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Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State (Paperback)
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Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State (Paperback)
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Rising calls in both the United States and abroad for theologizing
national agendas have renewed examinations about whether liberal
states can accommodate such programs without either endangering
citizens' rights or trivializing religious concerns. Conventional
wisdom suggests that theology is necessarily unfriendly to the
liberal state, but neither philosophical analysis nor empirical
argument has convincingly established that conclusion. Examining
the problem from a variety of perspectives including law,
philosophy, history, political theory, and religious studies, the
essays in Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State suggest the
possibilities for and limits on what theological reflection might
contribute to liberal polities across the globe. Theology and the
Soul of the Liberal State develops these issues under five
headings. Part One explores 'The Nature of Religious Argument' as
it can inflect discussions of public policy, political theory,
jurisprudence, and education. Part Two, 'Theologies of the
Marketplace, ' notes that theology can by turns be highly critical,
neutral, or even inordinately supportive of market operations. Part
Three, 'European Perspectives, ' reviews and develops arguments
from Abraham Kuyper, Karl Barth, and French post-modernists
concerning how one might integrate theological discourse into the
public sphere. Part Four offers Israel, Pakistan and Tibet as
'Asian Perspectives' on how theology may comport with liberalism in
recently created states (or, in the last case, a diasporic
government-in-exile) where powerful religious constituencies make
'secular' civil action extremely problematic. Finally, Part V,
'Religion and Terror, ' probes the vexed relationship between
conceptions of divine and human justice, where the imperatives of
theology and state confront each other most nakedly. Collectively,
Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State suggests that the
liberal state cannot keep theology out of public discourse and may
even benefit from its intervention, but that their intersection, if
potentially beneficial, is always fraugh
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