The Human Person and a Culture of Freedom

Edited by Peter A. Pagan Aguiar and Terese Auer, O.P.

Forward by Alice Ramos with an introduction by Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I.

Copyright © 2009 by the American Maritain Association. All rights reserved.

Distributed by The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, DC 20064.

Contents

• Foreword / Alice Ramos
• Introduction / Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I.

Part I - Theoretical Foundations: Roots and Ends of Human Freedom

• Maritain and Newman: Theology, Intellectual Freedom and Human Transcendence in University Education / Brian Hughes
• Causal Entailment, Sufficient Reason, and Freedom / Steven Long
• A Free Culture: Living the Primacy of the For-Itself / John Cuddeback
• From Rivulets to the Fountain's Source: Image and Love in Aquinas' Christian Anthropology / Heather Erb
• Anton Pegis's Thomistic Theory of Man as an Incarnate Spirit / Desmond FitzGerald

Part II - Freedom: Moral, Social, and Political Considerations

• Strauss, Darwinism, and Natural Right / Carson Holloway
• Aquinas and the Limits of Political Authority: Natural Lawyer or Virtue Politician? / Gavin Colvert
• Jacques Maritain and Natural Rights: The Priority of Metaphysics over Politics / David Klassen
• The Ambiguity of Autonomy / Ralph Nelson
• The Common Good: Why Is It Good? Why Is It Common? / James Schall, S.J.

Part III - Church and State: Religious Freedom in the Public Square

• Freedom and Satisfaction / Romanus Cessario, O.P.
• Religious Freedom as Catholic Crisis / John Conley, S.J.
• Dignitatis Humanae and a Catholic Society: The Confessional State as a Perennial Possibility / Christopher Cullen, S.J.
• Freedom and Tolerance / Piotr Jaroszynski (Translator Hugh McDonald)

Part IV - The Dignity of Human Life and Freedom

• Abortion and Ideology / Raymond Dennehy
• Fairness, Freedom, and Responsibility / Montague Brown

• List of Contributors
• Index