Jeffrey Stout asks three good questions
It's been a hard couple of weeks!
Stout challenges MacIntyre, Hauerwas and Milbank - who have harboured
such resentment against modern secular democracy. He asks three good
questions (Democracy and Tradition, p. 104):
is it not possible to discern the workings of the Holy Spirit, and
thus some reflections of God's redemptive activity, in modern
democratic aspirations?
is there nothing in the political life of modern democracies, or in
the lives of those who are struggling for just and decent arrangements
within them, that a loving God would bless?
if the plenitude of God's triune inner life shones forth in all of
creation, cannot theology discren some such light in democratic
political community?
Well indeed. I would add a fourth question: is it not the case that
modern democratic community is the child of Christendom, even if it is
somewhat of a prodigal?
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