Aquinas, feminism, and the common good / Susanne M. DeCrane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeCrane, Susanne M. (Susanne Marie), 1949-

Series:

Moral traditions series.

Moral traditions series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace (Philosophy).

Common good.

Women's health services--United States.

Women's health services.

Feminism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Feminism.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

To dismiss the work of philosophers and theologians of the past because of their limited perceptions of the whole of humankind is tantamount to tossing the tot out with the tub water. Such is the case when feminist scholars of religion and ethics confront Thomas Aquinas, whose views of women can only be described as misogynistic. Rather than dispense with him, Susanne DeCrane seeks to engage Aquinas and reflect his otherwise compelling thought through the prism of feminist theology, hermeneutics, and ethics.Focusing on one of Aquinas's great intellectual contributions, the fundamental notion o

Contents:

Feminist theological hermeneutics

The common good in the thought of Thomas Aquinas

A feminist retrieval of the principle of the common good

Health care in the United States and the retrieved principle of the common good.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-208) and index.

ISBN:

9781589012417

1589012410

9781435638938

143563893X

OCLC:

742332802