Down From the Mountaintop: Authorities and Structures of Power

This session features Jacqueline Rivers (Harvard University) on “As American as the Declaration of Independence? Social Structure and Higher Powers,” Rev. Eugene Rivers (Seymour Institute) on “Martin Luther King Jr. and the Principalities and Powers”, and Monique Chireau (USAID) & Maryssa Gabriel (University of Notre Dame) on “Let Every Soul Be Subject to the Higher Powers: Romans 13, Subsidiarity, and International Aid”. Session chaired by Daniel Philpott (University of Notre Dame). Presented at the Center for Ethics and Culture’s 2018 Fall Conference, “Higher Powers.” The Conference explored the perennial problem of good and evil, the significance of this distinction for human flourishing and the common good, and the place of good and evil in the theory and practice of various academic disciplines.

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