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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heyer, Kristin E., 1974-

Series:

Moral traditions series.

Moral traditions series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian sociology--Catholic Church.

Christian sociology.

Church and social problems--United States.

Church and social problems.

Church and social problems--Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Prophetic and public

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9781589013971

1589013972

9781435627161

1435627164

OCLC:

648711574