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Most accounts of Christian criticism of liberalism take “liberalism” as the primary category. In a new book chapter published today in the Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism, I take the opposite approach. For Christians, the Christian life is fundamental—and for the Catholic Church in particular, its corporate life.
Recently a cottage industry has appeared in academia to dissect Christian, and especially Catholic, responses to liberalism. A separate but related industry has emerged to tell liberalism’s critics that the job has already been done and there is nothing more to say. To understand why those who hold to traditional forms of Christianity—even culturally, as some of us recently argued—have continued the argument, it’s important to try to see the development of liberalism from the standpoint of Christianity.
To read the whole thing, check out Routledge’s offers on the whole book (which includes sixty chapters more!)—or see if your library has access through Taylor & Francis. I’d like to take this moment to thank the editors, especially Renáta Uitz of Central European University, for their initial proposal as well as their patient editing and many crucial improvements. Meanwhile, enjoy the excerpt below.
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Why Christians Criticize Liberalism
Recently a cottage industry has appeared in academia to dissect Christian, and especially Catholic, responses to liberalism. A separate but related industry has emerged to tell liberalism’s critics that the job has already been done and there is nothing more to say. To understand why those who hold to traditional forms of Christianity—even culturally, as some of us recently argued—have continued the argument, it’s important to try to see the development of liberalism from the standpoint of Christianity.
To read the whole thing, check out Routledge’s offers on the whole book (which includes sixty chapters more!)—or see if your library has access through Taylor & Francis. I’d like to take this moment to thank the editors, especially Renáta Uitz of Central European University, for their initial proposal as well as their patient editing and many crucial improvements. Meanwhile, enjoy the excerpt below.
Continued below.
Why Christians Criticize Liberalism
