The Theological Origins Of Liberalism
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The Theological Origins Of Liberalism
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Author : Ismail Kurun
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-07-26
The Theological Origins Of Liberalism written by Ismail Kurun and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-26 with Political Science categories.
This eye-opening book offers a critical survey of the true origins of liberalism. It challenges the widely held belief among social scientists that liberalism was developed in opposition to Christianity. Beginning with the Protestant Reformation, it illustrates how Christian thinkers reinterpreted Christianity and used a set of indemonstrable biblical presuppositions from their reinterpretations to develop the first liberal ideas, starting a process that culminates in the birth of the first liberal political theory in the writings of a devout Christian philosopher, John Locke. It explains how the Protestant Reformation, covenant theology, anti-trinitarianism and medieval Christian natural law theories formed the foundations of liberalism. Thus, the central claim of this book is that liberalism is better understood as a radical reinterpretation of Christianity that emerged in the post-Reformation and early modern period. As a logical consequence of revealing the hitherto generally neglected roots of liberalism, it eventually proposes that a legally pluralist liberal political theory is the best way to maintain human dignity and peace in multi-religious societies of today’s globalized world.
Politics Theology And History
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Author : Raymond Plant
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-01-29
Politics Theology And History written by Raymond Plant and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-29 with History categories.
This book examines the moral foundations of liberal societies through the role of Christian belief in public policy.
The Theology Of Liberalism
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Author : Eric Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-15
The Theology Of Liberalism written by Eric Nelson and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-15 with Philosophy categories.
One of our most important political theorists pulls the philosophical rug out from under modern liberalism, then tries to place it on a more secure footing. We think of modern liberalism as the novel product of a world reinvented on a secular basis after 1945. In The Theology of Liberalism, one of the country’s most important political theorists argues that we could hardly be more wrong. Eric Nelson contends that the tradition of liberal political philosophy founded by John Rawls is, however unwittingly, the product of ancient theological debates about justice and evil. Once we understand this, he suggests, we can recognize the deep incoherence of various forms of liberal political philosophy that have emerged in Rawls’s wake. Nelson starts by noting that today’s liberal political philosophers treat the unequal distribution of social and natural advantages as morally arbitrary. This arbitrariness, they claim, diminishes our moral responsibility for our actions. Some even argue that we are not morally responsible when our own choices and efforts produce inequalities. In defending such views, Nelson writes, modern liberals have implicitly taken up positions in an age-old debate about whether the nature of the created world is consistent with the justice of God. Strikingly, their commitments diverge sharply from those of their proto-liberal predecessors, who rejected the notion of moral arbitrariness in favor of what was called Pelagianism—the view that beings created and judged by a just God must be capable of freedom and merit. Nelson reconstructs this earlier “liberal” position and shows that Rawls’s philosophy derived from his self-conscious repudiation of Pelagianism. In closing, Nelson sketches a way out of the argumentative maze for liberals who wish to emerge with commitments to freedom and equality intact.
The Specious Origins Of Liberalism The Genesis Of A Delusion
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Author : Anthony Mario Ludovici
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The Specious Origins Of Liberalism The Genesis Of A Delusion written by Anthony Mario Ludovici and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Fascism categories.
An Intellectual History Of Liberalism
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Author : Pierre Manent
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-12-31
An Intellectual History Of Liberalism written by Pierre Manent and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-31 with Philosophy categories.
Highlighting the social tensions that confront the liberal tradition, Pierre Manent draws a portrait of what we, citizens of modern liberal democracies, have become. For Manent, a discussion of liberalism encompasses the foundations of modern society, its secularism, its individualism, and its conception of rights. The frequent incapacity of the morally neutral, democratic state to further social causes, he argues, derives from the liberal stance that political life does not serve a higher purpose. Through quick-moving, highly synthetic essays, he explores the development of liberal thinking in terms of a single theme: the decline of theological politics. The author traces the liberal stance to Machiavelli, who, in seeking to divorce everyday life from the pervasive influence of the Catholic church, separated politics from all notions of a cosmological order. What followed, as Manent demonstrates in his analyses of Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Guizot, and Constant, was the evolving concept of an individual with no goals outside the confines of the self and a state with no purpose but to prevent individuals from dominating one another. Weighing both the positive and negative effects of such a political arrangement, Manent raises important questions about the fundamental political issues of the day, among them the possibility of individual rights being reconciled with the necessary demands of political organization, and the desirability of a government system neutral about religion but not about public morals.
The Making Of American Liberal Theology
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Author : Gary J. Dorrien
language : en
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 2001-01-01
The Making Of American Liberal Theology written by Gary J. Dorrien and has been published by Westminster John Knox Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Religion categories.
This text identifies the indigenous roots of American liberal theology and uncovers a wider, longer-running tradition than has been thought. Taking a narrative approach the text provides a biographical reading of important religious thinkers of the time.
The Theological Basis Of Liberal Modernity In Montesquieu S Spirit Of The Laws
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Author : Thomas L. Pangle
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-05-15
The Theological Basis Of Liberal Modernity In Montesquieu S Spirit Of The Laws written by Thomas L. Pangle and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-15 with Political Science categories.
The Spirit of the Laws—Montesquieu’s huge, complex, and enormously influential work—is considered one of the central texts of the Enlightenment, laying the foundation for the liberally democratic political regimes that were to embody its values. In his penetrating analysis, Thomas L. Pangle brilliantly argues that the inherently theological project of Enlightenment liberalism is made more clearly—and more consequentially— in Spirit than in any other work. In a probing and careful reading, Pangle shows how Montesquieu believed that rationalism, through the influence of liberal institutions and the spread of commercial culture, would secularize human affairs. At the same time, Pangle uncovers Montesquieu’s views about the origins of humanity’s religious impulse and his confidence that political and economic security would make people less likely to sacrifice worldly well-being for otherworldly hopes. With the interest in the theological aspects of political theory and practice showing no signs of diminishing, this book is a timely and insightful contribution to one of the key achievements of Enlightenment thought.
Liberal Christianity
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Author : Jean Réville
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1903
Liberal Christianity written by Jean Réville and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1903 with Liberalism (Religion) categories.
Christianity And Liberal Society
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Author : Robert Song
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-01-13
Christianity And Liberal Society written by Robert Song and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-13 with Religion categories.
Liberalism forms the dominant political ideology of the modern world, but despite its pervasive influence, this is the first book-length treatment of liberal political thought from a Christian theological perspective. Song discusses the different aspects and interpretations of liberalism with reference to the critiques of three twentieth-century theologians: the American Protestant Reinhold Niebuhr on the liberal progressivist philosophy of history; the lesser-known Canadian George Grant on the threat of technology to fundamental liberal values, as articulated in the recent work of John Rawls; and the French Thomist Jacques Maritain on the defence of political pluralism. Further to this, Song explores the implications of this political theology for the issues in fundamental constitutional theory raised by a bill of rights and judicial review of legislation, and concludes with an account of the critical but supportive stance of liberalism Christian theology should take.
History Of The Church The Church In The Age Of Liberalism
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Author : Hubert Jedin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
History Of The Church The Church In The Age Of Liberalism written by Hubert Jedin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Church history categories.