04093nam 2200589 450 991082804510332120230807193447.01-4384-5809-6(CKB)3710000000486247(EBL)4396584(SSID)ssj0001556031(PQKBManifestationID)16181077(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001556031(PQKBWorkID)13844606(PQKB)11282375(MiAaPQ)EBC4396584(Au-PeEL)EBL4396584(CaPaEBR)ebr11155589(OCoLC)923734712(EXLCZ)99371000000048624720160303h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReligion among we the people conversations on democracy and the divine good /Franklin I. GamwellAlbany, New York :State University of New York Press,2015.©20151 online resource (258 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4384-5807-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface; Chapter One: Consent to Religious Freedom: The Legacy of Thomas Jefferson; The Present Question ; Jefferson's Answers ; Refining the Question ; Reason's Tribunal ; Jefferson's Legacy ; Chapter Two: On Constitutional Authority: A Conversation with David Strauss; The Living Constitution ; Jefferson's Question: Hermeneutical and NormativeThe Tradition of Popular Sovereignty Advancing the Tradition ; Chapter Three: 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 ; Chapter Four: On Religion in the Public Sphere: A Conversation with Jürgen HabermasThe Institutional Proviso Habermas's Proposal: A Critique ; Habermas and Rawls: The Basic Problem ; The Better Solution ; The Attachment to Democracy ; Chapter Five: On the Humanitarian Ideal: The Promise of Neoclassical Metaphysics; Kantian and Post-Enlightenment Challenges ; Metaphysics and Human PurposeMaking the Humanitarian Ideal Explicit Chapter Six: 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 ; Chapter Seven: On the Loss of Theism: A Conversation with Iris Murdoch; Emphatic Moral RealismGood without God The Loss of Worth ; The Necessity of God ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Works Cited ; IndexDemocracyMoral and ethical aspectsReligion and politicsUnited StatesUnited StatesReligionDemocracyMoral and ethical aspects.Religion and politics322/.10973Gamwell Franklin I.974825MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828045103321Religion among we the people4125260UNINA