Sentences with phrase «naked public square»

I believe that Jews, like all other American citizens, suffer from the unhappy consequences of a «naked public square.»

All that said, Equal Liberty should be appreciated as an improvement on strict no - aid versions of church - state separation and welcomed as a powerful response to those who contend that our Constitution requires a naked public square or a civil society evacuated of religious argument and expression.

The naked public square, Petuchowski observed, is not good for Jews or anyone else.

Carter believes that the naked public square is a dangerous place, that the convictions of the people, including those whose convictions are grounded in religious commitment, should be given freer play in our public life.

The idea that you can not bring any objective ideas about metaphysics or the good of the human being to public debate is sometimes called «procedural liberalism», or in the words of the late, great R.J. Neuhaus, the «naked public square».

Like the words «pact» and «treaty,» «covenant» and «contract» imply a mutuality of will that would seem to undermine Novak's previous contrast between ineluctable community and agreed «upon society (perhaps this is another reason for the quasi «religious adherence of so many secular Jews to the «naked public square»).

Naked, Sacred, Civil It bears repeating here that the alternative to the naked public square is not the sacred public square but the civil public square.

Neuhaus claims that «the alternative to the naked public square is not the sacred public square but the civil public square.

The naked public square is necessary, they say, «because we live in a pluralistic society.»

Suffice it to say that Peter Berkowitz's essay on Rawlsian liberalism and its restrictive notion of what counts as «public reason» - a notion that has everything to do with maintaining the naked public square - is very much worth reading.

In the naked public square, we could still pretend that the emperor — or, perhaps, the rabbi — was fully clothed.

Our protest against «the naked public square» was then a distinctly minority position, whereas today there is a much more widespread recognition that church - state jurisprudence is a shambles, and that the democratic process requires the vigorous engagement of the religiously based moral convictions of the American people.

I am not suggesting that the only alternative to integralism is a naked public square, something which invariably contains an altar to John Rawls.

The theocratic or the Christocratic ways of representing the divine will for the public orders are both thoroughly reprehensible, though they are always temptations for true believers who deplore the secularization of life and wish to put God back into the «naked public square.»

The ACLU ploy is not new; it invokes the requirement of «pluralism» to secure submission to the doctrine of a secular, naked public square.

The naked public square and the antireligious academic arena are incompatible with passionate commitment and intellectual self - respect on the part of religious Jews.

It should be remembered that, years before, Neuhaus had almost single - handedly challenged the notion of the «naked public square» — the reduction of religious belief to private worship, surgically separated from the precincts of secular society.

The theocratic or the christocratic ways of representing the divine will for the public orders are both thoroughly reprehensible, though they are always temptations for true believers who deplore the secularization of life and wish to put God back into the «naked public square.»

Far from challenging this linkage between church and state or arguing for a naked public square, then, dissenters sought only the repeal of establishments and other forms of religious discrimination.

As Richard John Neuhaus warned three decades ago, in demanding exemptions, protections, and accommodations, we need to be careful not to be understood as champions of universal non-judgmentalism, or of a naked public square.

Against this approach Budziszewski insists that man's natural knowledge of God is essential to his natural knowledge of morality: a naked public ethic is as dangerous as a naked public square.

Particularly heartening is the courage of those bishops who eschew the lie of the naked public square.

On the question of secularism and the Supreme Court's decisions on prayer and other religious activities in the public schools: No doubt these decisions, which repudiated both history and the wishes of parents and state legislators alike, played a significant role in the acceleration of what Richard John Neuhaus later dubbed the «naked public square.»

Not exact matches

The Institute was founded in 1989 by Richard John Neuhaus and his colleagues to confront the ideology of secularism, which insists that the public square must be «naked,» and that faith has no place in shaping the public conversation or in shaping public policy.

To this extent, at least, the public square was not «naked» - or so it might seem.

If the same people who claim these commitments are also swayed by presidential candidates who offer only the most tangential, glancing, elliptical, and facile engagements with the texts they themselves claim to hold dear, then the emperor and his public square are, if not naked, then leaving little to the imagination.

Writing for a general audience, the author surveys some of the disputes over whether the public square should be naked, sacred, or civil.

Back then, my English language skills were not advanced enough for me to do more research on him, but I was particularly impressed by his performance piece from 1994, titled 12 Square Meters, where he sat naked and drenched in fish oil and honey, in a filthy public toilet in Beijing's East Village artist community.

Huan is known as a radical performance artist whose work is often based on his own body, such as the 1994 work 12 Square Meters, in which he squatted naked in a public latrine for an hour while flies swarmed around him.