The Case for Civility
And Why Our Future Depends on It
By Os Guinness
(HarperOne, 2008)
A proposal for restoring civility in America as a way to foster civility around the world.
In a world torn apart by religious extremism on the one side and a strident secularism on the other, no question is more urgent than how we live with our deepest differences—especially our religious and ideological differences. Guinness makes a passionate plea to end the polarization of American politics and culture that threatens to reverse the principles our founders set into motion and that have long preserved liberty, diversity, and unity in this country.
Guinness takes on the contemporary threat of the excesses of the Religious Right and the secular Left, arguing that we must find a middle ground between privileging one religion over another and attempting to make all public expression of faith illegal. Guinness puts forth a vision of a new, practical “civil and cosmopolitan public square” that speaks not only to America’s immediate concerns but to the long-term interests of the republic and the world.
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