Human Rights, Virtue and the Common Good

Untimely Meditations on Religion and Politics

By (author) Father Ernest L. Fortin

Publication date:

26 December 1996

Length of book:

352 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

235x155mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780847682782

Volume Three of Ernest Fortin: Collected Essays discusses the current state of Christianity—especially twentieth-century Catholic Christianity—and the problems with which it has had to wrestle in the midst of rapid scientific progress, profound social change, and growing moral anarchy. In this volume, Fortin discusses such topics as Christianity and the liberal democratic ethos; Christianity, science, and the arts; Ancients and Moderns; papal social thought; virtue and liberalism; pagan and Christian virtue; and the American Catholic church and politics.
Ernest Fortin possesses that rare combination, found only in the greatest thinkers, of both immense learning and a playful intellect. His essays are grounded, but not confined, in tradition; they are scholarly, but not pedantic. They are eloquent testimony to the eros of the mind.