unicity and salvific university of Jesus Christ and the church
  • Instruction on certain aspects of the "theology of liberation"
  • Instruction on Christian freedom and liberation
  • Sollicitudo rei socialis (on social concern)
  • Encylical letter : centesimus annus
  • Evangelium vitae (the Gospel of life)