Sentences with phrase «american public morality»

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The American experiment is inseparable from a religiously grounded morality that produced a polity that not only tolerates but requires the vibrant exercise of religion in public life.

Broadly speaking, we may characterize the civic project of American Christianity as the attempt to harmonize Christianity and liberal order and to anchor American public philosophy in the substance of Protestant morality, Catholic social teaching, or some version of natural law that might qualify as public reason.

Until quite recently, Americans have debated the issues of public morality in theological terms which they thought had something to do with truth claims.

Tocqueville said religion is «the first political institution» of American democracy because it was through religion that Americans are schooled in morality, the rule of law, and the habits of public duty.

The revision of American thought and practice about life questions began with abortion, and examination of the moral confusion attending that issue helps us understand more general developments in public morality.

I find civil religion motifs in Reston's focus on «the American Dream,» in his belief that the precepts of the Republic's founding documents were political affirmations of certain religious concepts, in his belief in America's unique moral role in world affairs — and in his concern for injecting morality into public - policy discussions.

Ask him to define that «objective morality,» And ask him to explain how he knows that the 90 % of the American public that he thinks are incapable of critical thinking and who are immoral, don't accept that an «objective morality» (as he defines it) even exists.

Professor Roark's current projects consider how space claiming in public forges collective identity; how Starbucks payment methods shape consumer remedy expectations; and how the morality of law is described and dismissed in early American cases.