Public Dimensions of a Believer's Life Rediscovering the Cardinal Virtues

"In recent American politics, the term "morality" has come to be used in a way almost entirely restricted to private family and sexual issues, leaving aside responsibility for immensely consequential decisions about initiating wars, oppressive policies, regressive tax structures, and disregard of the United Nations and international law. Public Dimensions of a Believer's Life is about human responsibility in public life and the moral and spiritual factors involved in exercising that responsibility. Monika K. Hellwig explores the decisions people have to make in human affairs at all levels of social organization, the values that guide these decisions, and the way those values are often apparently in conflict with one another."--BOOK JACKET.

Monika K. Hellwig is a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University and past president of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities.