Bibliograph

Religion among we the people, conversations on democracy and thedivine good, Franklin I. Gamwell

Type

Label

Religion among we the people, conversations on democracy and thedivine good, Franklin I. Gamwell

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Religion among we the people

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Franklin I. Gamwell

Sub title

conversations on democracy and thedivine good

Summary

Explores democracy with religious freedom and its dependence on theism. Franklin I. Gamwell holds that democracy with religious freedom is dependent on metaphysical theism. Democratic politics can be neutral to all religious convictions only if its constitution establishes a full and free discourse about the ultimate terms of justice and their application to decisions of the state, and the divine good is the true ground of justice. Notably, Gamwell's view challenges virtually all current accounts of democracy with religious freedom. This uncommon position emerges through a series of essays in which Gamwell engages a variety of conversation partners, including Thomas Jefferson, David Strauss, Abraham Lincoln, Jürgen Habermas, Alfred North Whitehead, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Iris Murdoch. Discussions of Jefferson, Lincoln, and the US Constitution illustrate the promise of neoclassical metaphysics as a context for interpreting US history. Gamwell then defends his metaphysics against both modern refusals of metaphysics and accounts of ultimate reality offered by Niebuhr and Murdoch

Target audience

adult

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