Love and Virtue in a Secular Age : Christianity, Modernity, and the Human Good (The Beginning and the Beyond of Politics)

Hancock, Ralph C.

University of Notre Dame Press（2026/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 326 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780268210861

Full Description

In a comprehensive meditation on freedom and reason, Ralph Hancock reveals the pressing need for renewed confidence in virtue and agency.

With an emphasis on reclaiming the moral preconditions of Christian love, Love and Virtue in a Secular Age offers a thought-provoking study on the effects of secularism on Christian morality. Ralph Hancock brings eminent scholars of the Christian Aristotelian tradition, such as Thomas Aquinas and Pierre Manent, into conversation with insights from Leo Strauss's critique of Christianity. Love and Virtue in a Secular Age sheds light on the various ways in which the increasing prevalence of secular humanitarian sensibility has voided the idea of humanity of its natural substance.

In a probing reflection poised at the intersection of the theological and the political, Hancock outlines a new theological ethic according to which faith must redeem a certain pride and particularism on behalf of real Christian communities and the virtues they enact.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part One

1. The Failures of Theory and Theology

2. Manent: Towards the Truth of Practice

3. From the Politics of Fear to the Religion of Humanity

4. Christianity and the Progress of Liberalism

5. Christianity and the Progress of Liberalism

Part Two

6. Liberty Within a Christian (or Post-Christian) Horizon

7. Pierre Manent's Christian Aristotelianism

8. The Grammar of Action and its Eternal Resonance

Part Three

9. The Same and the Other: Western Configurations of Transcendence

10. The Claims of Subjectivity and the Limits of Politics

11. Analogy, Virtue, and Politics

12. Christianity and the Truth About Man

Conclusion

Bibliography