Religion among We the People : Conversations on Democracy and the Divine Good.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One: Consent to Religious Freedom: The Legacy of Thomas Jefferson -- The Present Question -- Jefferson's Answers -- Refining the Question -- Reason's Tribunal -- Jefferson's Legacy -- Chapter Two: On Constitutional Authority: A Conversation with David Strauss -- The Living Constitution -- Jefferson's Question: Hermeneutical and Normative -- The Tradition of Popular Sovereignty -- Advancing the Tradition -- Chapter Three: Democracy and Nature's God: The Legacy of Abraham Lincoln -- Lincoln's Political Sentiments -- The Declaration's Laws of Nature -- The Almighty's Purposes -- The House Divided -- Lincoln's Legacy -- Chapter Four: On Religion in the Public Sphere: A Conversation with Jürgen Habermas -- The Institutional Proviso -- Habermas's Proposal: A Critique -- Habermas and Rawls: The Basic Problem -- The Better Solution -- The Attachment to Democracy -- Chapter Five: On the Humanitarian Ideal: The Promise of Neoclassical Metaphysics -- Kantian and Post-Enlightenment Challenges -- Metaphysics and Human Purpose -- Making the Humanitarian Ideal Explicit -- Chapter Six: Reinhold Niebuhr's Theistic Ethic: The Law of Love -- Niebuhr's Systematic Project -- Niebuhr's Ethic: Harmony and Sacrificial Love -- Niebuhr's Ethic: A Critique -- Niebuhr's Intentions Revisited -- Chapter Seven: On the Loss of Theism: A Conversation with Iris Murdoch -- Emphatic Moral Realism -- Good without God -- The Loss of Worth -- The Necessity of God -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Explores democracy with religious freedom and its dependence on theism.

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