rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 1/10/2009
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Damon Linker : In his obituary for Richard John Neuhaus, Douthat claims, in response to some nameless silly person (who just happens to be me ),
that Neuhaus was dedicated to reconciling Christianity with the liberal
tradition. I suspect that will sound pretty odd to those familiar ...
firstthings.com - 1/8/2009
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 1/10/2009
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I only met him twice, but he was
a mentor nonetheless. My family migrated through Christianity when
I was young: I was baptized Episcopalian, attended Evangelical and Pentecostal churches, and became a Catholic, with the rest of my family, when I was ...
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Richard John Neuhaus, RIP
inmedias.blogspot.com - 1/9/2009
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inmedias.blogspot.com —
I haven't met many famous people, and when
it comes to famous intellectuals--particularly those theorists, philosophers, and
theologians that I'm especially interested in--I've met even fewer. Charles Taylor once; Jürgen Habermas once; Amitai Etzioni ...
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Douthat v. Linker (Again)
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The "Liberalism" Of Neuhaus
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Ross responds here. There is, of course, an enormous distinction between accepting the religious roots of liberalism (Hobbes and Locke are the ur-texts here) and in asserting that fundamentalist Christianity is the founding doctrine of the American polity - and that it can also command political authority in the modern world. And there is an enormous distinction between respecting the role of faith in forming the public views of citizens who nonetheless make public arguments in secular and moral terms - and the kind of crude Christianism that Neuhaus supported. It is the ...
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