Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-336) and index.
Contents:
part 3: Leo Strauss on Christianity, politics, and philosophy. Strauss and Pascal: is discussion possible? / Ralph C. Hancock. "Wine with Plato and hemlock with Socrates": Charles McCoy's dialogue with Leo Strauss and the character of thomistic political philosophy / V. Bradley Lewis -- Wisdom and folly: reconsidering Leo Strauss on the natural law / Geoffrey M. Vaughan -- Modernity, creation, and Catholicism: Leo Strauss and Benedict XVI / Marc D. Guerra -- Leo Strauss's critique of modern political philosophy and Ernest Fortin's critique of modern "Catholic social teaching" / Douglas Kries -- part 2: Leo Strauss and Catholic concerns. The mutual concerns of Leo Strauss and his Catholic contemporaries: D'Entrèves, McCoy, Simon / Gladden J. Pappin -- On the Catholic audience of Leo Strauss / John P. Hittinger -- The possible harmony of reason and revelation in politics and philosophy: a Catholic reading of Leo Strauss's "Progress or return?" / Carson Holloway -- What might a Catholic reader learn from Strauss about Catholicism? On the supposed distinction of natural right and natural law / Gary D. Glenn -- The influence of historicism on Catholic theology / J. Brian Benestad -- part 3: Leo Strauss on Christianity, politics, and philosophy. The city and the whole: remarks on the limits and the seriousness of the political in Strauss's thought / Giulio De Ligio -- Aristotelian metaphysics and modern science: Leo Strauss on what nature is / James R. Stoner Jr. -- Strauss and Pascal: is discussion possible? / Philippe Bénéton -- Leo Strauss's profound and fragile critique of Christianity / Ralph C. Hancock.
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