Product Description: Argues that morals and politics require a metaphysical backing and proposes a neoclassical metaphysics. Morals and politics depend on a metaphysical backing. All reality is marked by certain necessary features, and a divine purpose inherent in all reality defines the good to which all human life should be directed...read more

Product Description: Franklin Gamwell argues that Christian faith belongs in politics because it shares with democracy complete commitment to the rational pursuit of the truth. Gamwell develops ideals of justice and the common good that good Christians should advocate within the democratic process and demonstrates the difference they make for contemporary sharescs in the United States...read more

Product Description: Western moral and political theory in the last two centuries has widely held that morality and politics are independent of a divine reality. Claiming that this consensus is flawed, prominent theologian Franklin I. Gamwell argues that there is a necessary relation between moral worth and belief in God...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Gamwell, Franklin I.

Product Description: The endorsement of religious freedom in the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States represents a modern revolution in the relation between politics and religion. In American politics there has been continual disagreement about the meaning of this constitutional principle, and widely-held views of religious freedom include much philosophical confusion...read more

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