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Political Philosophy and Revelation

A Catholic Reading
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A collection of Fr. James Schall's recent essays, Political Philosophy and Revelation offers a learned, erudite, and coherent statement on the relationship between reason and revelation in the modern world. It addresses political philosophy in the context of an awareness of other humane and practical sciences, including history, literature, economics, theology, ethics and metaphysics. Today, revelation and reason are often thought to be in opposition to each other. This book looks at arguments and evidence for a more consistent reading of our experience and thought, one that would include the revelational contributions and the philosophy and politics it inspires. This is done in accord with "the Catholic understanding of freedom and reason". To see these connections, Schall looks to the readings of Plato to illustrate how revelation addresses itself to reason. Political Philosophy and Revelation will prove to be an indispensable guide to the thinking and writing of Fr. Schall in the second decade of the twenty first century.
James V. Schall, SJ is professor emeritus at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
"*Recommended*"--Crisis Magazine "The variety of his interests constitutes an ordered harmony whose center is not easily grasped yet which animates the whole To read Schall is to inhabit a fecund and original mind that invites us to view God, the world, and its creatures as one would seek to see afresh the facets of a gem by turning it over and over in the light. That is, to read Schall is to be invited into an education into a way of thought and a way of being."--Thomas Smith - Villanova U, The Review of Politics ""This book is a collection of Schall's recent essays . . . It should be of interest to all learned Catholics, political theorists of almost any stripe, and anyone curious about the place of religion in the modern world."--Richard Avramenko, associate professor of political science, University of Wisconsin-Madison"--
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