Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith

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Abolitionism: and Christianity, 43, 115, 152, 177 Abortion, 177: Catholic Church’s opposition to, 144–45, 187, 198n64; evangelical Christian opposition to, 152, 187; and freedom of conscience, 83–84, 145; rational grounds for opposition to, 12, 154, 187–89 Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, 144 Abraham, 30, 94, 164 Agape: and classical eudaimonism, 8, 64–65. See also Love Allah, 83, 85, 91 Al-Misri, Ahmad ibn Naqib: Reliance of the Traveller, 83, 96n10 Alston, William: and Reformed Epistemology , 177 Altruism, 72. See also Agape, Love America: Christian roots of, 100; and Leo Strauss, 20–21; and religious pluralism, 137; Richard Rorty’s account of religion’s role in, 204–9 American Constitution: compared to the French, 114. See also Constitution of the United States American Constitutionalism: and Catholicism , 10–11, 144–46; church and state in, 137–38; John Courtney Murray on, 118n12, 142–44 American Founding: view of church and state, 89, 93, 95 Americanism, 134–36. See also Leo XIII American Republic: as a Type II confessional state, 87 Americans: and church and state, 89, 112; and truth, 133n11 Animism, 87 Ankersmit, F.R.: historical relativism of, 34 Anthropology: cultural, 37; philosophical, 187, 189, 228–30; theological, 186 Aquinas, Thomas, 8, 44, 62n41, 94, 108, 140, 141; on agape and eros, 64–66; on fetal development, 185; on the final cause, 68; on lying, 162, 171n41; and the New Natural Law, 154 Aristocracy: and philosophy, 127–31 Aristophanes, 104 Aristotle, 37, 80, 121, 128; and the city, 127, 129; and Catholicism, 141; and classical eudaimonism, 8, 64–65; and fetal Index 244 index development, 185; and friendship, 74, 100; the Metaphysics, 68; Nicomachean Ethics, 65, 70; the Politics, 36; and pride, 131; and rational self-sacrifice, 66, 74; and the reasonable good, 44; and subjectivity, 111–12; theology of, 100–104 Aron, Raymond: and Pierre Manent, 119 Ashcraft, Richard: new historicism of, 34–36 Atheism, 122, 124; and abortion, 200n77; “friendly,” 195; Greek view of Christianity as similar to, 105; of Richard Rorty, 204, 208, 217n5; and Leo Strauss, 21 Augustine of Hippo, 62n41, 113, 128, 129, 234–35; City of God, 36; and eros and agape, 65; and lying, 162, 171nn38&41; and personal liberation, 107; and the rational good, 44; and Rome, 130 Autonomy: of churches, 114; of God, 105; individual, 3, 5–6, 9, 12, 115, 205, 209–10, 213, 233; Kantian, 215; and modernity, 121, 123; of philosophy, 29; of political philosophy, 44; of reason, 4 Averroeists, 109 Bacon, Francis, 126 Bacon, Michael: on Richard Rorty, 205 Barakat, ‘Umar, 97: on jihad, 83, 96n10 Basicality, proper, 7–8, 51, 54–57; 58n1; 178–79 Basinger, David: and strong foundationalism, 53 Bathsheba, 157 Beard, Charles: historical relativism of, 34 Beatific vision, 65, 70–71 Becker, Carl: historical relativism of, 34 Benedict XVI, Pope, 100, 116, 116n2 Bentham, Jeremy, 81 Bible, 27, 81, 103: Biblicism and, 161; evangelicals and, 152–53; Thomas Jefferson on, 51–52; John Locke and, 111; and lying, 11; and marriage, 160–61, 170n30; revelation in, 108. See also Scripture Bill of Rights, 142 Bin-Laden, Osama, 85 Black, Hugo: view of the Establishment Clause, 175 Blake, William, 213 Bloom, Harold: on the strong poet, 211 Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy, 70 Bofetti, Jason: on Richard Rorty’s view of religion, 207 Boyle, Joseph: and the New Natural Law, 152 Brague, Remi, 117n6: on Christianity as the basis of separation of church and state, 112; on Maimonides, 108 Brennan, William: on religion and the United States Constitution, 174 Bush, George W.: reelection of, 58; Social Security reform proposed by, 165 Butler, Bishop Joseph: on the particular affections , 70 Byrne, Alex: on religion, 181 Calvin, John: Calvinism, 94; and Geneva, 84 Carr, Peter: and Thomas Jefferson, 51 Carroll, Charles, Daniel and John: and the American founding, 10, 136–38, 142–44 Carter, Stephen L.: Richard Rorty’s critique of, 204, 206 Casey, M.A.: critique of Richard Rorty, 215 Catholicism, 84, 94, 103, 123, 124, 152, 197: and abortion, 185, 187; and American constitutionalism, 10–11, 134–46; and the American founding, 136–38; and the American welfare state, 138–42; and evolution, 185; in Ireland’s constitution, 89–90, 91; and the New Natural Law, 159; of Pierre Manent, 119, 121; and religious freedom, 83, 142–44, 186; and Richard Rorty, 206; and Scripture, 171 index 245 Ceaser, James: on the Progressives’ discarding of natural rights philosophy, 141 Charity...