03998nam 2200721Ia 450 991079221540332120231018173401.00-19-151351-21-4294-2163-00-19-151846-80-19-815933-11-280-75334-X(CKB)2560000000300671(EBL)431282(OCoLC)609832295(SSID)ssj0000121873(PQKBManifestationID)11139448(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000121873(PQKBWorkID)10110613(PQKB)10993838(SSID)ssj0000291548(PQKBManifestationID)12106705(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000291548(PQKBWorkID)10249161(PQKB)11576359(StDuBDS)EDZ0000022925(MiAaPQ)EBC431282(Au-PeEL)EBL431282(CaPaEBR)ebr10177879(CaONFJC)MIL75334(MiAaPQ)EBC7036883(Au-PeEL)EBL7036883(EXLCZ)99256000000030067119970218d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierChristianity and liberal society /Robert SongOxford Clarendon Press ;New York Oxford University Press19971 online resource (x, 250 pages)Oxford studies in theological ethics0-19-826933-1 0-19-168361-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 An Interpretation of Liberalism; 1 Introduction; 2 On interpreting liberalism: a methodological preliminary; 3 Five writers from the liberal canon; 4 Some varieties of liberalism; 5 Liberalism's family resemblances; 3 Reinhold Niebuhr and the Liberal Philosophy of History; 1 Introduction; 2 Niebuhr's theological method; 3 Niebuhr's understanding of liberalism; 4 Niebuhr's criticisms of the liberal conception of history; 5 Criticism; 4 George Grant and the Basis of Liberal Values; 1 Introduction; 2 The civilizational contradiction; 3 Grant and Rawls4 Critical assessment; 5 Jacques Maritain and the Liberal Defence of Pluralism; 1 Introduction; 2 Religious freedom, historical relativism; 3 A committed but pluralist political society; 4 Maritain in an Augustinian framework; 6 The Central Problem of Liberal Constitutional Theory; 1 Introduction; 2 The problem of judicial review defined and some unsuccessful short cuts; 3 Ronald Dworkin's defence of judicial review; 4 John Finnis's criticisms of Dworkin; 5 Democratic procedures and just outcomes: a theological perspective; 7 Christianity and Liberal Society; 1 Introduction; 2 The turn to the subject; 3 Reason and revelation in public life; 4 The Eternal City; Select Bibliography; IndexLiberalism forms the dominant political ideology of the modern world. Despite its pervasive influence, this is the first book-length treatment of liberal political thought from a Christian theological perspective. Song discusses the different approaches to the subject of three twentieth-century theologians and draws out the implications for current political thought. - ;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.Oxford studies in theological ethics.Christianity and politicsLiberalism (Religion)Christianity and politics.Liberalism (Religion)230/.046Song Robert1471014MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792215403321Christianity and liberal society3683121UNINA