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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957147203321

Autore

Heyer Kristin E. <1974->

Titolo

Prophetic & public : the social witness of U.S. Catholicism / / Kristin E. Heyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2006

ISBN

9781589013971

1589013972

9781435627161

1435627164

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Moral traditions series

Disciplina

261.8088/28273

Soggetti

Christian sociology - Catholic Church

Church and social problems - United States

Church and social problems - Catholic Church

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-218) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Public theology in contemporary U.S. civil society -- Catholic foundations of public theology and political participation -- Divergences within American Catholic social ethics : J. Bryan Hehir and Michael Baxter, C.S.C. -- Catholic political advocacy in the contemporary U.S. context -- Catholic public theology for the twenty-first century.

Sommario/riassunto

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 U.S. 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 cons