Field hospital : the church's engagement with a wounded world

Pope Francis In A 2013 Interview Famously Likened The Church To A Field Hospital. In This Book William Cavanaugh Adopts Pope Francis's Metaphor To Show How The Church Can Help Heal Both The Spiritual And The Material Wounds Of The World. As He Examines The Intersection Of Theology With Themes Of Religious Freedom, Economic Injustice, Religious Violence, And Other Pressing Topics, Cavanaugh Emphasizes That The Church Cannot Condemn The Evils Of The World From A Position Of Superiority. Rather, He Says, Its Practices Of Solidarity With Humanity Must Be Based On A Profound Recognition That The Church Shares In The Guilt Of Human Sin. Cavanaugh's Field Hospital Provides Guideposts For A Church That Is Willing To Go Outside Of Itself Onto Today's Battlefields -- Both Metaphorical And Literal -- Not To Inflict Wounds But To Bind Them Up And Heal Them. Markets And Bodies -- Dispersed Political Theology -- Further Explorations In Religion And Violence. William T. Cavanaugh. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Compelling social perspectives from a prominent Catholic scholar Pope Francis in a 2013 interview famously likened the church to a field hospital. In this book William Cavanaugh adopts Pope Franciss metaphor to show how the church can help heal both the spiritual and the material wounds of the world. As he examines the intersection of theology with themes of religious freedom, economic injustice, religious violence, and other pressing topics, Cavanaugh emphasizes that the church cannot condemn the evils of the world from a position of superiority. Rather, he says, its practices of solidarity with humanity must be based on a profound recognition that the church shares in the guilt of human sin. Cavanaughs Field Hospital provides guideposts for a church that is willing to go outside of itself onto todays battlefields both metaphorical and literal not to inflict wounds but to bind them up and heal them. Are corporations people? The corporate form and the body of Christ -- Westphalia and back: complexifying the church-world duality -- Orthodoxy and heresy in departments of economics -- Actually, you can't be anything you want (and it's a good thing, too) -- The mystical and the real: putting theology back into political theology -- "Dispersed political authority": subsidiarity and globalization in Caritas in Veritate -- A politics of multiplicity: Augustine and radical democracy -- What Constantine has to teach us -- Religious violence as modern myth -- Political theology as threat -- Secularization, violence, and idolatry -- Are we free not to be a religion? The ambivalence of religious freedom -- "We are to blame for the war" : Dorothy Day on violence and guilt in the mystical body of Christ.