Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Jacqueline Lapsley -- "That it may go well with you" : the commandments and the common good / Patrick D. Miller -- When mercy seasons justice : Jonah and the common good / Jacqueline Lapsley -- Uncommon love and the common good : Christians as citizens in the letters of Paul / Victor Paul Furnish -- The common good in Thomas Aquinas / Jean Porter -- The common good in Catholic social teaching / Dennis McCann -- Public discourse and common good / Robin Lovin -- Whose good, whose commons? -- Introduction / Josiah Young -- It takes a community or at least an association / C. Eric Mount, Jr. -- A rose by any other name? : deconstructing the essence of "common" / Cheryl Kirk-Duggan -- Good is knowing when to stop : denucleation and the end of privilege / Josiah Young -- Common good in performance / Milner Ball -- Community, society, and politics -- Introduction / James Skillen -- "The common good" as political norm / James Skillen -- The common good, our commons goods, and the uncommon good in a globalizing era / Max Stackhouse -- Killing for the telephone company : why the nation-state is not the keeper of the common good / William Cavanaugh -- The triunity of common good / Robert W. Jenson.