Responsibilities and Temptations of Power: A Catholic View
"The Charter sets forth a renewed national compact, in the sense of a solemn mutual agreement between parties, on how we view the place of religion in American life and how we should contend with each other's deepest differences in the public sphere. It is a call to a vision of public life...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1990
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 1990, Volume: 8, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 71-83 |
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| Summary: | "The Charter sets forth a renewed national compact, in the sense of a solemn mutual agreement between parties, on how we view the place of religion in American life and how we should contend with each other's deepest differences in the public sphere. It is a call to a vision of public life that will allow conflict to lead to consensus, religious commitment to reinforce political civility. In this way, diversity is not a point of weakness but a source of strength."— The Williamsburg CharterThe passage in the Williamsburg Charter referring to two questions — "how we view the place of religion in American life and how we should contend with each other's deepest differences in the public sphere" — opens two lines of inquiry. First, I understand the "we" in the passage to refer at least in part to the religious communities; from this follows the need to assess how these communities understand their exercise of religious and moral authority (power) in the public arena. Second, the passage is also open to an investigation of the exercise of power in our national life. Presumably the religious communities contend among themselves and with other institutions in the evaluation of how power is exercised in the name of the nation. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1051257 |