TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gascoigne,Robert
TI  - The church and secularity: two stories of liberal society 
T2  - Moral traditions series
SN  - 9781589017252
AV  - BT810.3 .G37 2009eb
U1  - 261.7 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Georgetown University Press
KW  - Augustine,
KW  - Vatican Council
KW  - (2nd
KW  - 1962-1965
KW  - Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)
KW  - Constitutio pastoralis de ecclesia in mundo huius temporis
KW  - Constitutio pastoralis de ecclesia in mundo huius temporis (Vatican Council)
KW  - fast
KW  - De civitate Dei (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint)
KW  - Church and the world
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Liberty
KW  - Église et le monde
KW  - Libéralisme
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Liberté
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christian Life
KW  - Social Issues
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Ethics
KW  - religiösa aspekter
KW  - sao
KW  - Religionssamfunden och samhället
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The two stories of liberal society -- Church, kingdom, and secularity -- The virtues of noninstrumental relationships -- Christian hope and the Eucharist : witness and service -- Two stories of liberal society and contemporary -- Catholic identity
N2  - Western liberal societies are characterized by two stories: a positive story of freedom of conscience and the recognition of community and human rights, and a negative story of unrestrained freedom that leads to self-centeredness, vacuity, and the destructive compromise of human values. Can the Catholic Church play a more meaningful role in assisting liberal societies in telling their better story? Australian ethicist Robert Gascoigne thinks it can. In The Church and Secularity he considers the meaning of secularity as a shared space for all citizens and asks how the Church can contribute to a sensitivity to -- and respect for -- human dignity and human rights. Drawing on Augustine's City of God and Vatican II's Gaudium et spes, Gascoigne interprets the meaning of freedom in liberal societies through the lens of Augustine's "two loves," the love of God and neighbor and the love of self, and reveals how the two are connected to our contemporary experience. The Church and Secularity argues that the Church can serve liberal societies in a positive way and that its own social identity, rooted in Eucharistic communities, must be bound up with the struggle for human rights and resistance to the commodification of the human in all its forms
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