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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Novak; William Brailsford; Cornelius Heesters |
| ISBN: | 0739101439 9780739101438 0739101447 9780739101445 |
| OCLC Number: | 43751521 |
| Description: | xix, 414 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Michael Novak -- Part I. Preliminaries : John Paul II on liberty. Centesimus Annus : the architecture of freedom / George Weigel -- Behind Centesimus Annus / Rocco Buttiglione -- The liberalism of John Paul II / Richard John Neuhaus -- The philosophy of John Paul II / Michael Novak -- Part II. Economics and the free society. The temple in the polis : faith is not ideology / Maciej Zieba -- The monk and the market : what does a priest need economics for? / Maciej Zieba -- Property and creativity / Richard John Neuhaus -- Christian economics 101 / Rocco Buttiglione -- How Christianity changed political economy / Michael Novak -- The love that moves the sun / Michael Novak -- Part III. Democracy and the free society. Christianity and democracy (Part 1) / Pierre Manent -- Christianity and democracy (Part II) / Pierre Manent -- The Church embraces democracy / Alain Besançon -- A new order of religious freedom / Richard John Neuhaus -- Catholicism and democracy : parsing the other twentieth-century revolution / George Weigel -- The trouble with toleration / Ryszard Legutko -- The Catholic moment / Richard John Neuhaus -- The Pope and the liberal state / Russell Hittinger -- Part IV. Culture and the free society. John Paul II and the priority of culture / George Weigel -- Modern individualism / Pierre Manent -- The liberal paradox : might religion have an answer? / Thomas L. Pangle -- Trite and false tolerance / Philippe Benéton -- Law and liberty in Veritatis Splendor / Russell Hittinger -- Against the adversary culture / Michael Novak -- Truth and liberty : the present crisis in our culture / Michael Novak -- Part V. Documentation. Introduction to The Federalist -- The Federalist papers / James Madison et al. -- Introduction to Democracy in America -- Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Introduction to Centesimus Annus -- Centesimus Annus / John Paul II -- What freedom is : homily in Orioles Park at Camden Yards -- John Paul II on the American experiment -- Letter to the National Prayer Breakfast. |
| Series Title: | Religion, politics, and society in the new millennium. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Michael Novak, William Brailsford, and Cornelius Heesters. |
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This reader illuminates the critical questions at the juncture between the failure of socialism and the creation of a new society and economy. The discussion is dazzling, original and profound. It is exciting reading. -- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Georgetown University and the American Enterprise Institute Slowly, steadily, powerfully, a new way of thinking about the relationships among religion, ethics, politics, and economics has emerged in the past several decades. There is no better introduction to the creative groups of thinkers who are forging this new movement, which is as concerned for virtue and responsibility as much as it is for prosperity and liberty. -- Robert Royal, Ethics and Public Policy Center Read more...
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- Catholic Church.
- Theology, Doctrinal.
- Centesimus annus.
- Démocratie -- Aspect religieux -- Eglise catholique.
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