Politics For A Pligrim Church: A Thomistic Theory Of Civic Virtue

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.

• | Author: Thomas J. Bushlack
• | Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 279 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0802870902
• | ISBN-13: 9780802870902