Description
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Release Date: January 1965
Publisher: Herder and Herder
Length: 282 Pages
Weight: 1.10 lbs.
Started before the Second Vatican Council opened and completed and published shortly before it closed, Peter and Caesar is more radical than the Council was or could be. In that respect it seems to weigh in on the liberal side. But it seems to weigh in on the ecclesiastical “conservative” side in its analysis of the work of John Courtney Murray, the once-silenced father of the Council’s Declaration of Religion Freedom (Dignitatis Humanae), and its fears that the much-needed clear recognition by the Church of the importance of religious freedom may easily be influenced so deeply by the rationalistic individualism that the redemptive mission of the Church is finally confined to the sphere of private, personal morality.
Political Authority and the Catholic Church Foreword by Jerome Kerwin There is no question before the Council which is at once so deeply rooted in the Church's historical development and so fraught with consequences for the whole of secular society as that of the relation of Church and state implicit in the schema on religious liberty. It is precisely because of these historical roots and this universal social significance that a truly constructive effort at answering this question demands a theological understanding of history and a profound sense of the nature of the political order: both traits which are strongly evidenced in PETER AND CAESAR by E. A. Goerner of the Department of Government of the University of Notre Dame.
