{"product_id":"the-church-and-secularity-robert-gascoigne-9781589014909","title":"The Church and Secularity: Two Stories of Liberal Society","description":"\u003cp\u003eWestern liberal societies are characterized by two stories: a positive story of freedom of conscience and the recognition of community and human rights, and a negative story of unrestrained freedom that leads to self-centeredness, vacuity, and the destructive compromise of human values. Can the Catholic Church play a more meaningful role in assisting liberal societies in telling their better story? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAustralian ethicist Robert Gascoigne thinks it can. In The Church and Secularity he considers the meaning of secularity as a shared space for all citizens and asks how the Church can contribute to a sensitivity to-and respect for--human dignity and human rights. Drawing on Augustine's City of God and Vatican II's Gaudium et spes, Gascoigne interprets the meaning of freedom in liberal societies through the lens of Augustine's \"two loves,\" the love of God and neighbor and the love of self, and reveals how the two are connected to our contemporary experience. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Church and Secularity argues that the Church can serve liberal societies in a positive way and that its own social identity, rooted in Eucharistic communities, must be bound up with the struggle for human rights and resistance to the commodification of the human in all its forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Gascoigne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1589014901\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781589014909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Georgetown University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.58h x 6.33w x 0.59d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/11\/2009 pg. 22","brand":"Robert Gascoigne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088598970623,"sku":"9781589014909","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ada80d69-3911-430d-b03a-c5170d87eb44.jpg?v=1769105663","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-church-and-secularity-robert-gascoigne-9781589014909","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}