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

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)