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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Patrick McKinley Brennan - Contributions by J Budziszewski; John E. Coons; Cardinal Avery Dulles S.J.; Russell Hittinger; Thomas Kohler; Steven K. Smith; Glenn Tinder; Joseph Vining and Michael J. White Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Explores the essential commonalities of authority across the spectrum of human living. This book also probes the risk that authoritarian abuse will arrive to compensate for the elusiveness of genuine authority in a post-Christian! materialist world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Foreword Part 2 Introduction Part 3 Part I: The Spectrum of the Authority Experience Today Chapter 4 Authority and Reality Chapter 5 The Disappearance of Authority and the Elusiveness of Nonnatural Authority Chapter 6 Authority in the Church Part 7 Part II: Philosophies of Authority Chapter 8 Authority and Liberty Chapter 9 Does Authority Invite or Command? Chapter 10 A Rock on Which One Can Build: Friendship, Solidarity, and the Notion of Authority Chapter 11 Society, Subsidiarity, and Authority in Catholic Social Thought Part 12 Part III: Authority in Law? Chapter 13 How a Constitution May Undermine Constitutionalism Chapter 14 Locating Authority in Law Chapter 15 "Hollow Men?" Law and the Declension of Belief
