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The Theological Origins of Liberalism
This eye-opening book offers a critical survey of the true origins of liberalism. It challenges the widely held belief among social scientists that liberalism was developed in opposition to Christianity. Beginning with the Protestant Reformation, it illustrates how Christian thinkers reinterpreted Christianity and used a set of indemonstrable biblical presuppositions from their reinterpretations to develop the first liberal ideas, starting a process that culminates in the birth of the first liberal political theory in the writings of a devout Christian philosopher, John Locke. It explains how the Protestant Reformation, covenant theology, anti-trinitarianism and medieval Christian natural la...
Radical Conversion
Radical Conversion utilizes both analytic and normative philosophic/theoretical frameworks to study the relationship between Christian-Catholic conceptualizations of politics, citizenship, faith, and religion as viewed through a quasi-theological lens. The work is situated in the context of the American liberal tradition and in conversation and debate with the public philosophy that attempts to sustain it and provide a rationale for its perpetuation. In a single sentence, the book’s thesis is that for America to fully realize its authentic and unique moral and political mission and secure it into the future, it will need to become both more Catholic and more catholic. Concordantly, that mission, properly understood, is nothing less than the recognition and protection of the idea of the sacredness of every individual human person and their right to flourish and realize the fullness of their particular vocation as a child of God.
John Locke's Theology
In John Locke's Theology: An Ecumenical, Irenic, and Controversial Project, Jonathan S. Marko offers the closest work available to a theological system derived from the writings of John Locke. Marko argues that Locke's intent for The Reasonableness of Christianity, his most noted theological work, was to describe and defend his version of the fundamental doctrines of Christianity and not his personal theological views. Locke, Marko says, intended the work to be an ecumenical and irenic project during a controversial time in philosophy and theology. Locke described what qualifies someone as a Christian in simple and irenic terms, and argued for the necessity of Scripture and the reasonablenes...
Civic Solitude
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Eric Voegelin Today
This book analyzes Eric Voegelin’s scholarly works from the 1950s and early 1960s and examines the ways in which these works are relevant to the twenty-first century political environment. The collection of essays evaluated in this book cover a wide array of topics that were of great curiosity sixty years ago and still relevant in today’s society. The authors in this volume demonstrate that Voegelin’s erudition on topics such as revolutionary change, ideological fervor, industrialization, globalism, and the place for reason and how it may be cultivated in complex times remains as meaningful today as it was then.
Reopening Muslim Minds
A fascinating journey into Islam's diverse history of ideas, making an argument for an "Islamic Enlightenment" today In Reopening Muslim Minds, Mustafa Akyol, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and opinion writer for The New York Times, both diagnoses “the crisis of Islam” in the modern world, and offers a way forward. Diving deeply into Islamic theology, and also sharing lessons from his own life story, he reveals how Muslims lost the universalism that made them a great civilization in their earlier centuries. He especially demonstrates how values often associated with Western Enlightenment — freedom, reason, tolerance, and an appreciation of science — had Islamic counterparts, whi...
Genocide Culture
This book considers different stages of Kurdish history, oppression, and genocide through a critical lens, offering an historiography of Iraq and colonialism. Divided into two parts, the first part conceptualizes the coined term “genocide culture” and examines dominant Iraqi cultural practices that fostered genocide. The second part contextualizes the experiences of the Kurdish community to examine the effects of cultural practices and the role of “civilian actors” in fueling the extermination of targeted groups. Through semi-structured interviews, primary archival documents, and nonparticipant observation, the author studies the links between everyday cultural practices and microaggression in general and the nexus between the state and the general population in the implementation of macroaggression and genocide. The audience will include scholars and students interested in genocide studies and the relation of both genocide and culture to histories of colonialism, as well as those working in the fields of violence and cultural psychology, sociology, history, international relations, ethnic conflict, and Middle Eastern studies.
Müslüman Aklın Uyanışı: Akla, Hürriyete ve Hoşgörüye Davet
Bugün İslam dünyasının dört bir yanında din adına sergilenen yanlışlıklar, her seferinde “gerçek İslam bu değil” demekle geçiştirilebilir mi? Yoksa, İslam düşüncesinde, fıkhında ve ilahiyatında esaslı bir sorgulamaya ve yenilenmeye mi ihtiyaç var? Mustafa Akyol, bugüne dek beş ayrı dilde yayınlanan, Bosna-Hersek’ten Endonezya’ya kadar bir çok ülkede yankılar ve tartışmalar yaratan kitabında bu soruyu irdeliyor. Kur’an’a, İslam geleneğinin unutulmuş zenginliklerine ve çağdaş akademik kaynaklara dayanarak, günümüzün yakıcı dinî meselelerine yeni bakış açıları öneriyor. Katılmasanız bile, düşünmeye davet ediyor.
Yaptırımlar Altında İran’ın Ekonomi Politiği: Uluslararası Ticaretini Geliştirme Yöntemleri
Yüzyıllardır güçlü ülkeler tarafından, kendilerinden daha zayıf olan ülkelerin politika davranışlarında değişim yaratmak amacı ile hayata geçirilen yaptırımlar, Soğuk Savaş’ın bitimi sonrasında dünya siyasetinde tek hegemon güç olarak ortaya çıkan ve aynı zamanda II. Dünya Savaşı sonrasından bu yana Dünya Bankası, IMF ve ABD doları üzerinden küresel ekonomi ve finans sisteminin kontrolünü elinde bulunduran ABD tarafından özellikle son otuz yıldır aşırı şekilde kullanılmıştır. 21.yy.dan itibaren ekonomik yaptımları tek başına yeterli derecede etkili görmeyip finansal yaptırımlarla da desteklemeye başlaması, yaptırımlar tarihinde...
