Human Rights Virtue And The Common Good

Download or read book Human Rights, Virtue and the Common Good written by Ernest L. Fortin and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1996-12-19 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume Three of Ernest Fortin: Collected Essays discusses the current state of Christianity—especially twentieth-century Catholic Christianity—and the problems with which it has had to wrestle in the midst of rapid scientific progress, profound social change, and growing moral anarchy. In this volume, Fortin discusses such topics as Christianity and the liberal democratic ethos; Christianity, science, and the arts; Ancients and Moderns; papal social thought; virtue and liberalism; pagan and Christian virtue; and the American Catholic church and politics.