[Peace-discuss] Religion and liberalism in America

[C. G. Estabrook]

No, I'm sure you're right, Mort -- it's much better to discuss these 
matters on the basis of uninformed prejudices about how religion and 
liberalism function in America than it is actually to learn the facts...

Nice to have a prejudice, too, that precludes having to read what 
someone "committed to a liberal Catholic religious point of view" 
writes.  In this case however you may be wrong: the author, Lew Daly, 
was a prison chaplain (perhaps Presbyterian?) and published "God and the 
Welfare State" with MIT Press (not a major source of Catholic 
propaganda) in 2006.  He studied Christian Ethics at Union Theological 
Seminary (not a Catholic institution) in New York City and holds a Ph.D. 
in seventeenth-century English literature and political thought (not a 
particularly Catholic environment). The article appeared in The Boston 
Review (not a journal known for Catholic apologetics) and seemed to me 
to sketch the complex story of how in 20th century America religious 
notions of the common good combated liberal  ideology in the New Deal 
attempt to salvage capitalism after its collapse.  Uninformed notions of 
American religion and liberalism were indeed attacked.

Daly, whom I've not met, is said incidentally to be writing a book on 
"distributive justice in the knowledge economy" with Gar Alperovitz. --CGE


Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> You've got to be kidding to suggest folks read this over-long, 
> over-elaborated text by one committed to a (liberal--not all are 
> liberal) Catholic(?) religious point of view.
> 
>  I would suggest instead a subscription to the Humanist Magazine.
> 
> --mkb
> 
> 
> On Jul 6, 2007, at 1:17 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 
>> [There seems to me to be a good bit of hasty comment (for lack of a 
>> better term) at the moment on the subject of religion and politics, 
>> from Christopher Hitchens to our own Robert Dunn.  Some facts might be 
>> appropriate.  Here's an interesting description of the matter from the 
>> Boston Review.  --CGE]
>>
>>
>>     In Search of the Common Good
>>     Lew Daly
>>
>>
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