Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Catholic Incarnational Humanism -- 1. The "Catholic Moment" and the Question of Inculturation -- 2. The Investiture Contest -- 3. Lay Spirituality ad Majorem Dei Gloriam -- 4. Christian Faith in a Neo-Pagan Society -- 5. Thy Kingdom Come on Earth as in Heaven: The Place of the Family in Creation -- Part 2. The Encounter with American Political Culture -- 6. Separating Church and State -- 7. Religion, Politics, and America at the Millennium -- 8. America as an Enlightenment Culture -- 9. John Rawls and the Flight from Authority: The Quest for Equality as an Exercisein Primitivism -- 10. The Quest for a Public Philosophy in Twentieth-Century American Political Thought -- Part 3. The Encounter with Europe, Native Americans, and Modernity -- 11. Unity, Plurality, and Subsidiarity in Twentieth-Century Context -- 12. The Ethics of Conquest: The European Background of Spain's Mission in the New World -- Bibliography -- Index.