Faith, fallibility, and the virtue of anxiety
Subtitle: an essay in religion and political liberalism
By: Derek Malone-France
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780230110717
Subjects: Religion and politics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy; RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State; RELIGION / Theology
Description: "The relationship between religion and liberal-democratic society has emerged as one of the defining issues of the twenty-first century. Drawing together insights from political philosophy and theory, philosophy of religion, theology, epistemology, and metaphysics, Derek Malone-France argues for a fundamental reorientation of religious conceptions of faith and reframes the debate regarding what role, if any, religious justifications should play in public discourse and the law. Through an innovative re-reading of the existentialist notion of 'anxiety', Malone-France develops a 'fallibilist' warrant for classic liberal norms of tolerance, non-coercion, and individual freedom, disclosing "the religious logic of liberal autonomy.""--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.