Civilizing Authority: Society, State, and Church
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (954 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0739118064 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 252 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Scarpa Chair in Catholic legal studies at Villanova University. . Patrick McKinley Brennan is professor of law and John F
Bunk on Authority Peter P. Fuchs I love it when reactionaries are given a comeuppance by their own Pope! What a pleasure! This guy is one of the cabal in the United States that is somehow trying to bring "Natural Law" theory bizarrely into American Constitutional discussions. Pure fantasy, of course. But now, poor sods, even the Pope is undercutting their jejune Finnis fantasies. And they of course are more Catholic than the Pope. How pathetic. First let us notice how they take aim at the Enlightenment in the
Voices of Enlightenment have long counseled modern men and women to flee authority, including authority claimed by the church. Refusing to conflate genuine authority with positions of power or prestige, they probe the deep, and perhaps transendental, sources of authority. Still, what is "the authority experience?" What are we obeying when when we give willing assent to authority?The ten authors of Civilizing Authority, Chrisitians of diverse belief and professional discipline, unite here to explore the ways in which authority, though elusive, remains possible indeed, exigent in a post-Christian world. Fri
(James Boyd White, University of Michigan) . (John Witte Jr.)In an era in which authority seems to be slipping away (or to be emerging in the pathological form of authoritarianism) this welcome volume gives us ten distinguished authors addressing from their distinct perspectives the nature of authority, its loss, and its perversion, topics that are crucial not only to the law, but to the legitimacy of the social order itself. An education and a delight, Civilizing Authority is like participating in a rich and provocative conversation, about questions that are both timely and timeless, among learned friends. (Richard Garnett, University of Notre Dame)These elegant essays offer a bold and bracing new understanding of the province and power of authority in Scripture and tradition, conscience and community, church and stateas well as a sage rebuke of the growing numbers of authoritarians and antinomians among us