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9780739118061

Civilizing Authority Society, State, and Church

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  • ISBN13:

    9780739118061

  • ISBN10:

    0739118064

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-10-05
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Authority and Realityp. 3
The Disappearance of Natural Authority and the Elusiveness of Nonnatural Authorityp. 21
Authority in the Churchp. 35
Authority and Libertyp. 59
Does Authority Invite or Command?p. 75
A Rock on Which One Can Build: Friendship, Solidarity, and the Notion of Authorityp. 99
Society, Subsidiarity, and Authority in Catholic Social Thoughtp. 119
How a Constitution May Undermine Constitutionalismp. 145
Locating Authority in Lawp. 161
"Hollow Men"? Law and the Declension of Beliefp. 197
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