Politics for a Pilgrim Church: A Thomistic Theory of Civic Virtue

Presents an innovative, constructive alternative to Christian involvement in the "culture wars"

Church leaders and scholars have long wrestled with what should provide a guiding vision for Christian engagement in culture and politics. In this book Thomas Bushlack argues that a retrieval of Thomas Aquinas's understanding of civic virtue provides important resources for guiding this engagement today.

Bushlack suggests that Aquinas's vision of the pilgrim church provides a fitting model for seeking the earthly common good of the political community, and he notes the features of a Thomistic account of justice and civic virtue that remain particularly salient for the twenty-first century. The book concludes with suggestions for cultivating a Christian rhetoric of the common good as an alternative to the predominant forms of discourse fostered within the culture wars that have been so divisive.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 11/06/2015
ISBN: 9780802870902
Pages: 279
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.90d