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The clash of orthodoxies : law, religion, and morality in crisis / Robert P. George.

By: George, Robert P
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, 2001Description: xv, 387 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1882926625 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Religious ethics | Faith and reason | Secularism | Liberalism -- Religious aspects | Religion and law | Religion and politicsDDC classification: 320.51/2 LOC classification: BJ1188 | .G46 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-365) and index.
Contents:
The clash of orthodoxies (including an exchange with Josh Dever) -- Liberal political theory and the culture of death -- God's reasons -- "Same-sex marriage" and "moral neutrality" -- The concept of public morality -- Making children moral: pornography, parents, and the public interest -- The tyrant state -- Justice, legitimacy, and allegiance: "The end of democracy" symposium revisited -- Natural law and civil rights: from Jefferson's "Letter to Henry Lee" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" -- Natural law, the Constitution, and the theory and practice of judicial review (including and exchange with James Fleming) -- What is law? A century of arguments -- Religious values and politics -- Nature, morality, and homosexuality -- Bioethics and public policy: Catholic participation in the American debate -- On fides et ratio -- Afterword: We should not kill human embryos, for any reason.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-365) and index.

The clash of orthodoxies (including an exchange with Josh Dever) -- Liberal political theory and the culture of death -- God's reasons -- "Same-sex marriage" and "moral neutrality" -- The concept of public morality -- Making children moral: pornography, parents, and the public interest -- The tyrant state -- Justice, legitimacy, and allegiance: "The end of democracy" symposium revisited -- Natural law and civil rights: from Jefferson's "Letter to Henry Lee" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" -- Natural law, the Constitution, and the theory and practice of judicial review (including and exchange with James Fleming) -- What is law? A century of arguments -- Religious values and politics -- Nature, morality, and homosexuality -- Bioethics and public policy: Catholic participation in the American debate -- On fides et ratio -- Afterword: We should not kill human embryos, for any reason.

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