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Theology and the soul of the liberal state / edited by Leonard V. Kaplan and Charles L. Cohen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Graven images (Lanham, Md.)Publication details: Lanham : Lexington Books, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 393 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780739144312
  • 1282479326
  • 9781282479326
  • 0739144316
  • 9786612479328
  • 6612479329
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Theology and the soul of the liberal stateDDC classification:
  • 201/.72 22
LOC classification:
  • BL65.P7
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Naked in the public square : depth of commitment in the liberal state today / Lenn E. Goodman -- Social contract in modern Jewish thought : a theological critique / David Novak -- Justices Story and Holmes in the realm of the "brooding omnipresence" / Ann Althouse -- Theology, society and the vocation of the university / Arnold M. Eisen -- St. Augustine, markets, and the liberal polity / Elizabeth Mensch -- When markets and gambling converge / David A. Skeel, Jr. -- A theological case for the liberal democratic state / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- Preserving the natural : Karl Barth, the Barmen Declaration : Article 5, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Ethics / Carl J. Rasmussen -- Materialism and transcendence / John Milbank -- A Jewish and democratic state : a normative perspective / Aviezer Ravitzky -- In the shadows of modernity? : theology and sovereignty in South Asian Islam / Ayesha Jalal -- A constitutional analysis of the secularization of the Tibetan diaspora : the role of the Dalai Lama / Lobsang Sangay -- Grave images : terror and justice / Regina M. Schwartz -- Compassion, knowledge, and power : a Tibetan approach to politics and religion / John D. Dunne.
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)332660

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Naked in the public square : depth of commitment in the liberal state today / Lenn E. Goodman -- Social contract in modern Jewish thought : a theological critique / David Novak -- Justices Story and Holmes in the realm of the "brooding omnipresence" / Ann Althouse -- Theology, society and the vocation of the university / Arnold M. Eisen -- St. Augustine, markets, and the liberal polity / Elizabeth Mensch -- When markets and gambling converge / David A. Skeel, Jr. -- A theological case for the liberal democratic state / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- Preserving the natural : Karl Barth, the Barmen Declaration : Article 5, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Ethics / Carl J. Rasmussen -- Materialism and transcendence / John Milbank -- A Jewish and democratic state : a normative perspective / Aviezer Ravitzky -- In the shadows of modernity? : theology and sovereignty in South Asian Islam / Ayesha Jalal -- A constitutional analysis of the secularization of the Tibetan diaspora : the role of the Dalai Lama / Lobsang Sangay -- Grave images : terror and justice / Regina M. Schwartz -- Compassion, knowledge, and power : a Tibetan approach to politics and religion / John D. Dunne.

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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.

English.