A01=Michael J. Sweeney
A01=Timothy Sean Quinn
Author_Michael J. Sweeney
Author_Timothy Sean Quinn
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Catholicism
Church and State
contemporary political philosophy
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history of philosophy
medieval political philosophy
modern political philosophy
nature of law
political philosophy
political theology
reason and Revelation
sovereignty
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- ISBN 9798216196716
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 178 x 256mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Modern Catholic political philosophy begins with a crisis within Christendom. The Wars of Religion ignited by the Protestant Reformation forced upon medieval Christendom a revaluation of the relationship between Church and State, and a reconsideration of the nature of sovereignty and of the relationship between citizens and regimes. Modern Catholic Political Philosophy: A History of Catholic Political Philosophy: Volume II begins with Thomas More and ending with Pope Leo XIII, this volume seeks to show how this sense of crisis shaped Catholic political thought from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Many of the writers treated in this volume have fallen in obscurity. Nonetheless, they are responsible for many of ideas that have become commonplace in modern political thought: division of political alternatives into “liberal” and “conservative”; notions of strong executive power; the centrality of social justice on behalf of international organization, all claim antecedent origins in the forgotten Catholic thinkers of this period. Together, they constitute a secret history of political thought that influences the main direction political thought takes in the twentieth century, and without which the political alternatives confronted in that century cannot be adequately understood.
Timothy Sean Quinn holds the rank of Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. Recent publications include essays, books, and translations of Heidegger, Salomon Maimon, Kant, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Nietzsche and Fides et Ratio.
Michael J. Sweeney is Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. His books, essays, and articles are principally in the areas of medieval Christian and Islamic philosophy and political philosophy.
