Hope for Common Ground: Mediating the Personal and the Political in a Divided Church

by Julie Hanlon Rubio

Book Overview

Much like the rest of the country, American Catholics are politically divided, perhaps more so now than at any point in their history. In this learned but accessible work for scholars, students, and religious and lay readers, ethicist Julie Hanlon Rubio suggests that there is a way beyond red versus blue for orthodox and progressive Catholics. In a call for believers on both sides of the liberal-conservative divide to put aside labels and rhetoric,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626163065
• ISBN13: 9781626163065
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher