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In: International politics, Volume 36, Issue 3, p. 321-334
ISSN: 1384-5748
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In: International politics, Volume 36, Issue 3, p. 321-334
ISSN: 1384-5748
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In: International politics, Volume 36, Issue 3, p. 321-334
ISSN: 1384-5748
In: The review of politics, Volume 59, Issue 3, p. 421-428
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: The review of politics, Volume 57, Issue 1, p. 138-143
ISSN: 1748-6858
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Volume 49, Issue 1, p. 295-301
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: The review of politics, Volume 49, Issue 1, p. 85-111
ISSN: 1748-6858
Religion is again a lively topic not only in practical-political life but also in social and political thought. The latter development is by far more surprising and intriguing than the practical-political relevance. For some time, political theory had ostensibly settled accounts with, or resolved the status of, religious belief: basically churches and religious movements were classified as one type of interest groups (or "input variables") within a comprehensive liberal-democratic model — a model secular in character but not intolerant, within limits, of religious convictions. On the part of organized (especially Protestant) churches, the settlement was widely accepted as a means for securing both internal church autonomy and some influence in the political arena; the "social gospel" movement in particular saw faith chiefly as a leverage for advancing welfare and progress within secular society. To be sure, the optimism of the liberal settlement was severely challenged, and partly disrupted, by catastrophic events in our century as well as by radical theological criticism — a criticism highlighted in Richard Niebuhr's well-known phrase: "A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross." Yet, when carried to an extreme, theological criticism had the paradoxical effect of reinforcing the secular-liberal paradigm. Once religion was radically segregated from politics or the "city of God" from the "earthly city," the latter was left entirely to its own devices; purged of all religious and millenarian considerations social and political theory could return to business as usual.
In: The review of politics, Volume 49, Issue 1, p. 85
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Volume 14, Issue 4, p. 667-671
ISSN: 1552-7476
In: The review of politics, Volume 48, Issue 4, p. 621-626
ISSN: 1748-6858
In: The review of politics, Volume 47, Issue 3, p. 411-430
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In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Volume 12, Issue 2, p. 204-234
ISSN: 1552-7476
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Volume 12, Issue 2, p. 204
ISSN: 0090-5917
In: Political science review: quarterly journal of the Department of Political Science, University of Rajasthan, Volume 22, Issue 4, p. 292
ISSN: 0554-5196
In: Philosophy of the social sciences: an international journal = Philosophie des sciences sociales, Volume 12, Issue 4, p. 427-438
ISSN: 1552-7441
In: The review of politics, Volume 43, Issue 1, p. 141-146
ISSN: 1748-6858