Marc Guerra’s CHRISTIANS AS POLITICAL ANIMALS is now available from ISI Books. You can get it on amazon for $17.79. That’s right! A magnificently produced and beautifully written hardback for that low price. It’s THE pomocon treatise on theology and modern democracy. We can gratefully and loyally affirm the work of our liberal and democratic political Fathers while, as Christians, remembering that no political solution is without its flaws or reflects the whole truth about who we are. Our liberal democracy is not heaven even at its best (as some neocons might be interpreted as saying) or inching closer to a hellish wasteland (as some Porchers seem to suggest). I’ll have more to say about this wonderful book soon.
Shameless self-promotion add-on: My MODERN AND AMERICAN DIGNITY, also by ISI books and also $17.79 on amazon, is available for “pre-order.”
June 15th, 2010 | 9:06 am
To further whet your appetite, here is a blurb from an Eminent Authority:
Christians as Political Animals is a deft and marvelously readable synthesis of the most profound Christian political thought. It ranges masterfully from Augustine and Aquinas to more recent natural law theorists and to the most notable Papal pronouncements of recent decades. In the course of a singularly lucid survey of this tradition of Christian political reflection, Guerra engages our late-modern predicament in conversation with the best contemporary thought, and does not shrink from scrutinizing the arguments of his masters and teachers. This work will be, not only a great boon to teaching the tradition of Christian political philosophy, but also an important contribution to the deepest reflection on the problem of Christianity and modernity.
June 17th, 2010 | 1:12 pm
Such shameless self promotion would displease Nietzsche.
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