The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Volume 2

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John Witte, Frank S. Alexander
Columbia University Press, 2006 - Reference - 600 pages
Divided into two volumes, The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature offers a landmark collection of writings from twenty Christian thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and analyses of their work by leading contemporary religious scholars.With selections from the works of Jacques Maritain, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Dorothy Day, Pope John Paul II, Susan B. Anthony, Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Luther King Jr., Nikolai Berdyaev, Vladimir Lossky, and others, Volume 2 illustrates the different venues, vectors, and sometimes-conflicting visions of what a Christian understanding of law, politics, and society entails. The collection includes works by popes, pastors, nuns, activists, and theologians writing from within the Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian traditions. Addressing racism, totalitarianism, sexism, and other issues, many of the figures in this volume were the victims of church censure, exile, imprisonment, assassination, and death in Nazi concentration camps. These writings amplify the long and diverse tradition of modern Christian social thought and its continuing relevance to contemporary pluralistic societies. The volume speaks to questions regarding the nature and purpose of law and authority, the limits of rule and obedience, the care and nurture of the needy and innocent, the rights and wrongs of war and violence, and the separation of church and state. The historical focus and ecumenical breadth of this collection fills an important scholarly gap and revives the role of Christian social thought in legal and political theory.The first volume of The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law Politics, and Human Nature includes essays by leading contemporary religious scholars, exploring the ideas, influences, and intellectual and cultural contexts of the figures from this volume.

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Pope Leo XIII 18101903
3
Jacques Maritain 18821973
34
John Courtney Murray 19041967
68
Pope John Paul II 19202005
175
Abraham Kuyper 18371920
219
Susan B Anthony 18201906
249
Karl Barth 18861968
280
Reinhold Niebuhr 18921971
343
Martin Luther King Jr 19291968
369
Vladimir Soloviev 18531900
425
Nicholas Berdyaev 18741948
456
Vladimir Nikolaievich Lossky 19031958
487
Mother Maria Skobtsova 18911945
512
Contributors
559
Index
567
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