Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State
Robert Audi has ambitious goals. He wants to write a “highly readable book” (p. vii) that identifies principles under which secular governments can protect liberty, maintain the separation of church and state, and avoid the “alienation of religious citizens” (p. 3). Some of these principles constrai...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2012, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 445-447 |
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| Summary: | Robert Audi has ambitious goals. He wants to write a “highly readable book” (p. vii) that identifies principles under which secular governments can protect liberty, maintain the separation of church and state, and avoid the “alienation of religious citizens” (p. 3). Some of these principles constrain government. Other principles express “standards of civic virtue” for individuals (p. 5). Combined, they are intended to support a civic environment in which democratic authority is “guided by reason, sensitive to faith, motivated by virtue, and leavened by tolerance” (p. 155)., Audi's book, however, is a dense, philosophical work written at a high level of abstraction. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/css068 |