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Catholics and Politics: The Dynamic Tension Between Faith and Power (Religion and Politics series) by Kristin E. Heyer; Adrian Pantoja; Mark J. Rozell; Michael A. Genovese; Margaret Ross Sammon; Gregory Allen Smith; Mark M. Gray; Mary E. Bendyna; Matthew J. Streb; Brian Frederick is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Catholics and Politics: The Dynamic Tension Between Faith and Power (Religion and Politics series) about?

Catholic political identity and engagement defy categorization. The complexities of political realities and the human nature of such institutions as church and government often produce a more fractured reality than the pure unity depicted in doctrine. Yet, in 2003 under the leadership of then-prefect Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI), the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a "Doctrinal Note on Some Questions Regarding the Participation of Catholics in Political Life." The note explicitly asserts, "The Christian faith is an integral unity, and thus it is incoherent to isolate some particular element to the detriment of the whole of Catholic doctrine. A political commitment to a single isolated aspect of the Church's social doctrine does not exhaust one's responsibility toward the common good." Catholics and Politics takes up the political and theological significance of this "integral unity," the universal scope of Catholic concern that can make for strange political bedfellows, confound predictable voting patterns, and leave the church poised to critique narrowly partisan agendas across the spectrum. Catholics and Politics depicts the ambivalent ch

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Kristin E. Heyer; Adrian Pantoja; Mark J. Rozell; Michael A. Genovese; Margaret Ross Sammon; Gregory Allen Smith; Mark M. Gray; Mary E. Bendyna; Matthew J. Streb; Brian Frederick
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Published
2008
Language
EN
ISBN
9781589012158
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Political Science, Religion, Philosophy

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