The "Catholic moment" and the question of inculturation -- The investiture contest -- Lay spirituality ad majorem Dei gloriam -- Christian faith in a neo-pagan society -- Thy kingdom come on earth as in heaven : the place of the family in creation -- Separating church and state -- Religion, politics, and America at the millennium -- America as an Enlightenment culture -- John Rawls and the flight from authority : the quest for equality as an exercise in primitivism -- The quest for a public philosophy in twentieth-century American political thought -- Unity, plurality, and subsidiarity in twentieth-century context -- The ethics of conquest : the European background of Spain's mission in the New World.