Title: Religious convictions in political discourse: moral and theological grounds for a public theology in a plural world
Abstract: Moral, aesthetic, and religious pluralism has become a
source of disagreement and friction in the modern world. Within the
context of modernity and precipitated by the American and French
revolutions, liberal democracy has aimed to organize the social and
political life of societies in which their inhabitants sustain
different, distant, and sometimes contradictory conceptions of the
good life. Liberal secular principles have been the framework used
to protect fundamental values such us freedom, equality, and mutual
respect. In order to preserve the stability of a plural society,
liberalism insists that moral and religious convictions must remain
a private matter. Democracy and tolerance, it was argued, would be
best preserved if religious convictions were removed from the
public/political conversation. Yet the debate about the appropriate
relationship between religion and politics regularly resurfaces
among political and moral philosophers, social theorists, and
theologians.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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