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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... human nature apply to people who are religious no less than to those who are not. Throughout history, our great religious traditions—this is especially obvious in the Christian and Jewish scriptures—have preached a message of hope for ...
... human being should be free to believe whatever he wants about God—is one of the principal forces driving us toward ... humanity and generosity that religion has promoted through the centuries. There are many paradoxes here, of course ...
... humanity.) Readers of this book will be spared my thoughts on these subjects. I mention the papers to suggest that it seemed to me perfectly natural in the late 1960s and early 1970s, long before the rise of the religious Right, to take ...
... helps ensure that we work tentatively and humbly in our human realm, always open to self-correction in the light of new experience. “If God is God,” wrote the Christian writer Jacques Ellul, IS GOD'S WORK OUR WORK? 17.
... human formula. There is always something more to know and understand and receive.” Accepting the “social context” of our modern (or, perhaps, postmodern) condition, as Peter Berger wrote in A Far Glory, means “acknowledging the fact ...
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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Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right E. J. Dionne Jr. No preview available - 2009 |