A few clarifying points are in order regarding an essay of mine in The New York Times Magazine that drew…
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The rules of the games
The Stillborn God begins as a book about two chess games. Part of the book explains, in all too cursory…
Two books, oddly yoked together
Mark Lilla's The Stillborn God feels like two books, oddly yoked together. One is a fascinating study, which traces a…
Political theology & liberal democracy
The idea of modern liberalism depends decisively on a jettisoning of theology as a source for arguing about politics: If…
Liberal Protestantism the key
Lilla alludes to the fact that “in the Anglo-American orbit, a liberal theological outlook could grow up alongside a liberal…
Anti-secularism
More than most other great systematic thinkers of our time, Jürgen Habermas has for decades consistently expressed his views on…
Our historical Sonderweg
My thanks to all those who have taken the time to respond to The Stillborn God, with sharper comments than…
The forces unleashed
Just what or who or where is religion for Lilla himself? Is the problem really the Bible—that, in addition to…
The last prophet of Leviathan
Lilla turns aside to the small cadre of the Enlightened who see the story for what it is....“We” turns out…
A review in three parts
“The world of today is torn asunder by a great dispute; and not only a dispute, but a ruthless battle…