Political agape
Subtitle: Christian love and liberal democracy
By: Timothy P. Jackson
Series: Emory University studies in law and religion; Emory University studies in law and religion (Unnumbered)
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780802872463
Subjects: Christianity and politics; Love; Liberalism; Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Liberal introduction: Jesus and Abraham; title: part 1. Liberalism and agape. Love and Mr. Lincoln; title: The image of God and the soul of humanity: reflections on dignity, sanctity, and democracy; title: The return of the prodigal?: liberal theory and religious pluralism; title: part 2. Replies to contemporary liberals and antiliberals. To Bedlam and partway back: John Rawls and Christian justice; title: A house divided, again: Dworkin and Singer on sanctity and dignity; title: The theory and practice of discomfort: Richard Rorty and liberal patriotism; title: Defending democracy without traducing tradition: Jeffrey Stout's "pragmatic vision"; title: The cross and democratic politics: agape, self-sacrifice, and human rights; title: part 3. Love, law, and modern moral issues. Euthanasia and capital punishment: Christianity and the right to death; title: Both Shylock and Oedipus: why many accounts of Christian complicity in the Holocaust are only half right; title: Keeping marriage sacred: the Christian case for gay and lesbian wedlock; title: Suffering the suffering children: Christianity and the rights and wrongs of adoption; title: Prophetic conclusion: Martin Luther King Jr.