Human Rights, Virtue and the Common Good

Ernest L. Fortin

ISBN 10: 084768279X / ISBN 13: 9780847682799

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, US, 1996

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Human Rights, Virtue and the Common Good
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, US
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 084768279X
• ISBN 13: 9780847682799
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 522 grams

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Synopsis

The third volume of collected essays by Ernest Fortin discusses the current state of Catholic Christianity. It includes such topics as Christianity, science, and the arts; papal social thought; virtue and liberalism; pagan and Christian virtue; and the American Catholic church and politics.

About the Author

Father Ernest L. Fortin, one of the nation's foremost thinkers in the fields of philosophy and theology, is Professor of Theology at Boston College, and the author and editor of numerous books on ancient and medieval philosophy and religion.