Ernest L Fortin: 4 books
Ever Ancient, Ever New
Ruminations on the City, the Soul, and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2007
More than any other thinker in the twentieth century, Ernest L. Fortin, A.A. (1923-2002) resuscitated the study of political philosophy for Catholic theology. Fortin's interests and accomplishments were vast, ranging from the Church Fathers, to Dante and Aquinas, to modern rights, American democracy,...
Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Dante and His Precursors
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2002
Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages offers scholars of Dante's Divine Comedy an integral understanding of the political, philosophical, and religious context of the medieval masterwork. First penned in French by Ernest L. Fortin, one of America's foremost thinkers in the fields of philosophy...
Classical Christianity and the Political Order
Reflections on the Theologico-Political Problem
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1996
In Volume Two of Ernest Fortin: Collected Essays, Fortin deals with the relationship between religion and civil society in a Christian context: that of an essentially nonpolitical but by no means entirely otherwordly religion, many of whose teachings were thought to be fundamentally at odds with the...
Human Rights, Virtue and the Common Good
Untimely Meditations on Religion and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 1996
Volume Three of Ernest Fortin: Collected Essays discusses the current state of Christianity—especially twentieth-century Catholic Christianity—and the problems with which it has had to wrestle in the midst of rapid scientific progress, profound social change, and growing moral anarchy. In this...