Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Religion and Society -- 1. Western Creed, Western Identity -- 2. Christian Philosophy: A Sociological Category or an Oxymoron? -- 3. What Was Religion? The Demise of a Prodigious Power -- 4. Marx, Dewey, and Maritain: The Role of Religion in Society -- 5. John Courtney Murray on the Truths We Hold -- 6. Separating Church and State -- 7. Thomas on Natural Law: What Judge Thomas Did Not Say -- Part II. The Law and Society -- 8. Collective Responsibility -- 9. Accountability without Causality: Tort Litigation Reaches Fairy-Tale Levels -- 10. On the Justification of Rights Claims -- 11. The Necessity of Punishment -- 12. Professional Responsibility -- Part III. Faith and Reason -- 13. Edith Stein: The Convert in Search of Illumination -- 14. Maritain at the Cliff's Edge: From Antimoderne to Le Paysan -- 15. John Paul II, Defender of Faith and Reason -- 16. The Interior Life -- Bibliography -- Index.