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Desiring a Better Country
Douglas Farrow
其他書名
Forays in Political Theology
出版McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015
主題Philosophy / ReligiousReligion / Christianity / CatholicReligion / PhilosophyReligion / Religion, Politics & StateSocial Science / Sociology of Religion
ISBN07735458599780773545854
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-I2MCgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Douglas Farrow seldom shies from controversy. Discussing several hot-button issues such as religion in public life, educational freedom, human rights, and the definition of marriage, Farrow challenges the common misconception that secular institutions can be religiously neutral. Inspired by current legal, political, and philosophical debates in North America, Desiring a Better Country engages leading political thinkers from Augustine to John Rawls and John Courtney Murray, contemporary political figures such as Michael Ignatieff and Justin Trudeau, as well as legal scholars and Supreme Court judgments. Writing from a Catholic perspective, Farrow also incorporates contributions from the Church's pre- and post-Vatican II teaching. His arguments treat five pressing issues: the grounding of human rights, the dislocation of the goods of marriage, the incoherence of normative pluralism, the uncertain future of religious freedom, and the peculiar liberty of the Church. Provocatively written, well-informed, and relevant to current affairs, Desiring a Better Country is a timely intervention in debates on religion, civil society, and the state.