A Brief Primer on Subsidiarity
Now that the election season is over in America, it might be a good time to take a step back and take a longer, more substantive look at some of the principles of Christian social thought than is...
View ArticleSubsidiarity ‘From Above’
In my inaugural post here at There is Power in the Blog I provided a brief introduction to the rich and intriguing concept of subsidiarity in Christian social thought. In this and the following posts I...
View ArticleSubsidiarity ‘From Below’
As I noted in the conclusion of the previous post, “Subsidiarity ‘From Above,’” one place to point to a transition from the ancient and medieval hierarchical view of human society to the modern...
View ArticleProper Reverence for Political Authority
In a recent piece about Les Misérables, which is in general a fine study of the dynamics of law and grace in the film, Michael W. Hannon worries that a view of the state, and the political realm more...
View ArticleThe Dutch King’s Speech
Addressing the difficulties attending to necessary albeit unpopular reform of economic policy, the prime minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker once made remarked famously, “We all know what to do,...
View ArticlePiracy, Politics, and Proximate Justice
In likening kingdoms lacking justice to criminal syndicates, Augustine invokes the story of a confrontation between Alexander the Great and a pirate. Indeed, Augustine judges “that was an apt and true...
View ArticleA Brief Primer on Subsidiarity
Now that the election season is over in America, it might be a good time to take a step back and take a longer, more substantive look at some of the principles of Christian social thought than is...
View ArticleSubsidiarity ‘From Above’
In my inaugural post here at There is Power in the Blog I provided a brief introduction to the rich and intriguing concept of subsidiarity in Christian social thought. In this and the following posts I...
View ArticleSubsidiarity ‘From Below’
As I noted in the conclusion of the previous post, “Subsidiarity ‘From Above,'” one place to point to a transition from the ancient and medieval hierarchical view of human society to the modern...
View ArticleProper Reverence for Political Authority
In a recent piece about Les Misérables, which is in general a fine study of the dynamics of law and grace in the film, Michael W. Hannon worries that a view of the state, and the political realm more...
View ArticleThe Dutch King’s Speech
Addressing the difficulties attending to necessary albeit unpopular reform of economic policy, the prime minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker once made remarked famously, “We all know what to do,...
View ArticlePiracy, Politics, and Proximate Justice
In likening kingdoms lacking justice to criminal syndicates, Augustine invokes the story of a confrontation between Alexander the Great and a pirate. Indeed, Augustine judges “that was an apt and true...
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