Western Creed, Western Identity: Essays in Legal and Social Philosophy Book

Contents

Foreword, by Ralph McInerny....................vii
Acknowledgments....................ix
Introduction....................xi
1. Western Creed, Western Identity....................3
2. Christian Philosophy: A Sociological Category or an Oxymoron?....................18
3. What Was Religion? The Demise of a Prodigious Power....................28
4. Marx, Dewey, and Maritain: The Role of Religion in Society....................44
5. John Courtney Murray on the Truths We Hold....................66
6. Separating Church and State....................83
7. Thomas on Natural Law: What Judge Thomas Did Not Say....................100
8. Collective Responsibility....................119
9. Accountability without Causality: Tort Litigation Reaches Fairy-Tale Levels....................136
10. On the Justification of Rights Claims....................155
11. The Necessity of Punishment....................168
12. Professional Responsibility....................183
13. Edith Stein: The Convert in Search of Illumination....................201
14. Maritain at the Cliff's Edge: From Antimodern to Le Paysan....................213
15. John Paul II, Defender of Faith and Reason....................229
16. The Interior Life....................236
Bibliography....................245
Index....................251