{"product_id":"9781467443814","title":"Politics for a Pilgrim Church: A Thomistic Theory of Civic Virtue","description":"\u003ci\u003ePresents an innovative, constructive alternative to Christian involvement in the \"culture wars\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Church leaders and scholars have long wrestled with what should provide a guiding vision for Christian engagement in culture and politics. In this book Thomas Bushlack argues that a retrieval of Thomas Aquinas's understanding of civic virtue provides important resources for guiding this engagement today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bushlack suggests that Aquinas's vision of the pilgrim church provides a fitting model for seeking the earthly common good of the political community, and he notes the features of a Thomistic account of justice and civic virtue that remain particularly salient for the twenty-first century. The book concludes with suggestions for cultivating a Christian rhetoric of the common good as an alternative to the predominant forms of discourse fostered within the culture wars that have been so divisive.","brand":"Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141385175280,"sku":"9781467443814","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781467443814_p0.jpg?v=1769892439","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781467443814","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}