The Third Coming: How Catholic Radicals Medievalized American Politics and Set the West Ablaze, (Hardcover)

<p><b>A groundbreaking history of the medieval Catholic moral philosophy that has challenged the foundations of American politics and culture and the emerging algorithmic order that threatens to overtake it</b> </p><p>In the 1980s, a generation of intellectually elite, conservative Catholic radicals rose from the cul-de-sacs of postwar suburban America to wage war on Enlightenment liberalism--the foundational creed of the American republic. We live today with the consequences. </p><p>In <i>The Third Coming</i>, political theorist Peter H. Schwartz delivers an intellectually fearless account of the rise of this radical Catholic elite and the thirteenth-century theological doctrine providing the blueprint for a future in which human sovereignty gives way to the sovereignty of God. Catholic natural law--the doctrinal north star for this religious counterculture--has underpinned Project 2025 and guided Federalist Society judges, Heritage Foundation scholars, MAGA legislators, and right-wing "new media" personalities. </p><p>Ultimately, Schwartz argues, this medieval resurgence will prove helpless against a third force, the quantum future of the information age in which the algorithm is sovereign--a future arriving faster than we can imagine. Provocative, enlightening, and brilliantly argued, <i>The Third Coming </i>is an essential guide to understanding the collision of America's past, present, and future, and what comes next.</p>

• The Third Coming: How Catholic Radicals Medievalized American Politics and Set the West Ablaze, (Hardcover)
• Author: Henry Holt & Company
• ISBN: 9781250434258
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2027-02-02
• Page Count: 448