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Politics after Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World is unavailable, but you can change that!

For more than a millennium, beginning in the early Middle Ages, most Western Christians lived in societies that sought to be comprehensively Christian—ecclesiastically, economically, legally, and politically. That is to say, most Western Christians lived in Christendom. But in a gradual process beginning a few hundred years ago, Christendom weakened and finally crumbled. Today, most Christians in...

claim that political community is religion free but that political communities ought to be maximally tolerant and open when it comes to the religious commitments and actions of their members. In chapter 9, we will consider the idea of natural rights, which refers to claims that all human beings may properly assert in every cultural and political context. Among the purported natural rights, religious liberty traditionally enjoys eminent standing. I believe there
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