Anglican Establishment: How is it Liberal?
This article argues that the kind of religious establishment that currently obtains in England is sufficiently liberal in the sense that it accommodates rights to religious freedom and is compatible with political equality. What is more, insofar as it expresses a Christian anthropology, established...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
[2019]
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Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 205-214 |
IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CG Christianity and Politics KBF British Isles KDE Anglican Church XA Law |
Further subjects: | B
Martha Nussbaum
B John Rawls B Anglicanism B Church of England B Establishment B Liberalism |
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Summary: | This article argues that the kind of religious establishment that currently obtains in England is sufficiently liberal in the sense that it accommodates rights to religious freedom and is compatible with political equality. What is more, insofar as it expresses a Christian anthropology, established Anglicanism can generate the thick' set of virtues necessary to make citizens capable of respecting liberal rights. In the course of defending its thesis, the argument disputes John Rawls's description of the overlapping consensus' as one that stands free of its supporting comprehensive doctrines; and it reads Martha Nussbaum as, ironically, confirming that an established orthodoxy of some sort is inevitable. |
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ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946819897160 |