Christianity and American democracy / Hugh Heclo ; with responses by Mary Jo Bane, Michael Kazin, Alan Wolfe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heclo, Hugh.

Contributor:

Bane, Mary Jo.

Kazin, Michael, 1948-

Wolfe, Alan, 1942-

Series:

Alexis de Tocqueville lectures on American politics

The Alexis de Tocqueville lectures on American politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Democracy.

Christianity and politics--United States.

Christianity and politics.

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 299 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Traditionalist Christians who sincerely try to live out their faith are not people we should want to see retreat from active citizenship. In fact, they make for the kind of companions we should all like to have on board a wandering ship of state as it navigates dark seas. Insofar as they are sincere believers, Christians are likely to be the kind of shipmates who think, like the seventeenth-century Puritan Richard Baxter, "In necessary things, unity; in disputed things, liberty; in all things, charity." One could do much worse by way of fellow passengers.

Contents:

1 Christianity and Democracy in America / Hugh Heclo 1

2 Democracy and Catholic Christianity in America / Mary Jo Bane 145

3 Pluralism Is Hard Work-and the Work Is Never Done / Michael Kazin 167

4 Whose Christianity? Whose Democracy? / Alan Wolfe 185

5 Reconsidering Christianity and American Democracy / Hugh Heclo 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-283) and index.

ISBN:

9780674025141

0674025148

OCLC:

76864677