Prophetic and public
Subtitle: the social witness of U.S. Catholicism
By: Kristin E. Heyer.
Series: Moral traditions series
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781589010826
Subjects: Christian sociology -- Catholic Church.; Church and social problems -- United States.; Church and social problems -- Catholic Church.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The legitimacy of public theology in contemporary American civil society; title: Catholic foundations of public theology and political participation divergences within American Catholic social ethics : the approaches of J. Bryan Hehir and Michael Baxter; title: Catholic political advocacy in the U.S. context : network social justice lobby, Pax Christi USA and the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops; title: Conclusions in light of theory and praxis : Catholic public theology for the 21st century; title: Appendix A: list of individuals interviewed.