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The Christian Hero, Model 1967

Can He Live with Ease in the Nation-State?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

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"Christ, to be sure, gave His Church no proper mission in the political, economic, or social order, The purpose which He set before her is a religious one." This is a formulation which the Bishops of the Catholic Church asserted in the Conciliar document The Church in the Modern World in the chapter devoted to "The Fostering of Peace and the Promotion of a Community of Nations." From this statement one should not conclude to the political irrelevance of religion. Rather, he should seek further for the precise mode of that relevance; he will find it, I believe, in the religiously enlightened person acting politically.

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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1967

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