UID:
edocfu_9959241328502883
Format:
1 online resource (249 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-58901-397-2
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1-4356-2716-4
Series Statement:
Moral traditions series
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-58901-082-5
Language:
English
