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Prophetic & public : the social witness of U.S. Catholicism / Kristin E. Heyer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Moral traditions seriesPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2006.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 228 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781435627161
  • 1435627164
  • 1589010825
  • 9781589010826
  • 1589013972
  • 9781589013971
Other title:
  • Prophetic and public
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Prophetic & public.DDC classification:
  • 261.8088/28273 22
LOC classification:
  • BX1753 .H52 2006eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction -- Public theology in contemporary U.S. civil society -- Catholic foundations of public theology and political participation -- Divergences within American Catholic social ethics : J. Bryan Hehir and Michael Baxter, C.S.C. -- Catholic political advocacy in the contemporary U.S. context -- Catholic public theology for the twenty-first century.
Summary: "Heyer's careful work opens up fresh avenues of conversation about the possibilities and limits of public theology by developing a vision of social witness rooted in the hope of common ground."?Margaret Pfeil, assistant professor of theology, University of Notre Dame"Anyone interested in grasping the terrain of U.S. Catholic social ethics or public theology today, and in discerning ways beyond internicene conflicts that detract from Catholics' shared vocation to solidarity within a suffering world, will delight in and benefit from Heyer's fine work."?Christine Firer Hinze, associate professor of Christian ethics, Marquette University.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)216680

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index.

Introduction -- Public theology in contemporary U.S. civil society -- Catholic foundations of public theology and political participation -- Divergences within American Catholic social ethics : J. Bryan Hehir and Michael Baxter, C.S.C. -- Catholic political advocacy in the contemporary U.S. context -- Catholic public theology for the twenty-first century.

Print version record.

"Heyer's careful work opens up fresh avenues of conversation about the possibilities and limits of public theology by developing a vision of social witness rooted in the hope of common ground."?Margaret Pfeil, assistant professor of theology, University of Notre Dame"Anyone interested in grasping the terrain of U.S. Catholic social ethics or public theology today, and in discerning ways beyond internicene conflicts that detract from Catholics' shared vocation to solidarity within a suffering world, will delight in and benefit from Heyer's fine work."?Christine Firer Hinze, associate professor of Christian ethics, Marquette University.

English.