But if liberals need to come to terms with these failures, religious conservatives should not be smug about them. The defining idea of liberal Christianity — that faith should spur social reform as well as personal conversion — has been an immensely positive force in our national life. No one should wish for its extinction, or for a world where Christianity becomes the exclusive property of the political right. What should be wished for, instead, is that liberal Christianity recovers a religious reason for its own existence.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:23:47 +0000
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