Teachings of Modern Roman Catholicism on Law, Politics, and Human Nature

John Witte Jr. is the Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He has published 120 articles and 20 books, including Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation and The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism. Frank S. Alexander is Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He has published a dozen volumes, including The Weightier Matters of the Law: Essays on Law and Religion.

Rarely have the riches of modern theology and theological anthropology been so incisively analyzed for their insights into the fundamentals of our modern political condition. -- Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago A useful resource and a powerful inspiration. -- Rebecca S. Chopp, President, Colgate University; Former President, American Academy of Religion Crisp, informative, even-handed, and, above all, interesting. It is a joy to learn what riches there are in modern times in the major Christian traditions. -- Robert N. Bellah, University of California, Berkeley An indispensable volume for theologians, philosophers, jurists, and political theorists. First Things

• Foreword Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction, by John Witte Jr. and Frank S. Alexander Introduction to Modern Catholicism, by Russell Hittinger Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) John Courtney Murray, S.J. (1904-1967) Pope John XXIII (1881-1963) Gustavo Gutierrez Dorothy Day Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) Copyright Information Index to Biblical Citations General Index