Thomas J. Bushlack

Politics for a Pilgrim Church (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Presents an innovative, constructive alternative to Christian involvement in the "culture wars" Church leaders and scholars have long wrestled with what should provide a guiding vision for Christian engagement in culture and politics. In this book Thomas Bushlack argues that a retrieval of Thomas Aquinas's understanding of civic virtue provides important resources for guiding this engagement today. Bushlack suggests that Aquinas's vision of the pilgrim church provides a fitting model for seeking the earthly common good of the political community, and he notes the features of a Thomistic account of justice and civic virtue that remain particularly salient for the twenty-first century. The book concludes with suggestions for cultivating a Christian rhetoric of the common good as an alternative to the predominant forms of discourse fostered within the culture wars that have been so divisive.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Eerdmans
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781467443418
• Artikelnr.: 62874194