Table of Contents

Introduction
Religion in public reason and law
1: Darwin, Dewey, Religion, and the Public Domain
2: Talking about God in a Pluralist Society
3: Secularism's Practical Meaning
4: Religion and State
5: Political Neutrality and Religious Arguments
6: Catholic Positions in Liberal Debates
Bases for accepting revelation
7: The Significance of Questioning
8: Ethics and Revelation: A Fragment
9: Historical Consciousness and Theological Foundations
10: Faith, Morals, and Thomas More
11: On Creation and Ethics
12: St Cuthbert's Faith and the Bishop of Durham's Unbelief
13: Philosophy and God's Nature: Second Thoughts
14: This World and the Next
15: Three and One
Conscience & Faith
16: Conscience in Newman's Letter to the Duke of Norfolk
17: Grace and Humility
Controversies
18: Christianity and World Order
19: Morality and the Second Vatican Council
20: Nuclear Deterrence and the End of Christendom
21: The "Consistent Ethic of Life"
22: Secularism and "The Culture of Death"
23: On Retranslating Humanae Vitae
24: Hell and Hope
Biography of the Works of John Finnis

About the Author

John Finnis is Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of University College. He is the Biolchini Family Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame.