The teachings of modern Roman Catholicism : on law, politics, and human nature /
Witte, John,1959-
Alexander, Frank S.,1952-
New York ; Chichester : Columbia University Press,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction to modern Catholicism / Russell Hittinger -- Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) -- Commentary / Russell Hittinger -- Original source materials -- A twofold pedagogy -- Law and liberty -- Plural societies -- Church and civil authority -- Political "forms" -- Belgium, France, and the United States -- The rule of Christ and Christian virtue -- Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) -- Commentary / Patrick McKinley Brennan -- Original source materials -- Inaugural address to the second international conference of UNESCO -- Redeeming the time -- Man and the state -- Church and state -- God and the permission of evil -- Natural law and moral law -- The rights of man and natural law -- Scholasticism and politics -- Moral philosophy -- John Courtney Murray, S.J. (1904-1967) -- Commentary / Angela C. Carmella -- Original source materials -- On natural law -- On america -- On social conversation -- On the public consensus -- On historical consciousness -- On the distinction between law and morality -- On the limited efficacy of censorship statutes -- Unity -- On the church-state distinction -- On the first amendment religion clauses -- On coercion of conscience -- On the scope of the right to religious freedom -- On the human right to religious freedom -- On the church's teachings on religious freedom -- On Leo XIII -- On the Vatican II declaration of religious freedom -- Freedom and the secularity of the state -- On the difficulties of Vatican II -- On the church's tardy recognition of religious freedom -- On John XXIII -- Pope John XXIII (1881-1963) -- Commentary / Leslie Griffin -- Original source materials -- Announcement of ecumenical council -- Opening address to the council -- Gustavo Guti & Edotirrez (b. 1928) -- Commentary / Paul E. Sigmund -- Original source materials -- Notes for a theology of liberation -- A theology of liberation : history, politics, and salvation -- The power of the poor in history -- Theology and the social sciences -- On Job, God-talk, and the suffering of the innocent -- A theology of liberation, revised edition -- Dorothy Day (1897-1980) -- Commentary / David Gregory -- Original source materials -- The Catholic worker collection -- Dividing the workers -- Unionizing the unemployed -- Reasons for child labor law -- Vigilantes mob sharecroppers' mass meeting -- The Catholic worker and labor -- Catholics in unions -- The Catholic worker : 25th anniversary issue -- Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) -- Commentary / Robert P. George and Gerard V. Bradley -- Original source materials -- "Dominus Jesus" : declaration on the unicity and salvific university of Jesus Christ and the church -- Instruction on certain aspects of the "theology of liberation" -- Instruction on Christian freedom and liberation -- Sollicitudo rei socialis (on social concern) -- Encylical letter : centesimus annus -- Evangelium vitae (the Gospel of life).
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