Catholic Republic: Why America Will Perish Without Rome

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similar theses as: The Strange Spirit of Solange Hertz

ref:9.1: "America is a nation that is wired Catholic, labeled Protestant, and currently functioning as secular [atheist]."

Some Christians decry the deism of our Founding Fathers, claiming that outright anti-Christian principles lie at the heart of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution, crippling from birth our beloved republic.

Here philosopher Timothy Gordon forcefully disagrees, arguing that while anti-Catholic bias kept them from admitting their reliance on Aristotle, Aquinas, and the early Jesuits, our Protestant and Enlightenment Founding Fathers secretly held Catholic views about politics and nature.

Had they fully adhered to Catholic principles, argues Gordon, the "Catholic republic" that is America from its birth would not today be on the verge of social collapse. The instinctive Catholicism of our Founders would have prevented the cancerous growth of the state, our subsequent loss of liberties, the destruction of families, abortion on demand, the death of free markets, and the horrors of today's pervasive pagan culture.

In Catholic Republic , Gordon recounts our nation's clandestine history of publicly repudiating, yet privately relying on, Catholic ideas about politics and nature. At this late hour in the life of the Church and the world, America still can be saved, claims Gordon, if only we soon return to the Catholic principles that are the indispensable foundation of all successful republics.

Review

"What should Catholics think of the American founding? Most observers have argued either that Catholics can reconciles the founding with their faith, or that the founding, and the republican government in general, are contrary to the Catholic faith. Tim Gordon makes a strong case for a third option: our republican founding, appropriated a Catholic understanding of reality, and can only rest secure on an explicitly Catholic foundation. Anyone interested in this debate should acquaint themselves with the details of Gordon's fascinating argument."
Jay Richards
Executive Editor, The Stream

"Tim Gordon is, without doubt, an intellectual heavyweight with a deep understanding of, and love for, the Catholic Church. He is also a good husband, father, and educator who is just at home lifting weights at the gym as he is standing in front of a group of teenagers teaching them the intricacies of the Summa. In an era bereft of leaders, Tim is a throwback to the days of yore, where godly men would not only have an intimate relationship with Christ and his Church but be willing to stand up and defend it, regardless of the consequences."
Matthew Marsden
Catholic Actor and Producer

"The framers held 'these truths to be self-evident.' Timothy Gordon does a deep dive into the intellectual sources of their assertion in Catholic Republic: Why America Will Perish Without Rome, and finds, inter alia, a treasure trove of crypto-Catholicism. Not for the faint of heart, this book exposes popular presuppositions imbibed by many conservatives, while handing readers on both sides of the culture war a slew of provocative insights."
Patrick Coffin
Host, The Patrick Coffin Show

"Timothy Gordon impressively substantiates the crypto-Catholic political philosophy present in the American Revolution and founding of the United States of America. Saint Thomas Aquinas asserted that man cannot attain his end by nature, but only by grace because of the exalted character of the end. Gordon demonstrates that the natural law tradition of America in which she was conceived must also be perfected by this grace. Without turning to the supernatural graces of Catholicism, America will not heal, elevate, or perfect her created nature. Gordon is provocatively accurate: America will perish without the philosophical and theological tradition of Catholicism."
Taylor Marshall
Best-Selling Author

--Personal Endorsements

From the Back Cover

"In this intellectually stimulating book, Timothy Gordon argues that the source of America's political and cultural salvation is the very Catholicism that has been rejected and even persecuted from the first days of the republic."

Michael Voris, Church Militant

Some Christians decry the deism of our Founding Fathers, claiming that outright anti-Christian principles lie at the heart of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution, crippling from birth our beloved republic.

Here philosopher Timothy Gordon forcefully disagrees, arguing that while anti-Catholic bias kept them from admitting their reliance on Aristotle, Aquinas, and the early Jesuits, our Protestant and Enlightenment Founding Fathers secretly held Catholic views about politics and nature.

Had they fully adhered to Catholic principles, argues Gordon, the "Catholic republic" that is America from its birth would not today be on the verge of social collapse. The instinctive Catholicism of our Founders would have prevented the cancerous growth of the state, our subsequent loss of liberties, the destruction of families, abortion on demand, the death of free markets, and the horrors of today's pervasive pagan culture.

In Catholic Republic , Gordon recounts our nation's clandestine history of publicly repudiating, yet privately relying on, Catholic ideas about politics and nature. At this late hour in the life of the Church and the world, America still can be saved, claims Gordon, if only we soon return to the Catholic principles that are the indispensable foundation of all successful republics.

About the Author

Timothy J. Gordon studied philosophy in Pontifical graduate universities in Europe, taught it at Southern Californian community colleges, and then went on to law school. He holds degrees in literature, history, philosophy, and law. Currently, he resides in central California with his wife and five children, where he writes and teaches philosophy and theology.