Integralism and the Common Good: Selected Essays from The Josias (Volume 2: The Two Powers) - Hardcover

Waldstein, P Edmund

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1621388794 ISBN 13: 9781621388791

Publisher: Angelico Press, 2022

Synopsis

Like any part of creation, political life—established and willed by God for the sake of the temporal common good—has been wounded and is in need of healing by the grace of God, in whom all things subsist and to whom they are to be directed. Being both from God, the two powers—the temporal power of earthly rulers and the spiritual power of the Apostles and their successors—are meant to enter into an ordered relation, each having its own proper concern but capable of flourishing only in harmonious cooperation. This second volume of selected essays from The Josias is largely concerned with expounding the social duties of man and the meaning of the Social Kingship of Christ. It pursues the implications of the Church's demand for freedom of action (libertas ecclesiae), and deftly responds to objections raised against this vision of "integralism."

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About the Author

EDMUND WALDSTEIN, O.Cist. is a monk of the Cistercian Abbey of Stift Heiligenkreuz in Austria, lecturer in moral theology at the Abbey's theological college, and Director of the János-Brenner-Haus. Born in Italy and raised in the United States and Austria, he studied at Thomas Aquinas College in California, the Hochschule Benedikt XVI in Heiligenkreuz, and the University of Vienna, where he was promoted Doctor of Theology in 2019. His research has focused on eudemonism, the common good, Catholic integralism, and theological readings of literary fiction.

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Praise for Volume One:

"The good, the common good, the highest good—these and other concepts have once more come to permeate political discourse in the West. While this is a salutary development, there is also much confusion in the air over what they really mean. No more: this lucid and learned anthology is a fantastic one-stop primer for the perplexed layman."—SOHRAB AHMARI, author of From Fire, by Water and The Unbroken Thread

"While the world, in its flight from reality, rushes headlong into moral and political disorder, an extraordinary renaissance of Catholic social and political thought has also been taking place. Innocuous phrases like 'common good conservativism' and 'Catholic integralism' now have a frisson about them, even enlivening geopolitical disputes about right order. In this extraordinary set of essays, we have some of the first fruits of a renaissance essential to the recovery of our sanity."—C.C. PECKNOLD, Catholic University of America

Edition details

• Publisher: Angelico Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1621388794
• ISBN 13: 9781621388791
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 402