Political Order and the Plural Structure of SocietyThis excellent volume explores three forms of pluralist theory -- those based on historical doctrines of custom and tradition, Catholic doctrines of natural law and subsidiarity, and Calvinist doctrines of sphere sovereignty and creation -- and compares and evaluates each of these forms of pluralism within the context of American thought. |
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Contents
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Unbelief and Revolution | 49 |
Community In Historical Perspective | 75 |
Political Thought from Gerson to Grotius | 93 |
Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation | 111 |
US Catholic Bishop Economic Justice For All 1986 | 203 |
Sphere Sovereignty Creation Order and Public Justice | 223 |
Progressive Calvinism An Introduction to the Readings | 225 |
The Antirevolutionary Program 1873 1880 | 231 |
Roots of Western Culture 1959 | 261 |
Scriptural Religion and Political Task | 295 |
The United States Constitution and the Rights of Religion 1981 | 311 |
Christian Politics in a Global Context 1977 1980 | 329 |
Subsidiarity Natural Law and the Common Good | 131 |
The Recent Catholic Tradition An Introduction to the Readings | 133 |
Rerum Novarum 1891 | 139 |
Pope Pius XI Quadragesimo Anno 1931 | 157 |
Man and the State 1951 | 171 |
The Political Community 1965 | 193 |
Three Views of Social Pluralism A Critical Evaluation | 351 |
History the Unfolding of Society and Human Fulfillment | 353 |
Subsidiarity Natural Law and the Common Good | 373 |
Sphere Sovereignty Creation Order and Public Justice | 393 |
EPILOGUE | 415 |
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Page 40 - But he has not a right to an equal dividend in the product of the joint stock ; and as to the share of power, authority, and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the state, that I must deny to be amongst the direct original rights of man in civil society ; for I have in my contemplation the civil social man, and no other. It is a thing to be settled by convention.
Page 38 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole at one time is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Page 35 - To destroy any power, growing wild from the rank productive force of the human mind, is almost tantamount, in the moral world, to the destruction of the apparently active properties of bodies in the material.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Political Order and the Plural Structure of Society Issue 2 of The Emory University Studies in Law and Religion |
| Editors | James W. Skillen, Rockne M. McCarthy |
| Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0802848516, 9780802848512 |
| Length | 435 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Christianity / Catholic |
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