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Liberalism Matters and America Must Defend It

Faith and Public Life | July 2, 2020 | Summer Honors Program

Liberalism Matters and America Must Defend It

Brett Bauman is a rising junior at Wheaton College, where he studies international relations and Spanish. He was a participant in the 2020 Summer Honors Program course “Christianity, National Identity and America’s Role in the World: Rival Interpretations” taught by...

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Ordered Liberty in the Bible

Paul Miller | November 20, 2019

Ordered Liberty in the Bible

In the beginning, God put Adam in the garden “to tend and keep” it (Genesis 2:15). Theologians have seen something more in this than an incidental phrase. Instead, they have seen a general commission from God to humanity to labor creatively for the betterment of the...

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Paul D. Miller is a professor of the practice of international affairs in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is also the 2019-2020 Visiting Professor for the Initiative on Faith & Public Life.

Christian Europe, the Inventor of Liberty: Part II

Faith and Public Life | February 19, 2015 | Society

Christian Europe, the Inventor of Liberty: Part II

In my last post, I discussed how philosopher Larry Siedentop shows Christianity invented the individual and therefore the possibility for western freedoms. Below I discuss how Christianity turned the individual into a legal entity in canon law, which was later copied...

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Christian Europe, the Inventor of Liberty: Part I

Faith and Public Life | February 11, 2015 | Faith

Christian Europe, the Inventor of Liberty: Part I

This year we celebrate the eight centennial of the Magna Carta. Many will quote that “TO ALL FREE MEN OF OUR KINGDOM we have” granted “all the liberties written out below….” But it is often forgotten the Magna Carta does not begin with that statement, but with a...

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