Gamwell Religion among We the People

Conversations on Democracy and the Divine Good
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5809-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Explores democracy with religious freedom and its dependence on theism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gamwell, Franklin I.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Natur und Existenz Gottes

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. Consent to Religious Freedom: The Legacy of Thomas Jefferson

The Present Question
Jefferson’s Answers
Refining the Question
Reason’s Tribunal
Jefferson’s Legacy

2. On Constitutional Authority: A Conversation with David Strauss

The Living Constitution
Jefferson’s Question: Hermeneutical and Normative
The Tradition of Popular Sovereignty
Advancing the Tradition

3. Democracy and Nature’s God: The Legacy of Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln’s Political Sentiments
The Declaration’s Laws of Nature
The Almighty’s Purposes
The House Divided
Lincoln’s Legacy

4. On Religion in the Public Sphere: A Conversation with Jürgen Habermas

The Institutional Proviso
Habermas’s Proposal: A Critique
Habermas and Rawls: The Basic Problem
The Better Solution
The Attachment to Democracy

5. On the Humanitarian Ideal: The Promise of Neoclassical Metaphysics

Kantian and Post-Enlightenment Challenges
Metaphysics and Human Purpose
Making the Humanitarian Ideal Explicit

6. Reinhold Niebuhr’s Theistic Ethic: The Law of Love

Niebuhr’s Systematic Project
Niebuhr’s Ethic: Harmony and Sacrificial Love
Niebuhr’s Ethic: A Critique
Niebuhr’s Intentions Revisited

7. On the Loss of Theism: A Conversation with Iris Murdoch

Emphatic Moral Realism
Good without God
The Loss of Worth
The Necessity of God

Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Franklin I. Gamwell is Shailer Mathews Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Religious Ethics, Theology, and Philosophy of Religion at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. His many books include Existence and the Good: Metaphysical Necessity in Morals and Politics and The Meaning of Religious Freedom: Modern Politics and the Democratic Resolution, both also published by SUNY Press.