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Theology and Public Philosophy: Four Conversations
Author(s): Kenneth L. Grasso (Editor), Cecilia Rodriguez Castillo
- Publisher: Lexington Books (UK)
- Publication Date: 18 May 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 218 pages
- ISBN-10: 0739166638
- ISBN-13: 9780739166635
Book Description
Indeed, in the conviction that serious conversation about the type of questions being explored in this volume is in short supply today, this volume is organized in a manner designed to foster authentic dialogue. Each of the book’s four sections consists of an original essay by an eminent scholar focusing on a specific aspect of the problem that is the volume’s focus followed by three responses that directly engage its argument or explore the broader problematic it addresses. The volume thus takes the form of a dialogue in which the analyses of four eminent scholars are each engaged by three interlocutors.
Editorial Reviews
Review
It’s a rare thing, these days, to find minds capable of untying the knots into which the modern world has tied itself. This book is something rarer still: serious, knot-untying minds in conversation — the kind of conversation that has always been the hallmark of politics and philosophy at their best and most humane.
Theology and Public Philosophy is an immeasurably valuable contribution to the ongoing contemporary debate on the role that theology can play in the development of an authentic public philosophy, especially given the theoretical and practical weaknesses of the liberal intellectual tradition and the models of social and political life that flow from within it.
About the Author
Christopher Beem received his PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School.
