The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies
Readers ofPro Regemay be surprised to find such insightful and articulate authors writing to such a broad audience with pleasingly familiar insights and arguments. . . . The authors are to be commended for articulating an orthodox Reformed vision of justice for a broken world, and doing so within the parameters of inferences based upon comparative research. . . . Without burdening the text with Reformed terminology, Monsma and Soper have seriously challenged governing elites and their intellectual supporters to actually redeem fallen and sinful structures of contemporary democratic governments. This is exemplary reformational scholarship.(Jack R. Van Der SlikPro Rege)One of my favorite books on religion in public life. On a subject especially in need of light, insight, and balance, its very readable historical, legal, and comparative analyses are most enlightening and fair. I recommend it for college classes and as good reading for ordinary citizens. (Christian Smith, director, Center for the Study of Religion and Society, University of Notre Dame)