Contents
Foreword by Daniel J. Mahoney
Introduction by Paul Seaton
Part I: Setting the Stage
“Christianity and Democracy” (1993)
Part II: “An Eminent Case”: The Bombing of Serbia
“The Humanitarian Temptation” (2000)
Excerpt from A World beyond Politics? (2001)
“Political Responsibility and Humanitarian Intervention: A Critique of Contemporary Humanitarianism” (2009)
Part III: The Religion of Humanity
“The Religion of Humanity” (2001)
Excerpts from Seeing Things Politically (2010)
Foreword to The Idol of Our Age (2018)
Part IV: Sifting the Wheat from the Chaff
“The Church between Real Humanity and a Dreamed-of ‘Humanity’” (2012)
“Christian Charity and Humanitarian Compassion” (2018)
“Who is ‘the Good Samaritan’?” (2020)
“Don’t Confuse Christianity with ‘the Religion of Humanity’” (2020)
“Migrations and Christianity: What Message?” (2021)
Part V: Spiritual Mediation
Excerpts from Beyond Radical Secularism I (2015)
Part VI: Removing the Scales from our Eyes
Excerpts from Beyond Radical Secularism II (2015)
“Some Remarks on the Notion of ‘Secularization’” (1988)
“How to Explain, or Understand, Religion?” (2009)
“Religion” (2006)
Part VII. An Eminent Predecessor
“Charles Péguy: Between Political Faith and Faith” (1984)