My last post took my response up to the twentieth century invention of “Christian human rights.” This one engages with crucial…
Christianity, contemporary legacies, and the critique of secularism
Jacques Maritain
Truth and triviality: Christianity, natural law, and human rights
For every phenomenon there is an indefinite, if not infinite, number of both continuities and discontinuities with what came before.…
From personalism to liberalism?
In his paper “Personalism, Community and the Origins of Human Rights,” Samuel Moyn argues that a relatively understudied current of…
Religion and democracy
Over at Boston Review, Princeton political scientist Jan-Werner Müller has written a lengthy article considering the rise of Christian (Catholic)…
An atheism a theologian can love
“Strangely enough,” Foucault mused, “man—the study of whom is supposed by the naïve to be the oldest investigation since Socrates—is…
Secularism, atheism, antihumanism
In a 1956 text on ethics and literature, Emmanuel Levinas offered the following diagnosis of the philosophical trends of his…