The Divine Good: Modern Moral Theory & the Necessity of God

The Divine Good: Modern Moral Theory and the Necessity of God

Religion & Spirituality

GAMWELL, Franklin I.

Religious Studies

Harpercollins

Politics as a Christian Vocation: Faith and Democracy Today

Franklin Gamwell argues that Christian faith belongs in politics because it shares with democracy complete commitment to the rational pursuit of the truth. Gamwell develops ideals of justice and the common good that good Christians should advocate within the democratic process and demonstrates the difference they make for contemporary sharescs in the United States. He focuses specifically on withes of abortion, affirmative action, and economic abortiontion.

Christian Books & Bibles

Cambridge University Press

Franklin Gamwell argues that Christian faith belongs in politics because it shares with democracy complete commitment to the rational pursuit of the truth. Gamwell develops ideals of justice and the common good that good Christians should advocate within the democratic process and demonstrates the difference they make for contemporary sharescs in the United States. He focuses specifically on withes of abortion, affirmative action, and economic abortiontion.

This is the most thorough philosophical analysis available of the principle of religious freedom. It draws on the thought of philosophers and political theorists (Rawls, Habermas, Murray, Rorty, Greenawalt, and Mead) rather than on the framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The endorsement of religious freedom in the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States represents a modern revolution in the relation between politics and religion. In American politics there has been continual disagreement about the meaning of this constitutional principle, and widely-held views of religious freedom include much philosophical confusion. This book shows how a plurality of religious convictions can be politically united only by a free debate among different religious convictions. The author demonstrates that religious freedom is a coherent political principle, and that this principle is the defining democratic commitment because all other political principles should be subject to assessment by the same free debate characterizing religious freedom. This book identifies the meaning of an authentically democratic constitution and the civility required of democratic citizens.

The Meaning of Religious Freedom: Modern Politics and the Democratic Resolution (Religious Studies)

State University of New York Press

This is the most thorough philosophical analysis available of the principle of religious freedom. It draws on the thought of philosophers and political theorists (Rawls, Habermas, Murray, Rorty, Greenawalt, and Mead) rather than on the framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The endorsement of religious freedom in the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States represents a modern revolution in the relation between politics and religion. In American politics there has been continual disagreement about the meaning of this constitutional principle, and widely-held views of religious freedom include much philosophical confusion. This book shows how a plurality of religious convictions can be politically united only by a free debate among different religious convictions. The author demonstrates that religious freedom is a coherent political principle, and that this principle is the defining democratic commitment because all other political principles should be subject to assessment by the same free debate characterizing religious freedom. This book identifies the meaning of an authentically democratic constitution and the civility required of democratic citizens.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Southern Methodist Univ Pr

Challenging the consensus of western moral and political theory over the past two centuries that both of those fields are independent of a divine reality, Gamwell (religious ethics, U. of Chicago Divinity School) argues that there is a necessary relation between moral worth and a belief in God. To separate politics from the divine, he says, misrepresents the distinctive character of human freedom and thus prevents a full understanding of the nature of justice. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Democracy on Purpose: Justice and the Reality of God (Moral Traditions & Moral Arguments)

Georgetown Univ Pr

Western moral and political theory in the last two centuries has widely held that morality and politics are independent of a divine reality. Claiming that this consensus is flawed, prominent theologian Franklin I. Gamwell argues that there is a necessary relation between moral worth and belief in God. Without appealing to the beliefs of any specific religion, Gamwell defends a return to the view that moral and political principles depend on a divine purpose. To separate politics from the divine misrepresents the distinctive character of human freedom, Gamwell maintains, and thus prevents a full understanding of the nature of justice. Principles of justice define "democracy on purpose" as the political form in which we pursue the divine good. Engaging in a dialogue with such major representatives of the dominant consensus as Kant, Habermas, and Rawls, and informed by the philosophical writings of Alfred North Whitehead, this book makes the case for a neoclassical metaphysics that restores a religious sensibility to our political life.

Democracy on Purpose: Justice and the Reality of God (Moral Traditions)

History

World

Georgetown University Press

Existence and the Good: Metaphysical Necessity in Morals and Politics

Argues that morals and politics require on a metaphysical backing and proposes a neoclassical metaphysics.Morals and politics depend on a metaphysical backing. All reality is marked by certain necessary features and a divine purpose inherent in all reality defines the good to which all human life should be directed.These are bold assertions in a climate where the credibility of metaphysics is widely denied. Indeed, for the past two centuries, Western philosophy has been marked by a consensus that questions about moral and political life should be considered separately from questions about ultimate reality. In this challenging work, Franklin I. Gamwell defends metaphysical necessity against both modern and postmodern critiques. The metaphysics vindicated is not the traditional form both critiques typically have in view, however. Instead, Gamwell outlines a neoclassical project for which Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne are the main philosophical resources. As it maintains the significance of theistic metaphysics, the book makes no appeal to religious authority but solely to common human experience, and on this basis articulates principles of human purpose and democratic justice.

State Univ of New York Pr

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The Divine Good: Modern Moral Theory and the Necessity of God

Politics as a Christian Vocation: Faith and Democracy Today

Politics as a Christian Vocation: Faith and Democracy Today

The Meaning of Religious Freedom: Modern Politics and the Democratic Resolution (Religious Studies)

The Meaning of Religious Freedom: Modern Politics and the Democratic Resolution (Religious Studies)

The Divine Good: Modern Moral Theory & the Necessity of God

Democracy on Purpose: Justice and the Reality of God (Moral Traditions & Moral Arguments)

Democracy on Purpose: Justice and the Reality of God (Moral Traditions)

Existence and the Good: Metaphysical Necessity in Morals and Politics

Existence and the Good: Metaphysical Necessity in Morals and Politics