Created Freedom under the Sign of the Cross
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Created Freedom under the Sign of the Cross

A Catholic Public Theology for the United States

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Created Freedom under the Sign of the Cross

A Catholic Public Theology for the United States

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The United States is in a crisis of freedom. Influenced by neoliberal economics, the concept of freedom has become identified with an abstract, radical individualism disdainful of responsibility to others and to the past. Signs of this crisis crop up everywhere. Some invoke freedom as justification for refusing to wear a mask in a pandemic. Others argue that freedom is an empty word if it's celebrated apart from an honest engagement with the country's history of racism.Created Freedom under the Sign of the Cross offers a Catholic theological response to this crisis of freedom. Catholic social ethics may be better known for its emphasis on social principles like the common good and solidarity. But developments in Catholic theologies of freedom in the last decades provide fertile ground from which to develop a bold, creative response to this American crisis of freedom. In this book, theologian David DeCosse draws on thinkers ranging from philosopher Amartya Sen to Black Catholic theologian Shawn Copeland to twentieth-century theological giant Karl Rahner in order to reimagine American freedom in light of classic Catholic emphases on embodiment, relationship, history, the good, and God. The result is a Catholic public theology that provides a redemptive path forward in an age of crisis.

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Publisher
Pickwick Publications
Year
2022
ISBN
9781666711127
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Theology

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1: Catholic Public Theology and the Contemporary American Problematic of Freedom
  5. Chapter 2: Public Theology, Sociology, and the Problem of “Monticello without the Slavery”
  6. Chapter 3: Amartya Sen and Philosophical Complements to Created Freedom
  7. Chapter 4: Karl Rahner and Created Freedom as the Basis for a Catholic Public Theology of Freedom
  8. Chapter 5: A Catholic Public Theology of Freedom for the United States
  9. Conclusion
  10. Bibliography