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Oct 2, 2008 · With the emergence of liberal democracy in the modern west, however, the types of questions that philosophers asked about the interrelation between religion and political authority began to shift, in large measure because the following three-fold dynamic was at work.
- Chris Eberle, Terence Cuneo
- 2008
It was meant to embrace fundamental changes to the fabric of Western culture, including the rise of capitalism, liberalism, democracy, and secularity. From its inception, references to Luther and the Reformation have been a frequent element of this kind of theory.
- Johannes Zachhuber
- 2017
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.
May 7, 2018 · If liberalism depended on a very fine-tuned Goldilocks kind of moral and religious sensibility -- not a touch too collectivist, not a touch too quietist, but just right -- then we would expect the liberal commercial democratic order never to have gotten off the ground at all.
Jun 22, 2018 · This chapter addresses two crucial issues raised by Laborde’s superb Liberalism’s Religion. The first pertains to where the liberal democratic modern state draws the line between the self-governing prerogatives of religious nomos communities and their regulation by the civil law; the second pertains to the prerogative of the state to do the ...
- Jean L. Cohen
- 2020
Our familiar congruence of liberalism conservatism in religion and politics is historically specific; it emerged at the exhaustion religious wars in the late seventeenth century, and developed along with secularization the early twentieth century.
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Dec 3, 2018 · Liberalism’s Religion is a major contribution to a crowded field, offering a distinctive and powerful approach to the familiar problem of the relationship between religion and state. Professor Laborde also offers a shrewd critical map of the intellectual territory.
