Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious RightPrinceton University Press, 2009 M10 12 - 264 pages The religious and political winds are changing. Tens of millions of religious Americans are reclaiming faith from those who would abuse it for narrow, partisan, and ideological purposes. And more and more secular Americans are discovering common ground with believers on the great issues of social justice, peace, and the environment. In Souled Out, award-winning journalist and commentator E. J. Dionne explains why the era of the Religious Right--and the crude exploitation of faith for political advantage--is over. |
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... Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, and Karl Barth to John Courtney Murray, Billy Graham, and Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning in the late 1970s, the focus of interest narrowed. To be sure, Pope John Paul II earned his share of coverage. But in the ...
... Niebuhr, the great progressive theologian who broke with pacifism in the face of Hitler's threat to humanity.) Readers of this book will be spared my thoughts on these subjects. I mention the papers to suggest that it seemed to me ...
... Niebuhr has called “radical monotheism” is that a belief in one God as the ground of being promotes a sensible skepticism about everything else. “Radical monotheism,” Niebuhr wrote, “dethrones all absolutes short of the principle of ...
... Niebuhr's theology will be far more influential than Pat Robertson's. The economic requirements for a decent family life will trump rhetorical appeals to “family values.” Evangelical Christians are increasingly restive and dissatisfied ...
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Contents
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1 Is Religion Conservative or Progressive? Or Both? | 25 |
3 What Are the Values Issues? | 71 |
5 John Paul Benedict and the Catholic Future | 126 |
6 What Happened to the Seamless Garment? | 151 |
7 Solidarity Liberty and Religions True Calling | 183 |
Notes | 205 |
Acknowledgments | 227 |
Index | 235 |
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