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- Religious liberalism is a conception of religion (or of a particular religion) which emphasizes personal and group liberty and rationality.
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Oct 23, 2024 · Liberalism is a political and economic doctrine that emphasizes individual autonomy equality of opportunity, and the protection of individual rights (primarily to life, liberty, and property), originally against the state and later against both the state and private economic actors, including businesses.
As a political paradigm, liberalism is committed to protecting the freedom of persons to live and think as they choose without interference from the state, provided they do no harm to others. This fundamental commitment underlies the classical liberal arguments for religious liberty and toleration articulated by John Locke and J. S. Mill.
theological liberalism, a form of religious thought that establishes religious inquiry on the basis of a norm other than the authority of tradition. It was an important influence in Protestantism from about the mid-17th century through the 1920s.
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Religious liberalism is a naturalist manifestation, an effort at emancipation from supernatural demands, especially those of a dogmatic kind. It found followers in all positive religions (including Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam), but it became widespread only in the 19th and 20th centuries. The phenomenon consists of an opposition ...
Religious liberalism is a conception of religion (or of a particular religion) which emphasizes personal and group liberty [1] and rationality. [2] It is an attitude towards one's own religion (as opposed to criticism of religion from a secular position, and as opposed to criticism of a religion other than one's own) which contrasts with a ...
Nov 28, 1996 · Liberalism is a philosophy that starts from a premise that political authority and law must be justified. If citizens are obliged to exercise self-restraint, and especially if they are obliged to defer to someone else’s authority, there must be a reason why. Restrictions on liberty must be justified.
Jun 12, 2020 · Cécile Laborde’s Liberalism’s Religion is a Rawlsian-in-spirit revised and updated re-articulation of how the liberal state can treat equally the plurality of its citizens’ commitments, beliefs, and identities. It challenges liberal theorists on nonestablishment and freedom of religion, and answers to critical religion theorists who ...
