Religious Liberty and the Rebuilding of the Public Philosophy
By Os Guinness
(2000)
In this transcript of a 2000 lecture, Guinness makes a case for the public role of faith as necessary for preserving diversity against tyranny and argues for ways to live together with our deepest differences.
Download a PDF version of “A World Safe for Diversity” here
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Category: Briefings (No. 1)
When there is no truth that deserves assent from everybody, the only arbiter in our competing desires is power. Where truth doesn’t define what’s right, might makes right. And where might makes right, weak people pay with their lives. When the universal claim of truth disappears, what you get is not peaceful pluralism or loving relationships; what you get is concentration camps and gulags.
John Piper, November 2006
Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith by G. K. Chesterton.
On its 100th anniversary, this book is just as helpful and provocative as ever.
Liberty and Power: A Dialogue on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy in an Unjust World by Jean Bethke Elshtain, et al, eds..
A collection of essays examining the role religion should play in American foreign policy.
