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    Series series Faith and Politics: Political Theology in a New Key
    In the world’s most developed democracies, anxiety about the future of democracy is palpable. The tension between moral aspiration and moral despair has reached a point of crisis. Christian realism arose during a similar time of crisis, when Reinhold Niebuhr used the insights of the Christian tradition to interpret the clash between democracy and totalitarianism.Beginning with Robin Lovin’s ... Leer más

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    Series series Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
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