In search of the common good /

In search of the common good / edited by Dennis P. McCann and Patrick D. Miller. - New York : T & T Clark, c2005. - vii, 360 p. ; 24 cm. - Theology for the twenty-first century. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"That it may go well with you": the commandments and the common good / Patrick D. Miller -- "When mercy seasons justice": Jonah and the common good / Jacqueline Lapsley -- Uncommon love and the common good: Christians as citizens in the letters of Paul / Victor Paul Furnish -- The common good in Thomas Aquinas / Jean Porter -- The common good in Catholic social teaching: a case study in modernization / Dennis P. McCann -- Public discourse and common good / Robin W. Lovin -- It takes a community or at least an association / C. Eric Mount, Jr. -- A rose by any other name? Deconstructing the essence of "common" / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan -- "Good is knowing when to stop": dénucléation and the end of privilege / Josiah Young -- Common good in performance / Milner Ball -- The common good as political norm / James W. Skillen -- The common good, our common goods, and the uncommon good in a globalizing era / Max W. Stackhouse -- Killing for the telephone company: why the nation-state is not the keeper of the common good / William T. Cavanaugh -- The triunity of common good / Robert W. Jenson.

0567027708 (hardcover)

2004019088


Good and evil.

BJ1401 / .I5 2005 BJ1401 / .I5 2005

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