Civilizing Authority: Society, State, and Church - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0739118064 ISBN 13: 9780739118061

Verlag: Lexington Books, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Patrick Brennan

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Críticas:

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 state-as well as a sage rebuke of the growing numbers of authoritarians and antinomians among us. -- 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. -- James Boyd White, University of Michigan

Reseña del editor:

All phases of our social life depend on authority; without it, families, schools, corporations, churches, and civil governments would cease to exist, and human life with them. Civilizing Authority explores the essential commonalities of authority across the spectrum of human living; it also probes the risk that authoritarian abuse will arrive to compensate for the elusiveness of genuine authority in a post-Christian, materialist world.

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• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0739118064
• ISBN 13: 9780739118061
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 254
• Herausgeber: Brennan Patrick McKinley