Praise for Dan Maguire:
With a broad and deep knowledge of the Catholic tradition, a deft creativity, a twinkle in his eye, and a scintillating writing style, Daniel Maguire maintains that the Catholic moral tradition can and should be a very progressive tradition in the areas of sexuality, war and peace, poverty and economic justice, rights of women, race, and ecology.
America’s most respected Catholic social ethicist has given us a highly readable and powerful statement of the case for a progressive Christian perspective on a variety of controversial moral issues. He gives an especially strong statement of the Christian moral obligation to stand with and for the poor of the world. Maguire’s lively style, leavened here and there with humor and biting wit, makes this book joy to read. It is must reading for all Christians, lay and clergy alike.
With a broad and deep knowledge of the Catholic tradition, a deft creativity, a twinkle in his eye, and a scintillating writing style, Daniel Maguire maintains that the Catholic moral tradition can and should be a very progressive tradition in the areas of sexuality, war and peace, poverty and economic justice, rights of women, race, and ecology.
America’s most respected Catholic social ethicist has given us a highly readable and powerful statement of the case for a progressive Christian perspective on a variety of controversial moral issues. He gives an especially strong statement of the Christian moral obligation to stand with and for the poor of the world. Maguire’s lively style, leavened here and there with humor and biting wit, makes this book joy to read. It is must reading for all Christians, lay and clergy alike.
Whose Church?
A Concise Guide to Progressive Catholicism
hardcover
$23.95 / £13.99
Noted social ethicist Dan Maguire explains what Catholicism actually says about good sex, women’s equality, social justice, and the environment
All the world’s major religions started out powered by the left-wing passions of justice, hope, and compassion . . . targeting exploitation of the have-nots by the haves.
—From Whose Church?
—From Whose Church?
In the spring of 2007, Daniel C. Maguire was condemned by U.S. bishops for his progressive writings, because, the New York Times reported, Maguire’s pamphlets on abortion and same-sex marriage “are written in a very popular and lively style, and from what the bishops knew, they were very widely distributed.” Praised by Ms. Magazine as one of “40 male heroes who took a chance for women,” Daniel C. Maguire is a noted theologian and ethicist whose controversial views and irreverent style have rankled conservatives for nearly thirty years.
In this pithy guide to progressive Catholicism, Maguire shows how tragically far conservative Catholic politics have strayed from the best Catholic social teaching. Whose Church? takes special aim at the “pelvic politics” that have dominated official Catholicism, skewering the Church hierarchy’s rigid positions on sex and reproduction and revealing a “spiritually healthy” alternative approach that is fully in line with Catholic tradition. Whose Church? offers deeply informed and incisive theological arguments in favor of gender equality, affirmative action and antiracism, opposition to war, and the fight against poverty and economic inequality.
Full of humor, passion, and intolerance for injustice, Whose Church? is a manifesto for Catholics and for progressives everywhere—showing the way forward at a critical juncture in the history of the U.S. Catholic Church and in progressive politics more generally.
Daniel C. Maguire is Professor of Moral Theological Ethics at Marquette University and the president of the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health, and Ethics. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, and USA Today and he has written several books, including Sacred Choices: The Right to Contraception and Abortion in Ten World Religions. He lives in Wisconsin.
In this pithy guide to progressive Catholicism, Maguire shows how tragically far conservative Catholic politics have strayed from the best Catholic social teaching. Whose Church? takes special aim at the “pelvic politics” that have dominated official Catholicism, skewering the Church hierarchy’s rigid positions on sex and reproduction and revealing a “spiritually healthy” alternative approach that is fully in line with Catholic tradition. Whose Church? offers deeply informed and incisive theological arguments in favor of gender equality, affirmative action and antiracism, opposition to war, and the fight against poverty and economic inequality.
Full of humor, passion, and intolerance for injustice, Whose Church? is a manifesto for Catholics and for progressives everywhere—showing the way forward at a critical juncture in the history of the U.S. Catholic Church and in progressive politics more generally.
Daniel C. Maguire is Professor of Moral Theological Ethics at Marquette University and the president of the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health, and Ethics. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, and USA Today and he has written several books, including Sacred Choices: The Right to Contraception and Abortion in Ten World Religions. He lives in Wisconsin.
Spring 2008
hardcover
5 1/4 x 7 1/2, 192 pages
978-1-59558-335-2
hardcover
5 1/4 x 7 1/2, 192 pages
978-1-59558-335-2
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