Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Believing in Order to Understand: Revelation’s Contributions to Philosophy
6. 1. Heinrich Meier’s Straussian Refutation of Revelation 17
7. 2. Political Philosophy after the Collapse of Classical, Epistemic Foundationalism 33
8. 3 Eros and Agape Revisited: Reconciling Classical Eudaemonism with Christian Love? 64
9. Part II: Faith and the Foundations of Political Order
10. 4. The Strange Second Life of Confessional States 79
11. 5. Defending the Personal Logos Today 99
12. 6. Pierre Manent: Between Nature and History 119
13. 7. Catholicism and the Constitution 134
14. Part III: Faith and Contemporary Political Thought
15. 8. Beholden to Revelation? Scripture’s Role as Public Knowledge and Moral Authority 151
16. 9. Fides, Ratio et Juris: How Some Courts and Some Legal Theorists Misrepresent the Rational Status of Religious Beliefs 173
17. 10. Richard Rorty’s Secular Gods and Unphilosophic Philosophers Luigi Bradizza 203
18. 11. Converting Secularism 223
19. Contributor Biographies 239
20. Index 243