(2017) Daniel Philpott is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. In April 2016, Dr. Philpott delivered a version of these remarks for the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University as the 2016 Charles E. Test, M.D., Distinguished Lectures. He based the lectures on a book that he is completing, Religious Freedom In Islam? Intervening in a Culture War.
Today, Jacques Maritain's optimistic vision of Christian liberalism is often contested or dismissed as outdated, but a revival of his emphasis on Christian participation in society and politics is urgently needed - and is in many ways already in evidence in Christian political activity in America.
Date posted: 2022-07-07
Justice, in the Bible and in the Christian tradition, demands that we protect and remember every vulnerable and isolated person, made in the image of God. As reopening moves ahead, a surge of mercy to protect the elderly and others who are confined might prove a healing tonic for a bitterly riven society - and for the Christian church.
Date posted: 2020-06-03
When the champions of human rights promote rights that are not grounded in natural law, they undermine their credibility to speak for all human beings. Those who understand the truth about human rights - as every rational person has the capacity to do - will cease to trust the human rights community.
Date posted: 2019-07-23
Contrary to what one often hears in Western media, Islam needs neither a Reformation nor an Enlightenment. Islam must - and can - find resources from within its tradition to defend the full human right to religious freedom. The second in a two-part series.
Date posted: 2017-02-15
What is the status of religious freedom in Islam, and what are its prospects? An answer to this question must begin with a nuanced appraisal of the political theologies that govern different Muslim nations. The first in a two-part series
Date posted: 2017-02-15