Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1997
Publication Information
2 Cath. Soc. Sci. Rev. 13 (1997).
Abstract
You may have heard Hadley Arkes's charge — always made in good-natured friendship — that Father Richard John Neuhaus owes him royalties for the title of Neuhaus's wonderful monthly, First Things. After all, Arkes's book of the same name came out first. Father Neuhaus read it and liked it, and, voila, shortly thereafter the magazine appeared. Arkes has a good circumstantial case.
You probably know that one of Father Neuhaus's books is called The Catholic Moment. His thesis is that late twentieth century Americans are living through a "crisis of unbelief." The Roman Catholic Church, Neuhaus argues, can and should be the lead church in proclaiming and exemplifying the Gospel. Why? Because the Catholic Church is, not only the oldest, but the most formidable and most resolute repository and defender of both traditional morality and traditional theism in the United States.
Recommended Citation
Gerard V. Bradley,
The Pluralist Game: Francis Canavan on Law, Public Morality, and Pluralism in Contemporary America,
2 Cath. Soc. Sci. Rev. 13 (1997)..
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https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_scholarship/1654
Comments
Abstract from introduction.