Evangelization and Ideology: How to Understand and Respond to the Political Culture by Petrusek, Matthew

Evangelization and Ideology: How to Understand and Respond to the Political Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781685780104)

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Evangelization and Ideology: How to Understand and Respond to the Political Culture by Petrusek, Matthew

Evangelization and Ideology: How to Understand and Respond to the Political Culture

$34.95
Evangelization and Ideology: How to Understand and Respond to the Political Culture by Petrusek, Matthew

Evangelization and Ideology: How to Understand and Respond to the Political Culture

$34.95
Format: Hardcover
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Secular political ideologies attempt to provide a total view of reality without reference to the transcendent. Yet all of them are, at heart, forms of idolatry, commanding their adherents to structure their lives around temporary and finite goods, which leads the culture to worship the false gods of pleasure, self, tribe, or fortune. In time, these diverse idols produce the same outcome: individual and social turmoil.

In Evangelization and Ideology: How to Understand and Respond to the Political Culture, Matthew R. Petrusek offers an antidote to ideological thinking: the principles of Catholic social thought. Analyzing the philosophical foundations of the four reigning secular ideologies of our day--utilitarianism, classical liberalism/libertarianism, progressivism/wokeism, and non-theistic conservatism--Petrusek shows how Catholic teaching, while respecting the genuine concerns of these worldviews, responds to their errors and deficiencies by providing a more rational and moral alternative.

For many, the best way forward for the Church appears to be steering clear of the sociopolitical arena altogether. But there is hope; our hyper-politicized society is an opportunity for evangelization rather than an obstacle. Evangelization and Ideology offers readers an understanding of the roots of our broken political culture and a map for redirecting it back to the transcendent God and the authentic human good.

Author: Matthew R. Petrusek
ISBN-10: 1685780105
ISBN-13: 9781685780104
Publisher: Word on Fire
Language: English
Published: 07/17/2023
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.06w x 1.65d
By Matthew R. Petrusek
By Matthew R. Petrusek
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Matthew R. Petrusek received an MA (Yale University) and PhD (University of Chicago) in religious ethics and is the Professor of Catholic Ethics and Assistant Director at the Word on Fire Institute. He specializes in Christian ethics and moral theology, though lectures broadly, in English and Spanish, on philosophy, theology, social issues, the new evangelization, and the Catholic intellectual tradition. In addition to serving as a Word on Fire Professor, he has written and hosted the bilingual show Reasons to Believe / Razones Para Creer at WordNet TV, co-authored Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity: The Search for a Meaningful Life (Word on Fire Institute), co-edited Ethics and Advocacy: Bridges and Boundaries (Cascade Books) and Value and Vulnerability: Contemporary Interfaith Dialogue on Human Dignity (University of Notre Dame Press), and published in numerous academic journals. He lives with his wife and children in southern Minnesota.

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