Research Catalog

Title

Political order and the plural structure of society / edited by James W. Skillen, Rockne M. McCarthy.

Publication

Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, c1991.

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Additional Authors

• McCarthy, Rockne.
• Skillen, James W.

Description

ix, 421 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Emory University studies in law and religion ; no. 2

Uniform Title

Emory University studies in law and religion ; no. 2.

Subject

• Collectivism
• Cultural pluralism
• Individualism
• Political science > Philosophy
• State, The

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction : The question of pluralism -- History, the unfolding of society, and human fulfillment -- The weight of history : an introduction to the readings -- Reflections on the revolution in France / Edmund Burke (1790) -- Unbelief and revolution / G. Groen van Prinsterer (1847) -- Community in historical perspective / Otto von Gierke (1868) -- Political thought from Gerson to Grotius / John Neville Figgis (1907) -- Doing theology in a revolutionary situation / José Míguez Bonino (1975) -- Subsidiarity, natural law, and the common good -- The recent Catholic tradition : an introduction to the readings -- Rerum Novarum / Pope Leo XIII (1891) -- Quadragesimo Anno / Pope Pius XI (1931) -- Man and the state / Jacques Maritain (1951) -- The political community / Bishops of the Second Vatican Council (1965) -- Economic justice for all / U.S. Catholic Bishops (1986).
• Sphere sovereignty, creation order, and public justice -- Progressive Calvinism : An introduction to the readings -- The antirevolutionary program / Abraham Kuyper (1873, 1880) -- Roots of Western culture / Herman Dooyeweerd (1959) -- Scriptural religion and political task / H. Evan Runner (1961) -- The United States Constitution and the rights of religion / Bernard J. Zylstra (1981) -- Christian politics in a global context / Bob Goudzwaard (1977, 1980) -- Three views of social pluralism : a critical evaluation -- History, the unfolding of society, and human fulfillment --Subsidiarity, natural law, and the common good -- Sphere sovereignty, creation order, and public justice -- Epilogue.

ISBN

• 1555406408
• 1555406416 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^91029754^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library