In this insightful, well-researched and thought-provoking book, Todd Scribner presents a compelling story of the development of neoconservative Catholic thought in the 1970s and 1980s. The story covers a wide spectrum of subjects, including church structure, secular political history, Catholic social thought, and public policy. Despite the challenges of such wide-ranging topics, Scribner ties them together to produce insights highly relevant to contemporary Catholicism and American politics.
A Partisan Church begins with the tumultuous disruptions occurring in both the Catholic Church and American political life during the 1960s. For the Catholic Church, these disruptions resulted in a fracturing of Catholic identity following Vatican II and the wave of secularism sweeping across the Western world. At the same time, American political identity was under siege by the cultural and sexual revolutions of the time. These disruptions prompted the emergence of a new religious and political outlook known as neoconservatism.
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