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The fragility of order : Catholic reflections on turbulent times / George Weigel.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: San Francisco : Ignatius Press, [2018]Description: 223 p. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781621642374 (hbk alk. paper)
  • 1621642372 (hbk alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BX 1793 W419f 2018
Contents:
The great war revisited : why it began, why it continued, and what that means for today -- Through a glass, but more clearly : ten principles for renewing the American debate on morality and foreign policy -- All war, all the time : lessons from the communist assault on the church -- Grand strategy reconsidered : the statecraft of a saint -- Reading Regensburg right : Benedict XVI on the dilemma of Islam and political modernity -- Truths still held? : the Murray template and American political culture -- The handwriting on the wall : Belshazzar, Daniel, Leo XIII, and us -- The importance of reality contact : deep truths and public policy -- A new Great Awakening : the Gregorian option for American cultural reform -- The signs of these times : John Paul II and the renovation of Christian humanism -- Synod-2014 : the church's German problem, Africa's Catholic moment, and the global crisis of marriage and the family -- Synod-2015 : what happened, why, and how -- Evangelical Churchmanship : learning from an earlier Francis.
Summary: One of America's most prominent public intellectuals brings thirty-five years of experience in Washington and Rome to bear in analyzing the turbulence that characterizes world politics, American public life, and the Catholic Church in the early twenty-first century. In these bracing essays, George Weigel reads such events as the First World War, the collapse of Communism, and the Obama and Trump presidencies through a distinctive cultural and moral lens, even as he offers new insights into Pope Francis and his challenging pontificate. Throughout, two of Weigel's key convictions-that ideas have consequences for good and ill, and that the deepest currents of history flow through culture-illuminate political and economic life, and the life of the Church, in ways not often appreciated or understood. Many of the chapters in this book originated in George Weigel's annual William E. Simon Lecture, which since 2001 has become a major event in Washington, D.C. They are unique in their application of philosophical and theological perspectives to the issues of history and politics, enabling the reader to see current events in a deeper way."--Book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209) and indexes.

The great war revisited : why it began, why it continued, and what that means for today --
Through a glass, but more clearly : ten principles for renewing the American debate on morality and foreign policy --
All war, all the time : lessons from the communist assault on the church --
Grand strategy reconsidered : the statecraft of a saint --
Reading Regensburg right : Benedict XVI on the dilemma of Islam and political modernity --
Truths still held? : the Murray template and American political culture --
The handwriting on the wall : Belshazzar, Daniel, Leo XIII, and us --
The importance of reality contact : deep truths and public policy --
A new Great Awakening : the Gregorian option for American cultural reform --
The signs of these times : John Paul II and the renovation of Christian humanism --
Synod-2014 : the church's German problem, Africa's Catholic moment, and the global crisis of marriage and the family --
Synod-2015 : what happened, why, and how --
Evangelical Churchmanship : learning from an earlier Francis.

One of America's most prominent public intellectuals brings thirty-five years of experience in Washington and Rome to bear in analyzing the turbulence that characterizes world politics, American public life, and the Catholic Church in the early twenty-first century. In these bracing essays, George Weigel reads such events as the First World War, the collapse of Communism, and the Obama and Trump presidencies through a distinctive cultural and moral lens, even as he offers new insights into Pope Francis and his challenging pontificate. Throughout, two of Weigel's key convictions-that ideas have consequences for good and ill, and that the deepest currents of history flow through culture-illuminate political and economic life, and the life of the Church, in ways not often appreciated or understood. Many of the chapters in this book originated in George Weigel's annual William E. Simon Lecture, which since 2001 has become a major event in Washington, D.C. They are unique in their application of philosophical and theological perspectives to the issues of history and politics, enabling the reader to see current events in a deeper way."--Book jacket.

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