Most people remember Ven. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen for his uplifting television program Life Is Worth Living, but Sheen was much more than a televangelist. He spent much of his academic life and religious ministry exposing political ideologies--fascism, Nazism, and communism--as inferior substitutes for a religious foundation for public life. Given the political circumstances, Sheen's work on this area is newly relevant. This lecture explores Sheen's critique of ideology and how he argued for a religious foundation rooted in the rights of conscience and constitutional republicanism.
Recommended Readings
"Taking Fulton Sheen Seriously" James M. Patterson
First Things "Declaration of Dependence," Fulton J. Sheen
"The Cross or the Double-Cross: Roman Catholicism
Anti-Communism, and the Political Theology of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen" James M. Patterson
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James M. Patterson, Ph.D.
