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Love and Virtue in a Secular Age

Christianity, Modernity, and the Human Good

AvRalph C. Hancock

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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In a comprehensive meditation on freedom and reason, Ralph Hancock reveals the pressing need for renewed confidence in virtue and agency.With an emphasis on reclaiming the moral preconditions of Christian love, Love and Virtue in a Secular Age offers a thought-provoking study on the effects of secularism on Christian morality. Ralph C. Hancock brings eminent scholars of the Christian Aristotelian tradition, such as Thomas Aquinas and Pierre Manent, into conversation with insights from Leo Strauss's critique of Christianity. Love and Virtue in a Secular Age sheds light on the various ways in which the increasing prevalence of secular humanitarian sensibility has voided the idea of humanity of its natural substance.In a probing reflection poised at the intersection of the theological and the political, Hancock outlines a new theological ethic according to which faith must redeem a certain pride and particularism on behalf of real Christian communities and the virtues they enact.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-03-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:472 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Beginning and the Beyond of Politics
Antal sidor:338
Förlag:University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN:9780268210878

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Ralph C. Hancock is a professor of political science at Brigham Young University, where he teaches political philosophy. He has authored, edited, or translated many books and articles on the interrelation of religion, morality, and politics, including authoring The Responsibility of Reason and translating Pierre Manent's Natural Law and Human Rights.

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"Ralph Hancock has given himself a most intimidating task: to recover human agency, with its accompanying confidence in the primacy of the Good. He convincingly shows why our post-Christian souls, in order to understand themselves, need a full and accurate engagement with the Christian proposition. This book is a major achievement." —Pierre Manent, author of Natural Law and Human Rights and Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference"Drawing on the best classical, Christian, and contemporary wisdom, Hancock brilliantly rescues Christian love from its thoughtless identification with mere sentimentality and shows that authentic virtue is inseparable from the proud cultivation of moral and political responsibility." —Daniel J. Mahoney, author of Recovering Politics, Civilization, and the Soul"Is pride the root of sin or a spur to virtue? With careful attention to Christian theology as well as political philosophy, Ralph Hancock guides the reader through this question and offers a bracing defense of political liberty against progressive humanitarianism." —James R. Stoner, author of Common-Law Liberty

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PrefaceIntroductionPart One1. The Failures of Theory and Theology2. Manent: Towards the Truth of Practice3. From the Politics of Fear to the Religion of Humanity4. Christianity and the Progress of Liberalism5. Strauss's Response to the Victory of Universalism: On TyrannyPart Two6. Liberty Within a Christian (or Post-Christian) Horizon7. Pierre Manent's Christian Aristotelianism8. The Grammar of Action and its Eternal ResonancePart Three9. The Same and the Other: Western Configurations of Transcendence10. The Claims of Subjectivity and the Limits of Politics11. Analogy, Virtue, and Politics12. Christianity and the Truth About ManConclusionBibliography