Since the end of World War II, runaway fears of Soviet
imperialism, global terrorism, and anarchy have tended to drive
American foreign policy toward an imperial agenda. At the same
time, uncurbed appetites have wasted the environment and driven the
country's market economy into the ditch. How can we best sustain
our identity as a people and resist the distortions of our current
anxieties and appetites?
Ethicist William F. May draws on America's religious and
political history and examines two concepts at play in the founding
of the country -- contractual and covenantal. He contends that the
biblical idea of a covenant offers a more promising way than the
language of contract, grounded in self-interest alone, to contain
our runaway anxieties and appetites. A covenantal sensibility
affirms, "We the people (not simply, We, the individuals, or We,
the interest groups) of the United States." It presupposes a
history of mutual giving and receiving and of bearing with one
another that undergirds all the traffic in buying and selling,
arguing and negotiating, that obtain in the rough terrain of
politics. May closes with an account of the covenantal agenda
ahead, and concludes with the vexing issue of immigrants and
undocumented workers that has singularly tested the covenant of
this immigrant nation.
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