released 5/16/2025
The development in 19th-century Catholic social thought of the idea of society as a spiritual and cultural reality is one of the themes in this Feature with Dr. Russell Hittinger. In addition to the contribution of Pope Leo XIII and the revival of Thomistic thought within Catholic social teaching, Hittinger discusses the significance of marital notions to society, the limits of the idea of social contract, the effect of an increasing proportion of Muslims on European social thought, and how modern democracies have abandoned the project of understanding public life in moral terms.
This Feature was originally released as a Mars Hill Audio Conversation.
67 minutes
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