Toward the Renewal of Civilization: Political Order and Culture

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Toward the Renewal of Civilization: Political Order and Culture

edited by T. William Boxx and Gary M. Quinlivan

William B. Eerdmans Publishing * 1998 * 222 pages * $16.00

Reviewed by Fr. Robert A. Sirico

To explore the relationship between politics and culture with an eye toward the "renewal of civilization" is a tall order for one volume. And yet the contributors to this collection do an admirable job of examining many facets of the intersection between political-cultural trends and what most of these authors regard as the decline of civilized standards in arts, letters, behavior, and law, not only in this country but throughout the West. But Toward …