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The best of "The Public square". Richard John Neuhaus.
- Title
- The best of "The Public square". Book two / Richard John Neuhaus.
- Author
- Neuhaus, Richard John
- Publication
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2001.
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- Description
- ix, 246 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "This volume presents a sampling of the best of "The Public Square." Culled from columns written from 1996 to 2000, these thirty-two insightful pieces range from reflections on theology, philosophy, and politics to education, bioethics, law, and family life. Each one demonstrates Neuhaus's authorial flair and keen intellect. As Neuhaus argues, "public life is mainly about culture, and at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion." Few thinkers today can illumine this relationship as directly as Neuhaus. As a gathering of some of Neuhaus's finest recent columns, this volume is indispensable for those familiar with his work and a great introduction for those who should be."--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Public square. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Public square.
- Subject
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- Contents
- The unhappy fate of optional orthodoxy -- The extremity of the mainstream -- Islam cornered -- Russia: wilderness years ahead -- Turning the enemy into an enemy of the enemy -- A pope of the first millennium at the threshold of the third -- The first five years -- Portnoy's snit -- He who steals my words ... -- Counting by race -- Against Christian politics -- Peddlers of an unreal world -- Farewell to the overclass -- President Clinton and the white race -- Deep, critical reflection on the education front -- The best and the brightest -- A more real world -- Science, greed, and justice: an unbeatable combination -- What then is to be done? -- Sin and risk aversion -- Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Bill Clinton and the American character -- Why "hate crimes" are wrong -- Encountered by the truth -- The impertinence of protesting aggression -- Minding the mind -- Science, matter, spirit, and three-card monte -- To be a "normal" society -- American history and theological nerve -- Forget the Bilderbergers -- 1984 and now -- A world of our own making.
- ISBN
- 0802849954 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001040309
- OCLC
- 47243912
- SCSB-12893575
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library