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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The reference to the prodigal son parable is a propos, since it's the response of the loyal son which is at issue ...
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