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Article: Tolerance & Truth.(The Politics of Human Frailty: A Theological Defense of Political Liberalism)(Book Review)
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- September 23, 2005
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The Politics of Human Frailty
A Theological Defense of Political Liberalism
Christopher J. Insole
University of Notre Dame Press, $30, 208 pp.
The title of Christopher J. Insole's audacious book is no lie: The Politics of Human Frailty really is "A Theological Defense of Political Liberalism." An academic theologian writing from within the Anglican tradition, Insole seeks to establish a theological justification for what he calls "political" liberalism and, just as important, to find in that liberalism a corrective to certain kinds of theological error.
Attempts to reconcile religion and liberalism are nothing new. How that ...